The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-05-02
SOUTH OAK0TA|S
PR0UOEST STATE
WE ARE GIVEN THE HIGHEST
HONORS OF ALL THE STATES
IN THE NATION
s24,OOO,OOO IS OFFICIALLY REPORTED
Biggest Subscription Compared With
Resources-First State To Go
Over The Top

The director of the Third Liberty
Loan for the Ninth Federal Reserve
District has announced that South
Dakota is the first state in the district
to officially announce that she has
gone owe the top with her allotment.
And among other honors that will
come to her, without a doubt. are:
Highest percentage of distribution
in comparison with the population.
Biggest subscription in comparison
with the population Of the state.
And last and greatest, she has ex-
ceeded the subscriptions to the sec
Ond loan by a higher percentage than
any other state in the ninth district
and as it looks now, higher than any
other state in the nation. South Da-
kOta has increased her subscriptions
to the third loan over one hundred
per cent over those of the second
loan.
When the Ninth district board
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figure that they did, they had reason
to believe that we could and would
deliver the goods required of us.
They based their opinion on the way
we acted in the two former loans. In
the first loan we were asked to raise
one million and a half, and in response
the state took nearly 8 300, 900. Then
in the second loan the district board
came at us with a call for ten million
nearly $12, $50, 900. Then when it
came to handing out the amounts for
this last call the board thought that
We could be called on to make good
for the states in the district who had
suffered bad crops last year ard they
raised us up to 500, 100000. And in
the lines behind the lines and make
strong the arms of our lads across the
sea, we have come back with the re-
ply of a more than full return to the
call. H. A. Oldham. the acting state
chairman, y 81 venture to say that
no state in the union will be able to
show so magnificent a record of pro
gress and achievement as South Da-
kota and she well merits every honor
she has won in this campaign"
We agree with Mr.. Oldham. and
think that perhaps the fact that the
state has accomplished this great re-
suit, is perhaps due to the good judg-
ment used by that gentleman in select
ing the county chairman who direct
ed the drive at close quarters. They
occupy the same position in this bat
tie as do the battalion commanders
in the fighting across the seas, and
if any division does good service the
honor that comes to the general in
charge must be passed down to the
men who directed the firing and the
assaults. In the work in Brookings
county our battalion commander.
E. L. Squirting. was careful in his
choice of the men he placed
in charge of the platoons. the
cities, towns and townships, and as a
result he also received the finest kind
of support and the high privates who
went out and made the direct attack
were likewise men who were picked
with judicious care. Like the fight
ing Of the army, it all depends on re
men in the ranks. South Dakota had
the men in the ranks who had the
money and they delivered the goods in
decided and loyal fashion. We are
PROUD that we have a reason for 9th
ers to oe proud Of us.
Nv. s. S.