Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-07-19

Liberty League was held Tuesday evening and plans pei
lie organization of War Chest for this community
lar throughout the country.
In order that our people may better understand the
workings OF this organization circular letters containn
wing information ordered printed by our Liberty
lstribution among the people:
1H4ARS cannot be without organization. Nor
can civilian work attain any degree of eff
cheney without effective organization to manage
and conduct such work. Since the outbreak of war;
have supported the various calls for funds in sort
OF haphazard way without really knowing just how
much each person should do their bit Some Rave
not done their sharesome have done more than their
fair share The chest plan eliminates all Unequal
y in war charities and enables every person in the
community to do their bit without assuming the share
of the Indifferent or unpatriotic individual
Furthermore than that it eliminates the great
waste OF time, effort and expense of the various and
successive drives for funds for the different war actvi
ties, which are supported by public subscription by
concentrating all of this work under the one drive
1t is much better to know how much you will be called
upon to contribute to the various during the
year than to have committee calling on you for
separate contribution every month or so.
Under the War Chest plan all calls for money for
the Red Cross fund.- the Y. M. C. A. and K. C.
war funds, etc., will be met by the War Chest which
will be controlled by committee of twelve or more
citizens elected by the contributors.
The funds in the War Chest are to be used only
for such purposes as are endorsed by the National
Government
When the call comes for funds for any of these
purposes the committee controlling the War Chest
meets, and votes the quota of this community from
the War Chest into the National Fund, and the ndi-
vldual members are not solicited bothered in any
way as the money is already available to meet the
community quota.
In order that everyone may know what is expect
O1O Of
has adopted the following plan of classifying all con-
tributors to the War Chest fund:
Each person is classified as to income and proper
ty holdings and is asked to contribute according to
his ability The system of units is used as basis on
which to work in fixing quotas. (See tables on this
page) An income of thousand dollars will for in
stance represent one unit and income of fifteen
hundred dollars will represent two units. Property
holdings OF ten thousand dollars as shown in table
two, represent two units. Therefore man with an
income of fifteen hundred dollars year and property
holdings of ten thousand dollars would be cassed as
four units If there were total of five thousand
units within the district and the district called upon
to raise $105OO (for example) within the year. each
unit would represent $210 and the fourunit-man's
share would be four times $210 or $84O for the year.
or 70 cents month
Surely one, who remains at home while our
soldiers and sailors at the front fighting our bat
tles will refuse to do his little share toward carrying
on this great struggle for human liberty
. Meet the committee in a spirit of fairness and
show that you true American by doing your part