Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-02
LIBERTY BONDS
SELL RAPIDLY
!. IN BISMARCK
Campaign at Capital Starts
Out WeN-Everybody
Comes 10 the Front.

Bismarck, Nd, Oct. 2.-1ndica.
lions are, Chairman II. r. Goddard of
the Burleigh county Liberty Loan
committee reported today. that when
one day drive for the fighting loan are
cleared up Bismarck will own $780,
| 900 worth Of bonds OF this issue, while
the county, outside Of Bisnntrck, will
have 100000 worth, making Bur-
lefgh's allotment Of $780, 600, with the
additional ten per cent required for
safety.
Burleigh county never embarked Oh
la money raising campaign which
proved such an all around success as
the fourth Liberty Loan drive. The
allotment plan was % per cent sue
cessful. The plan Of asking prospec-
tive subscribers. to call on their local
committees at their polling places
rather than to consume several days
! Of the committees time looking up
each individual subscriber worked like
a charm.
The First ward IN Bismarck, opper-
ating on this plan. sold bonds Satur-
day to $40 individual. subscribers. In
the whole city the number who vol
UNFAIRLY marched to the polling places
Saturday, signed up and paid down the
initial installment of ten per cent will
not be less than 1900. and it may
run nearer 1000. In the entire
county it is expected the aggregate
n : ann of bond buyersZlwill exceed
In every ward there were dozens OF
buyers who had not been notified. but
This was true in many of school
boys and girls or of other people who
had been thought not financially able
to invest. 1.-THE big sacrifice in this
campaign" said Chairman Goddard
today, has been made by the people
who have bought, $50 bonds. There
was n instance of this kind in the
Fourth ward, where a young woman
doing chamber work at small wages
insisted upon investing, even after the
committee, knowing. her circum-
stanceA had advised her that she was
under no moral obligation to invest
And this young woman said, I have
two gentlemen friends who haven't
bought yet. They're slackers. and I'm
going to tell them So; and if they don't
buy they'll never keep company with
me again."
His Dollars Fight, Too.
Typical Of the spirit of the day was
the ase of Myron Henzler, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. C. ". Henz'er. Chris
had kicked because his allotment was
IlOI Aol &c OIO061AS IL AAou 1llo1StCO
upon doubling it. Myrpn, who. is jus,
20, and who expects to be called . o
into active service, had bought liber.
ally of the third loan and the allot-
ment committee, knowing that hi
EWould soon go to war had assigned
him none of the fourth. NThey young
man refused to be:lefts out, but. showed
Eup brightand early with $500 in saw
ings, all OF which she invested In d
fourth Liberty bond. :
I'm going to get into the SCRAP
over there, and I want to know thai
my savings are fighting with me-" said
Myron.
Country Districts Fine.
Loan workers coming in from coun
try districts report hat a splendid
spirit prevailed everywhere and thai
every rural precinct had over-sub:
scrihed before the polls were closed
Saturday. Everyone who had any:
thing to do with the campaign, the
committees, the bond statesmen and
the bond buyers are most enthusiastic
over the success Of the drive, and II
is universally agreed that history was
made for the Slope country durine thi.
happily busy day. .
buy Liberty Bonds
Usually after marrying an earthly
angel a man kicks himself because he
did not marry a cook.