The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-03
Bond SolicithrSQHEfY
Ready For Third Drive


village represented by from one to
ten members of the committee ap-
pointed for that precinct. The total
attendance was over two hundred.
j. P. Cooper, County Chairman, pre-
sided at the meeting, explaining
briefly the purpose Of the meeting
and introducing Dana Stone, Field
Representative of the Liberty Loan
Executive Committee Of the Ninth
District. Mr.. Stone, in a concise and
logical manner, explained the work
ing plan for the big Third Loan
Drive which opens throughout the
district in the very near future.
Allotment Plan.
Mr.. Stone explained the allotment
plan which is the outgrowth of ex-
periences gained during the first and
second loan sales which were of ne
cessity largely experimental and edu-
cational. Under the new plan which
is to be carried out throughout the
entire district, each resident will be
apportioned an amount which is based
on his ability to buy. These allott-
ments represent the minimum amount
which will be accepted from each in
dividual, thereby preventing the pur-
chase of immunity bonds"-the fifty
OF one hundred dollar bonds which
were purchased in the former cam
paigns by men and women fully able
to buy several hundred dollars worth
or more of the bonds. The bonds each
person is allotted will be in accord
ance with his property worth and his
income, the man with ready income
being allotted more, in all probabil-
ity, than the man whose money is
invested in land. Mr.. Stone empha-
sized that no man was to be- embar
rassed, the slogan of the campaign
being Fairness to ALL" But neither
will anyone be allowed to shirk or
to buy smaller amount of bonds
than his financial state will warrant
Each citizen is supposed to bear his
share of the war burden in direct ra
| tio to his wealth or earning power.
| These allottments will be made by
| the central committee whose members
will be well informed as to each mans
buying power.
Card System.
Mr.. Stone also explained that the
information acquired by those MAX
ing the allottments-the information
on which the allottments are based
will be well arranged on index
cards which become government prop
erty and which will be used by the
government during the floating of as
many more bond sales as may be nee
essary during the duration of the
war, After that time they will be
destroyed and then nor at any other
time will they be used to further any
| private enterprise whatsoever. But
during the war they will be fund
of useful data which will probably
be frequently used for governmental
purposes.
Solicitors Work. 90
While Mr.. Stone made it clear that
the manner in which soliciting COM
mittees work is largely a matter to
be determined in each loyalty, he
outlined plan briefly recommending
that solicitors work in teams of two
or more, and that the persons Wis
tied by each team lie selected with
care in order that solicited and So
licitors be congenial. Solicitors have
no power to change the allotment
and, as stated before, neither have
they any authority to take less than
the amount of The allotment although
| they may take as much more as the
solicitor wishes to subscribe. Should
the amount of the allotment not be
forthcoming, the team will turn in to
| the central committee the name of
the man who declines 80 "come
across" for the specified amolnt. A
second team will then call On the man
solicited and if he still refuses, a
blue card will be filled out and turned
in to the County Chairman. While
these blue cards are not to serve as
. club or threat. they do definitely
put a man on record as being willing
to assist the government to the best
of his ability or not being willing and
become a part of the card system of
which the government will make fu-
ture use After short interval dur
ing which the blue-carded man will
get letter from Mr.. Rogers office,
third team will visit the solicited
man and if he decides upon reflection
to buy the amount of his allotment,
the blue card becomes his property
and, so far as the government is con-
cerned, no longer exists. This may
or may not be the plan adopted by
the Redwood County Committee.
| Mr.. Stone also suggested that
should man not have the ready
capital with which to purchase bonds,
he should borrow it, making short
loan with the bonds as security. It
| is desirable that all loans be short
in order that the third loan may be
gotten out Of the way before pos
sible fourth one is made. In this
connection Mr.. Stone made the state
ment that of the three ways of rais-
ing money for war purposes taxa
tion, loans or conscription, the sec
ond was much the preferable as it
was an investment with good secur-
ity and good rate of interest. This
statement was greeted with hearty
support by the men present.
Womens organizations, Mr.. Stone
said, would be doing their most help
full work in furthering the work of
| education which is incident to each
bond sale, and holding themselves in
readiness to cooperate with the So
| af al -