Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29
FOURTH LIBERTY
LOAN DRIVE
Marathon County, As Always, "0ver
the TOD"-Exact Amount Not
Vet Given Ont

Marathon County, As Always, "0ver
the TOD"-Exact Amount Not
Yet Given Out
In the Fourth Liberty Loan drive,
completed last week, Marathon coun-
ty, as on all previous similar occa-
sions, "came over, subscribing its full
quota and placing itself in tht col
umn of 100 per cent right" coun-
ties.
The exact amount of Marathon coun-
tvs subscription is not yet definitely
known, for the reason that full re-
turns have not yet been received from
some of the town officers, but it is
known that the total will aggregate
close to $2,224,00 or slightly beyond
tine minimum set for this county.
A number of towns failed to contrib
ute their full quota, but this deficien-
cy was more than made up by the
city and several other villages and
towns.
Chairman Gilbert and Treasurer
Wilson have been endeavoring to get
the exact totals from each of the towns
and villages, but not having done so,
have decided to issue no list show
villages, for fear that in so doing
some community may be placed in a
bad light, as one of those that failed,
and sooner than do this have decided
to issue no detailed report until sure
that the full returns are in their
hands.
1t is a source of qualification to
those who had this work i'll their
hands and under their direction to
know that Marathon has come through
right, regardless of the enormous
amount she was called upon to raise
during this campaign. 1t was felt that
our apportionment was rather more
than fair, or rather equitable, for as
worked out by the committee it was
undoubtedly fair, as fair as anything
of the kind could be, and this spirit of
fairness pervaded every move not
alone of the state committee, but of
the local committee and subcommit
tees in making their appointments
to the various towns, school districts
and to the individuals.
Under conditions as they are the
showing of 100 per cent by Marathon
county is highly creditable. Financial
conditions here have not been inn
proved by the war, as is the case in
some other counties where their quo
ia was taken up rapidly and ever over
subscribed very much. We have no
war industries here to speak of, that
is. no new ones. We have our paper
mills and sawmills, but these we had,
and these have heavily hit by the in
come tax and other war measures. In
addition to the large number of young
men drawn from us for the army, hun
dreds more of wage earners have been
attracted to outside places to take pos
itions in plants that are primarily war
industries. The only large class who
have directly profited from the war
are the farmers, who have been able
to get much higher prices for their
dairy and other products, but even
these have been handicapped by the
loss of productive labor from their
farms, for there is hardly farm but
what has lost one or more young men,
making it impossible for the farmers
to enjoy all the apparent prosperity
that the war has seemed to bring
them.
Propaganda and ignorance have al
so contributed to make the work in
this county more difficult than it
should have been. Rumors of various
conditions have been set afoat, ru-
more that the apportionment to towns
was not fair, that nos man Of middle
age would ever live long enough to
get his money back, and the combat
ing of these took time that should
have been spent in securing subscrip-
tons.
When we consider everything in con-
nection with this last drive, Mara
thon county has reason to be proud
of itself, and those who were in ac-
tive charge of the work are to be
commended for having made the SPLEEN
did showing they did.