The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-04-18
KENNEWICK is
ENTITLED TO
LIBERTY FLAG
Third Liberty Loan Quota was
Reached by This District on
Saturday Evening
TO MAKE A THORO CANVASS
Results will be Checked up Last Of
this Week and Slow Ones will
BE Called Upon

Right here last week this question
was asked: "Will Kennewick be able
to fly one of the Liberty Loan Honor
flags from its flag staff?" The ans
wer is, "It will"
At the close Of business Saturday
evening Kennewick had reached it's
quota Of $45,s00 and thereby became
entitled to the honor flag offered to
those districts which reach their quo
tas in honor week, the first week Of
the campaign.
No tabulations Of the total subscrip-
tions have been made, but the quota
total was so near Saturday evening
that the First National Bank guar
anteod an amount sufficient to make up
the quota. Solicitations, however, have
continued and it is expected that by
Saturday evening of this week all of
the territory in this district will have
been canvassed.
The distribution committee of which
j. w. vickcrs is chairman, expects to
thoroly check up on the campaign at
the close Of this week and then to lay
plans for bringing in the stragglers.
The solicitors have been following
instructions as outlined by the nation
al committee and listing all those who
do not subscribe on the regulation blue
cards which sets forth the reasons why
the person solicited does not subscribe.
These cards win be gonc over careful
ly by Mr.. vickers' committee and in
cases where it is thought Che person
has not given sufficient reasons for his
failure to subscribe special commit
tee will be sent to him to give him one
more chance to do his duty.
$50 far the people Of the Kennewick
district have responded splcndidly and
we have not been forced to use many
of the blue cards." said Mr.. Vickers,
"Cases have been reported, however,
which / believe should be further in
vestigated After we have carefully in
vestigated each case, our committee
will report back to the general COM
mittee the names Of those who we be-
lieve arc attempting to shirk their
duty as American citizens and we will
recommend that the names of all such
be made public. In doing this we ex-
lpect to exercise the greatest care lest
an injustice is done some really pa
triotic and conscientious citizens. It
is not the intention Of our committee
to intimidate. embarass or threaten
anybody, nor TO compel anybody to
buy Liberty Bonds. The purchase is
not compulsory. 1t is optional with
the citizen but it is to be presumed
that every loyal citizen will want TO
become bond purchaser. II is to be
expected that every loyal American
citizen at this time will want to do his
full duty. We know that every per-
son in this community cannot purchase
Liberty Bonds and failure 70 purchase
on the part Of those who cannot af-
ford it in no wise calls into question
their loyalty to their country's cause.
Neither is it to be expected that the
burden of the war work or Of any
other public undertaking can be equit-
ably distributed among the people Of
community. There arc some who
will always give to any laudable cause
far in excess of their ability to give,
while others will not give as much as
they should. This is condition which
cannot be remedied or changed. The
best we can do is to impress upon ev-
cry man the necessity for his doing
his duty at this time. Where we find
man that is not ready or willing to
do his duty / believe it then becomes
our duty to let the community know
where this man stands. The very pick
of Kennewick's young manhood is now
with the colors and / believe it is no
more than right that we should let
those boys know who are the men at
home who arc not willing TO stand
back of them. I am going 70 recon-
mend to the general committee that
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