The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-05-10
EVERY COUNTY IN
SIXTH DISTRICT
WENT OVER TOP
ATLANTA HEADQUARTERS LIB.
ERTY LOAN REPORTS TOTAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS S13s,o0o,Ooo.
Committeeman ARE JUDlLAAT
Subscriptions in the Main Came From
Country Districts and From Labor
ing Glasses Not In Two Previous
Leans.
Special to The Herald.

ATLANTA, Ga, May 9.-Althougt
it will be several days before all tht
official returns are in from the Az
counties of the Sixth Federal Reserve
District, ii is evident that the unoffi
cial totals, amounting to $133, 3,000,O 900
will be maintained, il not surpassed.
The dozens of committee men al
district headquarters who have labor
ed night and day tor the success OF
the third loan in tie Sixth District
are jubilant over thesunusual showing
of the district. There has been feel
ing of optimism all sduYing the cam
paign, in spite of the fact that re-
ports from Washington steadfastly
showed the Atlanta district at the
bottom of the list, for the field men
who were closely iri touch with the
work of the many local committees
kept insisting that subscriptions were
coming in splendidly, and in the main
they were coming from the country
districts and from the laboring class
es who had not taken part in the two
previous loans.
Just before the close of the cam
paign, the statement was made by one
high official, much to the amazement
of his coworkers, that the district
would go over the top in every one of
its 427 counties. When the final re-
suits showed this to be a fact, the
qualification of the Liberty Loan COM
mittee knew no bounds.
"The people of the Sixth Federal
Reserve District have fully justified
the confidence which the government
has placed in them as American cit
izens," said NJ. B. Wellborn, chair
man of the Federal Reserve Bank.
The banks have continued to carry
forward their splendid work of coop
Grafton as shown in the two previous
loans, and the farmers, merchants,
and in fact every class of the popu-
lation have put their shoulders to the
wheel with a will. The 'win-the
war spirit has become firmly en-
trenched in the Sixth District and
will continue until the result is as
sured."
The wonderful work which the
hundreds of local committees have
done throughout the district was the
especial subject of comment by w.
G. Wardlaw, chairman of the Liberty
Loan Executive Committee. ut has
taken hard, consistent work on the
part of the men and women who have
had the welfare of the loan in charge
in order for every county in the dis
trict to go over the top" he said. 1T
has been nothing short of marvellous
the way some counties were able to
do it. That it has been done IS the
best testimonial of the work of the
community committee chairmen and
their fellow workers of which | know.
Not a moment of the entire four
weeks has been allowed to go by
without some Liberty Loan stunt be-
ing pulled by the wide-awake men in
charge. The results of their labors
will be felt not only in this campaign
but in every Liberty Loan drive that
is to come"
ST. Elmo Massengale, chairman of
publicity, calls especial attention to
the fact that there are million in
dividual subscribers to the loan. Ten
percent of the people of this district
have let Uncle Sam know that they
were behind him in this war. Ten
percent of population made up in
large measure of negroes is to my
way of thinking an astounding show
ing. 1t signifies that the moment peo-
pie really learn what this war is
about and the need for money that
exists, they are ready to come for
ward with all they have if necessary
to let the government fight it out to
a successful conclusion.
THE work of education in the cam
paign just closed has been remark
able. The district Mas been literally
covered with posters, pamphlets,
newspaper stories and advertise
ments, and a hundred other things to
catch the attention of the people. The
special war relic trains have reached
people who never knew there was
war, and have taken in three millions
in subscriptions over the train plat
forms.
I'VE can all be proud of the show
ing made by the district and look for
ward with confidence to the succeed
ing campaigns that are to come. With
the farmers turning in half of the
total number of subscriptions during
planting time. the district can be ex-
pected to meet every demand"