Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-30
LIBERTY LOAN
HEADS ALL BUSY
HERE ON SUNDhl
State Red Cross Headquarters
Moved to Farnam Build
ing; No Early Bond
Sales.

sunday was not entirely Gay OF
rest for the captains of the Liberty
loan selling forces, They gathered
at the Wead building at Eighteenth
and Farnam at 9 a. m. and helped
move the state Red Cross headquar-
tiers to the Farnam building at
Thirteenth and Farnam.
Thomas c. Byrne, state chairman
of the Liberty loan, and Frank w.
Judson, state director of the Red
Cross, carried out the first desk.
Then the gang pitched in aid made
quick work of desks. chairs, filing
cabinets, typewriting machines and
Red Cross literature. Three hours
later four large van loads of furni-
ture and fixtures were located in the
new headquarters.
A great many Omaha executives
developed muscle no one knew they
possessed. Honors for heavy lift
ing went to w. B. T. Belt and w.
B. Tagg. The ribbons for bossing
went to Harry Whitehouse and Bill
Pixley.
Afraid of Precedent.
IF my wife could see me now"
laughed a prominent Omaha business
man, "she would keep me busy NOV
ing furniture around the house. |
don't mind moving stuff for the Red
Cross, but / draw the line in my
own portals"
The pep and vim displayed by the
Liberty loan workers gives fore
sight into what is going to happen
when they can break loose on SELL
ing bonds.
When the captains had time to
converse the chief topic of discus
sion was whether O. T. Eastman,
Douglas county chairman, could
hold his organization in leash until
Monday, October 7.
The plan of the fourth Liberty
loan campaign, as laid down in
Washington, was that no bonds
were to be sold until Monday. Oc-
tober 7. Between September % and
October s the main thing was to
"whoop her up"
No Early Sales.
All districts were asked to guar
antee they would live up to the plan,
and of course Omaha assented. SO
the workers were astounded when
they picked up their Sunday papers
and found Alaska had already gone
across, that Illinois expected to go
over on October S, and that large
subscriptions had already been
received in New York City.
St. Louis stole march on Omaha
BY securing for its campaign the
l64th depot brigade band of Camp
Funston. This was formerly the
Sixth Nebraska infantry band and is
lead by Lieut. R. ]. Webb, former
" president of the musicians union
in Omaha.
This week will not be as lively in
Liberty loan circles as in most
cities because of the Ak-Sar-Ben
festivities, Loan officials here con-
slider no parade necessary because
the Ak-Sar-Ben electrical parade,
1.-THE Allies Answer" is looked upon
as the best sort of Liberty loan
propaganda.
May Use Omaha Floats.
Frank R. Wilson. national publ
city director of the Liberty loan,
NAV send a man from Washington
to see the parade. 1t has been sug-
gested that the Ak-Sar-Ben floats
be commandeered by the govern
ment and used throughout the
United States in connection with the
next loan.
There will be Liberty loan float
in the Ak-Sar-Ben electrical parade:
Before the parade a fotilla OF
whippet tanks will advertise the
loan to the people who are waiting
to see the big show. These whip
nets will be used in the daylight
parade Thursday. Later in the week
thew will appear in South Omaha,
Benson, Dundee and Florence.
A Liberty loan parade will be put
on Friday evening by the Jacob A.
Riis league. All citizens of DANISH
descent are urged to be present
The parade will break up at the
auditorium, where there will be
mass meeting addressed by Mayor
Smith, Sophus F. Neble, Kew V.
Hensen and T. P. Nielsen OF Seattle
Wash. The show will end with
war film. w.,
The annual executive committee
meeting of the Danish Brotherhood
a national organization with mead
Quarters in Omaha, is in session this
week and many Danes of national
reputation will participate in the
nroqram. The order announce: that
Will make a $4,000 subscription
TO the fourth Liberty loan and asks
permission to help build the Tower
Omaha is taking on a Liberty loan
,ir Sunday morning early pedess,,,
.r;ars found signs Buy a Bond
,tencilled all along the sidewalks
The foundation of the Tower OF
Liberty" had assumed formidable
proportions on the court house lawn,
The traffic cops were holding in one
hand a sign reading. Buy Liberty
Bonds," Many of the leading re-,
tail wiAdows had been dressed
for the coming campaign.
Returned Soldiers Talk.
Two more returned soldiers have
arrived and will be booked by K. A.
Van Orsdel. They are Corporals
III o. Maxwell and Karl c. Schrei-
Der. They will appear first in Oma-
ha and then will be sent into the
state. Seven more soldiers arrive
today. The speakers committee is
being besieged with telegraphic re-
NESTS from out in the state for re-