New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

recruits, $2Ss,75s in thrift and war say
ings stamps were sold in the city yes
terday, an increase of $1,000 over
Thursdays sales. The grand total for
stamp sales here since last December
is $17,627 SAL, daily average of $780,
$40.
Every possible medium Of appeal was
utilized by the thousands of workers
yesterday in their battle TO maintain
aid quotas at 100 per cent. Personal
canvasses, public meetings. concerts
and the insertion of the pledge drive
as part of the daily business routine
figured prominently in the campaign
ing
The subway band and the vaudeville
singers held throng at City Hall
Park, where 1,438 pledges were signed
and $1,000 in stamp sales were made.
In front of the Public Library speak
ers were forced to stand by silent
while the assorted chirography of thou
sands was affixed to pledges and green
stamps were traded for green money in
wholesale lots.
Pledges Given Soup
Thousands of downtown workers
tasted steaming cup of vegetable
soup, especially prepared by an army
cook on an army rolling field kitchen
which stood at Leonard and Hudson
Streets at noon. The sampling of
the liquid "chow" meant that they had
purchased stamps and signed the
pledge. Prior to the anchoring Of the
kitchen on the corner, there had been
parade of the confectioners' divi-
sion of war savings societies:
The street cleaning band played and
IA rt<r IF no
Opera Company, sang, while shoals OF
pledges were signed around the steps
of the SubTreasury.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president OF the
National City Bank and Director OF
War Savings spoke to the thousands
blocking Wall Street. After appealing
for pledge signers he said:
''It takes five men behind the lines to
support every fighting man, so that If
we have four million fighters We will
have to have twenty million men back
ing them up. This will mean half the
active man power of the country, and
this is the number we will need to beat
Germany"
Battalons of shock campaigners Of
the Woman's Committee stormcd the
theatres, matinee and night, yesterday.
No movie was too small and no theatre
too large for their attention. The
booth at Fifth Avenue and InlTty-
fourth Street resembled toll gate, no
strolling citizen being able to pass it
without paying his promise in writing
to contribute fixed amount each
month to the nations war treasury.
Appeals for thrift were voiced in
thirty tongues in the foreign colonies.
"a stamp day keeps the Kaiser away"
they were told, and responded with
signatures or by making their mark"
Pushcart peddlers sold stamps and
asked for pledges. Storekeepers COW
cred their counters with pledges. the
dotted line pleading for signatures.
Though officially the organization OF
new war savings societies was not
pressed by the committee in charge OF
the drive yesterday, 1,026 were report
ed as newly formed, swelling the total
for the campaign to 11,341. Enough
have been formed, but not officially re-
ported, it was said, to bring this total
to $4,000.
Workers Given Praise
Chairman Allen, who directed the
campaign here, in a statement last
night lauded New Workers for their
proved patriotism.
81 am greatly gratified at the show
ing made by New York City in the
war savings pledge drive" he said. "It
proves that in this movement, as in
every other effort to back up the men
in service, New York has lived up to