The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-19
COMMITTEE
OUTLINES PLANS
THE LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
LAYS PLANS FOR THE
COMING CAMPAIGN
TO RAISE FULL QUOTA N ONE DAY
September 18th Is To Be The Day On
Which The Combined Efforts OF
Committee Is Centered

~BroOkings county will make a SUI
quota on September 28th, the first
day of the Fourth Liberty Loan cam
paign. If every subscriber will take
his share early that day, this county
will be one of the first, if not the
first, in the state to report going over
the top. The county Liberty Loan
committee has the machinery all
geared, oiled and set for a record
run, but the success of the machine
will depend Upon each and every sub
scriber.
According to official notice from
the committee, the plan to be followed
in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive will
be the same as that successfully
adopted for the Third Loan. Every
one will receive from the chairman
before September %, a subscription
card with notice of the amount of his
allotment. No bank will be permitted
to accept subscriptions for a less
amount than that allotted by the exec
~ IL &OiilliiiltCO
states that the levy will be just
enough to raise the quota assigned
to BroOkings county, If everyone
takes his or her share. Therefore, 1t
is absolutely necessary that all sub
scriptions be for the full amount al
lotted.
The committee hopes that it will
not be necessary to turn in a single
blue card in this drive. In the Third
Loan only two blue cards were hand
both instances the persons so report
ed, upon being informed of the true
situation, took more than the amount
that had been allotted to them. Few
persons really understood the blue
card during the Third drive, or the
unpleasant consequences attached to
being SO reported. 1t is not a pleas
ant task, says the committee, to be
obliged to report anyone on a blue
card. 1t would be equally unpleas-
port to the Department Of Justice,
the Council of Defense, the United
States district attorney, or the United
States treasury department, the fail
ure of anyone to buy his or her al
lOtted share of bonds. Almost every
one is now familiar with the national
law concerning the sale of Liberty
Bonds and the consequences of viOlat-
ing the same.
Many persons during the Third Lib
erty loan drive were unconsciously
guilty of violating the federal law by
criticising the bond sale, or the man.
ner in which it was carried on, or
the manner in which the allotment
was made, or the mount of the al-
lOtments. 1t is hoped by the commit
tee that no one will thoughtlessly OBJ
struct bond sales by telling another
that his allotment is too high, or that
he should not buy the amount allotted
to him, or that he is not being fairly
conducted fairly. During the Third
loan and since some have been ac-
cused of trying to make capital out
of the Third drive by sympathizing
with the bond buyer and telling him
he should not have been asked to buy
the amount allotted to him, or that
his net worth was rated entirely too
high, and that if he had his way the
amount would be greatly reduced. On
the other hand members of the COM
mittee were accused Of telling sub
scribers for bonds that they had moth
ing to do with the determination of
his net worth, and that other mem
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