Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
W0men's Work i'm the Greatest of
Campaigns.

Mrs. Charles H. Ingraham, appoint
ed chairman for the Woman's Liberty
Loan committee of Marathon county,
for the fourth campaign, gives the
following report:
The work of the Woman's Liberty
Loan committee during the Fourth
Loan campaign was quite different
from that of the third campaign, in.
asmuch as they were not called upon
to do any soliciting for bonds, ex-
cept to the teachers in the public and
parochiel schools of the city.
This part ofs the work was under
the personal direction of Miss Ger
tiude McGuine, who had corps of
very efficient salesladies. The total
amount of bonds sold by them amount
to $10,250. Educational and pub
licity work was the main part of the
women's work and in the schools
groups of pupils were preparing es-
says and four minute speeches on the
Liberty Loan, and contests were to
be held to choose the best of them.
The winners were to be awarded priz-
es Of diplomas, given by the National
Woman's Liberty Loan committe,
signed by Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks,
chairman of the Seventh Federal bank
district and Mrs. John w. Mariner,
chairman for Wisconsin, but owning to
the closing of the schools these con-
tests were not held.
The Woman's committee had also
made very extensive plans for a patri-
otto celebration and parade to be given
ON Saturday, October II, but this, too,
had to be abandoned, on account of
the epidemic. A great deal of work
and time was spent in preparation for
this celebration, as it was felt that I'M
doubtedly it would arouse public in
terest and aid very materially, the Lib
erty Loan.
From the committee room at the
Loan headquarters, material was mail
ed out to $50 rural schools in the
county, for teaching Americanism and
assisting pupils to understand more
what the Liberty Bond means. Also
a supply of posters for each school
room.
The committee of the Business Wom-
ems Service League, under the chair
nanship of Miss Mooney, started out
to solicit business women and en-
ployed girls, at the opening of the
campaign, as the city chairman of
sales requested, but after two days,
the solicitors were all recalled by Mrs.
Ingraham and Miss Mooney, owing to
some misunderstanding about their
right to solicit bonds and just what
their territory should be.
The speakers committee were very
active and a member visited them, as
a unit to buy bond of the Fourth is
sue. Through this channel, church
and fraternal organizations of women,
bought bonds, amounting to $1,000.
Members of the speakers committee
also made numerous trips through the
county, talking for the loan before
women, interested IL. war work.
1t is found that generally, good
audience will greet group of wom-
en- from the city, who will go out, to
bring to these women from the farms
and in smaller places, something of
interest and help, in knowing how
they may help in winning the war, for
they are anxious and ready to do what
they are called upon to do.
The speakers who were prepared to
give talks during the campaign were:
Mrs. G. H. Ingraham, Mrs. Horace
Evans, Mrs. Charles Feathers and Mrs.
Helen Bick Daniels.
Not least of all the work of the
women's committee, was the commu-
nifty singing, which was used more
than ever before to stir and rouse
the people, and we hope that as soon
as we are able to hold meetings
again that our singing may go on and
on and come to be vital force with
us here, as it is in nearly every other
place. 1t is to the earnest efforts of
Mrs. Coates that this work has prog
ressed to the point now reached.
The women's committees in the
towns and villages of the county did
not sell bonds as generally as they
did for the last loan, either, but Spen-
Ger sent in good record; also Athens,
Milan, Rockville, Unity and Elderon
All together the women of the city
subscribed for bonds amounting to
$216,395 and the women of the coun-
ty, $3S,560, making total of bonds
owned by women of Marathon for the
Fourth Liberty Loan to be $255,955.