Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-09-09
W|OMEN READY
FOR next loan
Women Organize to be at
Service of Mems
Liberty Loan
Committees.
IDEAL RELATIONSHIP
Cooperation in Work Re
suits in Best of
Success.
IDEAL RELATIONSHIP

chairman for the fourth Liberty Loan
campaign and each chairman has her
county organized to the smallest unit.
This is the message of DR.. Efiie McCOl-
lum Jones, state organizer Of the wom-
ems work, who spent the weekend at
her home here.
The women workers thus organized,
DR.. Jones stated, are at the service of
the mems committees for the purpose
of raising Iowa's apportionment Of the
next loan. The women do not desire
to conduct a rival loan campaign, or to
compete with the men in the selling of
bonds, she added. The sole object of
their organization is to carry out the
purpose of the nations chiefs, who laid
upon them the task of aiding in this
most important and patriotic Of all
war work.
women in every county Of the state
but one-JOnes county-were organic
ed for bond selling. Where the, volun-
teer subscription plan was adhered to,
the women did effective work. In some
counties, as in Hamilton county, the
allotment plan was adopted, and in
certain instances it was argued that
the women'S work was unnecessary.
An Educational Program.
However, for the coming loan, the
governmentfias given out the statement
that it especially desires strong edu-
cational program carried out before
the actual selling campaign opens,
Sept. 2Sth. In this work women are
urged to take part. BY making plain
to every man, woman and child the
purpose of the dollars they are asked
to subscribe, the government hopes to
counterast the influence of the foreign
language newspapers and to thoroughly
Americanize the people.
An ideal relationship of the coopera-
ton of men and women loan workers
was seen in one locality OF this state
during the last loan campaign. A
strong educational campaign was car
ried out preceding the loan dates. Pos
ters were used Everywhere, letters were
sent out, women assisting in the 1ieces-
sary clerical work. Every man and
woman was made familiar with the
purpose of the loan, through speeches
in public meetings, in the schools and
elsewhere. On the opening date Of the
bond selling campaign, the people were
asked to gather at, the school houses
of the county to make their subscrip-
tons. This they did, and in the one
day the county quota was reached and
over subscribed 700 per cent.
Adjustments Satisfactory.
Instances of the so-called Stacker
spirit have been exceedingly well dealt
with in some, counties, where commit
tees made UP of Red Cross workers,
those in charge of the War-Savings and
Thrift campaign, and other public spir-
tied men of high character have met
lHc OuJcClOE anu III d hlIltlS, IcdSOu-
able manner have explained the neces-
sity of the loan, its purpose, etc, and
no cases have been reported where 9TH
err than satisfactory adjustment was
made.
1t is desirable that women take the
part the government has assigned to
them in the coming campaign. 1t is
hoped to include woman speaker on
every loan program and as members of
all committees, upon which loan work
ers are engaged. Women are being sue
cessfully employed in every capacity in
war work and surely none other is more
or less important than the Overwhelm-
ing subscription Of the next Liberty
loan.
EeA~ a.