The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-02-22
MACHINERY OF THIRD
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
soon BEGIN TO Turn
Systematic Campaign Will Be
Conducted On Business Ba-
sis For Bond Sale.
BARTON AND BRUCE
HEAD HOME CAMPAIGN
Organization Of Various Com
mittees For Specific Work
Is New Innovation.

A drive which will far. surpass in
intensity and results that of either
of the former loans will shortly be
launched for the sale of the Third
Liberty Loan in the Eighth Federal
Reserve District, in which Henry
county is included. Plans for this
campaign are now being formulated
and the entire proceeding will be
conducted on a systematic business
basis which is calculated to produce
some wonderful results.
A meeting of liberty loan workers
was held at the Chisca Hotel in Mem
phis last Friday and at which the
county chairmen of 38 different coun-
ties Of West Tennessee and Mississip-
pi were present, among them Col. o.
C. Parton and H. L. Bruce, chairman
and vice-chairman respectively of
Henry county, were present. John
]. Heflin, state chairman, was present
at the meeting, together with several
representatives of the Eighth Federal
Reserve District of st. Louis.
According to Mr.. Bruce, vice-cha1r-
man of Henry county, the Liberty
Loan drive in this county is going to
be prosecuted along the lines laid
down by the ''higher ups" of the
Memphis meet, and he states that he
is confident Henry county will be en-
abled to make far better showing
when the third loan is tabulated than
she did on either of the previous ones.
Beginning with the central organi-
! hation at st. Louis, where the central
committee will be located, the terri
tory in this district will be separated
into divisions even down to the re-
motest rural district, and district
chairman will preside over the opera
tions in each given division Henry,
Weakley, and Benton counties have
been placed in one district, and A, S.
Justice, cashier of the First National
Bank of Camden, has been appointed
district manager Of same.
Composing the Central Committee,
experts who are specially equipped
to handle some certain phase of the
work, have been selected to handle
certain portion Of the matter. The
same rule will prevail in the lesser
committees, and even in the counties
different chairmen will be chosen TO
look after specific part of the work.
This is done in order to systematize
the work and be able to approach
prospective purchasers in business
like manner from every angle
AS soon as the organization of the
committees in the different counties
is completed, the various chairmen
of the special branches of the work
they have been assigned to will be
called to Memphis at the expense of
the government where they will be
schooled by experts and specialists in
their particular duties.
Another phase of the Third Liber-
ty Loan drive which is vastly differ
ent from either of the former loans
is that the drive is, to great extent
going to be directed at the farmers
of the nation---that class of men who
have realized great benefits in fl
nancial way as result of war prep
arations 1t is pointed out that the
former loans have been floated all
most wholly through the banks and
fnanciers of the country, and it
stands to reason that these men and
institutions cannot bear the entire fl
nancial burden of the war.
On the other hand, the farmers are
the most prosperous class Of the ma
tons population today; they have
realized greater profits within the
past year than they had ever dreamed
of. They will therefore be asked to
lend their surplus profits to their gov
ernment on an absolutely safe in
vestment from which they viii realize
Ia per cent, interest per annum.