Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-21
DELAWARE WOMEN
AND LIBERTY LOAN
Their Wonderful Patriotism an
Inspiration for the Energy
Which Spelled Success.

They commanded SUCCESS, they worked
for SUCCESS, and success IS theirs This III
the feeling that Mrs. Henry Rjdgely,
State chairman for Delaware, National
Woman's Liberty Loan COMMITTEE, dis
plays in the comprehensive story of the
wonan's part Of the Liberty Loan drive
in this State, written by her Saturday for
the encouragement Of the women workers
She appreciates what every one Of them
has done, and she will not forget any part
of it, when she gives in her report 10 the
inner circle of the Treasury Department
at Washington Mrs. Ridgely has worked
with indefa igablc industry, first TO
organize the women Of her State, and then
to keep them inspired TO their best effort.
They are only too glad TO follow leader
who is always inspiring, always en-
couraging and always helpful and sugges-
tive. Her story follows:
woMAN's SHARE IN TT
The largest sum Of money ever raised
in the history Of the State, sl6013 ,2sOf
That was our quota we have reached 1T
and more We have raised over $4,000 600
in three weeks, in spite of state wide
plague BY steady devotion to.the cause
IL hand, through every obstacle and handi
cap We have won Men, women and
children all the citizens of Delaware
working shoulder 10 shoulder
Wilmington women debarred meetings,
prohibited house 10 house canvass were
undamted. and they report nearly
s6,0O0,0U secured through their teams
from over 10000 n subscribers, or ton
! per cent of the population Of their city
and per capita response Of SIS.
| With the influenza raging, nothing
could have brought success but the
| devoted zeal which Mrs Otho NOwland
and her organization displayed, tho
courage which carried them on 10 victory
Dover, our state capital with populai-
| ion of 600 reports over a half million
! or st25H 10 the credit of every man
woman and child in the town More than
twenty per cent Of the population of
| Dover subscribed through the Woman 3
| Committee Mrs Alden r. Richardson,
city chairman has s412,i50 ~ hand
| Is there any town in thc Third Federal
| Reserve District which can show 4 higher
per capita percentage or q larger number
Of subscribers through the Woman 3
i Committee?
Every county in tho state is over the
/ top. thanks to the fine team work by the
men = and women ; committees, BIT I
uas Sriesex County which went over
first, reporting its quota reached and
nassesI on the seventeenth The SUSSEX
/ Committee worked against great odds,
| for the Spanish Influenza is raging ~
rural districts and many of the towns
! Seventy. out Of population Of JD per
sons IN SelbyvilIe were victims Of the
scollrgc. and Drlmar has o population ~
two thousand eight hundred of whom
ucrc att ckcd ~ tho influenza. No report
Z, of p single subscription came m from
! Deluar until October fiffetnth four davs
before the drive closed. ard vet Delmar
! has gone "Ot er the top aad her Woman :
Committee reports fifty four per cent 81
the assigned quota on their books. Mrs
| William Tuthcrly the county chairman
has been unable to secure returns from
All her districts, because 50 many Of the
workers arc astlll seriously III, but she
| reports TO date SsS4l50
New Castle county with Wilmington,
Christiana and BrandvwIne hundreds
taken OUT. and with many returns not
vet IN, reports through the chairman
Mrs W I Reybold, that the Woman !
/ Committee alone has a per capita response
OF ST. - When We remember that
! BlscnbIrd hundred has been almost
paralvzed by the influenza. that Mil
Creek. White Clay Creek and New Castle
hundreds have been especially afflicted
that IN the city OF New Castle, with {
population OF 5000 there have been
81 500 cases. We feel that the residents D
New Castle county have shown the tr1,
American spirit
Kent County Woman Commlttc,
with Mrs Walter Morris chairman
leads the counties IN percentages, havlGl
secured the highest per capIt. response
next to the city ot Wilmington, or NOR,
than 5000 from each man woman anC
child IN the county This will DC N
| creased, as the returns are not all IN
This county is also distinguished becaus
the first district in the state to 20 'ore
the top was Kent county district
Magnolia which completed IFS quota ol
October third
The Woman Committee OF the STAT
are appreciative OF the spirit of coIn-ade
ship and cooperation with which denr.
p Scott, chairman OF New Castle county
James II Hughes, chairman Of Kent
and DR. Roland 6. PaNnter, chairman
of Sussex and their committees have me
them III the campaign.
One half'of the entire quota assigned {,
Delaware will be credited 10 the Woman
/ OnfTlttet. Eight HGilfOlls SIN lItOGSstiu
SIX hundred and forty dollars and nor
than that sum will be the amount tn
! Womans Liberty Loan Committee O
Delaware will report to Mrs. William G
McAdoo, and this does not include an
part of the generous subscriptions of th
du Pont corporation
1t IS because Delaware women enterc
upon tho work of the Loan pledged /
devote tolt all they possessed OF efficiency
endurance and stcadfastness and bccaus
they consecTated themselves 10 this fo
their government that even serious Hines
and the presence of death in their mids
could not break dow their courage. nc
cause them to falter until their goal va
reached and passed
1t is with pardonable pride hat
sign myself State Chairman Of Delawar,
Womans Liberty Loan Committee
Mabel Lloyd Rldgcy,
Dover, Delaware.
October 10, 1918