The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-04-15
Slusher Receives instructions 10 Disregard
Quota and Drive Subscriptions to
Limit; Council to Help
''STRONG ARM SQUAD"
TO GET IN ACTION
Business Men and Property Owners Must
Sci Aside S PerceRL to War Work,
Says Resolution

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Instructions received from the Fed
eral Reserve bank by F. L. Slusher
Grady county chairman of the Third
Liberty Loan campaign, are to dis
regard quotas and continue to take
subscriptions. In accordance with
such instructions the drive is contin-
uing
That the slackers are to be brought
up on the carpet and required to
give an account of themselves, was
determined at meeting of the Coun-
ell of Defense this morning, when a
resolution was passed, forming a
strong arm squad to operate in the
county. The resolution was to the
effect that all property owners and
business men are required to set
aside five per cent of their entire
wealth to the government war work,
Including Liberty bonds, War Saw
iEgs Stamps and the Red Cross, and
contributions similar to the latter.
AS cases are reported to Mr. Slush-
er of where any inaividual refused
to buy Liberty bonds or where they
purchased only small amount
when they could have purchased
more, Mr.. Slusher will report the
cases to the Strong arm squad,
This squad is composed of f. G.
Witherspoon, M. f. Humphrey, Fred
Frey, Ed F. Johns, E. c. Burton, M.
L Courtney and b. b. Barefoot.
When they receive the reports from
Mr.. Slusher, it will be their duty to
call upon the individual. If he still
persists in his refusal to buy bOnds
or to increase his purchases to the
percentage required, he will be her
aided before the Council of Defense
where he will be required to show
cause, if any he has, why he should
not be classed as a Stacker.
Calling upon the county councils
of defense to take charge of the
cases of the "slickers" and the slack
ers and to apply the flaming torch
of public opinion to all such, w. H,
Donahue, district chairman of the
Liberty bond campaign, today mailed
the following letter to all Of his
county chairmen:
Gentlemen: THE end of the first
week of the Third Liberty Loan cam
paign finds at least five counties Of
this district with their quotas sub
scribed and the remaining six ap-
proximating that goal. This splen-
did effort of a patriotic people her
aided to the men who have gone out
from our homes to where the troub-
led earth within the lines is carpet
ed with pain" will carry to them a
message far deeper than the mere
words which frame its meaning.
But our work is not yet done. 1t
is not the purpose of this govern
ment to fulfill this quota and close
the books permitting the patriotic
burdens of war, forgetful of the
miser, the callous, and the moral
coward. Friday headquarters wired
me to instruct Liberty Loan workers
to forget quotas and place a bond
with every citizen. Having called /
upon the patriots we are now facing
the slicker who should have bought
a thousand dollar bond but who sub /
scribed for fifty or one hundred dol !
lars, and the Stacker who bought no
bend at all. Some of your Stacker /
cards cover "fifty dollar" men but
most of them refer to men of the |
comfortable class. In Frederick the |
clerks in the stores subscribed and |
returned to work while a man who |
drove thousand dollar car and own
ed two farms insisted on a hundred |
dollar bond, and in a neighboring
town nine separate men told me of
cne who had thousands of bushels !
Of wheat and great property hold
ings but had bought no bonds. At
Chiclasha the labcrers in the Rock
Island shops went one hundred per
cent Liberty Loan while men who