The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-22
GOING AFTER UNIV.
DEREL|CTS TO RAISE
UrPltDGtO BALANCE
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE is ARGUS
ED nv FAlLUREOF SOME clTl-
zENS TO SUBSCRIBE.
COUNTY WILL REACH QUOTA
County Chairman Folding So Reports
To State Hcadquarters--WilI Not
Cease Work Until Full Quota Haa
Been Subscribed.


No figures in the reports of the
various districts for the United War
Work campaign were made public to-
day, but Chairman Sam Holding has
reported to state headquarters that
Maury county will certainly go over
the top and that the work will not
stop until the goal has been reached.
Less than $4,000 remains to be sub
scribed and it is thought that 10 COM
munities from which reports have not
been received will materially reduce
the unpledged balance.
In a statement issued this morning
Judge Holding reviews the attitude or
the county campaign committee to-
ward citizens who have failed to con-
tribute or who have contributed less
than they are known to be financially
able TO contribute. He indicates that
{. vigorous effort will be made to iso-
late all persons who may be classed
as derelicts in this cause SO that the
public and the men in uniform may
know who failed to respond to a pat
riotic cause.
Judge Holdings statement follows:
Il am not ready to make a final
statement. We lack nearly three
thousand dollars of putting Maury
county over the top. A reported this
situation to state headquarters last
night, but told them they could count
Maury as over, for we expected to
continue work until we had put this
county where she properly belongs.
1T is a great burden on Many of
us to continue this campaign, but at a
meeting yesterday afternoon of dis
trict managers, it was unanimously
voted to keep up the work, There
were ten communities which had not
reported. The managers of these
districts pledged themselves to look
after these delinquent communities.
Another action was taken OF
equal, if not of more Importance. 1t
was unanimously voted that the dis
trict managers report to the Chair
man the names of men abundantly
able to contribute but who had not
contributed, or who had contributed
e. small sum out of all proportion to
their ability, and the chairman was
directed to send card to each one
asking for a substantial contribution.
If this person refused, or ignored the
request it was the sentiment that the
names of such men be published as
refusing to subscribe with any reason
which any might offer for such re-
fusal.
There prevailed a sentiment Of
great indignation against the selfish
and indifferent man who cloesd his
heart and purse against this appeal.
This will be a disagreeable duty
and hope men able to give will send
in their subscriptions before it is too
late.
"a man cannot save himself from
the censure of the public, nor from
the contempt of these brave boys who
have suffered all for our sakes, by
taking the position that the war is
over and the money unnecessary.
The facts have been made clear to
the great public that it is necessary,
more necessary now at this critical
time than eevr, and no sincere man
with patriotic impulses can conscient-
iously dodge behind such a position.
"The District Managers are deter
mined that every man, able to give,
shall have another chance to save
himself the shame and regret he
will surely feel, when the boys come
home. On that day of rejoicing every
man will ask himself the questions in
his own heart Did ] help the boys?'
Did / do my best to the very last
call? Am | entitled to join in the
joy of this welcome? Even if the
utterly selfish man canot hear the
still, small voice, let him be sure that
the day will come when the re-
proaches OF his neighbors will be
heard, and the wrath Of the boys will
be felt, and when his cry of Lord,
Lordl | have prophesied in Thy
Namel" Will not be heard.
by the first of next week | hope
to report, in detail, that we have
gone over the top, or let the public
know who are responsible for this
shameful failure"