The Washington herald., 1918-10-03
WIN QUOTA IN
DAY is SLOGAN
ADOPTED HERE
$500 Energetic Persons to
Make Drive for the
Liberty Loan.
TO WORK ON SUNDAY
Replaces Parades and Meet
nes Made Impossible by
Epidemic.

4
tor 1900 active energetic men and
women 10 JOIN IN the biggest lib
e.sy loan drive ever held in Wash
Iington.
After eonfesring with Surgeon
] General Blue of The Public Health
Service and the District Commits
sioners the committee decided 10
call off all indoor meetings and
parades in order to prevent further
spread of the influenza epidemic.
AS a substitute for the meetings
the committee has decided to make
house-to-house canvass of every
home IN Washington and person
ally take subscriptions to Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds. The canvass
is TO be made Sunday afternoon,
and the committee wants at least
5000 earnest, patriotic, active men
and women to volunteer for this
work, which is regarded as of ut
most importance.
Canvass Begins 4 O'Clock.
The canvass will begin at o'clock
and will continue until every home
in the city has been visited. 1t is be-
lievsd. however, that with this large
number of bond statesmen at work
that the canvass can be completed
in a few hours. Sunday has been
chosen for the canvass in order that
IL may interfere as little as possible
with other war work here.
Every man and woman who is will
ing to lend a hand in the big drive
is urged to attend an organization
meeting which is to be held at s
o'clock tonight in Liberty Hut. Three
thousand SIX hundred will be sufficient
TO make the canvass, the committee
estimates, but it earnestly requests
| that everyone who is sincerely desir-
Gus OF helping toward making the loan
q success and who feels that he or
| she has some ability as a solicitor
come to the meeting and offer their
services. The more who come the
greater will be the success of the
/ canvass
=
| prepared today, and this char. p
being mapped of into small sec
| tions, Of a few squares. each, so that
one or more individuals may be as
signed to them. 1t is absolutely i'm
peratfve that every person cover his
or her territory in the time allotted.
SO that on Monday morning the can
vass will have been completed and
the grand total Of subscriptions may
| be announced
Want Folks to Stay at Home.
Everyone in Washington who has
| not bought bonds by Sunday will
be requested to remain at home dur
ing the afternoon so that the solici-
tors will find them in when they call
The Liberty Loan Committee of the
/ District last night gave out the fol-
| lowing statement in connection with
the announcement OF the canvass:
| Our city Is threatened with an
epidemic OF Spanish influenza. Pre-
cautionary methods are being taken
to prevent this by closing the schools,
changing the working hours, forbid
ding indoor meetings, and properly
veD1Hstins all street cars.
This condition makes II neces-
sary to conduct the liberty loan
campaign along different lines and
the public is urged to give its full
est and heartiest cooperation to the
end that Washingtons quota will be
raised at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Subscribe without Solicitation.
There could be no finer display
| of civic pride and patriot sm on the
part of the residents of Washington
than to go without further solicita-
tion or delay to any one of the
banks of Washington and subscribe.
These are strenuous times, and
thousands of people who are devot-
ing their efforts to liberty loan and
other work are doing their utmost
day and night. You can be tremen-
| dously helpful in responding to this
appeal Don't wait for the solicit
tor"
Members of citizens associations,
trade organizations, women's organ
izations, trade unions, and others
are urged by the committee to be
present at the organization meeting
/ in Liberty Hut tonight.
More than s133,oO0 in liberty loan
pledges was taken at the mass
meeting held last night at Liberty
Hut over which Robert N. Harper
presided. Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels and A. Mitchell Palmer.
Alien Property Custodian, were the
speakers.
Nearly 100000 Abroad.
Rousing applause greeted Secretary
Daniels statement that nearly 2.0rO q.
0s0 men have been Transported to
France without the loss of one man
or an American transport, Every
man in America" said the secretary.
should stand humbly before our
boys in France and on the seas. and
| appreciate the magnitude of what
they are doing, they who have left
college, farm, factory and shop that
you and I might be free. Let US
seek to have our names mentioned
with theirs by sacrifice and dedica-
ton of all We have to the cause for
which they are giving their lives"
A Mitchell Palmer. alien property
custodian, announced that in recon-
mending the sale of liberty bonds he
was practicing what he preached,
since he was the biggest subscriber
IN liberty bonds in the United States.
I have already bought $50, 900, 900
worth Of bonds, and II is a poor day
indeed when / do not have the pleas
ure of buying 81 10000 in bonds with
the Kaiser's own money! said Mr..
Palmer.
Among the large subscriptions