The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-13
Ninth District
Must Work Hard
This District Holds First Place in
Distribution of Second Loan
Bonds
MUST KEEP PLACE
John Rich Says Third Loan Will Be
Bigger Success; Everyone Back
ing Government

Fourteen per cent Of the people of
the Ninth Federal Reserve District
bought bonds in the Second Liberty
Loan campaign.
Nowhere was there a percentage
of distribution equal to this, or even
close to it.
Now the Third Liberty Loan is
coming on.
Eleven other reserve districts will
try to wrest first place from the
Ninth. They will work hard to do
it. They will never do it if the same
loyalty and patriotism and self-sacri-
ficing work that marked the Second
loan campaign maintains again. And
it will maintain. Thousands of splen-
cid men and women who put love of
country above everything else, again
are ready to mobilize on call and
start the work.
First Loan.
The first Liberty Loan found the
Northwest unprepared and needing
educational effort, as was the case in
more or less degree in every district.
But the work in the Ninth district
was the hardest anywhere, for the
reasons that the district is the long
est Of any, $500 miles from east to
west, and 500 to 600 miles from north
to south. In this district were many
people to whom it was necessary to
go with the story of the loan, and
what it meant, and what it was for,
with accompaniment of argument as
to why one ought to buy the bonds
and support the government.
Well managed as was the First
Loan campaign, and splendid as was
the work that was done, the district
nevertheless, being assigned a mini
mum of $80,000,000 to raise, actually
>raised about $70,000,000.
Second Loan.
Then came the Second Loan cam
paign, which, while it placed total
Of bonds in excess of allotment, also
made Americans as it progressed. No
where in the United States was there
a more thorough canvas made, more
emphasis put upon patriotism and
loyalty, nowhere were country dis
tricts more carefully colnbed for the
separation of the people who were
enthusiastically loyal and those who
were lukewarm and Indifferent.
There were a few openly disloyal
people-not many.
More good, solid Americans were
made in the Ninth district in the Sec
ond Loan campaign than anywhere
else in the United States, and today
the great district is loyal and among
those most loyal and most willing to
do everything they can that this gov
eminent may endure ans that the
conditions of freedon under which
they have lived be perpetuated, are
many of German names and German
blood.
And when it was all over, the Ninth
district, given 05,000,000 to raise,
actually had raised close to $141,-
100000.
Third Loan
John H. Rich, chairman of the
board and reserve agent Of the Ninth
District Federal Reserve Bank, Min
neapolis, says:
"The Third Liberty Loan campaign
will start with the outlook very fav-
orable and good hard work will again
put it over. 1t comes at tine when
the whole Northwest is in the prep
aratory period for the next crop and
naturally such a time is not so fav-
orable as is the later period when
the harvest can be forseen or is in
the process of being garnered.
"But everybody is going to get Wig
orously at work. The loyalty and pa
triotism of the Northwest and the de-
termination of the people that their
part of the country shall stand high
is manifested every day.
"There will be many uncertainties
that will bear upon the speed of the
campaign, ETC., such as the weather
and the conditions of the roads. Good
or bad roads will facilitate or retard
the work of the committeeman. But
the work will be done, and done sue
cessfully in any case.
"The outward movement of prod
eyce from the country also will be an
important factor and transportation
conditions promise to be better. |
have the utmost confidence that when
once the third Liberty Loan cam
paign starts the evidences Of deter
mination to stand by the government
will be more numerous than ever and
that the loan will be a big success"