Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-17
A WAR SERVICE LEAGUE.

| was one of the seventeen that made
good. IN every Red Cross drive and
every Y. NJ c. A. war fund drive Mar
! shall county has made good from the
! first and is one of the few counties
that wac able TO keep its sales of war
savings stamps up TO requirements
! from the start. It's food administration
| is one Of the most efficient county ad-
ministrations in the nation and its
J Red Cross chapter is held up as a
model by the central division managers.
Marshall county is organized 1t is eff
cient and its war service league has
been the object Of inquiry from as far
away as Connecticut
The Marshalltown plan is the CO.
| ordination Of every war service activ-
! ity az home. II has brought chaos out
| Of the mob and its war service league
now moves under discipline and COM
! nand Ike military troop. At the be-
ginning there was a council of defense
4 tVIbS SAiS NO4iaNS va VI AtAc steahN
council If defense dealing with oues-
tons Of loyalty and the draft Then
somebody appointed liberty loan
chairman. Somebody else appointed
! Red Cross chairman for the county.
Later came chairnen for the Y. NJ. c.
4. var fund, t2- the var savings
stamp campaign and finally we had a
county food and city fuel adn1inistra-
tor Every chairman appointed com
rtttae, recruited solicitors and put on
his drive in his own way and then dis
banded Every campaign had TO build
from the bottom and e1pend 90 per
cent OF its energy IN getting ready.
Then somebody proposed that Marshall
county organize permanently for the
period of the war and this is the way
ii was done
The county council of defense was
made the nucleus. Its chairman and
the county chairmen Of the Red Cross.
the liberty loan, the Y. NJ. C. a. war
fund, the war savings committee to-
gether with the food and the fuel ad-
ministrators were made an executive
committee or committee OF county
commanders 10 direct all war service
work. The council of defense was then
reorganized TO include a precinct cap
tain Of each of the seven branches OF
war work in each voting precinct. This
created a local council Of defense OF
seven captains in each precinct who
constitute the precinct committee for
each drive. but the command rotates
in each drive The county commander
Of the liberty loan is supreme when
mis- drive is on and the precinct cap
tains Of the liberty loan command
under him. When the Red Cross drive
comes tic county commander of the.
Red Cross and his precinct captains
take charge.
For the city of Marshalltown it was
necessary TO subdivide the voting pre-
cincts into six and seven sub-districts
each and sub committees of seven
solicitors for each sub district were
appointed. They have committee
chairmen and secretaries. canvass their
districts for every drive. keep records
as 10 what every person in their dis
t-!cts has done and know AT ali times
who is loyal and who is stacking. They
constitute the war service league of
the county council of defense but only
the precinct captains and county com
nanders sit in the county council
meetings which are held on the second
Wednesday OF every month.
The civ Of Marshalltown employs
clerk in its office to keep books for
every war service work and a loyalty
ledger account is kept for every person
in the county. When cards are gwen
out in any drive they show the amount
Of each persons purchases Of bonds
and stamps. his contributions to war
| funds, the assessed valuation of has
| property the kind of an automobile he
drives, his approximate income and the
amount assigned to him by the COM
| mittee in charge. He must meet his
appra isal or better or gee the general
committee about it. The council Of
defense refers ali charges of disloyalty
to q special committee. all cases OF
refusal TO meet allotments for war
funds are sent to another committee,
all questions as TO classification for the
| draft 90 20 q committee which CO..
operates with the government appeal
agent. the county commanders of each
| war work report to the council of de-
| pooled so that printing, clerical work.
| postage and cataloying need never be
duplicated. There is complete CO.
ordination OF all the work. No over
| tapping, no loss of energy in getting
| ready for Marshall county Is always
! ready for any drive and can guarantee
1 its full allotment in advance. Precinct
/ ailotments are made half upon the
/ basis of population and half upon the
basis Of property values and precinct
captains know that their work is never
done until their precinct allotment has
been met. People come to central vot-
ing places and buy their bonds with