New-York tribune., 1918-03-14
c;tv Canvass Committee to
Leave No Loopholes
This Time
Will Probe Excuses
With Perfected System, Rec
ords VIII Be Broken, Says
A. 3. Leach

II yeu can't go across "ovcr there"
~ least you can come across right here
and the chances all are that you will,
,oo. For the plans now being perfected
nv the Metropolitan Canvass Committee
far the Third Liberty Loan drive sched-
uled to begin April s, leave you some
What less Ioophole than the Kaiser for
q way out-eyen If you should happen
n be the kind of person who's look
irg for way out.
last time" said A B. Leach. chair
man OF the committee, yesterday. 1--WE
did more or less of an emergency job.
Our work was crowded into about ten
DAYS At that, we got about $4,000 sub
scribers to the second loan. This time,
though we have our organization in
running order. and we're going to be
ready 70 pitch in at top speed from
the drop OF the hat
Not q store. apartment house, tene-
ment. not & loft. basement, cellar or
sub-cellar. is to be overlooked in the
nicroscopically particular tour the
agents OF the canvassing committee are
to make OF the city.
For several days now the schoolboys
of New York have been busy copying
off for the committee 4 record of all
the men registered in the draft This
will furnish q definite starting point of
about two million names and addresses
Every one of the men so listed will be
personally visited, as will his relatives.
Every ore will be asked to fiji out
card stating his exact relation to the
Liberty Loan. Did he subscribe to
either Of the first two? If so. how
much If not. why not?
To Follow Up Excuses
In case he pleads that he could not
eff - p v1.J,
promptly forwarded to the war savings
stamps officials to follow up. If he
says he has already subscribed to the
third loan through the trades commit
tee, that reply viii be checked up and
verified at once.
"And, in case he should say that he
had not subscribed before and didn't
intend to this time" said Mr.. Leach.
why. then, possibly we might refer
his case 20 still another authority"
simultaneously. & feet OF automo-
biles-a call for which IS shortly to be
sent out-will tour the city. CARRYING
the message Of the loan. its need and
purpose, far and wide through printed
leaflets and the spoken word School
children will be marshalled to further
the work
For them" declared Mr.. Leach, cit
will be a wonderful and. l think, en-
during lesson, not only in patriotism.
but in thrift-a lesson that should
leave It's mark on the future of the
country. besides helping to win the
war HOW"
As further incentive to the boys.
prizes will be given TO those who do
the best work in canvassing.
The Boy Scouts. who. during the, last
campaign, worked largely within their
own organization, viii this time take
the field. helping to line up apartment
house dwellers. Insurance men, col
lege men. members of nearly all the
prominent women's organizations in
the city, and. above all, perhaps. the
Home Defence League, are also being
mustered into the service. At pres
ent twenty-seven bureaus have al
ready been established in Manhattan
and captains appointed who, in turn,
will appoint lieutenants TO direct the
canvassers in squads. The organiza-
ton has been conducted on the basis
of police precincts. Within few
days Brooklyn is to be similarly zoned.
Eve ought to break all records" de-
elared Mr.. Leach.