The Lamar register., 1918-10-16
Big Fourth Liberty Loan Drive a Sue
cess so Far as This County
is Responsible.

Chairman F. NJ. Wilson was able to
report at noon Monday that Prowers
county had raised her $4,000 bond
quota and was cover the top" Dis
trict Chairman N n. Mclean report
ed to state headquarters that the two
largest counties in his district, Otero
and Prowers, were safely oversub-
scribcd and subscriptions were coming
in rapidly in both Bent and Baca
counties and it is certain that they
will both subscribe their quotas before
the end of the campaign on Saturday
evening.
The campaign has been well man
aged, aggressvely carried on to big
success, and the chairmcn and their
large staff of captains and lieutcnants
are entitled to warm praise over the
big victory they have won. The
ladies organization under the leader
ship Of Mrs. W. S. Partridge Of Hol-
ly took very active part in the cam
paign and much of the success of the
canvass is due to their active and ef-
fieicnt help. r. II. Cochran, secre-
tary and publicity manager of the
campaign, has been one Of the most
untiring and efficient workers for
weeks, and he viii be greatly missed
from the organization when he leaves
next week for the training camp in
California to enter upon his duties as
one of Uncle Sans soldiers. The
captains were for the most part the
same ones, who so efficiently managed
the 3rd Liberty Loan, but in Lamar
Cora Strain replaced Heinie johnson,
who was unable to take part. The
staff Of workers were practically the
same here as before and they did the
same thorough work.
The taking of subscriptions began
on Saturday, October 5th, and was
carried on all last week with public
meetings held in various sections of
the county and winding up with big
street meeting in Lamar last Satur-
day night, at which it was hoped to
complete the work. A few thousand
dollars. however, were lacking at the
close Of work that night, but this was
oversubscribed on Monday morning of
this week. Several subscriptions have
come in since and the county is now
safely in the clear. The total sub
scription to the 4th Liberty Loan in
Prowors county is not quite equal to
the big total subscribed in the Bird
Liberty Loan last April when the
county went 200 per cent strong with
bond sales totalling S355,OO0. Lamar
in this drive raised little more, how
ever, than it did last spring but still
fell a few thousand short of its big
quota of s21s,00O. The fixing of quo
tas on the basis of bank deposits is
not quite fair as it throws tremend-
Gus burden on places where there is a
larger accumulation Of deposits. Many
stoekmen from Baca county, and even
|, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico
carry their large deposits here, but
have checking accounts at their home
banks and buy their bonds there. This
increases Lamar's quota without any
help towards raising it. Several of
the other towns of the county over
subscribed. however, and this put the
county as a whole over the top"
It makes two big quotas raised by the
same team Of workers in one year and
totalling seven hundred thousand dol
lars in the county that did not reach
ten thousand population at the last
census. 1t will make any other county
of the same size and population go
some to equal this mark that has been
set for them. The chairman as well
as many other men and women have
devoted a number of days of hard
work without pay to the cause, and all
feel good to think that the victory has
been won.