The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-28
CAMPO IGN is Off!
Fourth Liberty Loan Drive
Opens Before Dawn Today.
Some Communities Sent Work.
ers Out at Midnight.
MILLION and HALF SOLICITORS
Place a Bond in Every Home Is
the One Demand.
Day in Churches Tomorrow and
Then g. Weeks Activity.

Washington, Sept. 2s.-Before dawn
today the fourth liberty loan cam
pajgn was on.
So eager were some communities to
make strides toward their subscrip-
ton goals that they sent solicitors to
work at the stroke of midnight.
Scores of towns are trying to give
all expected of them before n.ghtfali
and t.. devote the remaining three
weeks to doubling or trebling their
quotas of the mighty war loan.
A million and a half men, women
and children are enrolled in an army
of active campaigners to place bond
in every home.
The whole vast machinery got
smoothly into motion. Like the grim
mer campaigns across the sea, every
detail had been planned long in ad-
vance. Statesmen began altering sub
scriptions by well-organized methods.
Posters appeared in shop windows and
told the story of liberty bonds on
streets and from fence corners. Presi-
dent Wilson's autographed appeal was
published in newspapers turnout the
land. In motion picture theaters films
planned by leading stars told graphic
cally why Americans should buy bonds
and $4,000 volunteer speakers began
to drive home the appeal. More than
d score SpeClal trains IllleQ Will
war relics fresh from Frances bat
tlefields started their journeys from
town to town.
Indications are that the American
people now realize more than in any
of the three previous loan campaigns
the intimate relation between govern
mefit bonds and the fighting by Amer
lean soldiers in France. and that those
spared the hardships of army life must
economic to buy bonds.
In Churches Tomorrow.
After the opening enthusiasm of to-
day and a day in churches tomorrow,
the country will Settle down to the
three weeks of drive to gather from
rich and poor the billions needed to
c. ush, Prussian autocracy.
A reminder of the necessity came
today in an official report that the
government is spending nearly a half
billion dollars a week-about $50, 000,-
600 a day for the war. At the same
time it was borne home that other
nations - Americas partners - have
done more per capita than this coun-
try now is called on to do. The Brit
ish people, half as numerous as Amer
leans, have loaned their government
about $14 .000, 100000. The French
have raised nearly $7,00O.0OO,O0O from
bonds and the Russians nearly
equaled this record even before revo-
luton and intrigue demoralized the
country.
BY comparison, tile United States
already has sold l-early $4,000, 900, 900
of liberty bonds, with a population of
more than 100,000,000.
The purposes for which these stu
pendous sums go, the huge quantities
of guns and shells, airplanes and mot
ortrucks, ships, food and other fight
! ing stuff which liberty loan tdolIars
buy-these will be explained concrete
~ in propaganda of the fourth loan.
speakers, newspapers and solicitors
Will combine to advertise the war it.
self along with the wars bonds.
The systematic methods by which
this policy is to be carried out is il
Illustrated by organization plans in each
OF the twelve federal. reserve districts,
IN each state, county, township. city
or town, and even in neighborhoods,
factories, stores and professional or
trade groups.
stands the treasury, of course The
chief organizer in each federal reserve
district is. the governor of the federal
reserve bank, with central commit
tee and divisions of speakers, pub
nclty, accounting, organization, sales,
supplies and women. The form of or
ganization extends to the states and
smaller divisions, with each bureau in
touch with the corresponding division
OF the next unit and welded into a
working whole by the enthusiasm OF
the multitude of workers to fulfill am
ply their individual responsibilities.
Make Initial Payments.
Subscriptions will not be official,
recognized unless accompanied by the
initial installment payments, and these
are turned into a bank. Banks in q
community then will compile their ag
gregate subscriptions and report tt
district headquarters, which will gath
re tor tot 1z n ta f61n r, cf
to Washington. Thus will the natior
be informed from day to day of the
rising tide of loan pledges.
The task of accounting for each dol
lar received, and each item of cam
paign cost is distributed among thou
sands of expert accountants. Ever,
day and night of the three weeks the.
will work to account for every penn!
of the bond subscription harvest.
Campaign organizers expect tn
fourth liberty loan honor flag to prov
an even greater stimulus to communi
ties than in the third loan. It will
be given to a community when it sub
scribes the quota allotted, and a sta
will be added when the communist,
has been oversubscribed so per cent
Honor enblems-cards bearing
design of the honor flag-will b
awarded to industries, stores, churche
or other organizations holding certai
records of number of subscribers. L
addition, there will be the honor roll
of names of subscribers kept durin
the third loan. Subscribers will ge
badces-metal buttons bearing tn
honor flag design on a blue field
and will be >urged to wear them
Thirty million badges have been or
dc-ed.
The communities making the bes
records in the campaign will be pei
mitted to choose the names of nun
Der of new ships to be launched b
Tie shipping board. This privilea
was delegated to the loan bureau b
Mrs Woodrow Wilson. to whom til
shipping board originally assigned tn
task of naming all new vessels.
district Organizations have been le
the method of choosing what CON
murities> shall be given the privileg
of selecting the names.
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