The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-06
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all volunteers for the great LiberlS
loan canvass-will simultaneously
ring $500 doorbells of homes in Az
sections of the city. and start the
continue without intermission. and
without change of scenes, until
every house, has been visited and
every inmate has been given oppor-
tunity to place his or her name ON
the nations honor roll by buying
bonds of the greatest war loan ever
noated by the mightiest nation -oBs
the globe.
Prominent Persona.
Included among the 200 team cap
tains and the several thousand VOL
unteer workers are men and women
high in official, business, and profess
sional life in the Nation.l Capital
and hundreds OF less prominent, but
no less patriotic and earnest. mes
and women who responded to the call
OF the Liberty Loan Committee and
made possible the carrying out ofstltR9
great plan Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo himself will be amoaE
the canvassers-not. however. as Sec
rotary OF the Treasury McAdoo. but
as William c. McAdoo, citizen al
Washington. who wants to see slfff
home town lead the country in Lib
erty loan subscriptions. There alson
will be bank presidents, promingUtI
business leaders, lawyers. doctors, In
surance men, Government workefa ,
representatives OF organized Labor
merchants, mechanics. and, in faeHs
Representatives Of every class Of ths-
more than 100000 people who make
rRr AA T.Ng - l.
The drama tomOrrow-for IL willsbl5
a drama, with not a line OF comedy-rE
twill be in marked contrast Wfim
the other great Liberty loan deuioSa
trations which have been hefdVfDn
Washington There will be no baBdh
no oratory, no waving OF flags and
ringing of bells (eXcept door beIIST
and no effort toward the spectacular
The drama will be serious, very Sc
rious. for added to the influenza men.
ace which threatens the city, Is tho
deeper feeling in the minds and
hearts OF the people of the District,
who realize that while II is being en-
acted young men from these safhIe
Washington homes are laying doRlb
their lives on the fields OF Franee-aS
supreme sacrifice in the great
cause for which the money is beins
raised. s9hl5
Must Set Pace Here. fIEoo
Added to this is the further faa
that Washington as the Capital Of
the United States is expected to Sal
the pace in loan subscriptions for the
entire country. and that the record oto
Washington in the fourth Liberty
loan will be interpreted by Berlin An,
indicative Of the spirit of the Unitsss
States of America. II was this addet
responsibility that caused the LIP
erty loan committee forty-eight hotIrF
ago to abandon altogether pIapAs
which 1t had taken months to prepGreo
and led to their determination tt
place the problem squarely before th4=
people of Washington for their 81
rious and conscientious action 5.s.E
The wisdom of this course, and the
success of the plan already are lUsYe
sured. No stronger evidence OF thai
is needed than yesterdays record Nos
bond sales of any one OF the forty )
three Washington banks. FrtdaIa
afternoon the appeal was made to M
to go to the banks and enter thei
subscriptions at once, so as TO mako
the work of the canvassers easy. ant
with il came an announcement from
all the banks that they would rSr
main open until o'clock to reesiEE-
subscriptions. % u