The evening leader., 1918-12-02
Florida Leads in
War Work Drive


The state of Florida has made the
most remarkable record of any state
in the Southeastern department in the,
recent war work campaign, according
to announcement made by the depart
ment headquarters in Atlanta. The
grand total for Florida, according to
the reports received in the office of
the state campaign director, O. E. Ma
pie, shows 1915, 900 subscribed to this
campaign and if the collections keep
up to the usual records of Florida this
state will stand at the top of the
Southeastern department.
Leading all counties in the state for
a grand total of Sc, 10000, or an over
subscription of 200 per cent, is the lit
tie county, of jefferson. This county
was the first in the state to ego over
the top and the eslnpaign workers
did not stop there but continued their
work until they had over doubled the
county's quota. jefferson county of
ficially announced itself over the cop
four days after the campaign opened
and issued challenge to any other
county to make larger subscription
than they did but the challenge was
not accepted.
The Ninth district, comprising the
lower east. coast counties, including
the city of Miami, was the first dis
trict to go over the top when they an
nounced S157,000 raised and a quota
of $4,000. This district is Justly
proud of its record.
AS for the state itself a total of ap-
proximately $975,O0O was raised for
the campaign and with a population
of 1859 according to the last CEN
sus, this gives this state an average of
over 81 per person. None of the 9th
er states have anywhere near ap-
preached this record. Tennessee is
leading all states in the grand total
for the campaign with $1,915,000 SUBJ
scribed but that state has a popula-
ton of 2,184,7S9. Georgia with a
population of 2,6O9,121 reported a
subscription of $1,715,690; Alabama
with population of 2,13S,093 report
ed subscription of S1,369,471, and
North Carolina with population of
2, 2,206,287 reported a subscription of
81 ,380,000. From these figures it will
be seen that Florida has the smallest
of any state in this divis-
ion, yet it reported larger subscrip-
ton per capita than any other state
in the department.
The first payment on these subscrip-
tions falls due this week and as the
greatest work the seven organizations
has yet faced is just beginning these
subscriptions must be collected at
once. The soldiers are now in the
midst of the let-down period. They
are taking things easy and just at this
time, when everyone is thinking of |
home and growing restless under the
inaction that they are going through, |
men and money must be furnished at |
once to help these men pass their idle
hours. They will not be home for
some time yet and especially is this
true of those in France, and during
the time they are there they must
have entertainment amusement, edu4
cational classes, and the home life
that is being furnished them at this
time and this is being furnished by
these organizations.
AS an illustration of what is being
done, the Army YIN, c. A. is pre-
pairing to conduct regular classes for
the men and these classes will begin.
with the courses Of the first grades
in the public schools Of this country