The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-12-20
WOMAN SOLD s5,s7s,s2o.oo
BONDS OF LAST LOAN

Dear Madam Chairman:
| Please accept for yourself and ex-
tend to your sub-chairmen and COM
mittee members my sincere congratu.
lations on the wonderful success of
the fourth liberty loan, which was
made possible by the faithful service
rendered by yourself and that of your
! splendid corps of workers. The wo.
men of Florida, in 50 counties, have
reported to date s5,379,S22 as the re-.
suit of their efforts A most graft
/ flying showing indeed considering the
! influenza epidemic and the Difficult
ties under which they labored. The
| service rendered to our country was
nothing less than heroic, and the final
report is certainly a tribute to the
loyal patriotism of our women, of
/ which we are justly proud.
The first peace loan, which will be
our fifth loan we are notified, will
be sold during the last three weeks
of April.
We have followed our dear men
through every step of the fearful,
conflict and it is the daring AID
the courage of these brave crusaders
that has made possible world wide
peace, for which we have all worked
so hard and prayed increasingly. Our
prayers have been answered with
victory greater than our most san
guine hopes dared anticipate.
We face REIMBURSEMENT of affairs
in our own country and a reconstruc-
ton of the affairs Of other nations.
Our country is the leading spirit and
we must finish our work in a manner
becoming our victory with credit and
loyalty to our blue stars and graft
tude and reverence for the gold. We
must continue to give of our strength
and material resources and stand
shoulder to shoulder with our army
any navy until such time as peace
may reign supreme, and they may all
be returned in safety to their homes.
This program necessitates a contin-
ued strengthening of our liberty loan!
and war savings forces, and must
urge that your county organization
be kept intact and where you find
that work previously delegated has
not been satisfactorily attended to,
kindly appoint new workers and have
committees ready to carry out orders
throughout your entire county.
Will you emphasize to your sub
chairmen and committees that the
women's liberty loan committee is a.
separate and independent organiza-
tio1 working under the direction of
the treasury department and is ex.
pected to work in cooperation with
the mems committee where possible;
but where it is impossible, that the
women workers are required to dis
their own campaign. without refer
ence to the mems committee and are
held as responsible for the faithful
discharge of duties delegated to them
as the mems committee is. No man
chairman has right to appoint no
men for liberty loan or war savings,
work The government has approved
the plan of directing the efforts of it's
women and this decision is supreme,
and because man county chairman,
tells the women workers that they
are not needed, this does not release
the women from their obligations to
their government and they cease toi
be good soldiers when they fail to.
obey instructions.
Oaly two counties failed to make
any report at all, last time and only
two failed to do canvassing. sending
in amount Of bonds bought by wo-
men, although all counties had chair,
men who had accepted the RESPONSE
bility of the campaign. This must
not occur again; the next report
must show the work of the women in
each county 100 per cent perfect.
Please notify me at once of chang
es in lists of workers, and from time
TO time give full names of new COM
mittee members with proper address
es The roll in the state chairman's
Office showed over 1900 names on the
woman's liberty loan committee in
] the counties This is indeed won
derful organization.
Please do not forget that you are
also the war savings chairman for
your county and that we must all
work hard if we reach our state quota
| by the last day of this month, when