Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-23
WOMAN'S PART IN THE
LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN

Two weeks nave gone ny SllC6 the
beginning of the intensive campaign
for the sale of Liberty Bonds and the
work of the womens committee has
been very successful.
Through the public schools, posters
have been made relative to the Liberty
Loan, under the supervision of Miss
Judith Wadleigh, instructor in draw
ing The pupils have largely used
original ideas in designing the posters
and the best of them are to be sent
out to the rural schools of the county.
Essays have also been written on pa
triotism'' and THE Liberty Loan" and
Junior Four Minute Men have been
preparing speeches. which they are
now ready to deliver when called upon.
1t is expected that at every church
| Aid society this week there will be
| given one or two of these speeches
and also at the moving picture thea
tres. The pupils have entered into
the spirit of the campaign with great
| deal of enthusiasm and it is felt that
a great future good will come through
| their work.
The actual bond selling has been
taken care of entirely by the women
each church society, each grade in the
public schools, each fraternal organic
alton and the Business Women's Ser
vice League-being represented by a
special committee in it's own mem
| berS.
| 1t is estimated that there are at
| least three times the number of wo-
men subscribers of this issue than at
either of the others, due to the sales
women working in each society and
organization. The city sales for the
two weeks amounted to $78,300.
Throughout the county there are Is
committees of women in villages and
towns and their sales have amounted
to $19,150.
A part of their work was in rural
districts and the women have gone
| many miles to solicit a bond of some
| friend, whom they suspected would
appreciate having one if they under
stood how easily they could procure
one.
Women's work to a great degree is
one of education and AmericaniZation
helping her neighbor to understand
how the Liberty Bonds protect her
and her children and getting the wives
| to encourage their husbands to pur-
chase bonds.
1 In the county a great deal of good
has been done by the school teachers,
| the children have been giving patriotic
programs, singing campaign songs
and writing essays on Patriotism.
meeting was held in school dis
trict No. /, in the town of Texas last
Wednesday evening and in spite of
cold rain,> the school house was filled
to over-fiowing. The pupils gave sew
eraI recitations and songs, and the
remainder of the program was talks
by Randall Johnson, Carl G. Kruger,
Herman Marquardt and Mrs. c. H.
Ingraham, also some singing by pupils
from the High school, under the direc-
ton OF Miss Roesser.
A patriotic meeting was held in the
village hall at Hatley on Tuesday
of last week and the people were
very enthusiastic about the Liberty
Bonds. Miss Lois Smith, one of the
teachers in the village, is acting
chairman for the woman's committee,
and is doing a splendid work there.
The women of Glandon are keenly
alive to the need of women's work and
are helping the township of Hewitt
make a creditable showing. When a
discussion arose in the little Aid So
ciety over the purchase of Liberty
Bond, it was discovered that STA was
the sum in their treasury, so a $50
Bond was bought and the remainder
put into War Savings Stamps, which
: may later be turned to bond of a
later issue. That one bond means
, more to society like that, than many
bonds do to a society in the city, for
these women all live on farms and
only get together with difficulty-but
they appreciate what Bonds mean to
the farmers and they are all anxious
to see Marathon county go lover the
top"
At Edgar on Friday, where a patri-
otto meeting was held in the new vii
lage hall, fine parade preceded the
! meeting. The men and women work
ers on the Liberty Bond campaign
4 marched, the women carrying a ban
ner saying Liberty Bond Workers,
{ then came members of the Red Cross
unit all carrying knitting bags, a
group of boys dressed in khaki suits
. and carrying guns and school girls
dressed as Red Cross nurses. At the
hail DR.. Trevitt gave the speech OF
the evening and was most enthusi.
| | astically received.
! At all Of the meetings in the county
| during the last two weeks, community
| singing has played a large part anC
the people all seem to thoroughly en-.
, joy it and ask to have it again. The
| women'S committee realize that sing
| ing may be made a strong factor in
| bringing people closer together and
| it is expected that all during the
| summer to keep the community sing
/ ing alive wherever they can.
| AS county chairman, Mrs. Ingraham
/ has given talks to women on Their
| Part in the War" at every meeting
in the county during the campaign
| and in several cases the women have
l said this was the first time they had
i been given any encouragement OF
| chance to do war work and they are
l eager to know how and what to do
| There has been an almost instant and
| unhesitatingly response from nearly
| every woman called for duty and when
| told that women are drafted for SER
vice at this time just the same as the
| men they have accepted their COM
| mission without question or equivoca-
ton.
1t undoubtedly will prove that with
the fine organization of women work
ers for this Liberty Bond campaign a
much better and more efficient SER
vice can be rendered another time.
subscriptions reported up to date:
Universalist church -$l5, $50
Business Women's Service
League -------------------- II, 1850
Episcopal church ---------- 9,400
st. Paul's ---- $500
Presbyterian " ---- $500
st. James g ----- 1880
Teachers Organization ------ 1880
lions church --------------- 2,150
Methodist church ----- 1900
Eastern Star ------------- 100
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