Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-30
CITY Is TO BE
COMBED IN WAR
WORK CAMPAIGN
With Ban Off Sixty-Four
Teams Are to Make a
Strenuous Drive

1 Hd announcement OIL Dr. HOyer,
acting state commissioner of health,
that the ban on public meetings will
be lifted next Tuesday. has given
great impetus to the preliminary ar
rangements for the United War
Work Campaign which will open in
Harrisburg next Monday noon with
u luncheon meeting of the team
captains of the Industrial commit
tee.
Officials of the drive expressed
considerable qualification when they
learned they would not be ham
pered in their efforts to raise
the city's $1S0.00O quota of the
United War Work Fund by the In
ability to hold public meetings.
which always have stimulated great
interest in previous war campaigns.
Secretary Eckenrode this morning
announced the plans for the conduct
of the industrial campaign under
Chairman Starkey next week. With
the completion of the plans for the
industrial canvass and the announce
ment of the completed plans for the
homes canvass the two major COM
mittees of the United War Work
campaign organizations are ready
for the word go"
Sixty-Four Teams
Sixty-four team captains are be-
ing appointed by Chairman Starkey.
These captains are appointing as
many assistants as they desire. Each
captain is assigned a number of in
dustries which he must canvass. AS
rule the captains appoint their
assistants from the industries them
selves, forming cCU mittee in each
industry.
The Industrial solicitors are be-
ing instructed to receive three con-
tributions from each one of the city's
industrial establishmen One from
the company, one from the officials
and one from each individual en-
Dploye.
The industrial drive, beginning
Monday noon with the luncheon of
the captains in the Harrisburg Club,
and ending Monday. November IL,
with another luncheon, when re-
ports will be received. precedes the
house to- house canvass, final plans
VI WHICH, MGIC at luG
meeting of ward leaders and pre-
cinct lieutenants last night in the
campaign headquarters in the Gill
bert store room, Market street.
Drive Opens November II
This drive will be opened and
concluded with a meeting of the
workers in the Chestnut Street Audi
torium. 1t will begin Monday night,
November II, and close Thursday
night, November IA, when the final
reports will be received.
According to the plans just an
nounced, every city block in Harris
burg will be numbered, and when
every house in a block has made its
contribution, that block will be
marked in red on the huge map of
Harrisburg, which is to be posted in
front of the Courthouse. Ward maps
and precinct maps will be supplied
the ward leaders and precinct lieu
tenants, to be posted in conspicuous
places in the wards and precincts,
and when a block has gone over the
top, it will be marked in red on the
maps.
Ward leaders will call meetings
of their precinct lieutenantS and
workers next week, when the work
ers will be told how to make their
canvass. Red and yellow cards will
be used to prevent any one from
lodging the solicitors. Where any
person says he already has sub
scribed at his place of business, his
name and his employers name will
be written on a red card, and head
quarters will investigate his state
ment. If untrue, the person will re-
ceive a visit from a special COM
mittee. Where citizens fatty refuse
to do their part, their names and
addresses will be put on yellow
cards, and they too will receive spe-
cial attention.
Precinct LicutcnantS
Citizens will be allowed to pledge
amounts of not less than $40, if
they are unable to pay dnsh. Twen-
ty per cent. must be paid in cash
on every amount pledged.
The following additional precinct
lieutenants were announced by Sec
rotary Eckenrode this morning:
Third Ward, E. u. Gross; Fourth,
Martin w. Eager; Fifth, Charles x.
Boas, Eugene j. Fogarty, Harry Ell
linger, Miss Mena Schiffman; Sew
enth, j. w. 1bach, George A. Schrei-
ner; Ninth, William r. McCord, Gill
bert l.. Culmerry, Ralph Il. Boswell,
Alfred G. Eden, A. c. Getter, M. II.
Baker, DR.. j. w. Storey; Eleventh,
G. j. Hutton, A. +. ReXroth, G. A.
Geisel. f. +. Hoffman,; Thirteenth,
Harry p. Motter and f. w. Lewis.