Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-16
WORKERS
MEET TONIGHT
Four Hundred Who Pledge TO
Assist I'm Campaign VIII
Gather at Club,
ARE TO GET INSTRUCTION
Volunteer Canvass VIII Be Opened
Tomorrow to Continue Until
Saturday.

The four hundred workers who
have pledged themselves to assist
in the prosecution Of the campaign
for the placing of the fifth Victory
Liberty loan will gather at the
Rock Island club tonight at for
Instructions.
It is explained at the Liberty loan
headquarters that with the hand
ling Of two kinds Of bonds the can
wasting committee will need all of
the information possible to get and
that the meeting of tonight is es-
pecially important in that the de-
tails of the bond issue will be made
clear.
Thursday opens up the voIun-
teer canvass. Chairman J. L. Yer
non has been asked to make clear
Just what is meant by the volun-
teer plan and in explanation
he states that the volunteer
subscription is subscription
which is taken without the pur-
chaser being canvassed by 2 can
wasting committee The Liberty
loan executive committee has ar
ranged to have attendants in all OF
the voting polls in each Of the %
precincts, who will be prepared to
take volunteer subscriptions to the
Victory loan. Everybody is asked
to call at the voting polls or sub
scription booths on one of the
three days, Thursday, Friday or
Saturday, and voluntarily hand in
their subscription for this Victory
loan
Today the committee received a
consignment Of volunteer subscrip-
ticn buttons and each person who
volunteers a subscription to the
Victory loan will be presented with
a Victory loan button signifying
that the wearer has voluntarily
given his subscription without
being solicited by soliciting com
mittee.
The soliciting committee which
goes out on April %, "a and 25
will not carry the volunteer sub
scription buttons, but will only
give out the regular fifth Victory
loan button.
The committee is hopeful that
this entire campaign can be put
across on the three volunteer loan
days.
To Have Booths.
The attention of the public is
called to the fact that the Victory
loan volunteer booths will be open
only between the hours of and 3
in the afternoon and and 9 in the
evening. II is asked that the vol
untary Victory loan subscribers
visit the booths sometime between
the designated hours In discus
sing the idea Of the volunteer days,
Mr.. Vernon further stated: 1T
would be a wonderful tribute to the
patriotism of the people of Rock
Island If we could put across this
Victory loan without having to
make house to house canvass. 1t
would enable Rock Island to an
uounce on the official day that the
campaign opened. April 81, that
Rock Island was over the top.
People will recall to mind that
Rock Island has always taken any
where from a week to three weeks
to go over the top on it's Liberty
loans, and the people are asked in
this instance to do it in three days
by the voluntary method and with
house to house canvass
"A communication received today
from Frank T. Shearman, chair
man of the rural districts in the
south half Of the county, advises
that there will be no question but
what the rural townships will go
over the top. Contrary to expecta-
tons, the people living in the rural
communities are responding splen-
didly to the idea of finishing the
job"
AS stated by Mr.. Sherman, the
farmers of Rock Island county ara
not the kind of people who stop in
the middle of the stream They are
determined to go all the way and
they feel that by subscribing their
quota this Victory loan is simply
completing the job and they can be
depended absolutely to do their
part