Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-02-05
F. B. JACQUES SOLD
$S5,0oo WORTH WAR
SAVING STAMPS HERE
Unique Record by Local Re-
preventative of. Life In
surance Company
S65,OOO,OO0 TOTAL SALE
Fifteen Hundred Clerks Did Won
derful Work for Various
War Charities
$65, 100000 TOTAL SALE

In an interview with +. i. jacques,
who has Just returned from the
Annual Conference held III New YORK
by the Metropolitan Life lns. Com
pany, we learned OF the great WORK
done for the Government last year IN
the sale of War Savings Stamps ana
Bonds, by the employees OF this Com
pany. 1t i, generally known that IN
January 1918, this Company took up
on itself an obligation to sell through
it's employees, $65, ,0OG,00O.00 OF War
Savings Stamps. This was considered
an impossibility not only by some
members of the Company, but by
other concerns. Howcvoi, the work
was begun, and progressed slowly for
the first few weeks. In March through
proper orGu nization, the sales began
in earnest, and by the end of August
the full quota Of $65,000,0OO.00 had
been sold and delivered. 1t was then
decided to double the quota, making
the total $l30,000,000, by tie end OF
the year. Sales continued until the
last Bond Campaign was launched,
when the Company was asked to help
in the Bond Drive. They sold $lS.000,-
10000 OF Bends. When this was over
the Stamp Campaign was continued,
and before the end of the year $112,-
000,000.00 Of Stamps were sold and
delivered. This with the $lS,000,-
10000 of Bonds made $130,0O0,0 100000
of government securities disposed Of,
or double the allotment assumed at
the beginning OF, the year. The
Company itself purchased $200,0G0,-
10000 of securities in Bonds and
Stamps. AS to the work done in the
territory supervised BY Mr. Jacques,
we learned that the Districts quota
was ,G00.00.s The actual sales
made by the representatives Of the
St. yohnsbury Staff in Stamps
amounted In over $S6,000.00.
AS to other activities Of the Com
pany and It's employees, they are too
numerous to give in detail. 1t may
be of interest however, to know that
the Home Office clerks purchased
materials and made after Office hours
three million surgical Gressing.; and
four thousand complete sets of u:l-
dergalmcnts for destitute women and
children in France. Three hundred
fifty clerks had the supervision Of
the sugar cards for the state of New
York, which comprised $4,000 grocery
stores. Fifteen hundred clerks gav,.
their time every evening last year for
government clerical work. Then ex-
pert steno9raphers gave all their
time. One physician gave his saryic-
es to canto.hnent sanitation through
out this country and distributed two
thousand health pamphlets, and an
other did similar work in the allied
countries III Europe.
When asked what effect this had
upon the insurance business. We
learned that very little was said
about insurance, no drives for bust
ness were made, but at the end of
the year, the Company had done
about $100.000,O0O more business
than ever before the total business
amounted to over Ss82.O0OnOO. The
Ordinary business in the State of
Vermont amounted to over S2O0O.-
oW.Oc. Business in st. .Tohnsbury
District III 1918 far exceeded that Of
any other year, the total in Ordinary
alone being considerably over a half
million.