The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-23
NEARLY HALF
OF C0UNTY'S
LOAN QUOTA
SUBSCRIBED
Green Township Disposes of
Allotment in Few Minutes
by Calling Subscribers Over
Telephone.
PERRY GOES over TOP

One hundred and thirty-five thou |
sand dollars was added to the Wayne
county Victory loan total Wednesday
noon by announcements from City
Chairman Karl Meyers, that city sub. /
scriptions during the morning totaled
100000, and by Lewis G. Reynolds,
county chairman, that Perry township
had over-subscribed its quota OF $o0.-
500, pledging $4,000.
The Wednesday mornings work
makes the total result Of the Victory
loan drive. week before the city
and township campaign officially be-
gins, and before the county has really
overcome the effect Of its late start:
$749,450. almost half Of the quota OF
$1,S00,000.
The city and township alone have
subscribed over half their allotment
of S1,O0O,O0O, the Wednesday noon
total being $554,450, and when the
rest of the reports of township cam
paigns come in, which are In most
cases barely starting, the county ON
cials are confident that the result WILL
be victory.
one Subscription for $50, 900
One subscription alone, given to +.
M. Campfield Wednesday morning
was for $4,000, and he has had three
of this size. besides numerous pleoges
only slightly smaller.
"The fact should be emphasized
said a member Of the city organlza-
tion Wednesday, that the government
is only going to issue ,oO0,OOo'ooo
worth Of these bonds, and to those
who try to subscribe after the quota
is raised not a bond will be sold.
"If you want bonds, you had better
20 to your bank today, before 1t IS 700
late, or call up loan headquarters, looo
and an agent will be sent to your
house. This is too good an investment
for any person to miss, and people
wanting bonds had better act quickly.
Quota Subscribed by Phone
Reports received during the day In
dicated that the township organiza-
tions were hard at work, and dennite
assurances that the quota would De
raised were received from the Boston
and Jackson township chairmen. VIII
liam A. Lewis, of the First National
Rank at Williamsburg, chairman o1
Green township, reported rhat the
total quota was raised by a few mln-
utes' work over the telephone.
Frank Herring, the speaker OF the
evening at the Tuesday night mass
meeting at the High school, divloeu
the reasons why Americans should ouy
bonds into three great classes, moral'
financial and patriotic.
The greater part Of his address was
given to a description Of the battle
acids and more particularly to the
field of Belleau Wood, where, ne salo'
God gave it to 1000 American marines
backed up by two regiments OF III
fantry, to do what the 69,OO0.oOo men
engaged in the war had tried IN VAIN
for four years to do, drive the weose
which meant defeat for one soe OF
the other.
TELLS Of Cemetery.
He described the heart-shaped ceme'
tery near Chateau-Thierry tended low
inpJv NV French mothers who had lost
their sons, where, he said, a boy whom
he had taught in college lay buried
with twenty-six other American boys
and pictured the terrific desolation Of
the towns of Northern France after
the massage of the Hun. He brougn'
the battleflelds closer home to al
American audience than any other
sneaker or writer who has been IN
Richmond.
America was bound to be the com
mercial leader of the world, he SAID
in giving the moral reasons for the
support of the loan. Provided tht
differences between capital and laool
can be settled amicably, this countr!
IS facing the greatest period OF pros
perity in history.
1t is up to the bond-buyer, he salo
to help along this prosperity, and re
store confidence by full support OF TN
Victory Loan. Given these two things
he said, America, being in position u
produce the raw and finished mater
ials the rest Of the world is SO sorei
in need Of, would lead the commercla
world for FIVE years, and perhap
longer.
Bonds Best Investment.
He said the bonds were the best II
vestment which the small buyer coul
make, on account Of their high rate O
interest and non-taxable features.
The county organization was pre-
nounced complete Tuesday with tn
appointment of Omer McConaha,
township chairman for Center towr
ship, Louis McKinsey for Clay, an
Ansell Dwiggins. New Garden.