The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-27
Voluntary System to Be Used
AS Far as Possible in the.
Victory Drive April
22-VoIunteer Day.
ASK GOVERNOR CALL
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
May Need Assistance of Organi-
zation; Quotas About Same;
Says Have Won War
Now Pay Up.

That the Victory Loan campaign
which opens on April 81, will be con
Quoted largely on the principles OF
the Fourth Liberty loan was decided
at the state meeting of district and
county chairmen held yesterday in
Oklahoma City, VIM H. Donahue
district chairman, stated this morn
ing Mr.. Donahue returned last
night from the meeting.
On April % volunteer station
will be kept open on each city block,
and each person will be urged to go
there and make a voluntary subscrip-
tion, without being solicited by a
committee. District and county
chairmen may extend the volunteer
period to more than one day, or as
much as a week, if they find it de-
sirable.
The preliminary pledge system
which has been used successfully in
former campaigns in other states al
50 was adopted by the officials. I'M
der this plan each person who sub
scrbed as much as $1,000 to the
Fourth Liberty loan will be asked
+c ,e.;o,, boforo t1,o oo,,,,,af.r,, l,or,t,,o
pledge to take the same amount Of
notes of the Victory loan as he took
bonds of the fourth loan, to pay ten
per cent of the amount on demand
after April 21, and make the remain
der of the payments according to tlA
plan of the government.
A resolution calling upon Governor
j. B. A. Robertson to bring about
the reorganization of the state and
county councils of defense to aid in
the campaign was adopted by the Of
ficials
w. r. Rowe of Kansas City, cam
paign chairman for the tenth federal
reserve district, declared that the
idea which had gained currency that
the banks of the country would take
all of the notes and make popular
unnecessary was en-
tirely false.
THE treasury department has made |
no announcements as to the details
Of this loan" Rowe asserted. 81 be-
lieve that the announcement that the |
securities would take the form of
five years notes gave rise to the idea |
that the banks would subscribe for
all of the loan. The amount of the |
loan may be as small as $5.O0O,OOO,- |
900, but the absorption of a loan of
this size by the banks would cause
of business"
Speaking of the outlook this morn
ing, Mr. Donahue said: "One thing
is certain The United States gov
has contracted these debts
and they will be paid If they are
not paid by a bond issue, they must |
be paid by taxation. The people !
must realize this If a person is
able to buy Liberty bonds and don't
do it, he may rest assured that taxa
ton is the next in line. We have |
won the war, now we must pay the /
debts that were contracted"
Mr.. Donahue stated that the quo
tas would probably be about the
same as in the fourth Liberty loan.
No changes were made in the county |
chairmen of the Fifth district.
F. L. Slusher, Grady county chair
man, was in Oklahoma City yester-
day attending the meeting. Mr..
Slusher remained in the capital to
hold several conferences with work
ers.
The campaign will be handled in |
the state by an executive committee
composed of % members. Plans for
the campaign are being worked out
by this committee R. X Wootten |
Of this city is member.
n R. Graham Of Tulsa is state |
chairman. He will be assisted by
Westfall, formerly of this
city,