Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-05-14
WORK FOR
FIFTH VICTORY LOAN
Outline III Work A Accomplished
BY Anne Arundel Women
In Last Drive
VARIOUS COMMITTEES

| Following Ii the story of the out
line Of work done BY the women
81 Anne Arundel county Id ms NTH
Victory Loan drive Just ended g.
given out BY the chairman
On Thursday afternoon, April III,
upon the Invitation Of the states @first
lady. the women of Annapolis and
Anne Arundel county, who had en-
listed 10 work in the Eth or Victory
Loan assembled under the hospitable
roof of the Government house 10 re
ceiye their instructions and % hea.
words OF encouragement and inspira
ti0n for the work that lay before them
from tho State Chairman OF the Wa
mans Victory Loan Committee. Mrs
Sidney N. Cone Of Baltimore Mrs
Cone was most careful and patient In
explaining 70 the women what Their
duties would be and III answering the
questions addressed to her BY her hear
ers. and the work of the numbers of
! the committees IN the drive show
that they heard and practice1' what
was told them Col. Harry Hopkins
4 chairman for Anne Arundel county
1 Of the Victory Loan committees spared
| "a few moments from his many duties
to give resume Of former drives, and
Ito announce the c0unty's quota for the
1 Victory Loan Col Hopkins recital
lof what Anne ATundel county had
done heretofore, ana how ii has been
done. sent every woman away from
that gathering with the determination
that her county should do just as well
again and with the county's quota
ts4s6. .300l emblaxoned ii unforgetable
| figures upon her memory as goal
which must be reached.
Everywhere one met the assurance
that the Victory Loan was going to
be diflacuIt. and 1t was, and all the
more credit to those women who ii
spite on this fact worked zeaiously
from street to street. and hnnze "a
aOuss the last hour of the last
lay wEen behold! the county's quota
was assured and all was we'll!
IT is 10 be regretted that all of those
women who we're at the send.off'
meeting cannot share in this glorious
achievement, for some were like those
hearers Of whom the Bible tells US.
who after hearing went their way and
being concerned with other things ac-
conplished nothing for the cause In
which they had enlisted. There are
those who have never made report
]. S,.,. :. .y,.xr,s ~ : H<.,.1 A.sk &.,,-@,s
nately to onset this. there were others
who could not get to the meeting to
get the inspiration and the vision.
who caught IL from others, who real
fzeI their c0untry's need. and their
own responsibility and measured up.
Were II NOT for the fact that the policy
of the Woman's Committee has been
opposed TO singing out individuals
for credit or honor. the names of sev-
L eral women workers OF whose efforts
their leaders have spoken In high
praise, would surely have been made
public
The friendly rivalry between dis
ltricts and wards has given impetus TO
the selling os bonds. and an entirely
new spirit was injected into this loan
| BY the participation OF the War Moth
| ers 81 city and county, who besides
1.-THE fact that they sold bonds. found
\ In their eRorss mems of mutual
help and service and made stronger
the bonds which bind them together.
Local pride burst into beautiful
blossom in some places while the VIC
tory Loan was Id progress, and after
1.-The meeting at Severna Park one Of
the men who had been flrst settler
In that attractive little hamlet, decid-
Cd be wanted to double the sale of
bonds at the meeting and sent his sub
scription card for $1,000 bond.
one of the features Of the drive was
the Victory Loan Sunday canvass,
May 4. Of which Mrs Abram Moss
took charge. The bonds sold on that
day have been given credit In the re-
| ports of the wards. but the amount:
was nearly 5000. The Woman's
COMMITTEES feels very grateful I'd the
mems committee and 20 the press who
have co-operated IN every possible
way, and have made the women 5
\ work much tighter than II would OH
erwfse hare been AS the work start
ed our with words 0f encouFAg cement
/ from onr State leader, so Il ends with
4 words og O0aanaendafiOn from her and
her committees Ia the following tele-
4 gram recaiyed yesterday ~ the cOin-
/ fy chairman:
The w0Snan's Liberty Loan Com
Irnfttee for Maryland sends heartiest
thanks ana atulatious for splen-
did work 0s woman's COMMITTEES TOR
Anne Arundel county
The ollacern o3 the Wonan's Section
og tn Aane Arundel victory Loan
ldrive we're ths following
4 Chairuaan hrs Robert Moss.
Sub hasruann. Mra. Barnett Bowie.
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