The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-19
MASS MEETING
IN HIGH SCHOOL
TUESDAY Will
SET OFF DRIVE
South Bend Speaker Will Ad-
dress Those Attending Cere-
monies in Auditorium to In
stitute Campaign.
GREEN TOWNSHIP over

Frank Herring of South Bend, is
the speaker, Tuesday night at o'clock
is the hour, and the High school audi
torium is the Place for the loan meet
ing that will precede the campaign in
Wayne county, the committee an
nounced Saturday.
Herring, who has recently returned
from Europe, where he has been in
the government service, speaking to
the boys "over there" made one Of
the best talks heard in Richmond since
the war started last summer in his
capacity as vice-chairman of the state
war savings stamp campaign.
Music by the Soldiers chorus win
feature the meeting, and announce
ment has been made that no subscrip-
tions will be asked The Tuesday
night affair will be preparatory to
the opening of the Victory loan CAM
paign on April %.
Green Township Over Top
Green township showed the way to
every township in the county when
she announced to Chairman Lewis G.
Reynolds Friday evening that her
quota of $4,000 had already been
over-subscribei by 10 per cent Seven
citizens are said to have taken the
bonds
Whitewater lodge OF Odd Fellows.
at its meeting Friday night, authorized
its trustees to subscribe for $1,000
of Victory bonds. Whitewater lodge
has made similar subscriptions in each
of the four preceding campaigns, and
now stands first among the fraternal
orders of the city and county with
war security holdings.
Scores of inquiries and many appli-
cations are being received by every
bank in town, and the indications are
that there will be a genuine rush for
the bonds as soon as the campaign
opens. Small investors appreciate the
fact that AZ per cent interest COM
bined with the fact they are non-tax-
able, makes the bonds as good an in
vestment as 81 per cent OF taxable
securities.
While the Richmond and Wayne
township campaign will not begin un-
til April %, when Chairman Karl
Meyers and his organization expect to
put the loan over the top in three
whirlwind days of campaigning, there
is nothing to prevent any township
organization beginning its campaign
ing as soon as it wishes after Tuesday,
April %, said Chairman Reynolds.
Townships Give Assurances.
o. M. Whitmeyer of Boston, chair
man of Boston township, told Chair
man Reynolds Saturday morning that
he was confident the loan would go
over in the township and assurances
were received from other townships
during the day.
The few vacancies left in the town
ship organizations are rapidly being
filled and complete county organiza-
ton is expected at the start of the
loan Tuesday morning. All township
chairmen have expressed their inten-
tlop of being at the get-together lunch
con of all workers Monday evening at
the Y. M. G. A, and Reynolds said
he expected an attendance of fully 125
Nothing definite has been heard
from the whippet tank, but it is ex-
pected to be in the county in time to
take part in the city campaign the
last three days Of the month.
s25oooo, 900 A DAY.
WASHINGTON, April 19.-First re-
ports to the treasury today of the Vic
tory Liberty Loan campaign disclosed
that the three weeks drive to raise
S4 S4,500,000,000 already has been started
in hundreds of communities. Without
awaiting the formal opening Monday,
committees were at work today gath
ering promises of subscriptions to be
recorded Monday. Many
cities had arranged parades and mass
meetings of citizens for today and to-
morrow to boost the loan, and in
number of churches preachers have
planned to discuss the urgent neces-
sity of Americas pushing the loan, in
with their Easter services.
To Make Daily Reports
To raise the entire amount of the
loan it will be necessary for the coun-
try to subscribe at the rate of $780,
100000 each day. Officials look for
large subscriptions the opening day al
though the volume of these probably
will not be reflected until late next
week. Arrangements similar to those
In the past loans have been made for
gathering daily reports on subscrip-
tions received by banks and actually
backed up by the initial payment.
These figures will be forwarded by
each bank to the federal reserve bank
Of the district and compiled there for
the district, the totals for the whole
being added up in Washing
ton.
A feature of the opening Of the
oan in Washington Monday will be
The testing of a new wireless tele-
ohonic apparatus by which man fly
ng in an airplane above the city will
deliver an address to a throng on the
reasury steps through the use Of
;ound-amplifier set up on the ground.
Admiral Sims will be speaker on this
and Billie Burke, the actress,
will sell bonds from the treasury
steps.
Even while the loan campaign is
the war savings organiza.
ion throughout the country intends to
zeep up its work, although not in di-
'ect competition with loan workers.
The slogan of the thrift campaign this
rear, it was announced today, will be