Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-04
SALES MUST TOTAL
ONE MILLION DAILY
City Subscriptions to Victory
Liberty Loan Must Pile Up
to Reach Goal Set.
STATE AND DISTRICT SLOW
Big Mass Meeting Monday to
Press Campaign-Aerial
Circus Held Saturday.

Si0,OUU,OUu before the Victory Liberty
loan campaign closes next Saturday
night it must subscribe slightly more
than million a day between now and
that time. This was shown by reports
compiled in the Offices of the campaign
committee Saturday afternoon. Only
sS.s22.lo0 had been subscribed.
OF that sum s71l,S50 came through
Saturdays solicitation.
State and district are equally slow
taxing the bonds. according to reports
fhe Fifth District F edfaif'f Rsse aHe
S "a 5.. 7od The e state has subscribed
district $685. 100 of its $40. 600, 900
quota. Unofficial reports given out
after these figures were published esti-
at Ss0,o66.65o, or little more than IS
per cent of its allotment
Former President Mt Circus.
Saturday was marked by the second
a as nas circus OF the campaign. Four
before 5000 people: thousands of dol
lars worth OF bonds were. sold during
Howard Taft and several members of
Inc campaign committee spoke in the
interest of the sales. They pointed out
America was to finish paying her debt
for victory and 10 bring her boys back
10 tnelr own hreSideS.
LieutenantS Honsinger Draper Web
ster and Lear, Of Langley Field, were
the pilots in charge of the planes.
They performed the usual feats Of
residents along the Atlantic seaboard.
Commercial Men Sell Bonds.
Fifty members of the United Com
mercial Travellers. working under the
direction Of Robert Simpson, sold many
bonds about the streets during the day.
Women workers. aided by the band
from Camp Lee. also gave good service.
Loan headquarters announced that
mass meeting to be held Monday night
in the auditorium OF the John Mar
shall High School. at which time DR..
as we'll as we'll as most eloquent''
speakers in the Jewish pulpit, will
speak. The meeting is expected to be
unusually we'll attended, and there will
the direction of Howard Bryant, which
in ciudes the singing of Joseph White
more.
All ministers in Richmond, as well
as throughout the Fifth District, have
| been requested to preach the gospel
of tho Victory loan from their pulpits
today.
Chairman Herbert W. Jackson last
right issued a call for a meeting OF
his general committee to be held at
noon Monday in loan headquarters.
Eleventh and Bank Streets. when fur
Their plans for the drive will be con-
sidered.
School children are continuing their
great work. and have already sold
more bonds than they thought it would
be possible for them to dispose of.
Against their apportonment of $780,
600, they have now made sales aG
gregating s67S.35o and will not rest
until they have increased this total
to s1,ooo.ooo. Gintcr Park School has
sold four times it's allotment and Bin
ford twice its quota, while John
Smith has equaled the record of Gin
ssG G Gnser PARK si'ss5o nea
land Park. s71.15o; Bainbridge. s3s.-
COO Fox s5ss0 g. Madison; $500;
Heights. $4,000; John Smith. $500;
Nathaniel Bacon. $3.50 sprin gfisld'
soS s55S M sisSe sIsa SAG da3
$3.50; Paramount, $500; Randolph.
$500; Robert Fulton. 500.
Colored-Buohanan, S1,15o; Arm
strong. $500; Baker, $500; Moore, $500.
and Monroe. $3.50.
Captured German Bnyonet Awarded.
John A. Coke. Jr., was awarded the
captured German bayonet for being the
largest subscribe: through the booth
country by Mrs. A. NJ Randolph. who
worked for three years in the canteen
service in England, and who has made
a number of speeches for the Victory
Loan. She is also chairman OF the
hotel booth.
Mrs Robert G. Cabell announced
that the organizations in the booths
tomorrow would be as follows:
Commonwealth Chapter. d. A. r..
Mrs. {. p Lea. chairman, at Miller and
Rhoads; Housewives League. Mrs. J. w.
Durham. chairman. at Thalhimers
chairman. at Second and Broad Streets;
James River Garden Club, Mrs. Thomas
Wheelwright, chairman. at Cohen's;
Locomotive Engineers Wives. Mrs.
Garnet Bowden, chairman. at Four
qurean-Temple Co, and the Woman's
Exchange. Mrs. Henry Wickham. chair
man, at Mosby's.
Towns That Passed Quota.
\ list of towns and counties that
have passed their quotas and are en-
titled to the honor flags issued by the
lie yesterday. These are:
MISUNDERSTANDING County. Denton,
Frederick County, fredericksburg, Colds
boro. Greensboro. Hillsboro, Preston.
Bloxom CLIMAX. crozet, Elkton, EN-,
DRY, Film, Hin. Glade Spring, Ken
man. spring Garden. Stephens City.
Timberville. Washington. Whitmell,
Windsor.
North Carolina-Lexington. South
Prince Edward County. through it's
committee chairman, B. l. Bugg, yes
terday advised the central committee
that 1t had taken its entire quota
without permitting single bank sub