Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-04-24
CAMPAIGN FOR sss,7ooo NOW ON
Appointed and Canvassing In
Progress Ladies Play
Their Part

county will raise $83, 700, which is her
allotment for the Victory Loan which
is the last loan the government will
make in connection with the affairs
of the great world war. The workers
who have so successfully put over the
other loans have consented to finish
up the job and take the subscriptions
for the Victory Loan They will put
the loan across and the people of
Trego county will make the work
easier for the solicitors if they will
readily come across with the appor-
tionment they should buy according to
their wealth.
The foregoing facts were settled at
the banquet given Tuesday evening
by the local Victory Loan committee
in the basement of the Methodist
church. About fifty ladies and gen
tlemen loan workers and enthusiasts
partook of this banquet and took part
in the discussion and formation of
plans which took place afterwards.
All parts of Trego county were rep
resented and practically all were
heard from. R. C. Wilson, chairman
of the Victory Loan drive for this
county, acted POSTMASTER. To give
extracts from each of the talks given
| would take too much time and space
but we will condense the substance
and principal thoughts of all of them
| into a few sentences in which the rea-
sons why the people of Trego county
should subscribe and why they should
raise the amount assigned to the
county are given.
The money to be derived from the
| loan is needed for the purpose of com
| pletlng paying the expenses in con-
nection with the final settlement of
the war.
| The boys went across the water
with a positive assurance from the
American people that they would
stand behind them until they had fin
Gished their work and had returned
home. We cannot make this promise
good without furnishing our govern
ment with sufficient money with which
to pay the expenses.
The government is sending many of
the boys to college, supplying others
with artificial limbs and eyes and is
doing all it can to prepare the wound
| ed for future life of usefulness.
A debt has already been created
and we are Americans and are in the
| habit of paying our debts. We will
pay this one. The American spirit
spells it.
| Over one billion dollars of the pres
ent loan will be paid to the American
farmers during the next year to full
fill the guarantee on the price of
wheat.
It took men and money to win the
war and it is up to US to pay the
debt
Mistakes and errors in judgement
have been made and shown by those
who handled the affairs but these
| thInoS aTa 70 ha 4
no one should refuse to invest in
bonds on that ground. Finish up the
job and then scrap it out afterwards
Scrapping now will only hinder and
delay the work just as it did during
the other drives
The spirit of the occasion was man
ifested in expressions like these:
Ogallah will do her part
We made the other drive success
and must not fall down on this one.
To make this loan a success under
prevailing conditions-the practical
loss of two crops in succession-wiu
be an excellent financial advertise
ment for the county.
We must put it across. United
effort will do it.
Collyer has always met its quota
and will do the same thing this time
Wa-Keeney viii be true to the
motto adopted year or so ago by
the Commercial Club. 1eKeeney Can
and Keeney WiI-"s
worked and did all could to make
the other loans a success and while
the job was thankless one I viii
work just as hard to make the Vic
tory Loan a success
Mrs F. NJ Munson, chairman for
the ladies part in the loan drive ex-
pressed the sentiment of the ladies
when she said the women can be de-
pended upon to do their part They
have shown an ability to deny them
selves and to work and they will dc
it again
With this existing sentiment the
workers assembled by districts in the
church parlor and completed their ar
rangements for the work which viii