Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-04-27
WEEK ENDS WITH
LITTLE OVER HALF
OF QUOTA RAISED
Workers Had Hoped County
Would Go Over Top BY
Saturday.
Workers DlSappOintctl.

Workers Disappointed
"The subscriptions to date are
indeed disappointment. We ex-
pected to go over today. Instead, we
barely pushed the amount over the
half way mark"
! With these words, W. w. Taylor
chairman of the jefferson County
Victory Liberty loan campaign, sum
med up the result of the four days of
the jefferson county drive Sub
scriptions the first day were some
thing over three hundred thousand
dollars. The second day, they were
considerable less. The third day.
they were very low, amounting to
about $4,000, while yesterday, the
day which was expected 70 be the
biggest day of the drive; the day on
which it was hoped that jefferson
county would come across, the sub
scriptions even went lower, amount
ing to $53,750.
Yesterday afternoon Pvt. Bumgar-
ner, of the 357th Infantry, Goth Div
ision, mounted the battle tank in front
of the court house to make q speech
Pvt. Bumgarner had leg shattered
by a machine gun bullet. When he
got up on the tank, he trembied per
ceptably He wasn't frightened; that
leg just has habit of trembling.
Buck Private Talks.
"Friends." he said, 81 am not a
speaker The fact is I'm the poorest
hand at talking in this crowd. I am
"buck private" and my business
was fighting, not talking-Tm a
doughboy
"There are lot of men coming
back here like me-" he continued,
| "and lot of them far worse. And
some of them won't come back at all.
81 won't ever play football again,
or baseball. But don't care. I've paid
my debt to my country. When / think
of that horrible nightmare, l some
times think the debt came high. But
| paid; we all paid, and some of
them paid with their lives.
"Now-you owe something Have
you paid? Are you going 70 pay?"
This lad, he wasn't very old, with
his voice breaking, and his legs
trembling, and his fingers ceaselessly
twisting as he tried to clinch them
together behind his back, told how
he paid. The speakers committee tried
to get him to speak aagin. But he
wasn't equal to it-he was too worn,
too tired, to nervous. He paid.
Sales AmuOnt to $4,000.
When this lad had finished, bonds
were sold. The total amounted to
something like $4,000.
| Truly this boy had a right to ask,
not only have you paid, but are you
going to pay?
Statesmen have reported that there
are a number of people who have
small salaries, who have little money.
When asked to subscribe, they say
they would if they could get help
from the bank
Walter Hudson. cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Arkansas last night
said: "The banks of Pine Bluff stand
ready to finance any bond either on
the government plan, or any other
plan." That statement should settle
the alibi of the small monied man.
/ TO the man who had a hundred or
two hundreds or fifty thousands, comes
the thought. "My roll is 50 small, it
wouldn't make any difference; it
won't make any difference one way
or another"
Every Little, Helps.
"Quite true-with limitations. v
Harvey Means. head of city sales said
in answer to that, "but if all of the
small monied men, everywhere
thought the same. we never would
have put over the first Liberty loan
An interesting feature of the loan
developed last night when the COM
mittee had finished tabulating the
subscriptions. 1t was found that af-
ter the first four days of the last
Liberty loan, there had been 5000
subscribers. After the first four days
of this loan, there have been 75(
subscribers, or about II of the num-
Der of last year.
! Shops Go Over.
. OF the total amount of subscript
ions, the Cotton Belt shops subscrib
Led $132,00Q, The shops went over
The remainder of the total has beer
subscribed by $50 people.
Of the total amount of subscript
ions, S93,550 was subscribed north O
the river.
Last night a Graphic man went tt
the headquarters of the Victory Lib
erty loan. "Did you go over?" he ask
ed. "No." was the answer. "What'
the alibi?" he asked. Then came thi
from w. w. Taylor:
"The workers in this campaign hav
no abb. They have sacrificed thei
/, time, their patience, their religion
! and about everything except their be
lief that Jefferson will come throug
2 as she has many times in the past.
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