Evening star., 1945-11-30
Finish the Job Week
Proclaimed Here in
Victory Loan Drive

Next week has been proclaimed
Finish the Job Week" by the
District Commissioners and the
city heads have called on all
Washingtonians to speed up
their Victory Loan buying and
their bond selling activities dur
ing the final week of the drive
which closes officially Saturday,
December 8.
The accounting period Of the
drive, however. will extend through
December 81, during which time all
bond sales reported to the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond will be
applied towards the Districts over
all $85 900 900 quota.
The Commissioners urged busi-
nessmen to decorate both eXteriors
and interiors of their establishments
with posters featuring the Finish
the Job" slogan, declaring the pur-
pose of the v loan is to convert our
victory on the battlefield into an
enduring and prosperous" peace
All institutions and homes are urged
to display the national colors Sun
day, December 2, through the fol-
lowing Saturday.
individual Responsibility.
THE number of series E bond
purchasers is such as to indicate
that many of us fail to realize our
individual responsibilities in doing
our part of the job still to be done, u
the Commissioners said, pointing
out that only an intensification OF
Victory Bond promotion can spur
series E sales sufficiently to meet
the quota.
Wilmer j. Waller, chairman of the
District War Finance Committee,
also urges a vigorous renewal of
effort to put campaign sales over
the top. He said:
I'VE have come to crucial point
In the Victory Loan drive. Only
about 10 days remain for intensive
work. The situation with regard
to series E sales does not warrant
optimism. Finish the job week
activities are being planned to de-
velop a final promotional push for
the Victory Loan and to observe
Pearl Harbor Day, which falls with
in the period"
Mr.. Waller also urged employers
to hold employe rallies and stage a
'pay roll savings cleanup"
E. F. Bartlett, chairman of the In
terdepartmental War Bonds Savings
Committee, reported his Minute
Men were preparing for an al-out
last-week effort to sell more bonds
among the Districts $50 Federal
employees Their quota is SIS 900 900.
only by extra work by our volun-
teers and extra V-Bond buying by
our employees can we be sure of doing
our part to Finish the job" Mr..
Bartlett stated.
The committee reported today
individual sales have increased
100000 in the past "a hours to $780,
100000 or 1873 per cent of the $42,-
100000 individual sales quota. Series
E sales registered an increase of
100000 to S13,800,000, or Sill per
cent of the $27,00O,000 quota. Sales
of other issues to individuals went
to $17.00000O, or 1873 per cent of
the SIS 5000, 900 quota.
Special Radio Program.
A special Victory bond radio pro-
gram, featuring the presentation of
citations to two dogs, with Milton
Berle, famous stage and movie
comic acting as master of cere-
monies, will be held tomorrow at
12:45 pm. from the stage of the
Silver Theater, Silver Spring, Md.
The program will be broadcast
over the Mutual Broadcasting sys-
tenn and Station VOL.
A citation from the United States
Treasury Department will be made
to Irish, local dog, for outstand-
ing War bond work Mr.. Berle,
who currently is appearing at the
National Theater, will present an
other citation to a dog hero for
outstanding work in the South Pa
cific theater of war.
The broadcast is the first coast
forecast show to originate from
Silver Spring. A high light of the
program will be the prebroadcast
show when the war dog will give a
demonstration of the activities per-
formed by the K-9 Corps. Sergt
John Moore, the dogs handler dur
ing their 18 months overseas, will
put the dog through the demon
stration.
Victory bond leaders, including
Montgomery County Chairman Fred
L. Lutes, William M. Wright, Lee
H. Robinson and John r. Pagan
will speak. Doors of the theatel
will open at noon and the prebroad-
cast show will begin at 1915 pm.
School children of the area have
been urged to buy bonds at the
Silver Theater this week. The pur-
chase of bond issued at the thea
ter will be the ticket of admission
Claud Land, manager of the theater
has assured the schools that full
credit will be given the educational
quota for the current drive, if the
bonds are issued by the theater.