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11. Manuscript report, Work of the Women's Committee in Liberty Loan Cam- paigns, by Mrs. William M. Herschell.
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schools and religious schools took an active part. With the co- operation of Horace Ellis, State Superintendent of Schools, the women were able to reach thousands of homes through the school children, and by this means carried the appeal of the Liberty Loan campaigns to the very hearthstones of tens of thousands of Indiana families.
In the Third loan campaign Mrs. McCulloch, State Chair- man of the sixty-eight northern counties, reported that with one exception, (the specific county was not named) every county in the state had a woman's chairman in charge of the women's sales organization. The organizations were kept separate throughout the Third campaign, and in one report, it was stated that a total of $23,596,850-or thirty-seven per cent. of the entire quota, was sold through the women's organ- izations.12
In the southern counties Mrs. Fred Lauenstein, vice-chair- man for Indiana of the Women's Liberty Loan committees in Eighth Federal Reserve District for the Third loan, had built up a separate woman's organization in each of the counties, and during the weeks prior to the opening of the Loan cam- paign special visits were made to many counties for the pur- pose of arousing interest in the forthcoming financial effort. As a result of the thorough work that had been done by Mrs. Lauenstein in advance of the opening of the campaign, she was able to report at its conclusion, that every county of the southern twenty-four had reached the goal which they had set-twenty-five per cent. of the counties' total quota. A number exceeded twice, and some exceeded three times their quota. The total amount raised by the women for the Third loan campaign in the twenty-four southern counties was re- ported as $3,349,210, on a total quota of $13,295,200.13
The personnel of the State Woman's Liberty Loan Commit- tee for the Third loan campaign consisted of the following women :
State Chairman, Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch, Fort Wayne; State Secretary, Miss Belle M. Overdear, Fort Wayne; State Vice Chairman, Miss Maybelle C. Pettigrew, Indianapolis ; Secretary Vice Chairman, Mrs. Eliza Tarkington Brigham,
12. Report of the Woman's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense; pre- pared by Mrs. Aliee Foster MeCulloch.
13. Report of Mrs. Fred W. Lauenstein, Work of the Women's Liberty Loan Com- mittees in Southern Indiana Counties; Files Liberty Loan Records, Indiana State Li- brary.
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Indianapolis; Vice Chairman, Mrs. Horace C. Stillwell, Ander- son; Vice Chairman, Mrs. Fred W. Lauenstein, Evansville; State Organizer, Mrs. Jessie Fremont Croan, Anderson; Di- rector of Publicity, Mrs. William Herschell, Indianapolis; Di- rector of Speakers' Bureau, Mrs. Julia C. Henderson, Indian- apolis; Chairman of School Committee, Mrs. Thomas A. Wynne, Indianapolis; Chairman of State Organizations, Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott, Indianapolis; Chairman Women's Sec- tion State Council of Defense, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, South Bend; Chairman Seventh Federal Reserve District, Miss Grace Dixon, Chicago; Chairman Eighth Federal Reserve Dis- trict, Miss Florence J. Wade, St. Louis.
In a printed report prepared by Mrs. McCulloch the names of the women who acted as county chairmen, the quotas for the county, and the total amount of bonds sold by the women's committees were listed as follows:
WOMEN'S RECORD IN THIRD LOAN
Counties of Seventh Federal Reserve District
County
Chairman
Quota
Subscription
Adams
Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp
$100,000
$120,100
Allen.
Mrs. Margaret B. Crankshaw
950,000
1,542,700
Bartholomew
. Miss Vida Newsom .
105,000
146,050
Benton
Mrs. Samuel Withrow
68,750
157,100
Blackford
Mrs. R. K. Willman
71,250
132,250
Boone
Mrs. Sam S. Heath
112,500
185,300
Brown
Mrs. H. B. Miller
2,500
3,750
Carroll
Mrs. Edw. Blythe
100,000
204,650
Cass
Miss Laura A. Howe
250,000
393,050
Clay
Mrs. Fannie Zeller
107,500
160,000
Clintor
Miss Sylvia A. Grove
180,000
228,450
Dearborn
Mrs. Harry McMullen
85,000
312,200
Decatur
Miss Mary Rankin !
92,500
213,950
Dekalb.
Mrs. Monte L. Greene
75,000
135,450
Delaware
Mrs. Fred W. Heath
250,000
423,200
Elkhart
Mrs. A. H. Beardsley
225,000
211,200
Fayette
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Earl
93,750
129,000
Fountain
Mrs. Rachel Levor
100,000
124,100
Franklin
Mrs. Will M. Baker
51,250
61,300
Fulton
Mrs. Lucile Leonard
82,500
82,500
Grant
Mrs. Bernard B. Shively
275,000
166,300
Hamilton
Mrs. Frank Hare
130,000
254,150
Hancock
Miss Marion Bottsford
60,000
148,950
Hendricks
Mrs. Mary J. Christie
82,500
165,050
Henry
Mrs. Milton Lamb
148,500
170,100
Howard
Mrs. L. M. Knepple
220,000
240,000
Huntington
Mrs. J. W. Ford
187,500
338,050
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County
Chairman
Quota
Subscription
Jasper
Mrs. Judson J. Hunt
42,500
90,250
Jay.
Mrs. James A. Limle
125,000
58,700
Jennings
Mrs. Agnes Hooton
31,250
105,700
Johnson
Mrs. A. A. Alexander
93,750
299,950
Kosciusko
Mrs. W. W. Reed
112,500
114,200
Lagrange
Mrs. Clyde A. Walb
78,750
175,550
Lake
Mrs. Herbert Erickson
750,000
1,454,850
Laporte
Mrs. David H. McGill
315,000
170,000
Madison
Mrs. W. B. Campbell.
237,500
484,300
Marion
Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing
3,125,000
4,280,250
Marshall
Mrs. H. A. Logan
118,750
111,100
Miami
Mrs. Carrie Rhein .
146,250
100,000
Montgomery
Mrs. Thomas B. Nicholson
180,000
165,050
Monroe
Mrs. John A. Hunter
47,500
54,100
Morgan
Mrs. Everett R. Ryan
85,000
112,700
Newton
Miss Adah Bush .
47,500
95,000
Noble
Miss Clara Gilbert
132,500
158,600
Ohio
Miss Adaline Griswold
22,500
56,300
Owen
Miss Ura Sanders
22,500
61,750
Parke
Mrs. E. S. Brubeck
53,750
55,000
Porter
Mrs. H. M. Beer.
90,000
97,000
Pulaski
Miss Genevieve Brown
43,750
Putnam
Mrs. Aaron W. Cooper
93,750
176,000
Randolph
Mrs. Grant C. Markle
130,000
150,000
Ripley
Mrs. Luella Butler
82,500
140,950
Rush
Miss Anna L. Bohannon
123,750
191,650
St. Joseph
Mrs. Victor F. Jones
625,000
341,900
Shelby
Miss Betsy Edwards .
123,750
150,000
Starke
Mrs. H. E. Kreuter
22,500
24,850
Steuben
Mrs. Ezra L. Dodge
62,500
90,200
Tippecanoe
Mrs. Charles B. Stuart
425,000
290,650
Tipton
Mrs. Sam Matthews
90,000
150,000
Union
Mrs. Charles Bond
45,000
53,600
Vermillion
Mrs. William H. Collier
78,750
181,400
Vigo
Mrs. N. S. Mesirow
675,000
2,500,000
Wabash
Miss Letha Urschel
152,500
227,900
Warren
Mrs. Richard Stephenson
43,750
126,400
Wayne
Mrs. Charles W. Druitt
275,000
460,550
Wells
Mrs. Charles C. Deam
100,000
103,350
White
Miss May Turner
81,250
90,850
Whitley
Mrs. H. D. McLallen
106,250
148,950
Total for Seventh District
$13,443,500
$20,348,450
Counties of Eighth Federal Reserve District
Clark .
Mrs. H. E. Heaton
$68,300
$135,650
Crawford.
Mrs. Charles Temple
20,500
68,750
Daviess
Mrs. M. F. Burke.
65,300
273,300
Dubois
Mrs. A. W. Wilson .
51,350
85,800
Floyd
Miss Mary Cardwell.
126,950
430,250
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County
Chairman
Quota
Subscription
Gibson
Mrs. M. P. Hollingsworth
112,050
131,650
Greene
Mrs. Jessie F. Weisman
82,800
127,500
Harrison
Mrs. Grace D. Applegate
40,750
42,250
Jackson
Mrs. James Clemens .
83,600
9,100
Jefferson
Mrs. John Tevis .
98,400
152,000
Knox.
Mrs. B. B. Griffith.
226,650
226,750
Lawrence
Mrs. Dan Tofaute
69,400
72,500
Martin
Miss Agnes Hughes
17,500
47,350
Orange
Mrs. Leslie Throop
33,650
34,200
Perry
Mrs. William C. Conway
38,900
49,750
Pike
Mrs. Sylvester Thompson
28,750
77,500
Posey
Mrs. Winston Menzies
99,750
286,700
Scott
Mrs. C. C. James
15,300
15,700
Spencer
Mrs. Arch Stevenson
48,050
163,000
Sullivan
Mrs. O. B. Harris
106,450
132,700
Switzerland .
... Miss Grace Griffith
25,050
85,200
Vanderburgh ... Mrs. A. M. Dawson
726,200
393,800
Warrick.
Mrs. Will Hatfield.
51,150
216,900
Washington
Miss Dora Etzler
37,200
90,100
Total for Eighth District
$2,274,000
$3,348,400
Quota
Subscription
Total for Counties in Seventh District.
$13,443,500
$20,348,450
Total for Counties in Eighth District.
2,274,000
3,348,400
Total for the State of Indiana
$15,717,500
$23,696,850
Women's Record In The Fourth Loan
With few exceptions the women county chairmen who had served in the Third loan were again asked to serve in the Fourth. Of the ninety-two county chairmen only sixteen re- signed when the Fourth drive opened. Mrs. McCulloch again acted as state chairman. Mrs. Lauenstein as vice-chairman ; Mrs. Croan, as state organizer, and Mrs. Herschell as director of publicity. Miss Dixon, Chicago, was chairman for women in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, and Miss Wade, St. Louis, was women's chairman of the Eighth District.
The women were authorized to appoint their own commit- tees, outline their own plans, and, in short, to conduct their own campaigns. They were invited to take part in all confer- ences of the executive committees, and their advice and co- operation was sought on every hand.
Many original suggestions for publicity features were made by the women. Edith Wright Matts, Publicity Chairman of Huntington County, prepared the following formula, which
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was widely used by the State Woman's Liberty Loan Com- mittee.
"FORMULA FOR WOMEN IN DRIVE"
"If you are a singer, sing for bonds.
"If you are a speaker, plead for bonds.
"If you are a writer, implore a double measure of the spirit that you may inspire for bonds.
"If you are a teacher, hold sacred your power of molding opinion in your pupils' homes. Teach bonds.
"If you are a woman of wealth, buy bonds. And again I entreat you-buy bonds.
"If you are a woman of leisure, get busy for bonds.
"If you are a working woman, out of the fruit of your toil save for bonds.
"If you have the gift of the personal touch, solicit bonds.
"If you belong to the unclassified, in the nothing-in-particular, become a real human entity-and live for bonds.
"If you have hens, let them lay for bonds.
"If you have a cow she will help you pay out a bond subscription. Trust in her and God.
"If you are a loved and protected wife, remember the Prussian peril at our gates. If the Teuton in his mad lust for aggrandizement and power would subject his own womankind to the curse and cruelty of the plural marriage, in what consideration, think you, would you be held should America pass into his control? Sacrifice for bonds.
"Are you a widowed mother of little children and small means? Wherever the Stars and Stripes unfurl no child is truly fatherless; no child exists but may become a more than king. If the Hohenzollern, with his program of individual subjection and repression, attains his dream of world conquest, what will their destiny be? Pray for bonds.
"Whoever you are you have something of either money, time, oppor- tunity or special aptitude to give to bonds. Consider it your call to service. Use that something-for bonds.
"Women of Indiana, do not tarry in making your bond subscriptions. Be a part of America's great "voluntary" brigade-a part of those who would flaunt this defiance at the kaiser: 'Before the drive is three days old we have pledged our funds to put you down and out forever.' Keep tryst with your conscience. Do not wait for a solicitor. Have your subscriptions in before September 28th.
"May this be the morning prayer and the evening supplication of each woman in Indiana:
"If out of the fullness of what I have and am, I do not give un- stintedly in this drive for bonds, let me be known forever more as a slacker, a traitor to my country in her hour of direst need, a traitor to the brave boys who are risking their all to preserve the civilization which has given me the best that I have and am, a traitor to the prin- ciples of the Sermon on the Mount."11
14. Indianapolis News, September 28, 1918.
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Community singing, volunteer speaking at public meetings, novel social events, and other schemes were planned by the women and resulted in drawing large crowds, and in enlisting wide interest in the war financing.
In the Fourth loan, due to the fact that many counties de- cided to use the "Volunteer plan" for raising their quotas, the women's organizations merged closely with the men's groups. In many counties no separate account was kept of the sales made by women, since it had been decided by the state Lib- erty Loan workers that credit would be given to the women's organization for fifty per cent. of the total amount raised.15 In fifty-three northern Indiana counties the woman's organ- izations were credited with selling a total of $51,098,030 worth of bonds.16 In the remaining counties of the northern district there existed a separate women's organization, and they sold bonds only to women by making house-to-house canvasses. The totals for these fifteen counties amounted to $17,822.191.17
In the twenty-four southern counties there were but four changes made in the women county chairmen for the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. Mrs. Lauenstein was able to keep her organization practically intact and at the close of the Loan reported a total sale of $5,577,750.
The combined reports showing the sales in both the north- ern and southern Indiana counties made by Indiana women during the Fourth loan campaign, show that the women's organizations sold bonds amounting to $56,743,600. The total for the subscriptions-including the amount raised by both men and women's organizations-amounted to $127,570,000.18
A printed report of the woman's committee in the Fourth loan gave, by counties, the names of the women county chair- men ; the number of women workers in the active Loan organ- izations ; the women's quotas and the total subscriptions cred- ited to them. A copy of the report, with the comments as to methods utilized, follows :
15. Report of the Woman's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense; pre- pared by Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch.
16. This total does not correspond with the figure for the total sales by women in the official records of the Fourth loan. In the final figures the women were credited with selling $56,743,617 in bonds.
17. Printed report, Alice Foster McCulloch, submitted at close of Fourth Liberty Loan campaign ; Files Fourth Liberty Loan.
18. Ibid. The total state quota is given at another place in this volume as $127,515,000.
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Woman's Record in Fourth Liberty Loan
"In accordance with the arrangement made with Mr. W. H. Wade, Director of Sales for Indiana of the Men's Liberty Loan Organization, the following quota plans were followed in the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign :
"In counties where the Voluntary Subscription Plan was adopted, men and women workers had charge of the various subscription stations and the amount of subscriptions was equally divided between both organizations. In counties where the Allotment Plan was adopted, all subscriptions re- ceived were equally divided between both organizations.
The following counties adopted one of the above plans, and the Woman's Committee was credited with 50 per cent of the entire amount sold :
County
Chairman
Women Workers
County Quota
Subscriptions Credited
Adams
Mrs. Fay-Smith Knapp ...
275
$ 750,000
$ 425,425
Allen. .
Mrs. Margaret Crankshaw
797
7,600,000
3,882,500
Bartholomew . Miss Vida Newsom
136
900,000
521,525
Benton
Mrs. S. J. Withrow
100
750,000
393,825
Blackford
Mrs. R. K. Willman
200
550,000
275,000
Carroll
Mrs. Edward Blythe
300
750,000
396,675
Cass
Miss Laura A. Howe
484
1,700,000
923,000
Clinton
1,550,000
Dearborn
Mrs. Harry McMullen
240
800,000
487,500
Decatur
Miss Mary Rankin
35
800,000
457,025
Delaware
Mrs. Fred Heath
300
2,300,000
1,200,000
Elkhart
Mrs. A. H. Beardsley ...
900
1,800,000
1,230,475
Fountain
Mrs. Rachel Levor
150
800,000
406,500
Franklin
Mrs. Will Baker
40
475,000
266,100
Hamilton
Mrs. Frank Hare
200
900,000
496,975
Hancock
Mrs. O. S. Heller
200
600,000
326,575
Hendricks
Mrs. Kate Hargrave Smith
200
750,000
386,025
Henry.
Mrs. Harry E. Jennings. ..
7
1,150,000
612,500
Huntington
Mrs. J. W. Ford.
175
1,450,000
726,575
Howard
Mrs. L. M. Knepple
500
1,900,000
961,975
Jasper
Mrs. Judson J. Hunt
75
450,000
258,150
Jay
Mrs. James A. Limle.
116
935,000
467,500
Kosciusko
Mrs. W. W. Reed.
100
900,000
501,600
Lagrange
Mrs. Clyde A. Walb
82
600,000
361,250
Lake.
Mrs. Grace S. Erickson. ..
900
7,000,000
4,961,000
Laporte.
Mrs. David McGill
300
2,300,000
1,150,000
Madison
Mrs. R. O. Bright
1,000
2,200,000
1,150,000
Marshall
Mrs. Floyd Bunnell
100
875,000
560,605
Monroe
Mrs. John A. Hunter
40
375,000
224,253
Boone
Mrs. Samuel Heath
308
930,000
465,950
Brown
Mrs. H. B. Miller.
20,000
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Women
County Chairman
Workers
County Quota
Subscriptions Credited
Montgomery . . Mrs. S. C. Rowland.
305
1,500,000
765,650
Newton
Mrs. Adda V. White
70
500,000
265,960
Noble
Miss Clara Gilbert
78
1,000,000
517,375
Ohio
Miss Adaline Griswald .
34
200,000
104,050
Owen
Miss Ura Sanders
130
200,000
110,875
Porter
Mrs. Frank B. Chester.
146
775,000
404,675
Pulaski
Miss Fern Ale
350,000
154,675
Putnam
Mrs. Aaron W. Cooper .
200
830,000
415,000
Randolph
Mrs. Grant C. Markle. . .
276
1,100,000
590,925
Ripley
Mrs. Luella Butler
40
750,000
375,500
Rush
Mrs. Cora M. Stewart
25
1,100,000
592,150
St. Joseph
Miss Alice Jenkins .
1,200
5,000,000
2,900,000
Starke
Mrs. Hugh Kreuter
90
125,000
67,075
Steuben.
Mrs. O. H. Swantush
118
525,000
250,000
Tippecanoe
Mrs. Chas. Benedict
Stuart.
25
3,100,000
1,550,000
Tipton
Mrs. Sam Matthews
60
750,000
380,000
Union
Mrs. Chas. Bond
25
400,000
200,500
Vermillion.
Mrs. Oakey Collier
132
775,000
440,475
Vigo
Mrs. Nicholas S. Mesirow
1,500
5,450,000
2,727,500
Wabash
Miss Letha Urschel .
400
1,275,000
765,725
Warren
Mrs. Richard Stephenson.
150
400,000
209,100
Wells
Mrs. Chas. Deam
125
940,000
470,000
White
Miss Maud Simons
40
750,000
379,575
Whitley
Mrs. H. D. McLallen
327
900,000
457,500
Total
13,756
$73,555,000
$39,516,125
In the following counties separate subscriptions were taken by both the men and women's organizations. These figures are the actual number of bonds sold by the Woman's Com- mittee :
Clay
Mrs. Fannie M. Zeller
283
$850,000
$300,000
Dekalb.
Mrs. Monte L. Green . . .
150
650,000
102,400
Fayette
Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl
300
750,000
389,000
Fulton
Mrs. Lucille Leonard .
9
575,000
10,000
Grant
Mrs. Bernard B. Shively . .
250
2,350,000
392,400
Jennings
Mrs. Agnes Hooton
150
225,000
74,300
Johnson
Mrs. C. L. Van Nuys
150
825,000
413,800
Marion
Mrs. Joseph Kealing
2,500
23,400,000
8,000,000
Miami
Miss Carrie Rhein
50
1,100,000
550,000
Morgan
Mrs. Everett R. Ryan . ...
88
525,000
290,975
Parke Mrs. E. S. Brubeck .
80
500,000
181,050
Shelby
Miss Betsy Edwards . . ..
150
1,100,000
200,000
Wayne
Mrs. Chas. W. Druitt ..
500
2,400,000
745,480
13-21521
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EIGHTH FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT
County
Chairman
Women Workers
County Quota
Subscriptions Credited
Clark
Mrs. H. E. Heaton
104
609,000
216,100
Crawford
Mrs. Chas. E. Temple.
100
203,000
92,400
Daviess
Mrs. M. F. Burke.
240
484,000
157,300
Dubois
Mrs. W. A. Wilson
75
552,000
138,000
Floyd
Miss Mary Cardwell .
150
920,000
224,750
Gibson
.Mrs. M. P. Hollingsworth
100
877,000
198,400
Greene
. Mrs. Jesse F. Weisman. ..
17
741,000
277,150
Harrison
Mrs. Grace D. Applegate.
35
308,000
19100,112
Jackson
Mrs. James Clements
250
602,000
152,100
Jefferson
Mrs. John Tevis.
70
646,000
197,000
Knox
Mrs. B. B. Griffith.
200
1,830,000
451,600
Lawrence
Mrs. Dan Tofaute
150
400,000
81,100
Martin .
Miss Agnes Hughes
35
152,000
39,175
Orange
.Mrs. Oliver W. Stephenson
125
294,000
167,100
Perry
Mrs. Wm. C. Conway ....
50
326,000
90,000
Pike
Mrs. Sylvester Thompson
91
292,000
128,050
Posey
Mrs. George Zimmerman. Miss Alice Gamble
32
102,000
76,900
Spencer
Mrs. Arch Stevenson
40
353,000
202,050
Sullivan
Mrs. O. B. Harris
125
916,000
175,000
Switzerland ... Miss Grace Griffith .
25
202,000
56,750
Vanderburgh. . Mrs. A. M. Dawson
1,000
6,338,000
1,610,800
Warrick .
. Mrs. Will Hatfield
350
492,000
180,800
Washington ... Mrs. O. C. Zink
....
287,000
74,000
Total
8,264
$54,015,000
$17,227,492
Total Women Workers
State Quota
22,020
$127,570,000
Total Subscriptions $56,743,617
Results of Victory Loan
The work of the women in all counties of the state during the Victory loan followed closely their activities in the previ- ous loans. The organizations that had functioned in the Fourth loan were augmented and replaced when some leaders dropped out. A spirit of harmony and co-operative effort with the men's organizations everywhere was clearly appar- ent. In some counties men and women worked in one organ- ization to keep Indiana's financial war record clear. In this Loan Mrs. McCulloch again served as chairman for the women in the northern counties, and Mrs. Lauenstein for the women of the southern counties.
Various committees had been named from time to time throughout the country by the men's organizations to deal
19. This is not a multiple of any Liberty bond face values. It may have been caused by dividing bonds to give credit to several persons for the sale of one bond.
240
839,000
491,450
Scott
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with the problem of interesting those of foreign birth in the Loan campaigns, and at the beginning of the Victory loan campaign this new problem was attacked by the women's organization in Indiana. Mrs. McCulloch named Mrs. Isaac Born, of Indianapolis, as chairman of the Foreign Language Committee. Each county chairman of women, in counties where heavy foreign populations existed, was asked to name a woman to work with Mrs. Born in developing the buyers among residents of foreign lineage. In many counties pag- eantry was used as a method of education among these people. The pageants were simple, but were designed to convey fidel- ity and loyalty to American ideals. "Uncle Sam's Welcome to All Nations," and "Add the Fifth Point" were pageants sent out by the War Loan Organization in Chicago, and these, and others, had wide distribution in Indiana.
Bands of performers, recruited from the foreigners in In- dianapolis, were organized by Mrs. David Ross, the Marion County Foreign Language chairman, and these "children of foreign lands" appeared in many schools, portraying the cos- tumes and habits of the countries from which their ancestors came.
Much literature, bearing on Americanization was dis- tributed as part of this campaign. The "foreign language" women chairmen, who served during the Victory loan follow :
Mrs. P. J. Pentecost, Tipton County ; Mrs. Walter Frazee, Rush County; Miss Bertha Gillis, Blackford County; Mrs. Henry Wolff, Vigo County; Mrs. L. O. Brown, Vermillion County ; Mrs. M. J. Duggan, Lake County; Mrs. T. Guy Per- fect, Huntington County; Mrs. Charles Gartlein, Fayette County ; Mrs. C. E. Banta, St. Joseph County; Mrs. John Bunning, Allen County ; Mrs. Louis Hoover, Jay County ; Mrs. David Ross, Marion County.
Women's Summary For Victory Loan
The Victory loan county chairmen for the women of the northern sixty-eight counties were :20
Adams County, Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp; Allen County, Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne.
20. Manuscript report, Work of the Women's Committee in Liberty Loan Campaigns, by Mrs. William M. Herschell. No quotas or total sales by women in the northern counties could be found in the Loan files. In general, women in the northern counties were given credit for having sold one-half the bonds distributed in Indiana during this last Loan campaign.
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INDIANA WORLD WAR RECORDS
Bartholomew County, Miss Vida Newsom; Benton County, Mrs. Samuel Withrow; Blackford County, Mrs. R. K. Will- man; Boone County, Mrs. Sam Heath; Brown County, Mrs. H. B. Miller.
Carroll County, Mrs. Edward Blythe; Cass County, Miss Laura A. Howe; Clay County, Mrs. Fannie M. Zeller; Clinton County, Mrs. Arthur Mckinsey.
Dearborn County, Mrs. Harry McMullen; Decatur County, Miss Mary Rankin; De Kalb County, Mrs. Monte L. Green ; Delaware County, Mrs. Harriet M. Johnston.
Elkhart County, Mrs. A. H. Beardsley.
Fayette County, Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl; Fountain County, Mrs. Rachel Levor; Franklin County, Mrs. Will Baker; Fulton County, Mrs. Lucille Leonard.
Grant County, Mrs. Bernard B. Shively.
Hamilton County, Mrs. Frank Hare; Hancock County, Mrs. O. S. Heller; Hendricks County, Mrs. Alvin Hall; Henry County, Mrs. Harry E. Jennings; Huntington County, Mrs. William Runyan.
Jasper County, Mrs. Judson J. Hunt; Jay County, Mrs. James A. Limle; Jennings County, Mrs. Zelpha Weber; John- son County, Mrs. William Schlosser.
Kosciusko County, Mrs. J. W. Scott.
Lagrange County, Mrs. Herman Norris; Lake County, Mrs. Herbert Erickson ; Laporte County, Mrs. David McGill.
Madison County, Mrs. R. O. Bright; Marion County, Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing; Marshall County, Mrs. S. C. Loring; Mi- ami County, Miss Carrie Rhein; Montgomery County, Mrs. S. C. Rowland; Monroe County, Mrs. J. Hunter; Morgan County, Miss Dorothy Cunningham.
Newton County, Mrs. J. F. Lawrence; Noble County, Miss Clara Gilbert.
Ohio County, Miss Christine North; Owen County, Miss Ura Sanders.
Parke County, Mrs. E. S. Brubeck; Porter County, Mrs. W. E. Harris; Pulaski County, Mrs. Luther Thompson; Put- nam County, Mrs. Alonzo Cook.
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