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Badges for 800 hours, or six months of service, were awarded to the following:
Miss Laura Thornburgh, Miss Margaret Wells, Miss Rosa Scott, Miss Ida Ross, Miss Eleanor Ernest, Miss Jeanette Paulus, Miss Decie Merwin, Miss Eleanor Atkin, Miss Ella Bradley, Miss Katherine Carson, Mrs. Fletcher Morgan, Mrs. W. M. Goodman, Mrs. Jas. C. Todd, Mrs. J. E. Stock- well, Mrs. Daisy W. Merk. Mrs. Hugh VanDeventer, Mrs. Fayette VanDeventer, Mrs. John Hudson, Mrs. Albert George, Miss Anne Leach, Miss Antoinette Dosser, Mrs. J. T. DeWitt, Mrs. J. T. McTeer, Mrs. J. C. Duncan, Jr., Mrs. H. G. Ncal, Mrs. Victor Gilbert, Mrs. W. T. Kolter, Miss Reba Hill, Miss Margaret Sanders, Mrs. W. M. Cooley, Mrs. J. C. Duncan, Sr., Miss Virginia Rush, Mrs. J. P. Moffett, Mrs. Eugene Galyon, Mrs. Daniel Briscoe, Jr., Mrs. W. R. Foster, Mrs. Clarence Carmichael, Mrs. John E. McMillan. Mrs. Carrie Hunnicutt, Mrs. W. C. Hackney, Mrs. J. S. McSpadden. Miss Grace Fuller. Mrs. R. J. Yearwood. Mrs. M. B. Arnstein. Mrs. Floyd Utterback, Mrs. R. Ledger- Wood, Mrs. W. M. Anderson, Mrs. S. A. Ogden, Mrs. J. D. Morris, Mrs. J. E. Gardner, Mrs. Eliza Kirby. Mrs. Alex Manard, Mrs. W. P. Chandler, Mrs. Geo. P. Chand'er, Mrs. Minnie Parker. Mrs. J. D. Collier. Mrs. J. H. Hall. Mrs. W. W. Woodruff. Jr., Mrs. A. I. Smith. Mrs. W. H. Moore, Mrs. Jas. G. Carson, Mrs. Russell Kent, Mrs. J. S. Jamerson, Mrs. Lynn Haun. Mrs. Alex McMillan. Mrs. Henry Fenton, Mrs. S. D. Coykendall, Mrs. H. J. Kelso. Mrs. Will S. Hall, Miss Lucy Rhea, Mrs. Sue Barton, Miss M. P. McNutt, Mrs. Bert H. Jardine. Mrs. K. E. Steinmetz, Mrs. A. B. Nor- ton. Mrs. A. A. May, Mrs. Richard McCargo, Mrs. Roy Johnson, Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mrs. W. G. Lee. Mrs. Bettie Young, Mrs. J. W. Harrison, Mrs. H. M. Luttre'], Mrs. Margaret Adams. Mrs. 1. Adler, Miss Gertie Lebenstein, Mrs. Morris Bradt, Mrs. E. E. Wait, Mrs. C. H. Baker. Mrs. Fred Conner. Miss Fannie Salmon, Mrs. J. E. Obern, Mrs. Frank Callan, Mrs. M. T. Hogan, Mrs. W. T. Claiborne. Miss Sophie Harrill, Miss Ellen Johnson, Miss Ada Lawhorn, Miss Miriam Porter, Miss Kate Le- noir, Mrs. B. W. Akers, Mrs. Harry H. Galbraith, Mrs. W. H. Dawn, Mrs. Fritz Staub, Mrs. L. H. Leach, Mrs. L. E. Henderson, Mrs. Pauline T. Yule, Miss Bessie Thomas, Mrs. Henry Berends. Miss Ida Good, Mrs. Hugh Gallaher, Miss Sophie Dveloux, Mrs. Joseph G. Johnson, Miss Kate R. Ogden, Miss Bettie Wrinkle, Mrs. Isabelle Jackson, Mrs. W. B. Trent, Mrs. Henry P. Foster, Jr., Miss Har- riet Brown.
The following men also received badges for 800 hours of Red Cross work:
E. W. Ogden, John M. Thornburgh, Will S. Hall, W. L. Lyons, R. K. Gibson, Jas. A. Hensley, G. H. Gallaher, Ed. S. Alters, Fred T. Bonham, N. Ernest Logan, A. H. Steere, Harry K. Ryder, Jesse Jamerson,
The following are county or business women, who were not able to devote their entire time to the work, but who did at least 400 hours of work;
Mrs. Thomas H. Hardin, Mrs. Goodman, Mrs. Henry Hodge, Mrs. A. O. Child, Mrs. Carter Beeler, Mrs. George N. Gill, Mrs. Edward Tillery, Mrs. William McClellan. Mrs. R. M. Lewis, Mrs. J. E. Groner, Mrs. N. J. Lawhorn, Mrs. W. P. Lawson, Mrs. F. E. Hicks, Mrs. C. L. Carney, Mrs. E. D. Ball, Mrs. G. H. Morgan, Miss Roxie K. Goddard, Miss Lillian S. Goddard, Miss Ann S. Jones. Mrs. William Delpeuch, Mrs. J. G. Prater, Mrs. S. V. Watt, Mrs. Frank Lonas, Miss Lida B. Watt, Mrs. M. J. Bolden. Mrs. G. L. Trent, Mrs. S. D. Mitchell, Mrs. John McCampbell, Mrs. Sam Hill, Mrs. W. R. Sammons, Mrs. John A. McMillan.
Those rendering assistance in the influenza epidemic, which raged among the 700 soldiers gathered at the University of Tennessee and Chilhowee Park, were:
Mrs. Lena Warner, Miss Jeanette Paulus, Miss Ada Lawhon, Miss Edna Kirby, Mrs. Mary Hartcock, Miss Helen May Clare Read, Miss Sadie Steinmetz, Mrs. Lillian Fird Zimmerman, Miss Effie White, Mrs. Georgia Loy, Miss Elizabeth Allison, Mrs. T. H. Glenn, Mrs. J. S. Jamerson,
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"AMERICAN CEMETERY AT TREVES, GERMANY"
This photograph shows graveyard of Allied soldiers. Mrs. Ernest Logan, of Knoxville, and Com- mandant de Bouvois, are inspecting the graves.
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"IN A RED CROSS WAREHOUSE"
Mr. E. W. Ogden, of Knoxville, seen at his desk in a warehouse in the Toul Sector, France.
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Miss Antoinette Dosser. Miss Decie Merwin, Miss Ellen Johnson, Miss Helen Murphy, Mrs. Garfield Beaman, Mrs. W. A. Lowery. Mrs. Henry Kelso. Miss Ida Ross, Miss Ella Bradley, Mrs. Russell Kent, Miss Anna Lawhorn, Miss Margaret Ashe, Miss Josephine Knaffle, Mrs. W. A. McBath, Mrs. Lynn Haun, Mrs. Henry Fenton. Mrs. Fletcher Morgan, Mrs. John Flenniken, Mrs. W. M. Anderson, Mrs. J. Stewart French, Miss Minnie Emory, Miss Margaret Condon, Miss Sina Webb, Mrs. Kate Pate, Miss Bertie Harris, Mrs. C. R. McIlwaine, Mrs. W. A. Collins, Miss Ruth Dunn, Miss Marian Woolridge-motor service.
Officers and workers of the Knoxville Red Cross Canteen Service were:
Mrs. Clyde Gothard, Chairman ; Mrs. Frank Meade, First Vice-Chairman ; Mrs. John Hudson. Second Vice-Chairman ; Mrs A. F. Sanford, Treasurer ; Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Secretary ; Mr. H. G. Gal- laher, Chairman of Supplies : Mrs. S. V. Minskey, Assistant Chairman of Supplies ; J. A. Hensley, Chairman of Information Booth ; Assistants : Mrs. Jas. McDowell, Miss Anne Gettys, Miss Ella Brad- ley, Miss Kenzell, Mrs. C. E. Lucky and Mrs. Rachael Huff.
Members and Captains of teams serving from 6 a. m. to 11 p. m. on every day in the week were as follows:
Sunday :- Mrs. Carrie Hunnicutt, Captain ; Mrs. Anne Shields, Mrs. A. F. Aurin, Miss Lillian Goddard, Miss Roxie Goddard. Miss Grace Fuller, Miss Martha Richards, Miss Anne Jones, Miss Bessie Thomas, Miss Alice Fonde, Miss Margaret Barton and Miss Addie Fuller.
Sunday Night :- Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Captains ; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jameson, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Cyrus Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gaut, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Simmonds, Miss Cornelia Howell, Miss Rose Agnes Shea, Miss Gladys Gallaher, Miss Mary Gill, Graham Gill, Jesse Jameson, Spears Webster and Miss Julia Harpman.
Monday : Mrs. John E. Oberne, Captain ; Miss Elizabeth Mcclellan, Miss Frances Trent, Miss Mary Trent, Miss Lal Bean, Mrs. E. T. Sanford, Mrs. Edward Oates, Mrs. H. G. Fowler, Mrs. R. W. Ogden, Miss Stella Shea, Mrs. Harold Powers, Mrs. Edward Ashe, Mrs. J. H. Mcclintock, Mrs. J. E. Hacker, Mrs. Henry Hudson, Mrs. Robert VanDeventer, Miss Clare Shea, Mrs. W. E. Lacy, Mrs. D. W. Mcek, Mrs. H. L. Powers and Mrs. T. D. Hacker.
Monday Night :- Mrs. Fletcher B. Morgan, Captain ; Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Young, Mrs. Pauline Yule, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McDermott, W. E. Miller, John Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jardine, Mrs. A. Y. Burrow and A. M. Stewart.
Tuesday :- Mrs. Cary F. Spence, Captain ; Mrs. Chas. Cullen, Mrs. Eugenia Delin, Mrs. E. W. Ogden. Mrs. Edward McMillan, Miss Grace Mountcastle, Miss Elizabeth Ashe, Miss Maria Logan, Miss Inez Miller, Miss Margaret Ashe, Miss Annette Ashe, Miss Katherine Varnell, Miss Lillian Oppenheimer, Mrs. Edward Lutz, Miss Julia Oldham, Miss Helen Petway, Miss Elizabeth Rose, Mrs. John K. Craig, Mrs. David Madden and Mrs. Lee A. Gridley.
Tuesday Night :- Mrs. Pauline Yule, Captain ; Mrs. Fletcher B. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jardine, Miss Isaline Yule, Miss Gladys Murray and Miss Helen Hitch.
Wednesday :- Mrs. John Hudson, Captain ; Mrs. William C. Ross, Mrs. Ambrose Gaines, Mrs. Kenneth Gilpin, Mrs. Spears Wehster, Mrs. T. A. Wright, Mrs. Robert VanDeventer, Miss Ellen McClung, Miss Marguerite McClure, Miss Catherine Davis, Miss Miriam Porter, Miss Mary Dooley, Miss Dorothy Dooley.
Wednesday Night :- Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Beardsley, Captains ; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnston, Miss Marguerite McConnell, Miss Margaret Kyle, Miss May Sheddan, Miss Julia Harpman and Miss Edith Rogers.
Thursday :- Mrs. Albert George, Captain ; Mrs. Floyd Utterback, Mrs. Eugene Galyon, Mrs. Frank Gaut, Mrs. Frank Meade, Miss Kathleen Kennedy, Mrs. Walter Mynderse, Mrs. Walter Baer. Mrs. Clarence Carmichael, Miss Margaret Ashe, Mrs. Bruce McCallie, Miss Anne Gettys, Miss Laura Thornburg, Mrs. Fred Conner, Mrs. Richard Boyd, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs. John E. McMillan, Mrs. J. M. Moulden, Mrs. Howell Davis and Mrs. W. R. Fuller.
Thursday Night :- Mrs. Henry J. Kelso, Captain : Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Staub, Mrs. J. J. Ellis and Miss Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Melendy, Mrs. Lena Warner, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Miss Jeanette Paulus, Miss Ida Ross, Miss Elizabeth Scruggs, Miss Ethel White, Miss Rose Agnes Shea, Miss Ella Bradley, Miss Mattie Attix, Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Miss Gladys Gallaher, Miss Lucy Rhea, Hugh Gallaher, Graham Gill, Mrs. J. Stewart French, Miss Ella Bradley, Miss Mary Nelson and Jesse Jameson, Jr.
Friday :- Mrs. W. W. Woodruff, Captain ; Mrs. Fayette VanDeventer, Mrs. S. V. Minskey, Mrs. E. H. Hurst, Mrs. Harriet MeClellan Young, Mrs. C. J. McClung, Mrs. E. J. Briscoe, Mrs. W. T. Claiborne, Mrs. Rudolph Knaffl, Miss Helen Murphy, Miss Anne Leach, Miss Josephine Knaffl, Miss Maude Sharp, Miss Katherine Lindsay, Jesse Miller, Morgan Hazen, Miss Anne Houk, Mrs. J. Wil- low, Mrs. Albert Watson and Mrs. James McDowell.
Friday Night :- Mrs. T. T. Jamerson, Captain ; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Staub, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Mrs. Ed. Gillenwaters, Mrs. J. J. Jameson, Miss Cornelia Howell, Miss Gladys Gillenwaters, Miss Ida Ross, Misses Denton, Miss Schofield and Miss Scruggs.
Saturday :- Mrs. Albert George, Captain ; Mrs. Walter Mynderse, Mrs. Wm. Fuller, Mrs. Howell Davis, Mrs. Walter Utterback, Mrs. Walter Baer, Mrs. Fred Conner, Mrs. Bruce McCallie. Mrs. Eu- gene Galyon, Mrs. J. M. Moulden, Miss Antoinette Dosser, Mrs. Frank Meade, Miss Kathleen Ken- nedy and Miss Margaret Ashe.
Saturday Night :- Mrs. Fletcher Morgan, Captain ; Mrs. John Yule, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jar- dine, Mr. W. E. Miller, Mr. A. M. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones, John Caldwell, James Hen- sley and Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Burrow.
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T. ASBURY WRIGHT
LIBERTY LOANS
In the five national Liberty Loan campaigns to finance the war, Knox County not only went "over the top", but in each of them its citizens bought more bonds than the government asked of them. The total subscriptions in five loans were approximately $13,500,000, though the county's quota was only slightly in ex- cess of $10,000,000. Add to these subscriptions more than $2,000,000 invested in war savings stamps and the loans from Knox Countians to the federal govern- ment for the prosecution of the war reached the huge sum of more than $15,000,000.
The sale of so many government securities was made possible by the splendid selling organization built up and perfected in each succeeding campaign by Hon. T. Asbury Wright, who was chairman for Knox County in each of the five loans. He was the only county chairman in the Sixth Federal Reserve District who served consecutively through all of these campaigns. He virtually gave up his private bus- iness during them to further the sale of the bonds. Thanks to his constructive, organizing ability, backed by liberal space contributed by patriotic individuals, firms and by the newspapers themselves, the vital necessity of participating in the loans was carried to every home in the city and county.
Mr. Wright was assisted by an executive committee composed of the presidents of the Knoxville banks-William S. Shields, Frank L. Fisher, S. B. Luttrell, Jos- eph P. Gaut, E. E. McMillan, J. Allen Smith, Hu M. Johnston, W. H. Sterchi, Charlton Karns, J. J. Ashe, and, during the Fourth and Fifth Loans, Robert S. Young, president of the American National Bank. Samuel V. Carter, who was zone chairman for 20 of the upper East Tennessee counties, gave his assistance and support in each of the campaigns. These men, together with other officials of their banks, did yeoman service.
In the Fourth and Fifth Loans, which were considerably the largest, Mr. Wright organized a ward and district system for the purpose of getting in con- tact with every citizen in the city and county. Knoxville was divided into four
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divisions, while the county constituted a fifth. Matt G. Thomas was placed in command of the First Division; G. L. Price of the Second; J. L. Deaver of the Third; E. R. Wade of the Fourth; while John L. Boyd had charge of the county, or Fifth Division. Each general had under him a colonel, lieutenant-colonel, cap- tain and several lieutenants. These officers in the various divisions, wards and precints were :
Division No. 1-Colonel, Richard K. Gibson; Lieutenant-Colonel, Floyd Haun; Captains-1st Ward, U. D. Beeler; 2nd Ward, W. S. Hall; 3rd Ward, James E. Thompson; 4th Ward, Charles M. Thomas; 12th Ward, Edward Briscoe; 25th Ward, J. Park Vestal; 26th Ward, Chas. C. Rutherford.
Division No. 2-Colonel, Charles H. Harvey; Lieutenant-Colonel, W. R. John- son; Captains-5th Ward, James E. Hickman; 6th Ward, Edgar George; 7th Ward, George Chandler; 8th Ward, Mel Miller; 13th Ward, J. C. White; 14th Ward, B. L. Johnson.
Division No. 3-Colonel, V. N. Hacker; Lieutenant-Colonel, Sam V. Minskey; Captains-9th Ward, James Waters; 10th Ward, C. M. Mitchell and W. W. Wood- ruff, Jr .; 22nd Ward, C. E. Randall; 24th Ward, Arthur Groves.
Division No. 4-Colonel, E. H. Scharringhaus; Lieutenant-Colonel, Jesse E. Miller; Captains-11th Ward, James M. Rule; 15th Ward, Edwin Mclemore; 16th Ward, J. W. Beam; 17th Ward, Dr. A. D. Albright; 18th Ward, Boyd Hicks; 19th Ward, Rev. James C. Shipe; 21st Ward, Hal H. Clements; 23rd Ward, W. R. Ryno.
Division No. 5-Colonel, C. H. Baker; Lieutenant-Colonel, Powell Smith; Com- munity Captains-Asbury, W. H. Moore; Anderson, S. O. Houston; Bearden, Dr. H. M. Lee; Carter's, P. J. Gambill; Gallaher's, H. B. Walker; Corryton, Dr. A. L. Foster; Farragut, Adam Phillips; Fountain City, A. F. Mahan; Gibb's, R. H. George; Hardin Valley, George B. Hardin; Hall's, R. Ledgerwood; Heiskell, S. J. Messamore; Inskip, Dr. J. B. Parker; Karns, W. B. Cobb; Kimberlin Heights, Sam Johnson; Mascot, Hugh R. McElvin; Mt. Olive, R. E. Masterson; New Hope- well, Mack Haynes; Paulette, John Tedford; Powell Station, Dr. G. N. Harrell; Riverdale, Dr. J. W. Drinnen; Stock Creek, R. R. Rule; Third Creek, J. H. Brad- shaw; Washington, George O. Cardwell; Smithwood, A. C. Grinn; Thorne Grove, John Brown.
In the Fourth and Fifth Loans especially the commercial travelers of Knox- ville did splendid service. Their two organizations, the T. P. A. and the U. T. C., under the leadership of E. W. Neal, Frank May, J. B. Criswell and W. D. Hogan, worked effectively and harmoniously with the Liberty Loan organization built up by Mr. Wright. As experienced salesmen they reached large numbers of men and women and sold thousands of dollars worth of the bonds.
As a further means of reaching every home and approaching every man and woman in Knox County, Mr. Wright brought two other strong agencies to bear in the latter campaigns. These organizations were the Four Minute Men and the Boy and Girl Scouts. The Four Minute Men campaigned the theatres, moving picture houses and other places of assembly in the city while in the county they stumped every village and cross roads. The Boy and Girl Scouts, under the able leadership of John M. Gore, Scout Executive, proved effective salesmen in all the campaigns in which they took part.
The first loan campaign was ushered in the latter part of May, 1917. There was little formal organization for the sale of bonds. The subscriptions were large- ly from the wealthy citizens and the banks. They were received through the banks up until the final days of the campaign when eighteen teams of Boy Scouts took the field and sold $153,000 of the bonds by the end of the drive on June 15. No quota was fixed definitely, but the total voluntary subscriptions amounted to $1, 246,555.
The second loan campaign four months later, beginning October 1 and con- tinuing until October 27, saw the creation of the first real bond sales organiza- tion. In addition to Mr. Wright as chairman, Jos. P. Gaut was elected vice-chair- man, and Mrs. Joseph H. Anderson was made head of the woman's committee. J. Pike Powers, Jr., was named director of the Four Minute Men and John M. Gore organized the Boy Scouts for a more intensive campaign. The quota assigned to Knox County was $1,200,000. The sales amounted to $1,838,400, almost fifty per cent more than the quota assigned.
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The third loan was equally as great a success. Practically the same organ- ization, which had been built up in the previous campaigns, was used to float this one, which began April 6, 1918, and closed on May 4. Mr. Wright continued his work as director-general of the whole campaign, but Mrs. John W. Hudson suc- ceeded Mrs. Anderson as general chairman of the woman's department. Mrs. W. C. Ross was named to push the sale of bonds among the women of the county districts. The "Minute Women" also entered the campaign, making one minute speeches daily on Gay Street and at all public meetings. Mrs. E. T. Sanford, assis- ted by Mrs. Herbert Hall, was in charge of this phase of the work, while Harry R. Ryder succeeded J. Pike Powers, Jr., as director of the Four Minute Men campaign. Ten teams of men and the same number of women canvassed the city and county in selling bonds. The women alone reported sales of about $900,000. The total subscriptions were $2,417,100. The quota was only $2,000,000. The most encouraging feature of this campaign was the number of people who partici- pated in it. Final figures showed that 12,880 bought bonds.
The fourth loan in the fall of 1918, when our armies were making deep gains daily and a wave of victorious exaltation was sweeping the whole country, outdistanced all the others in the enthusiasm it provoked and the ease with which nearly as many bonds were sold as in the three previous campaigns combin- ed. Page after page of advertising, splendid war posters, furnished by the nation- al loan organization, letters, personal appeals, exhortations from every platform in Knox County by the very best speakers, all these agencies, with the psychology of the moment of approaching victory, made this loan tremendously popular.
The central sales organization again was headed by Mr. Wright, while Mrs. Samuel G. Shields made an effective chairman of the Knox County woman's com- mittee. The subcommittees were the same as in the preceding loan. Ministers gave their support from the pulpit, all kinds of street advertising were employed, a street fair, in which loan booths were established, was responsible for the sale of several hundred thousand dollars' worth of bonds, and scores of speakers tour- ed the mills and factories, the stores and the rural districts for the loan. Boy and Girl Scouts canvassed both homes and streets. The schools organized bond clubs. The commercial travelers gave of their time unsparingly. In the closing days, a "dynamite" committee, composed of influential citizens, made large sales that could not otherwise have been made.
The flood of subscriptions on the last day of the campaign fairly swamped the banks, which received them. The quota of $3,685,000, which had seemed im- possible to reach when the campaign started, was far surpassed. When all the sub- scriptions had been counted, it was found that the sales amounted to $4,858,950. The number of subscribers was 23,985. Practically one out of every four men, women and children in the city and county had bought a bond of some denomina- tion.
Sales of the notes of the Fifth, or Victory Loan, as it was called, was much harder than in the preceding campaigns, when war was still being waged. The heat of a great victory had cooled, thousands of soldiers were returning, and, fur- thermore, a great many of those who had made actual personal sacrifice to buy in the earlier campaigns, did not feel equal to the burden which the final one would entail. There was a wide-spread feeling also that the money interests of the coun- try, which did not subscribe early in the campaign, would more than take the loan in the final hours of the drive because of the high rate of interest and the ex- emption from taxation, which this loan afforded.
The quota set for Knox County was $2,832,450. When the subscriptions reach- ed about $1,500,000, the sales fell off and popular interest and participation lag- ged. The "dynamite" committee, composed of teams of two men each who had access to the sources of wealth in the city and county, again was called into action and, with five hours of vigorous canvassing among the larger interests, the quota was almost reached. The banks underwrote the rest, while late popular subscriptions carried the total to approximately $3,100,000.
The organization was somewhat different in this campaign. Mr. Wright again gave his time and services as chairman of the central committee, but Mrs. James H. Anderson, who had directed the woman's share of the work in the second loan, succeeded Mrs. Shields, who had gone out of the city, as chairman of the Knox County woman's committee. Henry Hudson and Mrs. W. P. Davis were directors of the men's and women's five minute speakers, while John R. Williams and Mrs. Walter Luttrell were in charge of the publicity for the loan.
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WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS
During the greater part of the war period, the welfare organizations of Knox- ville and Knox County worked separately. Their work was not coordinated, while campaigns to maintain them and to meet their financial needs were a con- stant recurrence. With the Liberty Loan drives, there was a perfect cycle of these campaigns for war funds. To avoid this constant drain upon business men and to coordinate the efforts of all these organizations both in the training camps in the United States and in the divisions abroad, the United War Work Committee was formed under the supervision of the War Department. The seven welfare organizations that were members of it were the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the American Library Association, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army and the War Camp Community Service.
The week of November 11-18, 1918, was set apart by President Wilson to solicit funds for this vital work in connection with our army and navy. Knox County was given a quota of $125,000. The sum of $127,666 was raised in the allotted time. The organization, which directed this great campaign in Knox County, was as follows: E. D. Langley, director for East Tennessee; E. L. Mc- Clurkan, director for Knox County; Robert S. Young, county chairman; Mrs. C. S. Sims, chairman for rural communities. The executive committee was com- posed of the following: Larkin S. Brown, John M. Gore, J. K. Middleton, Mrs. Percy Lockett, George Helm, Allen Frierson, Malcolm McDermott, and Powell Smith, who was treasurer of the funds raised.
THE Y. M. C. A.
When the world was plunged into the greatest war it had ever known, it was only natural that the Knoxville Young Men's Christian Association, with its more than sixty years' experience in working with men, should be seized with a burning desire to be of service to our men in uniform in this extreme crisis. It felt that its experience in previous wars would be of value in serving the men in this war, and so the task was accepted unhesitatingly.
The most valuable contribution, which Knox County made to the Army Y. M. C. A., was in the sending of four women and forty-three men who gave their services to the boys in camp in this country and overseas. The photographs of twenty-five of them are shown on the opposite page. They are:
(1) Fletcher Morgan; (2) Tyree C. Whitehurst; (3) Miss Ray Viola Wil- liams; (4) Robert G. Jeffries; (5) Creed F. Copeland; (6) A. W. Fisher; (7) B. G. Alexander; (8) Mrs. George W. Denny; (9) William G. Gilliam; (10) Noble B. Peake; (11) Robert L. Houston; (12) Crew Webb; (13) E. D. Lang- ley; (14) John Stewart French; (15) Alex. P. Watson; (16) Nathaniel Bennett White; (17) Clifford D. Webster; (18) Lewis Albert Frost; (19) Edgar S. Lot- speich; (20) W. B. Mooney; (21) E. F. Eaton; (22) Albert Victor Young; (23) Alvin O. Rue; (24) Charles H. Newell; (25) L. S. Reynolds.
During the summer of 1917, when the Third Tennessee Infantry was mobilized at Knoxville, the local organization tendered the use of its building and equip- ment for the benefit of the men. The offer was extended also to Colonel Gleason, who was then organizing the Second Tennessee Infantry. This offer was accept- ed by both Colonel Spence and Colonel Gleason for their men, and the local pro- gram was placed immediately upon a war basis.
The office was used for the distribution of soldier mail and the lobby for the writing of letters on stationery which was gladly furnished the men free of charge. The use of the building soon became so general among the men that it was apparent the small office force could not furnish the proper supervision. In order to meet this need, those in authority made several points in the building regular posts for guard duty and rendered very valuable cooperation in the mat- ter of supervising the bath rooms and the swimming pool. No effort was made to keep a record of the number who availed themselves of this privilege, but it was noted by those on duty that a steady stream of men poured in and out of the building and swarmed the lobby and writing room all hours of the day and night.
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