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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919
Clipping: ""Over The Waves"" Page 2
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Life, $11,500,000; the Mutual Life, $10,500,000. "War Chest" Idea Working Besides the Liberty Loan, many cities are now doing splendid work on the "war chest" idea, which is excellent. The principle is to collect once and for all in each city for a war chest that shall supply the money needed for patriotic purposes for a year to come. Utica, N.Y., has filled its chest with $1,000,000. Glens Falls, N.Y., the paper-making town, has raised $256,000, and won the New York State record by establishing a figure of an overage of $15 for each head of population. Other cities and towns are not far behind. All this is indicative of the intense desire of the people to see the war through and to speed the nation's fighting men without stint or without thought of material advantage. All the people show by their eagerness during these first days of the loan drive that the President was right when, in opening the loan campaign at Baltimore, he said of them: "The are quite disposed to undergo the most extreme sacrifices, even though it should mean encroaching every day upon meager wages. They will look with contempt on those who can and will not, on those who demand a higher rate of interest, on those who look upon the loan purely as a commercial transaction. "The reasons for this great war, the necessity of seeing it through to the finish, the questions which depend upon the result, are being manifested more clearly than ever. Every man knows or at least
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Life, $11,500,000; the Mutual Life, $10,500,000. "War Chest" Idea Working Besides the Liberty Loan, many cities are now doing splendid work on the "war chest" idea, which is excellent. The principle is to collect once and for all in each city for a war chest that shall supply the money needed for patriotic purposes for a year to come. Utica, N.Y., has filled its chest with $1,000,000. Glens Falls, N.Y., the paper-making town, has raised $256,000, and won the New York State record by establishing a figure of an overage of $15 for each head of population. Other cities and towns are not far behind. All this is indicative of the intense desire of the people to see the war through and to speed the nation's fighting men without stint or without thought of material advantage. All the people show by their eagerness during these first days of the loan drive that the President was right when, in opening the loan campaign at Baltimore, he said of them: "The are quite disposed to undergo the most extreme sacrifices, even though it should mean encroaching every day upon meager wages. They will look with contempt on those who can and will not, on those who demand a higher rate of interest, on those who look upon the loan purely as a commercial transaction. "The reasons for this great war, the necessity of seeing it through to the finish, the questions which depend upon the result, are being manifested more clearly than ever. Every man knows or at least
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