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Show : BUSINESS MEN PUR I BiG LOAN EFFORT i Whirlwind Campaign to 1 Raise Utah's $6,500,000 ! Share, Is Programme. i BOOTHS IN, STORES Organize Clubs Throughout Through-out State; Fraternal Orders Or-ders and Churches Help. . I In the whirlwind cajnpaign to raise Utah's share of the Liberty loan, $G,-500,000, $G,-500,000, arrangements are being made to accept subscriptions at the principal stores in Salt Lake and at every railroad rail-road ticket agency in the state. Clerks in the various stores are to be instructed instruct-ed to remind customers that their subscriptions sub-scriptions will be accepted at booths or certain departments in the respective respec-tive stores, and railroad ticket agents are to be provided with blanks upon which to take subscriptions of travelers. Wholesale dealers and jobbers, besides be-sides contributing themselves, will urge employees to subscribe to the loan and the traveling representatives wrill be instructed to carry the Liberty loan campaign to merchants and dealers throughout the state. Fraternal organizations organi-zations and commercial clubs, labor organizations or-ganizations and churches, too, will be asked to contribute as organizations and to form committees and work among their members in the interests of the war loan. Tentative plans for the campaign were outlined vesterday at a meeting of the committee on distribution, a subcommittee sub-committee of the general Libertv loan commmittee. Chairman E. B. Palmer of the distribution committee assigned each member of the committee to the chairmanship of a sub-committee of the distribution committee. $10,000 Subscribed. Walter C. Lewis of the "Walker Brothers Dry Goods company was appointed ap-pointed chairman of the committee in charge of the merchants and manufacturers, manufac-turers, and he -roposed the plan for placing booths or designatino- departments depart-ments in the various stores where subscriptions sub-scriptions to Liberty bonds could be taken. In outlining his plans Mr. Lewis announced that "Walker Brothers Broth-ers Dry Goods company would subscribe $10,(Kj6 to the loan. Other mercantile institutions will be asked to contribute to the loan and will ie urged to put into effect plans for frw-nishing employees employ-ees Liberty .onds on the installment plan. The worn of organizing the various clubs of the state has been placed under un-der the direction of the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial club, and Secretary J. Dayid Larson is working on a plan to be presented within the next day or two. Fraternal organizations will be cared for by the committee headed by C. F. Jennings, and Ross Beason . has been named chairman of the committee to : organize tho transportation employees of the state. Real Estate Men Busy. The real estate association already is ftt work and yesterday the Utah Credit Men 's association reported that they had arranged to handle the Liberty loan j proposition with their own members and with the wholesalers and jobevs throughout the state. The churches will start their publicity campaign today, when ministers throughout through-out the state will discuss the Liberty loan from the pulpit, but Heber J. Grant of tho first presidency of the Mormon church has arranged for a more extended campaign by enlisting every bishop in the state in the cause of the loan. Because of the short time remaining in. which to raise more than half of Utah's apportionment the distribution committee plans to leave no stone unturned un-turned to give Liberty loan publicity in every corner of the state have been made. In view of the fact that it will be a physical impossibility for the committee com-mittee to get in touch with the various institutions within the next two weeks Chairman Palmer suggests that each organization and each institution appoint ap-point itself a committee of one and go about obtaining subscriptions to the loan. Blanks on which to take subscriptions sub-scriptions mav be obtained upon application appli-cation from Mr. Palmer or from ('hair-man ('hair-man Clarence Bamberger of tho finance committee of the State Council of Defense. De-fense. Circular Issued. "A Liberty bond should be in every home, and here is the way to put one there," is the heading of a circular issued is-sued by the banking interests of Salt Lake in the campaign they have instituted. insti-tuted. The circular outlines in detail the plan adopted by the financial institutions insti-tutions for furnishing bonds to small investors on the installment plan, and bears the names of various bank? and banking institutions which agreed to the plan. Preliminary plans for insurance men's Liberty loan day were discussed yesterday yester-day at meeting of about seventy-five insurance representatives and salesmen at the Newhouse hotel. Next Tuesday has been designated by the treasury department de-partment as ''insurance men's Liberty loan day." and on that date the insurance insur-ance men of the state have volunteered to devote their entire time and energy to obtaining Liberty loan subscriptions. Just to make sure that they are doing . their full share the insurance men also have agreed to continue the work on the following day and to assist as much as possible during the remainder of the campaign. |