Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 24 | To Reward Liberty Loan Honor Cities

TO IMOLiBElf 01 CITIES Names of Places "Going Over Top" to Be Painted on War Tanks. DRIVE PLANS READY Campaign Starts to Put Many Firms on the Volunteer Vol-unteer Liet. Women Workers for Liberty Loan to Start Drive GEN3A PEESHING'S brother will address one of the largest luncheons for women ever gathered in the interest of a war drive in-Utah in-Utah next Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, when all of the women interested in Liberty loan work will meet at the Commercial dab. The officials of the woman's Liberty Lib-erty loan committee in charge of the luncheon have extended a general gen-eral invitation for all women interested inter-ested in Liberty loan work to attend, at-tend, but because cf the limited capacity ca-pacity of the Commercial club dining din-ing room they have stipulated that all reservations for the luncheon mast be in by 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. The luncheon planned is to ba simple; there will be music, and one of the most interesting and enthusiastic gatherings ever held in Salt Lake is expected. Reservations may be made by telephone by calling call-ing the Commercial club at Wa-. Wa-. satch S3. The ten cities and towns in tlip Twelfth federal reserve district which make the best showing in the fourth Liberty loan drive, are to have their names painted on the sides of United States fighting war las and are to be carried over the German lines, so that the fleeing Huns may see who are responsible for their plight. This honor is to be given on the basis of accomplishment accom-plishment in the coming fourth Liberty loan, bnt the exact manner in -which the winning cities and towns will be chosen has not been determined. . George A. Van Smith, manager of publicity in the Twelfth federal reserve re-serve district at San 1'rancisco, is in receipt of a telegram from Washington, L C, announcing that permission had been granted by the tank corps of the war department to carry out the plan. Tan Smith made the request on a recent trip to Washington. Appeals by Letter. Every indication points to a remarkable remark-able success for "'Volunteer day." Sat-urdav, Sat-urdav, September 2S, in Salt Lake City for the opening, of the Fourth Liberty loan, was the statement made yesterday yester-day by Lester D. Freed, who rias charge of the Salt Lake City campaign. Volunteer day was originated as a special occasion for Salt Lake, with the intention that as many Salt Lakers as can possibly do so will, on or before that day. voluntarily enter their subscriptions sub-scriptions for the fourth Liberty loan bonns without waiting until the campaign cam-paign is actually under way and committees com-mittees call upon them. In addition to the publicity given volunteer day through the newspapers, Manager Freed has sent out a letter to thousands of Salt Lakers on the same subject, and reports from his office at the Commercial club Saturday were to the effect that hundreds of loyal Salt. Lake men and women have already filed their subscriptions for bonds. Reporting 100 Per Cent. The movement is catching on with such enthusiasm that there is every indication in-dication that it will dpvelop into" one of the most successful features ever instituted in-stituted during a war drive in I'tnh. .More than L'OO Arny club girls in uniform will be on the streets Saturday. Satur-day. Volunteer day, to direct the people peo-ple to the special Liberty loau booths. The Salt Lake clearing house, nt a meeting held Friday, voted to keep the Liberty loan department-; of all the hanks in the city open until 11 o'clock next Saturday night. One of the most interesting developments develop-ments of the preliminary work for the fourth Liberty loan is the manner in which many prominent Salt Lake commercial com-mercial and industrial firms are reporting report-ing their institutions PJO per cent sub-t-cribed.