Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1918 — AUTHORSTO. BOOST LOAN [ARTICLE]

AUTHORSTO. BOOST LOAN

GEORGE ADE WILL RECRUIT LITERARY FORCES OF STATE FOR LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE. Plans have been completed by Edward Warfel, who is the head of the publicity department of the Indiana State Council of Defense under George Ade, chairman of the publicity committee of the Indiana state council to lend its efforts to the ana authors, poets and writers will take an active part in the forthcoming Liberty bond campaign in this state. Mr. Ade "wrote the state council some days ago asking what definite steps the publicity department might take at this time to assist in the program for Liberty Loan, under which Indiana has set out to over-subscribe her quota, and after conferring with the publicity department of the State Liberty Loan headquarters, it was decided that an Indiana “Vigilantes committee” should be organized immediately by the publicity department of the eight counties in the district. These state’s over-subscription of the loan.

Prominent writers of the state are to contribute short Liberty Loan articles, which will be furnished free of charge to every newspaper in the state of Indiana for use in a promin--ent place in the paper each day that the loan drive continues. Artists of Indiana and cartoonists also are to take a prominent part in the publicity work of the next Liberty Loan. Plans for , accumulating Liberty Loan drawings in the hands of the publicity department at Liberty Loan state headquarters and the sending of these drawings to every newspaper in the state, either in “plate” or “mats,” already have been worked out, and all the prominent cartoonists and artists are being asked to contribute their ideas, graphically set out, to aid in the Liberty Loan campaign. Walter S. Greenough, director of publicity for Indiana, yesterday forwarded to Wilbur D. Nesbit, director of publicity for the Federal Reserve District, the list of county publicity chairmen who have been named throughout sixty-six of the sixtytight counties in the district. 1 These publicity chairmen in many instances are recommended to the state’s publicity department by county chairmen. Practically all of the men named as publicity chairmen are men actively engaged in newspaper work. In all instructions being sent to them and to the Liberty Loan county chairman, the point is emphasized that these men are to serve as clearing houses for publicity material df all kinds, but that the active co-op-eration of all other newspaper men in each community is' to be employed in the stimulation and dissemination of the Liberty Loan news and publicity. ' In this county Attorney CharlesM. Sands has been named chairman. Charles E. Preston of the Monticello Herald was appointed chairman of White county.