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REPORT THIRD LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF BUFFALO one hundred seventy-two speakers and fifty-nine speakers gave sixty addresses at miscellaneous meetings. A particularly fine showing was made by the Four Minute Men in charge of Clarence MacGregor. This group of eighty-eight speakers has the remarkable record of addressing, at sixty-eight Buffalo theaters, audiences estimated at over eight hundred thousand, making ten hundred eighty-six Liberty Loan addresses in all. WOMEN'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WOMEN'S The huge total of $4,847,800 in subscriptions obtained by the women of COMMITTEE Buffalo is their remarkable record in the third campaign. This represented a total of 12,004 separate subscriptions. Of this number, 7,127 bonds of the denomination of $50 were sold; 2,021, $100 bonds; 2,306 subscriptions between $150 and $950; 550 subscriptions of $1,000 or more. The sales by the women show an increase of $825,750 over their sales in the second campaign. Particularly noteworthy is the result obtained by the women in spreading out their sales of bonds. The total of 12,004 separate subscriptions show how effectively this was accomplished. Mrs. Theodore A. Pomeroy, who had so ably conducted the work of the women in the second campaign, built her organization for the third campaign, and was just at the point of starting it on its work when illness in her family compelled her to leave the city. Her work was immediately undertaken by the Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Edward H. Butler, who, with the assistance of Mrs. Walter P. Cooke, Mrs. Howard Forman, Mrs. Richard H. Thompson and Mrs. John H. Lascelles, the other members of the women's executive committee, carried on the campaign with the success above recorded. The sales were confined to sales at authorized stations or booths located in the large department stores, hotels, theaters and active business centers, mainly in the downtown sections of the city. Women's fraternal organizations, clubs and associations furnished the selling force in many of the booths. The co-operation between the Women's Committee and the Men's Committee was complete and each assisted the other in producing [ 32 ]
REPORT THIRD LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF BUFFALO the maximum results without unnecessary duplication of sales force. An instance of this cooperation, very characteristic of the Buffalo women, and not so characteristic of Liberty Loan organizations in other cities,—the Men's Booth Committee had charge of the location of sales booths, and the collection and tabulation of sales there made. The other larger and more important branch of this WOMEN LEADERS AT HEADQUARTERS WOrK, the actual Sale 01 bonds in booths, was handled entirely by the Women's Committee. Again, in the matter of publicity, the Women's Committee operated through the Publicity Department of the men's organization, and all of the news of the women's activities found its way to the News Bureau of the men's organization and from there to the daily papers. The importance of the work of the women has become so thoroughly recognized by the men's organization of Buffalo that the women now appear on the General Committee appointed in charge of the Loan, and on many of the committees and bureaus operated by the men's organization some of the most useful and effective workers are Buffalo women. This is noticeable in the Speaker's Bureau, as well as some of the trades and professions committees; while all of the work of the Educational Bureau of the Publicity Department is organized and conducted by women. Upon Mrs. Edward H. Butler fell a large portion of the executive work, because of the absence of the Chairman. Without previous experience as Chairman, she entered suddenly and unexpectedly upon the performance of her duties with poise, tact and tireless energy. The progress of the campaign revealed in her an executive of rare ability, with perseverence and patience to follow up to successful completion the multitudinous details incident to the work of the women in such a campaign. When the Quota Committee of the Distribution Organization, assigned a quota PUBLIC of one million dollars to the Public Schools of the city, and later increased this SCHOOLS quota to one million five hundred thousand dollars and again increased it to two million dollars, Dr. George E. Smith, in charge of the Schools Committee and his assistants, Mr. Benjamin L. Abel and Mr. M. Smith Thomas, felt that the impossible had been asked. They set manfully to their work determined to do their best and as a result the final summary of the Buffalo public schools showed a total of $2,050,200 with 21,975 subscribers. This represents approximately $30 per pupil and over five per cent of the total sales of the city both from the standpoint of sales and subscriptions. In the second campaign the public schools sold $1,115,800 of bonds to 12,251 subscribers. The third campaign, therefore, showed an increase in sales of $934,400 and an increase of 9,724 individual subscribers. This success meant the making of enthusiastic Americans and workers out of six thousand children and their parents. It meant in addition the uniting of all races in a common cause, [ 33 ]
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