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1917–1919 · War Savings and the women's tables
The county that coined "Baby Bonds" was, by the per-capita table, a thrift laggard. The name was local: the St. Joseph County Savings Bank of South Bend coined "Baby Bonds" for War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps (Indiana W.S.S. Bulletin, Vol. 1 No. 1, 7 January 1918). The county's War Savings chairman for 1918 was John A. Herzog, of Mishawaka. The counting is Greenough's, from Hoosier Thrift: per-capita War Savings sales at 23 June 1919 stood at 45 cents for St. Joseph County (South Bend) — in the lagging company of Marion County's 49 cents, Vanderburgh's 45, Vigo's 42 and Allen's 21, against a state leader, Scott County, at $2.27; Indiana's 1919 total was $5,139,769.37, $1.79 per capita, sixth in the nation per capita. Thrift therefore prints counted at county strength, and the count is unflattering.
The women's organisation prints from Greenough's loan tables. In the Fourth Loan's women's table, the county row stands: county chairman Miss Alice Jenkins, 1,200 women workers, against a women's quota of $5,000,000 with $2,900,000 in subscriptions credited (the table's columns run: women county chairman, workers, quota, subscriptions credited). For the Victory Loan, the county's women's chairman was Miss Virginia Tutt, and its foreign-language women's chairman Mrs. C. E. Banta. The banked women's Third Loan figure (Mrs. Victor F. Jones, $341,900 on a $625,000 women's quota) stands as printed. The residue is stated whole: no St. Joseph County or Union Township count was found in Greenough or any other carrier reached for the Red Cross, for the women's registration, for women in the county's factories, for the war gardens, or for the fuel winter — Greenough's organisation tables are loan and war-savings tables, and those five counts live, if anywhere, in the carriers named as settlers: the county Red Cross chapter's own record, the Council of National Defense county files, and the Tribune/News-Times record of 1917–1919. The YMCA Second War Fund county figure ($46,232.90 on $45,000) stands as banked.
Principal sources: Greenough (1922), War Savings and women's organisation chapters and tables (first-hand); Indiana W.S.S. Bulletin, Vol. 1 No. 1 (1918), as quoted in Greenough.