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THE COUNTY'S FIGURES, PRINTED AS THE COUNTY'S, FROM GREENOUGH (1922)
The carrier whole is Walter Greenough's The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922) — the state's official campaign history, compiled from the State Loan Headquarters files, the Seventh Federal Reserve Bank's records, and the county chairmen's own reports. Greenough's preface itself warns that Federal Reserve figures, state-headquarters figures, and newspaper figures conflict throughout, and that Treasury/Federal Reserve figures are "nearer the truth" — every split below prints whole, per that warning. First Liberty Loan (May–15 June 1917): the county reported its full quota met by 31 May 1917, among the earliest counties in the state; on 14 June it "went to the top of the percentage column with 204 per cent. subscription, or a total of 4,000,000 dollars"; on 15 June it claimed to lead all districts in the United States in proportion to population, with a total of 4,250,000 dollars, or 2,391,000 dollars more than its quota (the quota therefore 1,859,000 dollars, by the carrier's own arithmetic). Second Liberty Loan (October 1917), chairman Zigler: the state committee's summary table prints quota 2,600,000 dollars and subscriptions as credited of 2,320,050 dollars — short of quota as the books stood; the same table's footnote (g) prints the chairman's letter of 20 April 1922 (as chairman of the First National Bank, South Bend; the table spells him "Charles L. Zigler," the footnote "Charles S. Zigler" — both spellings as printed) stating that bonds amounting to more than 1,000,000 dollars, subscribed by county citizens through the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago banks, were never credited to the county's record, and that the county's true total subscription was 3,653,400 dollars. Both figures stand; the file adopts neither. The county's closing-week effort included "the biggest indoor meeting ever held in South Bend." Third Liberty Loan (April–May 1918), chairman Arthur D. Baker: quota 2,500,000 dollars; subscriptions 2,688,000 dollars (107%) — after a scare in which, a week before the close, the county had subscribed only 48% of its allotment; a big Liberty Loan meeting of the South Bend Rotary Club on 1 May put it among the "white" (quota-met) counties. Fourth Liberty Loan (28 September – 19 October 1918) — driven through the influenza closure (the epidemics file) — chairman Fred A. Bryan, whose organisational mark on the state record is the "Volunteer Plan": a card-index canvass of every citizen's ability to buy, filed alphabetically at county headquarters, with a special volunteer button awarded only on purchase of the assessed amount, adopted by state headquarters as a model. Its county total stands three ways, whole (C124): quota 5,100,000 dollars; State Headquarters subscription 5,800,000 dollars; Federal Reserve subscription 5,810,900 dollars — the county the 40th of the 68 northern counties to go over — and, by the chairman's memorandum of 25 January 1919 to the Federal Reserve Bank, a claimed true total of 5,873,600 dollars, on which Greenough's own close is: "No other data relating to this controversy has been found." Victory Loan (April–May 1919), chairman W. L. Chandler: quota 3,900,000 dollars; subscriptions 4,416,550 dollars (113%), on the final Seventh District results of July 1919. The women's organisation, counted at county strength: in the Third Loan the county's women's committee, chaired by Mrs. Victor F. Jones, was allotted 625,000 dollars and sold 341,900 dollars; in the Fourth, the women's organisations merged into the Volunteer Plan in many counties and no separate county account was kept — Greenough prints the state rule (women credited with 50% of totals where merged) in place of a county figure, and none is invented here.
Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922; Indiana World War Records, vol. II), chs. III, V, VII and tables, read from the ldsgenealogy OCR transcription of the Archive.org copy — page-image verification the standing settler for any figure carried at full strength, as the findings record.