The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-06-14
City's Allotment 1925, 900,
and Yesterday Had
Subscribed $4,000.
$74,100 WAS THE
DAYS SUBSCRIPTION
Navy Yard Makes Grand
stand Rally, Subscribing
S11,5oo Yesterday.

With the days subscription of S74,-
100, which more than doubled the prs
vlous high record, Pensacola's liberty
loan sales up to o'clock last night
reached total of $4,000, with every
indication that they will pass the
$425,O0 mark today, making the re-
Spouse of Deep Water patriotism over
twenty per cent above the allot-
ment.
Navy Comes Up Strong.
The feature of the day was the
wonderful rally of the aeronautic sta
/ ton. Tuesday when it was announced
| that the aviation boys had subscribed
! only 5000, whereas the Barrancas
boys had bought SAT $50 of bonds, it
! looked as if the sky pilots were hope
! lessly outclassed The victory was so
! overwhelming that there disn't seem
| to be much use of celebrating. But
! Wednesday the aeronautic lads began
| trying for the altitude record, and
before the sun had slipped behind the
western rim of the earth, they had
| rolled up S11,500 more, which, added
| to the previous subscription, gives
! them a total of $16,600.
The fifth section of aero landsmen
| consisting of 48 men, contributed So
| 600 alone.
Just Begun to Buy"
Between S16,6OO and s47,250, there
Is big difference, but knowing what
the navy can do when, like John Paul
Jones, it really begins to fight, the
Barrancas boys, while still hopeful,
are by no means so sure that they
will carry off the palm. For, they
reason, there was all last night for
/ the maritime and cerulean battlers
to work-and there are a lot Of
them down at the station-and there
is today.
The total, $4,000, does not include
Yesterdays navy subscription, or a
. number of other subscriptions which
the committee simply didn't have the
time to tabulate, so great was the
rl'sh of patriotism.
Money Came in Too Fast to Count.
With about $4,000 to start on,
therefore, today, while it may not
bring forth such a bumper crop as
, Yesterday, promises an interesting
: total, because today is the last OPP
= portunity. for Pensacola to purchase
, liberty bonds. The applications must
= all be mailed tonight, so that they
can be in Atlanta before IL m. to-
= morrow, when the books close.
+ The Last Chance.
Besides the navy, there are hun,
= dreds of people in Pensacola who vi
no doubt seize the golden chance tc
r put themselves squarely behind the
, government, to make their patriotism
r real, not merely vocal.
I So far, according to a letter from
= w. C. Wardlaw, of the liberty loar
1 central committee, in Atlanta, "thc
= small man and the large institution
are doing their part, but the people
of comfortable means who should sub
scribe for from 81 900 to $4,000 o.
| these bonds are not coming FORWARD
as they should. They are the peoplt
r who should be stirred up"
And he adds:
Let's all get together and make I
whirlwind finish. The south has neve
: been lacking in patriotism, and W
e would like 10 report at least one sub
I scription for every man who register
I ed on the 5th instant, under the con
d scription act"
: Stand Behind Government.
a Mr. Wardlaw has sent the follow
ing appeal:
{ Who are you?
$ You expect the soldiers of the [
L s. A. to stand up and be shot, if nee
: essary, to protect you, your homes
e your wife and children?
r You expect the boys on the battle
S ships to sail into the jaws Of deaf
= and to brave the hellfire of enem
guns and the assassin thrust of tn
sneaking submarine, all to defend 70
and your neighbors from invasion?
And who are you?
= What do you expect to do You
\ / Yourself?
n Did you say the other day tia
you didn't think you'd put YOU
money in a liberty bond because 20
D. could beat that; you could invest YOU
IN funds at and 10 per cent, and yo
he didn't see why you should purcha;
ar government paper that only pa!
d. 3 1-2 per cent?
cd Did YOU say that?
st When your country asks you
ed advance a measly fifty or a hunde
as dollars to help keep the edifice
tn civilization from tumbling, do W
K pirate of making more by lending els
ed where?
IS Say, what kind of a fellow a
a. you?
ne Do you want other men to sacrifi
is their business, their prospects al
ne positions, and go to marching, drillir
ST and bye and bye starving, sufferi1
Nv from wounds, dying, while you dor