Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09

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,n.r,v Loan subscriptions poured In to-
Nav by the million, , rru,,,. c,o,,,,,r,,
pSuadeIphia. came across with a million.
Uta Eourth National Bank OF Philadelphia
~ HAS a million dollars worth OF bonds
o. J,s credit The Third National Bank OF
Stanton did ditto, and other subscriptions
srom various sources in scranton amounted
TO 100000.
rive hundped thousand was the amount
~ trenee du PoSt Company subscribed to.
rSo Northern Trust Company signed up for
tsS ooo having previously taken S25O,OO0.
nbe Integrity Title Insurance, Trust ana
safe Deposit Company, of Philadelphia,
asked for 100000 worth.
: In all the days subscriptions ran close
bebind the S10,O0O,000 record established
on another day.
The Pennsylvania Railroad jumped into
che trench of the second Loan offensive to-
dav when 200 officers met at the Y. M. c. A.
and discussed plans for conducting the field
\ work of taking the subscriptions.
president Samuel Rea urged the full CO.
operation on the part of all of the em-
pioyes, and pledged the support of the man
agement.
Other addresses were made by Vice Pres
,dents Henry Tatnall, w H. Myers and A.
I County. also by Captain John +. Green,
retired vice president; James +. Fahne-
stock. treasurer, and r. l.. O'Donnel as
sistant general manager. ]. c. johnson,
superntendent of telegraph, presided.
Approximately siXty-five committees Will
he organized to cover all portions of the
railroad and upward of 1000 men will,
in the next day or two, be enlisted in the
work of personal solicitation. 1t is part
of the plan to make personal and in
dividual appeal, within a week at the
latest to each of the 100000 employees on
The lines east urging every one to be-
come the purchaser of at least one bond
of the second Liberty Loan.
A lively drive to break the record set by
subscriptions to the first loan, when b3,l6O
EMPLOYEES of the Pennsylvania lines east of
Pittsburgh and Erie subscribed to bonds
worth S3,44O,600, has been promised
To make it possible for every employe to
become a bond owner, the company has
arranged to undertake the financing Of the
subscriptions. Bonds from $50 to $1,000
may be purchased on 10 per cent monthly
installments, and all agents of the COM
pany have been authorized to receive ap-
plications and to accept the payments.
Proof that the small bank depositor has
enlisted in the Liberty Loan army was fur
nished today, when smaller subscriptions
from banks started coming in. The Susque-
hanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company
of Wiiamsport, subscribed for S2OO'OOO;
the Miners National Bank of Pottsville for
100000, and the National. Bank of Chester
County at West Chester, for $4,000, Dun
gan. Hood & Co.. of Philadelphia, also put
themselves down for $4,000
-FOUR MINUTE MEN" BUSY
More than $4,000, 900 was realized for the
loan in this district yesterday. Boy Scouts
have agreed to help the Philadelphia school
boys who are soliciting subscriptions.
One of the latest features of the canI-
paign will be the -Four Minute Men" who
will deliver short addresses between the
acts in various theatres urging patriots to
invest in the bonds.
The Philadelphia Savings Fund, Seventh
and Walnut streets, and the Western Saw
ings Fund, Tenth and Walnut streets, re-
port large numbers of small subscriptions.
During the first week OF the campaign
S47 subscriptions, totaling S13S,400, were
made at the Philadelphia Savings Fund.
The executives of this institution announce
that bank accounts may be opened there
for the purpose of buying Liberty Bonds.
This means that an-account may be opened
with 81, and continued until the> sufficient
amount has been deposited TO buy bond.
AT that time the account may be closed or
continued as the depositor sees fit
The following statement regarding the
work done by the Boy Scouts in the cam
palgn was made yesterday by Scout Ex-
ecutiye George l. Bodine, chairman of the
Boy Scout Committee:
Philadelphia schoolboys have been
asked TO sell bonds, and while as good
scouts we must do everything to CO.
operate with the great national Scout
fspSgR fsre @ifR TIVE we VIII do nothing to inter-
war service emblem ruling by the
national Boy Scout office issued to Scout-
masters nve days after the opening of
Ine Liberty Loan campaign may or may
not cause delay and work a hardship to
hcnnoolo4ys who are Scouts
Loan COmnniftaa
ASK us 70 work for war emblems we
IRE TLe working for a greater thing-for the
Snlted States Government Therefore,
scouts are urged to keep right on selling
me one colossal job of every man.
MMoman and child TODAY is to sell bonds
NE NE are out to smash the Hindenburg
nhe and petty matters can easily be
adjusted after the victory.
Yesterday was the opening date of a CAM
palgn conducted by the Four-Minute Men, a
group OF patriotic speakers These men
nave given their time to the Government by
making short speeches between the acts in
.he theatres, urging the necessity of buying
ponds upon the audiences.
John Lucas & Co.. a paint frm, which has
neiped materially in the upbuilding Of the
MADE In Philadelphia" campaign has
ISSUED an appeal to its employees to sub
scloe TO the new loan, offering to finance
subscriptions made on the partial-payment
pan A statement Of the war aims of the
United States prefaces the explanation of
he financial side of the Governments
work and 1t is urged that the percentage
tries "a 0N'A 'AuHS