Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-24
More Than Two Million Work.
erS Hope to Touch Three Mil
lion Mark Before Sun Sets
Tonight,
MEMBERS OF CABINET
PUT SHOULDERS TO WHEEL
Particular Efforts Made t
Bring Out Money From
Farmers of South and West;
Soldiers Praised.


Washington, Oct 23.-Tomorrow
Liberty day, by proclamation of Pres
ident Wilson, the nation faces the test
OF determining whether the second
liberty loan of 1917 shall roll up an
overwhelming success.
1t faces the greatest day of the
campaign with not more than half Of
the 5000, 100000 hoped for actually
subscribed, according to careful esti-
mates compiled by treasury officials
tonight Two and one-half billion
dollars, they estimate, must be OBJ
tanned in subscriptions in the four
days that remain.
The field force of 100000 work !.
ers will be reinforced tomorrow by
apeakers, including merahers OF the
cabinet, former President Taft, w. j..
Bryan, Speaker Clark and other ma
tionally known orators
Average Man" Must Help.
Secretary McAdoo, telegraphing
from Nashville, Tenn, sounded the
keynote of the day in a Liberty day
statement issued here tonight.
"All that is needed now to make
the liberty loan an overwhelming sue
cess" he said, lis that the people gen.
orally in all parts of the nation real
ize the personal application of the
loan appeal. There is still too much of
a tendency to believe that the loan
will be subscribed easily and without
the assistance of the average man and
woman.
THE liberty loan will succeed only
if members of each family realize
their direct responsibility, and loan
their money to the government
through the purchase of liberty bonds
"By this means only can victory
be won quickly and peace restored to
agonized humanity.
Let neither apathy nor indiffer-
ence nor overconfidence lull us into
a false security.
Militant America can whip the
kaiser; the kaiser can whip apathetic
America"
Business Turns Hands.
Business will be wellnigh at a
standstill throughout the nation to-
bonds. Designated national holiday
by President Wilson, the day has also
been made holiday by governors of
the various states. Business houses
and schools will be closed; thousands
of speakers will deliver addresses ana
hundreds of thousands of new work
ers will join for the day the army OF
100000 solicitors already in the
field.
These workers will carry the call OF
the nation with special emphasis to
the farmer. The farmers have been
invited by the hundred thousand to
come to town and attend liberty loan
rallies and workers also are going into
the country to solicit subscriptions.
Particular efforts are to be put
forward" says the treasury depart
ment's statement tonight. ito obtain
further subscriptions from farmers In
the south and parts Of the middle
west. AS was the case week ago.
the rural communities in these sec
tions are making the weakest show
ings of any in the country.
Subscriptions Are Tamlated.
Returns from all federal reserve
districts show that at the beginning
of business today subscriptions OF
$1,501. .3s2,150 had been officially re-
ported to them
This represents subscriptions upon
which the first payment of 2 per cent
has been deposited in banks reporting
to the reserve banks. Unofficial fig
ures indicate that an estimate of
s2,500, 600 900. for all sales appears to
be conservative.
Briefly stated, then, the situation
tonight is that the $4,000, ,000,000
minimum quota set for the loan at the
outset of the campaign on October l
will be passed tomorrow If Liberty
day subscriptions come up to con-
servative expectations. They may
carry the total beyond that point. The
maximum total Of $5.oo0,ooo,oo0 is
far distant, however. To attain 1t By
the close of the sale Saturday will ne
a feat worthy of the best mettle.
"Official totals Of the various dis
tricts follow:
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