Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-11

Four days and four evenings of
strenuous effort, the flna great drive
of the liberty loan committee and Its
speakers to make good the motto of
the committee, "a Liberty Loan Bond
in Every Home.' will close Thursday
evening at o'clock.
Washington, city of workers. unaid-
ed by subscriptions by scores of mill
lionaires, it is pointed out, cannot hope
to equal the total subscriptions OF the
great financial centers, but 1t should
make the per capita record in number
of subscribers.
1t is easy to subscribe for liberty
loan bond-even monthly payments s.,
may be made and under one plan as
low as 4.5O a month. while recording,
of the installment buying plan are all
done away with.
So many employees of the city have
been provided with the installment
plan, some on even lower payments
than stated that the Idea should ap-
peal to workers, and pride in citizen
ship in the capital of the nation should
impel every one to do his or her bit
in making the loan roll of subscribers
the blue ribbon one Of the nation.
Evidence of Activity Everywhere.
AS an evidence of the effort elsewhere
to increase subscriptions. with which
the people of Washington are not "a
miliar, the statement is made that the
Boy scouts of America will make
| 20, 900. 800 personal calls within the
next four days: that the National City
Bank of New York has s100,oo0,oO0 TO
4 Fr0o n
for it's subscribers and its own &C
count, equal to per cent of the entire
loan: that the Guaranty Trust Com
pany has s50.000,00o for itself and its
customers.
]. P. Morgan & Co. have subscribed
for $4,000 900 bonds: Henry Evans,
president of the Continental insurance
Company, has taken 100000 bonds;
Domnick Dominica OF New YORK
have subscribed for 100000 for them
selves and their customers: John Muir
& Co. have taken 100000 for them
selves and customers; Zimmerman &
Forshay have increased their total to
$780, 900, with a fresh subscription of
$500, 900; the Railway Spring Company
signed for $4,000, the Atwood Ma
chine Company, 100000, and all over
the country subscriptions from nifty
dollars to millions are being scheduled.
plcyes Of the United States Steel Com
pany brought the subscriptions up to
s3,se1,450, with but 10 per cent of the
thousands of employees canvassed and
with SIS to so per cent responses from
these workers. Total subscriptions be-
tween 100000 and 100000 are ex-
pected
The executive council of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union has in
structed the Fletcher National Bank of
Indianapolis to enter its subscription
for $4,000.
Large Number of Small Investors.
The large number of investors who
have taken bonds of the $50 and 800
denomination. and frequently several OF
these. has been gratifying to the Treas
ury Department and to the local liberty
loan committee, as we'll as to the bank
ing fraternity generally.
Wherever the speakers OF the liberty
loan committee make addresses returns
are general and can be readily traced. in
many cases, as direct effect Of the talks.
Every bank in Washington will be open
until 8 o'clock this evening, tomorrow,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The
committee expects many subscriptions on
the last evening. this being the last
chance to enter subscriptions for the
liberty loan of 1917.
On Friday the initial payment of yer
cent or s40.o00.000 must be made by
bankers and subscribers to the loan.
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