Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-11-01
LIBERTY LOAN
SUCCESS HERE
Alma Raised Nearly All of Her
Quota With S125,OOO Bond
Sales to Her Credit.
RESULTS ARE HIGHLY PLEASING
County Has From 100000 to $325.
900, Showing That Alma Has
Nearly Half County's Total.

The Second Liberty Loan of l9l,
ir the city of Alma proved 10 be
greater success when the final return.
were in than had been expected las
Thursday, two days before the cam
paign was brought to a close Tn,
final two days of the campaign saw
almost as many thousand dollars
worth of bonds subscribed for as haC
been subscribed during the entir,
month previous.
Not only did the Second Liberty loar
prove a success in Alma, but it PROVED
a great success over the entire coun-
try, a veritable broadside of Liberty
bonds being bought up the last few
days as a fitting testimonial to the
Kaiser, the United States going tn,
limit in subscribing to the Second
Liberty loan. Five billion dollars, the
maximum amount asked for by the
government, was subscribed, and 4
certain indication that the people OF
the entire country, and every section
@ the country, sne backing the gov
autocracy and its war for humanity
The city Of Alma came through
with S125,000 i'm subscriptions to the
Liberty bonds. Alma had a quota OF
S150,00O and nearly equalled it.
For days no one hardly dared to
hope that Alma would subscribe to
Liberty bonds in the manner in which
she did, because during the create,
part of the month the subscriptions
came in slowly. and il was not until
the last week Of the campaign that
the subscriptions reached the $4,000
mark.
With the last week they began to
climb more rapidly, but with only
two days to go the amount subscribed
was only about $4,000, and it was
then thought that Alma would not
go above the 100000 mark.
Gratiot county as whole sub
stribed between 100000 and $685.
600, probably nearer to the latter
figure than the former. Some returns
are still coming in from the country
districts, making it almost impossi-
bic TO give the exact amount sub
scribe 1t is certain, however, that
it will not 90 over the S325,000 mark.
The quota of Gratiot county was
S720,000,. and the county as a whole
failed TO subscribe even half of it,
total quota.
It is also well to note that the city
ol Alma went down for about half
OF the entire amount which was sub
soribed in the entire county. 1t indi-
Gates that the people Of Alma were
more alive TO the needs of the country
than are those from out in the rural
districts Of the county. This condi-
tion seems to have held true through
out the entire country. The cities
generally subscribed their quota or
nearly subscribed it,, or as happened
in many cases ver-subscribed it,
while it was the rural districts which
generally fell behind in the subscrip-
tions.
Just why such condition should
ccme is questionable, as the farmer is
just as patriotic as his brother in the
city 1t might come from the fact
that the farmers have not understood
the Liberty loans as they should that
they feel need of money for the pro-
duction OF larger crops another year,
o. that they have been hit by lack
of crops which tied them up so that
they were not financially able to come
across and do their bit. In some cases
this latter might be true, but gener-
ally it is not One of the other two
reasons must therefore be assigned
for the failure of the farmers TO sub
scribe as generously as their city
brothers.
In Gratiot county the work Of the
Second Liberty loan was in the hands
OF the Hou Francis King as chairman
OF the county committee That his
work was well done is shown by the
fact that Gratiot raised d far larger
amount this time than she did on the
first Liberty loan. Almost one hun-
dred thousand dollars more was sub
scrlbed this time. Cooperating with
Mr. King in each city and township
in the county was a township or city
chairman. In Alma. Mr.. Sharp
worked with Mr. King in making the
Second Liberty loan success i'm this
city. Both put in many hours or
their valuable time in this work for
the government, and full credit
should be bestowed upon them for
their efficient work in behalf Of the
loan