Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-12
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Washington, Oct. 1t.-Iess than I
per cent of the $4,000, 600, 600 which
the government hopes TO obtain in
subscriptions to the second liberty
bond had been subscribed at the close
OF business last night
Treasury officials made public the
actual subscription figures tonight.
The total is $S25,465, 900. This figure
includes every dollar reported to the
reserve banks from every section OF
the United States. In one reserve dis
trict. however, Minneapolis, no figures
were reported.
The subscriptions indicate the ne
cessity for the hardest kind of work
on the part of the whole country for
the balance of the campaign" reads
the treasury departments announce
ment. THE campaign is more than
one-third gone. Fourteen working
days remain
What Figures show.
Subscriptions by federal reserve
districts were as follows:
Boston, $41,S00,000.
New York. s22s,527 900.
philadelphia, $13.5S3.00
Cleveland. $685. 600.
Richmond, s12.229.000
Atlanta, $1,703,000
Chicago, $4.s16.000.
'St. Louis, s1,729.0Oo.
Minneapolis. no report.
kansas City, s1,231,O0O.
Dallas, $l,S99.000.
san Francisco, $lG,G47,000
'"These figures represent the total
of subscriptions actually filed with
the several reserve banks and tho
treasury department
Must Be Hard Work.
While very large number of in
corpoprated Banks and trust COM
panies throughout tho country have
not yet reported any subscriptions to
the federal reserve banks" the state
plent continues, land while the liber-
ty loan committees have unofficiaily
reported a number of large subscrip-
tions which have not yet been for
mally filed, even making due allow
ance for these unreported amounts,
the subscriptions thus far received in
d,cate the necessity for the hardest
kind Of work on the part of the whole
country for the balance OF the cam
paign.
THE secretary of the treasury has
requested subscriptions to the amount
of $4,000, 100000 In order that allot-
ments might be made up to $4,000
10000
Total of Twenty-four Business Days.
There are twenty y-four business days
during the campaign period and in
order to obtain subscriptions OF
So, 900, 100000 the average daily sub.
scriptions must amount to more than
$20S,O00,O00 per day, whereas up 20
date the average has been only about
$50. 100000.
1T is particularly important to I'm.
press upon the people of the country
that this vast undertaking must not
he left to the people of great wealth.
No such sum can be subscribed ex.
cept by the earnest cooperation ct
all the people of the country.
Wants 10000, 900 Subscribers.
"It is estimated that in the first
subscribers and with the better or.
ganization now available and the large
amount OF educational work which
has been done, the country should be
able to count at the close of the cam
paign subscriptions from at least
10 900, 900 people,
These figures of course do not tell
the entire story, as many thousands
of the country's $4,000 banks and
trust companies have made no report
whatever of subscriptions obtained.
Returns are much 1T variance also,
with figures announced at the vari-
Gus federel reserve bank cities, local
hoadouarters of the loan. Thus at
Philadelphia, the estimated total
several days ago was $50. 100000 and
al Chicago it was said that up to last
Saturday night there had been pay
ments made on approximately 25,000,-
900 in subscriptions.
Chicago's Poor showing.
Chicago is down ON the official list
for $4S16,000 and Philadelphia fct
siS.5S3, ,OOoa
Chicago reports indicate that the
official figures represent far smaller