The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-05
Second Liberty Loan Spreading
Rapidly Over Four South
ern States.
SOUTH is IN FULL SWING
Innovations May Be introduced
Here and Some Keen COmpe=
tiOn lnduIged in by the Bank
ers OF This City.

The third day of the great drive
of the Liberty loan bond workers was
marked with increasing activity in
brunswick banning circles yesterday.
The new estimated amount of these
bonds to be sold in the south is be-
tween $S0,000,000 and $135 900, 900.
The Southern, or Sixth district, com
prises Georgia, Florida, Alabama and
Tennessee and a tremendous amount
OF Wor will be required in each OF
these states to fully promote, or ring
it again" as they say, the bond sales.
A beautiful new poster, with ali
original portrait of Columbia standing
in an appealing attitude above the
words: Lets End It Quick With Lib
erty Bonds" was received here yes
terday from the district headquarters
IN Atlanta, and will soon be distribu-
ted throughout the city. Two of these
posters are now on exhibition at the
Glynn County Bank The art work
on the new bills was executed by
Maurice Ingress, who is one of this
leading artists of America.
Mr.. f. l.. Stephens, of the Glynn
County Bank, and one of the most en-.
thusiastic workers for the Liberty
loan in Brunswick said that he was
not quite ready to divulge all the
plans which the bank has up its
sleeve" but modestly admitted that
ne would not be astonished if his
bank would be in the lead of the
local race before October 9th.
A unique idea was adopted by a
Newcastle street jeweler yesterday
when he placed several original bonds
of three denominations on display il
mis- show window. Hundreds of pass
ersby were attracted by the engraved
paper and no doubt very many wer,
more strongly inclined to possess nc
small number of them
Besides the arrival of the new post.
ers, many business men in Bruins
wick received a circular letter yester-
day from a large manufacturing con.
Germ, urging them to join in the great
movement as a consolidated concern
and become "brokers,' as it were, for
Uncle Sam. The letter, in part, reads
when the first Liberty loan was
floated thousands of people apparent.
ly thought they were asked to give
their money to the government. They
confused the Liberty loan with the
Red Cross funds. 1t is vastly to theii
credit that they bought United States
government Liberty bonds under that
impression-just as much to theil
bankers, the bond statesmen, the bust
ness men and the newspapers and
magazines of the country that the!
did such forceful work for that first
issue.
Now the second Liberty loan is
launched. The greatest business house
in the world-the United States-asks
you to be stockholder. The money
you invest will earn you 4 per cent,
1t will make you one with the patriot
who penned the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and wrote that our lives
our fortune and our sacred honor
were pledged to liberty.
ut is your duty, as it is mine, to in
vest every dollar we can spare in the
Liberty loan, which is truly govern
ment preferred
"Above all, as you value the future
and the citizenship of the future, en-
courage your children and your neigh
bors' children to form Liberty loan
clubs and pool their savings in these
bonds of our government"