The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-17
ONLY ONE BRIGHT SPOT IN LIBERTY
 LOAN CAMPAIGN This Is Tremendous Drive Being Made in North
 western States TEN MORE DAYS AND GOAL IS FAR SHORT Treasury Officials Are Very Much Discouraged at
 the Results Being
 Secured

Washington, October 16. With IA working days gone and only 10 more to come, lib- erty bond sales were believed by treasury officials tonight to have just touched the $1,000, 100000 mark, a result which has led them to wonder if the $5, ,000,000,0 hoped for could be attained in the final days of the campaign.
 Committees in almost every part of the country still wire encourag- ingly that they can make their maxi mum totals," says treasury depart ment statement. Possibly they can, but either they are concealing their actual sales--which is not believed to be the case--or there must be most remarkable spurt in the offing.
 OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT
 "Certainly there is little about the sales thus far to warrant great conf dence that the s5,0o0. 900 mark will be reached.r
 Official figures reported to the ing aotuas sales at Inc close of busi- mess yesterda% rsace' the total at s52s. 2sO,5 ,5S0. or little more than half the $1,0oo, oo0,oo0 believed to have been subscribed. There figures do not irl- clude the result of the two-day can vass made by 60,00o workers In the Minneapolis district. and place the amounts in other districts far below the sum reported unofficially. The totals follow:
 Boston. ssS.So0 oO0; New York, $so7,- 7070oo; Philadelphia. s1s.441.60o; Cleveland. s2,oso.Ooo; Richmond. $24.- s56,145,eoo: St. Louis, s4,S51,so0 Kan sas City. s2,205.ooo; Dallas, $4,55o,3oo; San Francisco, s31,554,s5o: Minneapo- lis, no report.
 MUCH TO DO
 Granting the most reasonable al- lowance for unreported sales" the treasury's statement continues, the sit- uation Is not encouraging. Every day since the beginning of the drive, Oc- tober I, the daily quota necessary 10 achieve the desired total of $5.000,000.- 900 by October 27 the last day of the sale, has grown larger until tonight 1t reaches in all probability, the enormous figures of s40o,oo0. 900. At the outset of the sale daily average of slightly less than s21o,0o0 00o would have made the maximum total possible
 "The greatest discrepancies between the official and latest unofficial re- ports occur in the New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Kansas City districts. Late reports from New York and Boston today show their totals to be $413,0O0.000, and above $50, 100000. respectively. Cleveland has more than $75,000,0o0, Philadelphia more than ss0.000.000 and while no fig ures for the entire Kansas City dis trist are vailable. 1t is known that omaha alone has subscribed about s10, ,000. 900.
 Similar discrepancies doubtless ex- ist in other districts, but few think they are so great as to indicate an actual approach to even the minimum quota for the country. $3.000,000, 000. by the close of the drive.
 BRIGHTEST SPOT
 "The brightest spot in the campaign today appeared to be in the northwest ern states of Minnesota. North Dakota. South Dakota and oMntana, where tho sales forces began work for the first time yesterday. Orders soon will be in effect in all those states for the
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