New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04


able position after so many months OF
bloody war;"
T Tow the Newspapers Boosted the
1 Seventh War Loan
The Frankfort newspapers announced
that the loan committee would keep open
Sunday to take subscriptions. Some OF
the newspapers printed daily "boxes" on
their front pages containing urgent ap-
peals for subscriptions. The Franklin
ter Zeitung" carried series of such
"boxes," containing brief appeals from
prominent persons. One of these, from
Director BALM Of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can Line, read as follows:
'"To the Frsnkfurter Zeitung;
"The war loan Is mortgage upon the
total wealth Of all Germans; 1t falls with
the German Empire, and with us all. There
Is therefore no reason of a business charac-
ter for any individual to shrink from sub
scribing to the loan to his utmost ability.
Subscribing is, for the non-combatant, the
symbol Of his determination to hold out to
a happy and glorious end. BALLlN."
Professor A. Hoche put his appeal into
this form:
"The Mayor of small town was about to
celebrate the silver anniversary Of his off,
cial service, and II was decided by the coun-
ell that a Joint gift should be made by the
citizens Accordingly, large cask was sent
around among the winners, each of whom
was asked to pour into it quantity Of wine
in proportion to the size of his vineyard.
When the cask was presented, however, II
was found to be filled with clear water.
Dear average German citizen, do you recog-
nize your features in this story7 Then beat
upon your breast, 60 hence and do not leave
1t to your neighbors to subscribe for the
war loan"
An article by Arthur Won Gwinner is
also quoted in these newspapers, which
was evidently written to convince the Ger
man people that they were amply able
to subscribe for the seventh war loan. He
is the leading director of the great
Deutsche Bank, which was recently heard
of by many Americans for the first time
as the channel through which the German
government sent that money to Bernstorff
for Bolo Pacha. Gwinner writes about the
'inexhaustible wealth of Germany" He
tells the Germans that they have been
creating wealth during the war In two
ways: by working and by saving. The
have been working as never before, anc
have been saving on the greatest pos
sible scale. Some Of this saving was i'm
posed upon them by the British blockade
indeed; but Gwinner goes even to the
length of claiming that the blockade has
proved blessing to Germany.
He says that Germany would have given
out long ago, but for the help Of the
blockade His idea is that Germans would
have wasted their money buying foreign
Injuries; whereas they have, however I'M
willingly, been compelled to save their
money for wiser uses. Gwinner computes
their yearly savings on alcohol and beer
alone at more than $4,000 100000; and
similar large sums have been saved on
clothing, food, light and heat, and luxuries
of all kinds. He says that one effect OF
this saving on an unprecedented scale is
seen in the position of the banks Of the
empire, whose deposits have been doubled
since the war began; while the deposits of
the savings banks, although they have
put billions into the war loans, are greater
than three years ago.
These papers contain no great amount
of war news. There are no special re-
ports from the various fronts. The papers
content themselves with printing the Ger
man official bulletin; and they carry a
standing heading: Official War Bulletins
of the Enemy" The impression conveyed