The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-25
Nation Faces Greatest Day OF
the Liberty Loan
Campaign.
M'ADOO SOUNDS KEYNOTE
Declares "AII That Is Needed to Make
Loan an Overwhelming Success Is
That People Realize Person.
al Application Of Loan
Appeal"
BIG SUBSCRIPTIONS TO LOAN.

DUPONT Powder Co.. .s45 900, 900
U. s. Steel Corporation. -. 100000
Equitable Trust Co. IN. W. 13,50o,Ooo
Union Pacific .o....... 100000
National Bank Of Com
nerce (et. Lculs) ..... 100000
Union Mat. Bank (PhII.).. 100000
Washington, Oct. 24.--Today, Lib
erty day by proclamation of President
Wilson, the nation faces the test Of de-
termining whether the second Liberty
loan OF 1917 shall roll up an over
Whelming success.
At faces the greatest day Of the cam
palgn. with not more than half Of the
s6,000000,000 hoped for actually sub
scribed, according to careful estimates
compiled by treasury officials last
night. Two and one-half billion dol
lars they estimate, must BE- obtained
ia subscriptions In the four days that
remnin.
The field force Of 100000 workers
re-entorced today by speakers, inGlud-
ing members of the cabinet, former
President Taft William j. Bryan,
Speaker Clark nrd other nationally
lsnc n orators.
Secretary McAdoo, telegraphing
from Nashville sounded the keynote
Of tho day In Liberty day statement
Issued here,
SAll that Is needed now to mike the
Liberty loan an over whelnling sue
CESS" he said, lis that the people gen.
rrnllS III oil parts of the nation realize
the personal application of the loan
appeal. Thore Is still too much Of a
tendency to believe that the loan will
bO subscribed easily and without the
bhslsinnce Of The average man and
MOlAun.h
Other Bualnsss at Rest.
Business was nearly &C d standstlll
fntoughout the nation today except for
kho snle Of Liberty bonds. Designated
h national holiday by President Will
ron, the day has also been made a
holiday by governors OF the various
states, BUSINESS houses and schools
%oge closed thousands of speakers
Nill deliver addresses and hundreds Of
Faoustads Of new workers joined for
sho day the army OF 100000 solicitors
ALREADY in The tieId.
Particular ptforts are to be put
RorwRrd," says the treasury depurt-
ments statement, ITO obtain further
subscriptions from farmers In the
South and parts OF the middle West.
As was the case a week ago, the rural
communities In those sections are
making the weakest ahowings of any
Va the country.
Returns from all federal reserve
nHtricts show that at the beginning
Of business Tuesday subscriptions Of
el,6Ol,S02 100 had been officially re-
ported TO them. This represents sub.
ecrlptions upon which the first pay
m0n OF 2 per cent has been deposited
Ia banks reporting to the reserve
banks.
$2,5oo,ooo,ooO Indicated.
"Unofscial figures indicate that an
Estimate Of $2,500,000,000 for all sales
appears to be conservative.
Briefly stated then, the situation is
that the $3,0O0,0O0,0O0 minimum
quota set for the loan at the outset of
the campaign on October / will be
passed today, IL Liberty day subscrip-
lions come UP to conservative expecta-
tons They may carry the total be-
Sond that point.
1.-THE maximum total Of $4,000
BOO is far distant, however. no at
tain it by the close of the sale Sat-
mday will be feat worthy of the
best mettle.
Reports Of maximum quotas hav-
Ing been passed in various parts of
the country began to arrive today.
New York wires that It's sales viii
pass the billion-dollar mark today"
The signaI for the lighting of Liber.
~ fires throughout the country was
given when Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, chair.
man of the woman's Liberty loan com
1nittee, lighted bonfire at the Wash
angton monument
She used candelabrum which once
belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, con
tSining p trench candle made in Que
bee. The faggots are of wood made
from historic places in many states.