Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-02
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
 STARTED WITH "A RUSH
Tens of Thousands of Workers Show
 cd Tremendous Enthusiasm.

Washington. Oct. 1.-The great Lib- erty loan drive started today throughout the country with a rush. Photographic reports to theA treasury from every section indicate tremen- deus enthusiasm on the part of tens of thousands of workers and a fair first day volume of subscriptions to- ward the $S,000, ,000, 900 minimum which has been set as the goal of the four weeks campaign.
 Flags Flown; Whistles Blown
 Flags were flown, whistles were blown, scores of billboards blossomed into red. white and blue posters and thousands of workers started the cam paign with enthusiasm from New En- gland to California. Everywhere, from postofHces. bank and store windows, railway stations, street cars and scores of other public places, Liberty posters with varied slogans were pasted up and workers began the task of finding buyers.
 Distinctive Demonstrations.
 Towns and cities from coast to coast welcomed the beginning of the cam pa1gn with distinctive demonstrations Here in the capital street cars were stopped for two minutes at noon and automobile horns and sirens let loose a bedlam of noise as the field force began its work. In hundreds of other communities, the story was the same, varied only by the methods followed.
 Boston reported a chorus of steam whistles greeting the opening of the campaign. Mayer Mitchell of New York started it there with an address Philadelphia let loose her factory whistles at II o'clock and two hours six airplanes that circled the tower of the city hall, dropping loan litera- ture while 5000 Boy Scouts started collecting contributions.
 Trss Speaker Purchased First Bond.
 Secretary McAdoo opened his trans continental speech making tour in Cleveland. where Iris Speaker, star outfielder of the Cleveland baseball club purchased the first bond.
 The Liberty Bell of St. Johns church, Richmond, where Patrick Hen ry uttered his immortal t'Give me Hb- erty or give me death," led the bells of the city in a ive-minute proclama- ticn that the drive was on.
 At Atlanta. the president of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs called up the chairman of the liberty executive committee before breakfast to get hfs subscription-and got it. 1,uuu soTiciFors stormed Chicago.
 A flying squadron of nearly 1000 so- licitors stormed Chicago as the bells were ringing and whistles were blow Ing. Minneapolis started with a pro- Sramme of meetings designated to reach every man, woman and child in her reserve district
 Prominent business men of St. Louis put on overalls and pasted up posters, San Francisco began with a luncheon attended by 800 men and women, and Dallas and Kansas City reported a similar spirit of enthusiasm
 The spectacular features of the first day succeeded everywhere reports to the treasury department indicated, in arousing widespread enthusiasm.
 Vast Amount of Hard Work Ahead
 A vast amount of hard work must be done during the next twenty three days. by every person in the ranks of the great organization. An of s125, 5,000. .05O a day, in sub scriptions for the entire period would bring the total only up to the mini mum What officials hope for is to make every day a s200, ,O0O. 900 day, or, on an eight hour basis, s25, 900. 900 an hour. This would bring the total to within hailing distance of the s5,0O0,- 00O,O0O which the country is expected to SIlhScrihe