The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-19
|C0NNECTICUT'S SHARE. IS BIG
 IN WAR WORK
! Congressman Lonergan Se-
 cures Facts at Wash | ington

:, fWAe whole state will be interested O. the facts just compiled at Wash ksngton by Congressman Augustine ELouergan of the First District, as they tell in very forcibie way of the con
 tribution Connecticut is. making as
 fher share in, the great effort of the | war to preserve the rights of the na- Ation-
 ' Brig. Gen. H. P. Mccain, the Adju- khant General of the Army, states that fCaonnecticut's total quota for the Re- EEularr Army is 2228, and that the of- kficia1 figures for the War Department as yof August 24, show Connecticut Ehad secured her quota at that time, Eandfthat in fact 2419 of the men who kpresented themselves in Connecticut { fwere accepted for enlistment in the Regular Army from April l, to Aug fust 24, 1917. The Chief of the Mill Etia Bureau. Brig Gen. William A. kMann, now commander of the Rain kb0w D1yfsion of which some of the kConnecfdcut troops are a part, stated fthat the official records in his office 1 as of July St, showed there were 150 officers and t5,091 enlisted men in the kOonnectiout National Guard, who kwore taken into the federal service. In T. placed under arms in the new Ma ftiopaL Army. her quota of. nearly H. 000, men, secured under the selective AdrafE
 | SerDetary of the Navy Josephus FDanHais informed MT. I.onergan that bon August 23, according to official kflEures. there were in the Navy 140,- ReT0 enlisted men, of whom Connecti- cut t>has .supplied a representative quo- ta. Exact figures on Connecticut were notA available, for the annual roster bships of the service are so scattered, Fit VIII be some two weeks before the &works is completed Of sthettotal amount subscribed for. the FirsteLiberty Loan, which reach 3 eSl more than $3,00o,00O, ,000, and kuzade 4,0OO, 900 government bond Shpzders i'm the country where there swere but 30o, ,000 before, Connecticut, as figures secured from the Treasury EDepartInent, and from the office of Gopesmor Aiken of the Federal Re- kserre Bank of Boston show, subscrib- Red &22.9s2.4 450 or $5,000.0o0 more than Ms quota of $23, ,zO0,00O-
 The state also pIayed prominent part iu the campaign of the Red Cross to4 secure $1oo,0oo.00O. the total con trzbutions from the state as of Aug { usf 22, Last. being s2,ss7,s7s.07. The
 total secured b y the Red Cross from
 thes campaign throughout the coun- l. try twas s120,92s,751-12. according to sthe report of the. Secretary to Mrr. tIohergan. dated August 2s- Tn the sta*e of Connscfzc zcut, also, there are 8s ,749 members of the Red Cross.
 The Navy League of the United < States, incorporated to be of every service possible to the men of the ! fleet, has in Connecticut $50 mem
 bers- Mir. A. H. Dadmun, Secretary of thet League, informs MT. Lonergan that ina addition there are many thou . sands fn the state in the Woman's League, an auxiliary of the organiza- tiop-e
 All this shows, in national way, thes place the state has taken in the great war: and besides the state coun-t s;ci1 of defence, the home guard, and other organizations are all working : to show the states -'bft'' is a substan- tiai contribution