New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-02
Every State Enters Loan
Drive With Determined
Enthusiasm
5000, 900, a Day
Hope of Officials
First Days Success Be-
lieved to Make Sure
$5,OOO,OOO,O 900 Total!

WASHINGTON. Oct THE great
Liberty Loan drive started to-day
throughout the country with a rush.
Telegraphic reports TO the Treasury
from every section indicate tremen-
dous enthusiasm on the part of tens
Of thousands Of workers and fair
first day volume Of subscriptions tow
ard the $4,000 100000 minimum which
has been Sc, as the goal of the four
weeks campaign.
Flags were flown, whistles were
blown, acres of billboards blossomed
into red, white and blue posters. and
thousands Of workers started the cam
paign with enthusiasm from New Eng
land to California.
Towns and cities from coast TO coast
welcomed the beginning of the cam
paign with distinctive demonstrations.
Here in the capital streetcars were
stopped for two minutes at noon and
automobile horns and sirens let loose
bedlam Of noise as the field force
began its work. In hundreds of other
communities the story vas the same,
varied only by the methods followed.
Philadelphia let loose her factory
whistles at 10 o'clock. and two hours
later gazed skyward at q squadron Of
six aeroplanes that circled the tower
Of the City Hall, dropping loan litera-
turc, while 5000 Boy Scouts started
collecting contributions.
Response in the South
The Liberty Bell Of st. Johns
Church. Richmond. where Patrick
Henry uttered his immortal Give me
liberty, or give me DEATH" led the bells
of the city in a fiyc-mlnute proclama-
tion that the drive was on. At At
ianta the president of the Georgia
Federation of Women's Clubs called
up the chairman OF the Liberty Loan
Executive Committee before breakfast
20 get his subscrip.ion-and got 1t.
MINNEAPOLIS started with pro
gramme Of meetings designed TO reach
every man, woman and child IN her
reserve district. Prominent business
men of ST. Louis put on overal!s and
pasted up posters. San Francisco be
gan with a luncheon, attended by 900
men and women, and Dallas ard Nan
sas City reported similar spirit o.
enthusiasm.
The spectacular features OF the hrst
dav succeeded everywhere, reports =
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arousing widespread enthusiasm. To
keen alive this enthusiasm and swell!
its volume till every person who can
buv a Liberty Bond does buy one IS
the work IT, which the volunteer army
is now engaged.
Hard Work Ahead
Officials here were not inclined 70
minimize the tremendous task. A vast
amount Of hard work must be done
during the next twenty-three working
DAYS By every person IN the ranks
of the great organization. An average
of S125.O00,0O0 a day in subscriptions
fer the entire period would bring the
total only up TO the minimum. what
officials hope for is TO make every day
5000. 100000 dav, or. on an eight
hour basis, $25,000,0OO an hour. This
would bring the total to within hail
ing distance Of the S5.000,G00,G 600 which
the country is expected to subscribe.
With 100000 subscribers as the
goal the average daily subscription
list would show 100000 names. Again,
computed Oh an cight-hour working
dsv basis. $4,000 men and women would
have to subscribe every hour to bring
the total up TO expectations.