The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

clearing house was reported TO hav,
underwritten $4,000 900 in BONDS fol
the St. Louis districts. Boy scouts
were making a house to house can
vass to raise $1,000,000.
Des Moines reported the campaign
I"slowed up after the initial squirt
The city has taken $1,750,000 of its
So, 900 900.
The farming districts have shown
comparatively little interest in the
issue to date.
Morgan's First Appeal.
NEW YORK, June 12.-J. P. Nor
gan's first personal public appeal for
the Liberty loan was made public
| here today in the form of message
| to the chamber of commerce Of Dali
Has, Texas.
II am glad to learn that you are
holding a meeting for the purpose Of
arousing additional interest in the
Liberty loan,' said the fnancier,
whose banking house has subscribed
for S50.0000OO of the flotation.
''This loan furnishes the soundest
possible security to an investor. That
provision of the loan which gives the
holder the right to convert it into any
subsequent loan issued during the
present was is to prevent any perma-
nent decline in the. market value of
the present loan.
But entirely apart from the ques-
tion of security and yield, the one es-
sential fact which all must remember
is that every individual who buys a
Liberty bond is helping this country
to win the war"
Seven Dollars Per Person.
WASHINGTON, June 12.-By Fri
day noon seven dollars must be sub
scribed to the Liberty loan for every
man, woman, and child in the United
States if the $4,000, 100000 issue is
to be successful, according to figures
at the treasury department today.
An average of one s10O bond for
every one of the nations twenty mil
lion families must be subscribed by
Friday noon, if American credit and
integrity are to be preserved.
This means that the American
people must subscribe 230,000,OO0 a
day to the loan for the remaining
three days in which the books will
be open. Treasury officials do not
doubt that the nation will arise to
this emergency and the needed
money will flow in. 1t must come
at the rate of $10,0OO,0O0 an hour or
at the rate of s166,666 minute.
Every second must see $2,Se3 flow
into the United States treasury Be-
sides the thousands of agencies of
the federal government, thirty thou
said banks, unnum bered business
organizations and clubs and 400, 900
Boy Scouts began today the final
drive to make the bond issue sue
cess. Never before has the country
been so thoroughly organized for
achievement.
Under the leadership Of Mrs. VIM.
G. McAdoo, wife of the secretary of
the treasury, the women of the
nation through their clubs are work
Ing these last three days as never
before
Every woman buy a bond" is
heir fighting slogan.
With only 3,021 inhabitants, the !
little town of Pella, Iowa, stands out |
,ar ahead of any other city in the |
nation in proportionate subscriptions
% the loan. Pella, which is pre-
inhabited by Americans |
If Hollandish descent. has subscribed |
o the loan at the rate Of $4,000 per
amliy.
Bearing the title Liberty Loan of
917," and printed on the best bond
PAPER obtainable, the liberty loan !
ponds are described as the most
rtistc and attractive ever issued by
he government.
The face will be printed In black
With over-printing of the demonina- l.
ion.
The vfgnette of Liberty from the
statue of Liberty, occupies a place
n the right hand side and on the
eft there will be portrait of one
Il the presidents of the United
;tates. differing with each denomi-
alton. The denominations, portraits
nd colors are as follows:
Fifty dollars, Jefferson blue; 800.
ackson, blue; $500, Washington,
range; $1,000, Lincoln, carmine:
5000, Monroe, green; $4,000, Cleve-
and, blue; $4,000, Mckinley, car !,
line; 100000, Grant, orange. The :
ack of the coupon bond bears the
tile, denomination, the vignette of
ne Goddess of Freedom from the {
CURE on the dome of the United
tates capitol and an ornamental
anel with an eagle in the center. :
hese backs will vary in color as fol-
Dws:
S50-BrownJ
S1OO-Orange.
s500-Light blue.
81 000-Green.
S5,000-Red.
0,000-Brown.
S50000-Olive.
800, 000-Dark blue.
The coupon bonds will bear sixty
oupons for interest payments every
X months for thirty years.