The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-21

Issue May Run as High as $4,000, 100000 |
Liberty Loan Day to Be Observed
October "a in Every City, Town and
Village.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 81. = Without
tant details, Secretary McAdoo an
nounced last night that the second issue
of Liberty loan bonds would be put on
the market beginning Monday, Oct. L.
The campaign will be conducted most
intensively for 81 days, and close on
Oct. 27. The issue will be for not less
than IS 900, 900 900, and may run as high
as $4,000 100000 The $11 900 100000
bond bill, under authority of which the
new bonds will be issued, will be in the
hands of President Wilson for signature
1 tomorrow.
Here is the text of Mr. McAdoo 5 an
lnouncement:
"The campaign for the second Liber-
| tv loan will open Oct. and close Oct.
p. Wednesday, Oct. q, will be eele
bratcd as Liberty day throughout the
country. Arrangements will be made
to hold patriotic meetings on that dav
in every city, town and village Full
details of the next Liberty loan will be
issued as soon as possible after the pas
sage by congress, of the pending bond
bill -
\ feature of the campaign will be
the intensive use Of posters. Contracts
were let three weeks ago for $500 900,
which are now being manufactured and
distributed throughout the country. The
expectation is that they will all be in
the hands of the committees for hanging
by Oct l.
One of the most striking posters is a
bronze tablet effect containing these
quotations from President Wilson s
speeches. The time has come to con
quer or submit. There was but one
choice and we have made it. This
poster contains a picture of President
Wilson, on each side of which is the
\ American shield. Another poster shows
little boy and a girl making this
appeal: ''Our daddy is to fight at the
front for you. Back him up by buying
a Liberty bond = A third poster is the
work of Miss Eugene DeLand, art
teacher in the Washington schools. II
represents the Statue Of Liberty with
the American flag as the sky in faint
colors. 1t bears the legend: . Before
sunset buy Liberty bond.
Still another poster represents Uncle
Sam pointing to a khakiclad soldier
and a warship, and to airplanes flying
around the Statue of Liberty. 1t has
: this inscription from one of Secretary
McAdoo S speeches: ''Shall we be
, more tender with our dollars than with
: the lives of our sonse' One of the
prettiest designs is window card
} which is a facsimile of a bronze tab
; let. 1t is inscribed Buy a bond OF
the Second Liberty Loan. =
Another striking poster is a pictur,
of the treasury department, with this
wording: "Lend your money to you
government There is also a poste
intended to appeal to the foreign borl
element. 1t shows an immigrant shir
coming into New York harbor, passin,
!. the Statue of Liberty with this appeal
: Remember your first thrill Of liberty
;, Buy a Liberty bond. >
Il Preliminary contracts for lU,000.00t
|
Il by the treasury department, and de
liveries are now being made to Lib
II erty loan committees of the u fedora
reserve districts "Badge of honor
is the term which Secretary Meade
has given to the button that will b
handed to subscribers. The border o
II the button Is in red and the center i
II blue, with the bust of the Statue o
II Liberty and in the words 81 Own
II Liberty Bond = in white.
II 1t is believed that the sale of tn
second isue will proceed with eve
II greater enthusiasm than did the frs
! and that the large number of person
: who subscribed to bonds of the frs
issue and were finally, because of tn
tremendous oversubscription, unable t
ga secure any bonds will now be prom
to renew their subscriptions. III