Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-02
THIS CITY HIGH
IN BOND SALES
At Least $4,000 Reached in
Liberty Bond Cam
paign
HELP GIVEN EMPLOYEES

HELP GIVEN EMPLOYEES
LIBERTY LOAN PRoGRRss
,,Ati.delphIa's Allotment $780, 100000
a.hscripttons Recorded. ........ 1O4.OOO,OOO
snhscriptions Required ........ 146,OOO,OOO
Campaign Days Left ls
Employees of the Bethlehem Steel
Works. South Bethlehem, launched a
liberty Loan campaign this morning
and adopted. "s2,OOO,OOO within seven
davs" as their slogan. This club was
crQanized by Walter c. Janney, with
Ine cooperation of officials of the COM
rsny Thirty thousand men will par
t;eipate and similar clubs will be Or
ssnized in other plants Of the company.
This morning announcement was
made that 5000 individual subscriptions
have been obtained in the Philadelphia
Department of Public Safety.
John H. Mason, vice president of the
Commercial Trust Company, says
women are responding to the Liberty
Loan appeal with more spirit and en-
thusiasm than men. "We have OBJ
tanned more than 700 subscriptions al
our bank" said Mason. "A majority of
the subscribers are women. who have
subscribed for amounts that vary from
$50 to 100000"
Philadelphia leads the country in the
number Of Liberty Loan subscribers
More than 80 900 men and women, the
greatest number of new bond buyers ever
recorded in an American city, have re-
sponded to Uncle Sans appeal for funds.
Augmenting this army of patriots are
nearly 80, 900 from other sections covered
BY the Philadelphia campaign. In all more
than $4,000 persons are directly identified
with the Philadelphia campaign, which puts
the city in first place In the nationwide
Liberty Bond sale and establishes a new
record for American financial campaigns.
This number represents a careful est.
paign. They assert that the figures are
conservative and believe a genuine tabula.
ton Of bond buyers would disclose more
than 900 individual subscribers.
The subscriptions vary from the popular
$50 Liberty Bond to allotments Of 100000
Although 1t is difficult to arrive at any
definite figure concerning the distribution of
the bonds, IL is generally conceded that the
$50 and 800 bond buyers will make up the
ri.
tie fellows" as small investors are styled,
will actually put the bond sale over in this
district is the belief of the campaign man.
ayers.
Never In the history of the country has
there been such a response from the peo.
pie One can gain an idea concerning the
effectiveness Of the campaign when he con-
siders that at the start of the Philadelphia
campaign less than three weeks ago there
were less than 100000 bond buyers in the
United States. Developing a bond.buyng
field was the problem which Philadelphia
bankers sand bond men tackled, and in less
than three weeks they have won by their
advertising and personal solicitation cam.
paign more than 10000 new buyers.
BANKS BIG HELP
The success of the campaign is due
IN a large measure to the banks and in.
dustrial plants. At the outset of the cam
paign they enlisted for service and organiz-
ed Liberty Bond clubs. In more than
eighty banks of the city 1t is possible for a
man to buy $50 bond on such easy terms
at 81 down and 81 a week, while many
Of the Industrial plants have gone a step
further and put in operation schemes which
make 1t possible for week workers to buy
bonds at the rate of so cents a week
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers the best
lnuNWn % ,I,,N - ~.
toward the success of the campaign. A
week ago the company subscribed for $5,-
100000 and informed its employees that they
could buy the bonds on easy payment
oasis.' More than half this allotment has
already been sold to the workers and the
railroad is considering the purchase of a
second $4,000, 900 allotment
The Victor Talking Machine Company
originally subscribed for $780, 900, but EN-
ployes made such a demand for the bonds
lhat this subscription has been increased to
nearly $3.50. 900.
The Franklin National Bank organized a
Liberty Bond club for its clients, and re-
ports that individual subscriptions total
more than S4,500, 900.
Az the Baldwin Locomotive Works
cramps Shipyard, Reading Railway, Mid.
@ sle STEEL Stetson Hat and scores of other
0"hcerns similar clubs have been organized
NLiSE AMI lbACf1bhS
Philadelphia policemen school teacher.
shd In fact, all branches OF the city serv.
ee nave entered, and from each group the
response is almost unanimous. In many OF
pe police stations every man has bought q
ooho' and the same situation prevails
among the fremen.
- H. e. Loomis, president of the Lehigt
naiiey Railroad, in a circular letter to 25,'
WV employees explains the Importance OF
us small investor to the Liberty Bond cam
palgn by saving:
III the fun amount is not raised anC
,eised qutckly-the war will unquestionablS
oe greatly prolonged with it's increased
~Aation and other serious burdens fol
every one. The responsibility rests upon al
Ainerlcan citizens, 1t is the duty of every
man VINO can to buy a bond. This com
pany is willing to help you become tn,
oWner OF a bond"
Aod nne railroad has subscribed, for 81 900.
~ wv ana Will endeaYor to distribute tn,
us n among Its workers.
a ohcials or the campaign hope that wheT
oioses more than 100000 persons will
spresented In the list of subscribers.
~ was announced that the Liberty Loar
Ts demonstration, to take place mex
clnS~ at Independence Hall, would in
nSSs oVvV marchers representing ls0 bust
aon men eh associations. Coluoei Fred vii
Inc VINO mas had an active part in arrang
Esnser numerous demonstrations, has been as
NnnIo.oy oy President Judge Brown, of tn,
Of the s court TO assume entire charge
man. uetslis OF the parade. The arrange
nssis n,shs completed thus far include natri
nm nSelsuratlon In the square and a parade
Street NJ a a.