Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
SEE PRO-GERMAN
INFLUENCE HERE
Liberty Bond Committee Hears
Rrvnors; Boy Scouts Pass
the Hundred Thou
sand Mark.

*Total ................Sl,4 ,473,950
Exclusive Of subscriptions by
banks, loan companies and business
mems mass meeting.
The Liberty loan committee has is
sued a statement as follows: THE
buyers of small bonds are coming in
such overwhelming numbers that it is
impossible for the banks, with their
present force, to tabulate the figures
turned in. 1t now looks like the COM
mittee will be unable to report COM
plete figures before Monday or Tues
day."
Pro-German Influence.
The committee believes pro-German
influence is at work in Omaha in an
endeavor to discourage the sale OF the
bonds.
D. E. Cleveland said that from some
source the report has been spread
among his employees that, the bonds
would eventually 60 below par. He
said some OF his employees were in
clined to refrain from buying on this
account.
o. T. Eastman, general chairman Of
the committee, said the same report
had come from several sources. He
said thus far 1t has been impossible
tr NLa tr. ste
Instead Of going below par, how
ever" said Eastman, "the bankers
say the bonds will never 60 below
par, and that If the war closes within
year or two, the bonds will likely
go above par. for the reason that
3H per cent bond, non-taxable, is con-
sidered a good investment"
Insurance Mems Total.
The subscriptions taken by the
eighty-three insurance men who gave
their time Tuesday to the sale Of the
bonds. totaled $l59,850. This was
from LOO subscribers.
The retailers committee Thursday
night turned in subscriptions from
their werk amounting to $l35,650.
The Boy Scouts in their hustling
have passed the goal they set, which
was 100000 They have taken sub
scriptions totaling $l04,750.
Beautiful Electric Fountain.
By means of a steam jet system,
upon which colored electric lights will
play, a beautiful red-white-and- d-blue
effect is to be made in the sky tonight
over the Brandeis power plant at
Seventeenth and Dodge streets. The
Brandeis people have arranged for a
group of steam jets with nozzles,
which will spread the stream in wide
sheets as they shoot skyward. The
Omaha Electric Light and Power
company is installing electrical fx-
tures to play the national colors on
these sheets of whirling, writhing
steam. The effect will be that Of great
fountains Of fame shooting heaven
ward in the national colors.
The c. B. Nash company has bought
100000 worth of Liberty bonds
through the Omaha National bank.
Woodmen Circle Subscribes.
The Woodmen Circle, auxiliary of
tuS VOouluCn VI tuS Voiiub Has puI-
chased $2s,000 worth Of Liberty
bonds. The local employees Of the or
der have besides this taken 81 500
worth. Young women employed by
the Woodmen Circle have organized
. class to take instruction in first aid
work.
The local branch Of the Sherwin-
Williams Paint company is distrib-
uting large posters and application
blanks to its statesmen all over the
territory urging them to buy bonds
on especially easy terms the company
at headquarters in Cleveland has ar
ranged. The statesmen are also in
structed to urge the retailers as they
meet them from town to town to in
vest in these bonds.