The Washington herald., 1917-05-29
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Poole. showed that up to the close OF
business on Saturday. 3,161 separate sub
scrtptions to the loan had been received
from Washington. bringing the amount
subscribed up to S5,127.15O. More than
fifteen days yet remain before the sub
scription books close
During Saturday. the department stores
of Kann's. Hecht's, Woodward & I.othrop.
Goldenberg. and Palais Royal received
over their counters &35. 900 in loan sub
scriptions.
According to the present plan Of tho
committee Of bankers Who have charge OF
the loan. a majority OF the banks OF the
city will remain open until 9 o'clock
for the receipt of subscriptions on the
nights OF May 81 and June l, in order that
government employees. who will receive
their monthly pay checks at that time,
may contribute.
Insurance Men VIII Boost.
The life insurance statesmen Of
WashingtOn-at least ESQ men-will
take a day on from business Friday
and sell liberty loan bonds.
The District of Columbia Life Under
writer's Association held a meeting at
the Board of Trade rooms last night
and made preliminary plans for a big
selling drive on that day. and also
John Poole. chairman of the Bankers
committee on the liberty loan cam
paign for the District, addressed the
meeting.
The plate printers landed right in
the front row Of patriotic government
employees last night. when they noti-
fed Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
that they would subscribe for $4,000
worth OF liberty loan bonds
haf ~ IaNa
printers at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. and while they print
$4,000 bills and millions of currency
during the week they work for a nom
inal salary and their subscriptions to
the liberty bonds come largely from
modest savings accounts.
Pleas for support of the liberty loan
were made yesterday by former Presi-
dent william H. Taft, Samuel Com
pers. president OF the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and Billy Sunday. Two
members of the woman's Liberty Loan
committee-Mrs. George Bass, Of Chi
CagO. and Mrs. Guilford Dudley. promi-
nent suffragist or Nashville, Tenn
directed a plea to the women Of the
nation to back the liberty loan.
Lining Up Scouts
ARRANGEMENTS were completed yester-
day to have Boy Scouts visit 1920 900
different homes in the United States on
June II, L. 13 and Il In a canvass for
subscriptions to the liberty loan bonds.
All the 100000 Scouts in the country will
be enlisted in this service
Postmaster General Burleson stated
yesterday that postal employees both in
the department and throughout the coun-
try are responding nobly to the oppor-
tunlty offered them for purchasing the
liberty bonds
Fairfax Harrison. president Of the
Southern Railway. has issued a circular
addressed to all Of his employees, which
reads in part:
1T has never been necessary to appeal
to the citizenship of the South to stmu-
late feeling OF patriotism and loyalty
every man, woman and child of the
South has that inherent attribute To
make the loan a success IS essential
to the final victory OF the United States
in its war for freedom. and we each owe
a duty to our government in this respect
the response to which must be guided by
our own conscience and inclination
TIE Southern Railway Company will.
FOR its system lines, upon your request.
subscribe for any amount of such bonds,
not exceeding o per cent OF your yearly
salary, to be paid for by you in twelve
equal monthly instalments, to be de-
Quoted from your salary"
President Wilson's granddaughter, Ellen
McAdoO, became 2 years old yesterday
Secretary Of the Treasury MCAdoo, her
father, made his birthday gift a $50
liberty loan bond.