Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
son. B. F. Saul, Corcoran Thorn and
Eugene Allies.
People of All Nationalities
Subscribe to Liberty Loan,
Reports to Treasury Show

| Persons OF all races, classes and con-
ditions are supporting the sale of sec
ond liberty loan bonds, reports to the
Treasury Department from many parts
| of the country show.
! IF the fatherland needs a spanking
I am ready to help administer 1t. ever
though 1 do 1t with fearful eyes" wrote
| the Rev. Christian Holm. German
of recent disloyal meetings.
Greeks and Italians are among the
| most enthusiastic buyers In Chicago
Many of them originally bought bonds
under the impression that they were
contributing money to the government
with no chance of return. One Lith-
uanian bought $4,000 worth. The to-
tai foreign born sales force in Chicago
| is estimated at 1000 men, women and
children.
5O-Year-old Negro Takes $500 Bond.
An eighty-year-old Texas negro hob
bled into liberty loan committee Of
fice and bought from his small store OF
money a $500 bond.
Buying bonds for babies is becomi lin 4
popular Some persons are buying them
with the intention of giving their sons
starts in business a quarter of CEN
| fury hence. and others are laying the
| bies when they grow up.
Treasury officials hope that this will
prove to be q red-letter day in the loan
campaign. Appeals to that end had
been sent out by local chairmen to their
workers as a result of the slow progress
made thus far in the sale of bonds.
Latest official returns, which are ur
to the close of business on October IL
show total subscriptions of s344,195.550
or less than per cent OF the $1,000. 000,-
ment. The figures are based upon re-
turns to eleven of the twelve federal
reserve banks. Minneapolis has not yet
reported.
Men Of the Army Subscribe.
| The men of the Army have subscribed
$3.I16.000 to the second liberty loan, re-
ports to the adjutant generals Office
show. The leading camps which thus
far have reported are: Camp Shelby,
Hattiesbnrg. Miss. 100000; Camp
Funston. Fort Riley, Kan, 1924 $50
Camp Kearney. Linda Vista. Cal. S1s1, :
| 900: Camp Upton. Iaphank, n. Y. $685.
$50; Camp Meade. Admiral. Md, $50 $3.50,
and Camp Bowie, Fort Worth. Texas,
| $70.i50. The Sth Illinois Infantry OF
| Chicago has a reRimental subscription
of S54 100. Several organizations have
| reported every man as subscriber.
War Department Total, s2eo,75O.
| Yesterdays subscriptions to the sec
| oud liberty loan by officials and EN-
ployes of the War Department amount
! ed to s5s,450. making the total sub
| scription in that department to date
| s280.750. That represents a per capita
subscription Of s3S.6l from each of the
| 1921 employees.
The American Telephone and Tele-
| graph Company and its associated COM
panies. forming the Bell system. an
,ht.f,r ;v.st.
! themselves and their employees, for
$5.0o0.000 of the second liberty loan
/ This subscription is to be allotted to
| localities, or sections of the country, as
nearly as may be. in proportion to the
quotas assigned by the Treasury De-
| partment to the various federal re-
serve district. so that each such dis
trict Will get credit for its proportion
ate share of the total sum.
At the Army Medical School 80 men
subscribed 2,0G0 for Liberty bonds.