The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-21
LIBERTY LOAN
CAMPAIGN TO
OPEN OCT. |
Issue Will Not Be Less Than
$3,000,000,000 and May
Be $4,OOO,O00,0OO

Washington, Sept. 2i.-Without dis
closing the amount or other impor-
tant details, Secretary McAdoo an
nounced last night that the second is
sue of Liberty Loan bonds would be
put on the market beginning Monday,
Oct. L.
The campaign will he conducted
most intensively for 81 days. and close
on Oct. 81. The issue will he for not
less than 100000, 600, and may run
as high as $4,000 900. The $1, &c.,
600, 600 Bond bill, under authority OF
which the new bonds will be issued,
will be dn the hands of President Will
son for signature on Saturday
Here is the text Of Mr. AcAdoo's an
nouncement:
'"The campaign for the second Lib
erty Loan will open Oct. 1 and close
Oct. ". Wednesday, Oct. "a, will be
celebrated as Liberty Day throughout
the country. Arrangements will be
made to hold patriotic meetings on
tnat day in every city, town, and viii
lage. Full details of the next Liberty
loan will be issued as soon as possi-
Die after the passage 10y Congress OF
the pending bond BILL"
One of the most striking posters is
brcnze tablet effect containing
these quotations from President Will
sons speeches: 1.-THE time has come
to conquer or submit. There was but
one choice and we have made it,
This poster contains a picture of Pres
1dent 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 pos
ter Is the work of Miss Eugene De-
Land, art teacher in the Washington
schools 1T represents the Statue OF
Liberty with the American flag as this
sky in faint colors. 1t bears the le-
gend: Before sunset buy Liberty
bond"
Still another poster represents I'm
Gle Sam pointing to a khaki-clad SOL
der, and a warship, and to airplanes
nylng around the Statue Of Liberty.
1t has this inscription from one of
Secretary McAdoo's speeches: 'ShalI
we be more tender with our dollars
than with the. lives Of our sons %
One of the prettiest designs is a win
dow card which is facsimile of a
bronze tablet. It is inscribed, BUY
bond of the Second Liberty Loan
Another striking poster is picture
OF the Treasury Department, with
this wording: Lend your money to
your Government" There is also a
poster intended to appeal to the for
eign-born element. Tt shows an i'm
migrant ship coming into New York
harbor, passing the Statue Of Liber-
ty with this appeal: ..Remember your
first thrill of liberty. Buy a Liberty
bond"
Preliminary contracts for 10000
600 badges of honor" have been
awarded by the Treasury Department,
and deliveries are now being made to
Liberty Loan Committees Of the II
Federal Reserve Districts. Badge
of honor is the term which Secre-
tary McAdoo has been given to the
button that will be handed to sub
scribers. The border OF the button
is in red and the centre in blue, with
the bust of the Statue Of Liberty and
the words 1T Own a Liberty Bond In
white.
It is believed that the sale of the
second issue will proceed with even
greater enthusiasm than did the first,
and that the large number of persons
who subscr' bed to bonds of the first
issue and were finally, because Of the
tremendous oversubscription, unable to
secure any bonds, will be now prompt
to renew their subscriptions. The
issue was $1,035, 100000. It is the
confident belief of Secretary McAdoo
that fully one-haIf Of the second issue
of $4,000, 100000 Of bonds will be
taken within the first 10 days of the
period of sale. "a