Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-16
LANE TO BOOST
WAR LOAN HERE
Secretary of Interior Chief
Speaker at Liberty
Bond Banquet
COLLEGES ARE ACTIVE

Secretary Franklin X Lane. Of the De-
, partment Of the Interior. will be the prin-
cipal speakers at the Liberty Loan luncheon
to be given by the Philadelphia Chamber Of
Commerce at the Belleyue-Stratfor Prcsl-
dent Ernest T. Trgg. of the Chamber Of
Commerce. who will preside will introduce
secretary Lane. who will make a special
appeal to commercial and Industrial phiIa-
deiphil To subscribe to the second Liberty
Loan.
In addition to the members of the Cham
ber OF Commerce, invitations have been sent
to many leading bankers, and to all mem
bers OF the Industrial and commercial sec
tions and TO all the members Of the sales
committee OF the Liberty Loan committee
II Is expected that the luncheon will be the
largest one given since the opening of the
second Liberty Loan lmpaign.
Secretary Lane will arrive In Philadelphia
on Thursday morning. and will depart inn
mediately after the luncheon. His time
Is fully engaged in Liberty Loan campaign
work. which he is doing in addition to his
official duties
HTBBEN'S STATEMENT
William a. Glasgow. Jr. will make an
appeal for subscriptions to the Liberty Loan
to members of the Rotary Club at their din
ner tonight at Kugler's
JoAn Grier Hibben president OF Prince
ton University. sent the following state
ment oN the Liberty Loan to the philadel-
phia Liberty Loan committee
II YOU purchase a Liberty Bond you
help to support one or more soldiers who
represent you and are fighting for you at
the front In a critical emergency you
help your own Government without any
sacrifice to yourself You can give and
yet lose nothing by the giving 1t Is your
country that the soldier fights for, as well
his own. IL is your home for which he
is ready to die. II Is your wife and chill
dren whose lives and honor his own life
defends The chosen guard of your coun-
try are willing to go through hell itself
for you and all you hold dear VIII you
not resolve that the very best possible
equipment shall be theirs, the wisest pro-
vision for their health and security and
the most slJillful guidance into the storm
Of battle and the victory beyond2
The success Of this Liberty Loau cam
paign will be TO the whole world a dec
aration and proof that America is i'm
earnest and Is grimly determined to put
an end as soon as possible, and once for
all to the hideous warfare which Germany
has waged to defeat, degrade and domi-
nate the free peoples Of the world
Miss Helen Taft. daughter Of former
President Taft and dean of Bryn Mawr
College. will direct a Liberty Loan rally
tonight at Bryn Mawr and will urge every
student and member OF the faculty to Join
the army Of Uncle Sans shareholders
Miss Taft will be assisted by Professor
Marian CHrTla Smith, who will be captain
of the Bryn Mawr Liberty Loan commit
tee and others.
Active campaigns have already been
started by the University Of Pennsylvania
Temple University Swarthmore College,
the School of Industrial Art. Pierce School
and other institutions There is every
indication that the enthusiasm of the stu
dents and their general aggressiveness will
be a big factor in enabling Philadelphia to
uphold its reputation for financial patriot
ism
SUFFRAGIsTs ACTIVE
Right in line with the spirit of the col
eges is that of the Philadelphia Woman
Suffrage party. Mrs. George II. Dunning
president of the organization, announced to-
day that she would give the forces of the
entire organization for work in the Liberty
Loan campaign.
Mrs James Winsor. of the PENNSYLVANIA
Society of the Colonial Danes of America,
has taken similar action. Under the
auspices of the City club, Liberty Loan
committees have been organized in the
Twenty-seventh Ward and the Fourteenth
Ward.
Franklin D'Olier, a director of the First
National Bank, of this city, and now
major in the United States army, today
cabled from France his subscription through
issue Of Liberty Loan, asking that the
American eXpeditonary force receive credit
for this subscription.
Martin Madison, a native Of Denmark,
displayed $4,000 in Liberty Loan bonds to-
day when he enlisted in the famous Black
Watch CForty-second) Regiment of Can
adian Highlanders.
II figure that these Liberty Bonds are the
safest kind of an investment that any one
could possibly find" he said, instructing the
officers of the British and Canadian re-
cruiting mission to put his allowance for
food and expenses into the smoke" fund
for the boys" Madison, who is a florist
of Norwood, was sent to the recruit depot
at Toronto
Sales reported by the Allied Lumber
Trades today amount to $2l5,O0O. Includ-
ed in these are the following: George w
Smith Sons $4,000; Joseph w. Pear
sons Sons, $4,000; Smedley Brothers,
$4,000; Charles Felin Co., $4,000.
The women's booth outside of the Union
League this afternoon announced that it had
received contributions during the day
amounting to $4,000 for the second Liberty
Loan.
From the vicinity of Scranton subscru.
tions amounting to $S,59O,75O have been
made
The Industrial Commercial Committee
reports subscriptions for yesterday alone
totaling 'Ss37OOO. making a grand total for
this committee OF more than $4OO0,O00
Nine million more dollars for liberty was
subscribed by Philadelphia yesterday i'm
the big drive for the second American war
loan of 1917. Part of the days success was
due to individuals and to the regular or
ganization that has been campaigning for
the Liberty Bonds but the major part of II
was due to the 5000 women of the Phila-