Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-10-24
OVER s3,ooo,ooo,ooo MUST BE sUR- SCRlBED IN SIX DAYS--TWO
 OBSTACLES APPEAR.
MUST BEAT GERMAN LOAN
One of the Strongest Arguments To Be Used in Closing Days of Cam paign Will Be Figures For Sew
 entn German War Loan.

Washington-Th Liberty loan campaign swings into the home stretch with subscriptions of only s1,973, ,o00,000, or slightly under 70 per cent of the boped-for maximum. In the final spu1t 70 the finish next Sat urday officials said, it carries hand leap, regarded as unnecessary, in the form of widespread reports that the totals announced by the Tretasury De- partnent are actually far below the totals really subscribed.
 This handicap, it is said, is impos- ed unwittingly by the loans best friends, who have come to believe, in many instances, that the Treasury Department has deliberately made the total subscriptions appear less by several hundred million dollars, than the real returns. No such practice, it was emphatically asserted, has pre- vailed.
 ''Eyer since the latter part of the first week of the drive" reads the Treasury Departments statement, '"alnost three weeks ago, exaggerat- ed reports of the total amount of sub scrfptions have been published daily in connection with stories that Treas ury Department figures were bearish to the extent of several hundred mil lion dollars.
 ''T'he policy of the department throughout the campaign has been to publish the latest official figures at hand exactly as returned by the diff erent federal reserve banks and to make public without change estimates forwarded to Washington by heads of the various district committees.
 Committee chairmen throughout the country have been asked to base their estimates on what they know to be the facts, and insofar as is known at the department they have done so.
 'The situation therefore, according to the best information that the de- partment possesses is that the sale to date are about S1,O00,000000 short of the minimum and $3,000,00000 short of the maximum quotas set for the country by Secretary McAdoo at the outset of the campaign. He insisted that $3.000,000,000 in bonds be sold and it was his expressed hope that the s5,000,0O0,000 mark would be reached.
 Vigorous efforts will be made in every district to raise the 5000, 000,- 900 total The $3,000,000,000 mark is being lost sight of in the fight for the higher figure
 "One of the strongest arguments to be used in the closing days of the campaign will be the figures for the seventh German war loans, just made public.
 After more than three years of war and with casualty list estfmat- ed at 8,500.000 persons. the German people, exclusive of soldiers, have sub scribed S3,107, 500,000 to loan. Natb- ing would give the kaiser and all other enemies of this country more pleas ure, it will be pointed out, than for the people. of the United States to fail to subscribe a greater amount than this to the second Liberty loan. when they have had only one previous loan and virtually no casualties.
 'The general outlook for the sale is good. Only two disturbing ele. ments appear-the apathy of certain rural communities of the middle west and south and overconfdence, bred by unfounded optimistic reports of sales.