The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-13

| involving travel over vast distances can accomplish, is furnished by the experi- euces of the campaigners in the ninth re- serve district of which Minnea polls is the center That includes much of the remote northwest It is one of the chief grain regions of the United States. It's population is scattered over farms some of which are of great extent. But as soon as the farmers were informed Of the meaning of this loan, of it's opportun- ity for safe investment and the service It would perform in aiding the United Sta tes and our allies in the war, they re- sponded with amazing liberality. In the larger towns associations, numbering in all a little over 4O0O bankers and business men, volunteered their services, which in- voived the reaching of every township and county in a region which contained 436, 900 square miles. The region includes six states and is about 150O miles long. Ninety per cent of the land in that district is in farms, and many of the farms are re- mote from business centers. Yet an or ganization was so quickly perfected that various subordinate state organizations were built up, each adopting the pecu- liar kind of machinery or methods which would facilitate the speedy reaching of all the people in the district. It was necessary to hold discussions with every farmer. Many of these face-to-face talks were extremely interesting. The farmers desired to be enlightened, and when they understood exactly what the loan meant, both for the country and for themselves. they responded exactly as Secretary Me- Adoo and those in New York city who are leading the campaign of education believed the people would respond when they had good understanding of what the offering meant.
 
 IN THE CITIES
 In the larger cities of the northwest where intelligence respecting the meaning of the loan could be swiftly communi- cated, there were unexpectedly large sub scriptions. In eight days Minneapolis subscribed $10,O00,o00 an amount which. compared relatively with the size and wealth of New York, is fully equal to the subscription obtained in this city. Secretary McAdoo expected that St. Paul might subscribe s6000,00 The city sur passed his expectations by s1, 800 GOO. The secretary thought an apportionment of ap proxmately $1.500,0O was fair to the city of Duluth and what might be expected to be realized. Duluth saw that appor- tionment and went it $1,250,000 better So also Houghton, Mich, whose apportion- ment was s1,65o,O0O, subscribed in less than two weeks g, 700 600.
 All of the smaller cities and towns in the ninth reserve district have done comparatively as well as these larger cities. The total subscriptions for the district will if information which was ob tained in New York today be correct greatly exceed the total apportionment made for the district If it were possi- ble in other parts of the country, where the population is scattered, to carry on a campaign of education and a personal apneal similar to that which thousands of bankers and business men in the north west have carried on, there would prob- ably come to the Secretary of the Treas ury reports as gratifying as those which he is now receiving from the ninth dis trict.