New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-01
Navy, sl,791OO0,OOO.
Shipping Board, sl,934.0o0,000.

Shipping Board. s1,934. 100000
/ Aviation and signals. S6S5.00O.0 900.
According TO this budget, one-halI
/ Of the earning capacity of the country
/ will be needed for America and he.
/ Allies during the next nine months
| This. then, is Americas appeal:
"Save. Economic. Insure your
I freedom to-day The interest on
Liberty Bond is victory and peace"
Patriotism will thus be the keynot;
sounded throughout the campaign
I While il is demonstrated that The pur
chase of Liberty bonds is one of the
best investments in the world, the sp
peal to the country is made on the
higher plane.
To-day. in accordance with this
/ spirit, will take on the air of ma.
tional holiday. Ceremonials will feat
ure the opening Of the drive.
The day was ushered in az day o.
rejoicing, when at midnight the chime:
of Grace Church and Trinity bocmec
out. to be followed by the ringing ap'
peals from other church bells through
/ out the city.
Placard the City
Long before that, however, fyine
squads of men in overslls, including
men of prominence, dashed about the
city in motor cars, and plsstered the
town with placards and posters ar.
nouncing the loan. Guy Emerson, pub
LEFTY director. headed this work. Pub
lie buildings and monuments, far from
being exempt, were among the first
sites chosen.
SO this morning New York will wake
up to find BUY Bond" staring l. in
the face from every conceivable place
and with every conceivable appeal
"The Germans Can't Halt Our Sammies
but Unbought Bonds CSn," one slogan
will read. And others;
POSTPONE That Dinner Party-Buy
Liberty Bonds"
Enter Liberty Bonds; Exit Kultur!'
81 .007 Cartridges Can Be Bought for
Bullets Buy Bonds"
"If You Cannot Go Across. Come
Across"
New York will be fully prepared
when MAYOR Mitchell delivers the I'D
dress Of welcome to the workers fol
the loan. The Mayor will greet 6
parade which is to start from the Sub
/ Treasury and march through the finan-
cial district. -,
Eight hundred school children will
represent the 100000 throughout the
state who are to take an active part n
| the campaign. There will be two com
panies of regulars from Fort Hamilton
/ and two detachments Of sailors iron
the Navy Yard 20 escort the Liberty
4 Loan army Of bond statesmen and vol
untary workers.
In the absence OF Benjamin Strong
/ ir.. chairman Of the Liberty Loan Com
mittee for this Federal Reserve dis
I trict. Allen b. Forbes, of Harris, FORBES
: & Co.. will reply 10 Mayor Mitchell OF
/ behalf Of the men Of the Liberty Loan
/ 1--WE are much better prepared fol-
/ this work than we were when the iirs'
/ loan was offered" said Mr.. Forbes, yes
I terdRv. Then we had not the time we
j needed, but the work of educating done
! in selling the fest loan will bear fruit
I N the second
"The appeal. too. will be stronger
/ for now we ave actually engaged IN th'
war. The danger 20 our country iron
/ the menace Of Germany has been more
/ cleatiy defined. The people know tina
| this war must be fought TO finish. ;
/ finish which must mean victory
| While men will do the actual selling
/ members and shop workers alike. have
/ organized to give of their time anC
| cnereyto make the drive victory. Wher
} the bond statesmen start at 10 O'clock
! this morning nearly two hundred womer
will leave their headquarters at the
! Columbia Trust Company in automo
! bilcs 10 stick 10000 of the loan posters
/ all over the city.
Among the women who have volun
| tee.ed to place the posters are Mrs
Arthur Burden. Mrs. Payne Whitney
! Mrs. Coffin Van Rensselaer,. Mrs. Jo
/ seph II. Sears, Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock
| Miss Maude Wetmore, Mrs. Charles f.
! Hughes. Mrs. Herman Niele. Mrs. Wen
/ dell Baker. Mrs. william Burton and
: Miss Grace Henry.
Part Women Will Play
The women's campaign for the d.
/ trict is in the hands of Mrs. John I
Pratt. district chairman. and Mrs
/ Courtlandt ID. Barnes, New York State
! chairman, both of whom have beer
/ appointed by Mrs. W. G. McAdoO, chair
man of the national committee. Mrs
Frank A. Vanderlip is s~retary OF The
| executive committee for this district
| The poster-sticking, however, vii
| be only one feature in a well rounded
! campaign. To-day there will be patri
otto demonstrations by women in va
rious parts Of the city and state, ex
| ecutive meetings and r conference IN
| New York City Of women's clubs anC
organizations to develop an extensive
plan of cooperation and subscription e
/ the bonds. -,
I At noon a huge banner will b,
stretched across Fifth Avenue from
the women's headquarters by Mrs
PAYNE Whitney and Mrs. Arthur Bur
| den. The banner will carry this mes
sage TO women:
mothers who have given their sons
to end this war ask you TO buy Llbert!
/ bonds" -.
The women's campaign will be allied
with that of the $4,000 school-teschers
| in New York State who will aid ~
/ floating the loan. The teachers will
I impress on their pupils the duty their
parents owe the country, Will distribute
10 them application blanks, and there
after viii make personal calls az me
homes Of the children TO "clineh" the
argument for the purchase OF at least
one bond.
While the campaign of the school
teachers will be under the direct super
vision of the Liberty Loan Committee
a special committee from the State
Board Of Regents, which includes James
Byrne. Abram /. Elkus, former Ambas'
sador TO Turkey, and Charlie. B. Alex
ander. will act with them in an sd
visory chpcity,
Moving pictures. electric signs and
specially stamped pay envelopes are
among the other methods by which 1t
is expected to blaZon the loan to Fat
oversubscliption.
Secretary McAdoo Asks