New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Rural Districts and Smaller
Cities Beginning To Be
Heard From
Campaign in Counties
Prominent Men To Be Speak
ers; Foreign Language
Papers Aid


beginning to respond to the call to in
vest in the Liberty Loan, according 10
letters received yesterday by the New
York committee. In this city the First
National Bank Of New York subscribed
for s25.0OO.0O worth of bonds, for an
additional $4,000 900 worth for the Bell
Telephone system, and for S5,OOO,OOO
more for the Northern Pacific Railway.
This state is to be organized by
counties for the selling campaign, and
special attention will be devoted TO
New York City, where bonds will be
sold over department store counters.
The aid of the foreign language press
has been enlisted.
The defence committee in each
county has charge of the local cam
paign. Among those who have volun-
teered their services as speakers are
Mayor Mitchell, George Gordon Battle,
Paul d. Cravath, Roger Foster, Darwin
r. James, Commissioner +. j. IL.
Kracke. Controller Prendergast, Bor-
ough President Marks, Charles ID: Nor
ton. Herbert Parsons, George Haven
Putnam. Mortimer l.. Schif, Samuel
Untermyer and George W. Wickersham.
Foreign Language Press Aids
Three hundred and thirty-six of the
750 members of the American Associa-
ton of Foreign Language Newspapers
whose aggregate circulation is ls,oUo'-
600. have agreed TO publish informative
advertisements free. Thirty daliles IN
New York are members OF the assocla-
ton. They are printed IN twenty-five
languages and are read by more imam
100000 persons. Arabic, Armenian
Bulgarian, Chinese, Hungarian, syrian
and Persian are some of the national
tiles The association has sent in an
$50 900 subscription on behalf OF It's
employees.
In response to a suggestion by the
National Association of Life Under
writer's, insurance companies VIII give
two DAYS of their time next month to
selling government bonds instead OF
life insurance. The days will be June
5 and 6. The National Security League
and the State Savings Bank Association
are other organizations that nave en-.
listed. The German Savings Bank OF
New York has subscribed for S5OO,OOO
The Retail Merchants Liberty Loan
Committee. in which virtually all OF
the large retail stores of Manhattan
and Brooklyn are represented, has been
formed TO persuade shoppers to buy
bonds. The response among employees
has been almost unanimous, and TO-
morrow there will be booths in many
stores where customers can buy bonds
on the instalment plan devised by the
government
The following firms are represented
en- the committee:
Best & Co.. Boomingdale Brothers. Bonwit'
Teller & Co, Brokaw Brothers. James "A.
Hearn e. Son. Cowperthwaite's Furniture
Companv. b. Altman g. Co. Greenhut Com
pany. Rogers Peet Company. Cammeyer.
the Gorham Company. II. {. r.. hocn
Co. Brooks Brothers. Aeker: Merra,i
& Condit Company, Tiffany Co., a: l.
Namm & Son. Mercantile stores Corporation,
Oppenheim. Collins & Co.. f. W. Woolworth
Company. Rothenberg e. Co., A. A. Nantine
Co. Lord Taylor. National Cloak ana
Suit Company. Abraham & Straus. saks q
Co. John Wanamaher. Franklin simon q
Co.. w. & J. Sloane. stern Brothers, y; n
pany, Arnold. Constable & Co.. United cigar
Stores Company
$1,000, 900 Brooklyn Subscription
The People's Trust Company, OF
Rrooklvn. sent in a 81 100000 subscrlp-
ton. Through a cooperative arrange
ment with the Mechanics and Metals
National Bank all the three hundred
EMPLOYEES of the institution have been
able TO subscribe. Within forty-eignt
hours evesy one whose name was on
the rolls had subscribed.
Small investors in upstate cities are
beginning to report a quickening re-
sponse to the Liberty Loan Appeals.
The Security Trust Company, OF Koch
ester. which had obtained sl,l50,OO0 IN
subscriptions up to May 10, wrote that
one woman whose balance was s5l0 got
a $500 bond, and one of the same de-
nomination was bought by stenog-
rapher. Her bank balance was only
s340. but she said her July salary
would pay for the rest.
"My father was a soldier in the War
of the Rebellion" she said, land gave
his life to serve his country, and
cheerfully give all | can"
A Mohawk Valley farmer who had
refused to take deposit certificate for
his $500 milk check because his bank,
the Herkimer National, paid only per
cent on such deposits and he needed 4.
withdrew the money from savings
bank. where it was earning per cent,
and bought bond.
Widows Help Nation
The First National Bank Of Waverly,
y. Y, reported that its first subscriber,