Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-08
S28,830,5OO AN HOUR,
S48O,5O8 A MINUTE,
GIVEN LIBERTY LOAN
At the Present Rate the En-
tire S5,OOO,OOO,OOO War Is
sue Could Be FIOated in
Thirty-FOdr Days

WASHINGTON, May 5.--At the rate
of S2S.S3O. 500 an hour, or $4sO,5 sos per
minute. the RANK and file of America are
paying for Americas part in the war
to establish world democracy. Secre-
tary McAdoo tonight issued a statement
giving the total subscriptions TO the
liberty loan" for the day at s172,3SS,-
600.
MIR. McAdoo's announcement tonight
raised the rate per minute just $4,000
enough to buy a big high explosive
shell.
New York city continued at the head
Of the list with total Of $4,000. 900.
including two offers of $10,000,O00 each.
Alaska jumped into the list with re-
quest from Fairbanks, northernmost
American city-for $50, 900 of the bonds.
Among cities making large individual
offers were Cleveland, with two offers of
81. 100000 each. A Milwaukee bank Of
fered the same amount while from
Philadelphia came individual offers of
100000 and $2,000.000 and six for
81. 100000 each.
And while The stuff rolled i'm the
the treasury passed more of it along to
our allies in the form of a $4,000. 900
! loan to Great Britain, and announced
500, OOO,OOO one to- France.
Then to complete the cycle, these ma
/ tions will respond it here i'm this coun-
/ try for munitions and supplies.
Plans for the monster advertising
/ campaign to bring the bonds before the
country at large were virtually com
/ plete: and the countryside will soon
bloom forth i'm hundreds OF thousands
( of posters, street car ads and maya
zines and newspapers, announcing
/ Gods free ocean loan as one of the
| posters says:
'"Tis rightly called the U-boat,
| For it puts it up to YOU" says
another
/ At the present rate the entire
| s.. 600 600 600 loan could be foated in
thirty-four days.
NEW YORK SENDS s53,OOO,O0O.
| New York. the countrys financial
stronghold. sent subscriptions totalling
| $50 .OOO, 900. bringing it's two-day total
| up to sl16.S90, 900. Today's New York
subscriptions each were received from
each one of S4,O0O,000, one of $1,000
| 600. two of S2,5OO,O00. two of $2,OOOOOO,
and six of S1,OO0,O0O. A New York law
yer took 81 900, 900 worth and three sis
tiers made a joint subscription of $780,
| 600.
Philadelphia subscribed S13.33O, 900,
including subscription of $4,000, 900, an
| other of 100000, and six of $1,000
| 600. Pittsburg sent subscriptions total
| ing S4.66S, 600. including one of $1,000
| 600. and another of $1,O0O.O00 Three
| subscriptions each weer received from
San Francisco, making the today's total
/ $3.50, 900. Boston also sent three in
dividual subscriptions of 81 100000 each
among the days subscriptions of $4,115,-
! 600. A Milwaukee bank subscribed
| 50, 000, 900 and another in Detroit sub
scribed $500, 900. Individual subscrip-
| lions OF 100000 each were received
/ from approximately 1900 of the 1900
Subscriptions have been tabulated
/ fro mapproximately 1,5O of the 275OO
/ banks of the country, the other 5000
not having been heard from, or their re-
plies having been received later than ?
/ p. m. today. So great was the labor in
volved in distributing the subscriptions
geograp hically and tabulating them that
officials decided to discontinue doing so
for the present at least until a larger
force can be obtained. Indications are
| that the present force will have its
hands full in simply tabulating the
grand total Of subscriptions during the
| next few days.
! Grouped by states, the two-day total
OF subscriptions is as follows
SUBSCRIPTIONS BY STATES
Alabama. S576,OOO; Alaska. $50. OOO;
| Arizona. 100000; Arkansas. s5S6.OOO
California. s7.O52, OOO Colorado. 81. S32.-
| 600; Connecticut. s4619.0OO: Delaware.
! s615. 900; District of Columbia. s2174.-
/ O00; Florida S1.3SS, 900: Georgia. $780,
Oc0; Idaho, $4,000: Illinois. S26.292,-
| 600; Indiana. 5000, 900; Iowa, s2,S72.-
| 900; Kansas. s2.4S1 900: Kentucky, So
| 1872 900: Louisiana, $5.534. 900: Maine
| s1.130. 900; Maryland. $4.429.OOO Mas
sachusetts. $12.14O.OOO: Michigan. &c.
| 27i,OOO: Minnesota. $1.22S, 900: Missis-
sippi. sl20LOOO: Missouri, S3,276,OOO;
Montana. S61I.0OO.
Nebraska. S1,274.OOO: Nevada, $4,000;
| New Hampshire, 1926, 900: New Jersey,
! Ss.O250OO: New Mexico. $685. 900: New
| York. S1S2.6 900: North Carolina.
! SS73.OOO: North Dakota. s19S.OOO: Ohio.
| S22.314. 900; Oklahoma, $4,000: Oregon,
| $500 900; Pennsylvania, $26.S96. 900;
/ Rhode Island, s1.61O,OOO: South Caro-
| lima. $172.O00 South Dakota. $500, 900;
| Tennessee. S1.S31.OOO; Texas. $3.526, 900;
/ Utah. $4,000: Vermont. $4,000; Vir-
| ginia. $685. OO: Washington, S2.31S,-
! 600: West Virginia. $4,000: Wiscon-
/ sin S34S3.0 900. wyoming. S242,000