Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-17
TREASURY PAINTS
GLOOMY PICTURE
Has Little Confidence That Lib
erty Bond Sale Will Reach
$5,ooo,0Oo, 900 Mark.
DRIVE SEEMS TO BE LAGGING
Will Require $4oo, 100000 Daily
to Make Patriotic Cam
paign Success.
DRIVE SEEMS TO BE LAGGING
tBy Associated pressl

fourteen working days gone and only
ten remaining. Liberty bond sales were
believed by Treasury officials tonight
to have just touched the 81 900. .o00. 900
mark. a result which has led them TO
wonder IL the $1,000. 100000 hoped for
can be attained in the final days OF
tho campaign.
Committees in almost every part
OF the country still wire cncouragingly
that they can make their maximum
totals" says a Treasury Department
statement Possibly they can. but
either they are concealing their actual
sales-which is not believed to be the
case-or there must be n most un-
expected spurt in the remaining days"
VERY LITTLE IN SALES
TO WARRANT CONFIDENCE
Certainly there is little about the
ldence that the $1,000. 100000 mark
will be reached
Official figures. representing actual
sales. reported tonight 10 the Treas
ury Department at the close of bust
ness yesterday place the total at
&52S.23o.s50. or little more than half
the $1,000. .0oo.0 900 believed to have been
subscribed. These figures do not in
cludc the result Of the two-day canvass
made by $4,000 workers in the Mime
apoiis district. and place the amounts
in other districts far below the sum
reported unohicially. The totals fol-
low:
Boston. s6ssoo, 900; New York. ,ao7.-
100000; Philadelphia. sIs,44l.5oo;
Cleveland. s2.oso.ooo Richmond. s24,-
6ss.soo: Atlanta. s7.4o5.7oo; Chicago,
$56.lt6,ooo: ST. Louis, si.351.so0: Kan
sas City. S2.o2b.ooo: Dallas. $3.50. 800; !;
San Francisco. s31,55i.s5; Minneapolis
no report.
Granting the most reasonable al
l iowance for unreported sales the
Treasury's statement continues, the
situation is not encouraging. Every
day since the beginning OF the drive,
October II, the daily quota necessary
TO achieving the desired total Of S5,OOO,-
100000 by October 81. the last day of
the sale. has grown larger. until to-
night IT reached. in all probability. the
enormous figures OF $500. .o00. 900. AT
the outset of the sale a daily average
OF slightly less than s2l0,00O,0 900 would
"a'e ipaue the maximum total pos
siblc.
GREATEST DISCREPANCIES
OCCUR IN THE REPORTS
The greatest discrepancies between
the official and latest unofficial reports
occur in the New York. Boston. Cleve-
land, Philadelphia and Kansas City
districts. Late reports from New York
and Boston to-day show their totals
TO be S4lS,uCO.oOO and above $4,000
ooo respectively. Cleveland has more
than $I5.o00.000. Philadelphia more than
SSo,0o0.o 600. and while no figures for
the entire Kansas City district are
available, it is known that Omaha
alone has subscribed about $4,000. .0oo
similar discrepancies doubtless exist
In other districts. but few think thew
are so great as to indicate an actual
approach to even the minimum quota
for the country. $4,000, ,o0o, 900, by the
close Of the drive
The brightest spot in the campaien
to-day appeared to be in the North
western States of Minnesota, North Da-
kota, South Dakota and Montana
where the sales forces began work for
the first time yesterday. orders soon
will be In effect in all those States for
the removal of State funds from banks
not giving their hearty co-opcration 10
the sale. II was officially reported to-
night. Indications are that enforce
ment Of this order will be Unnecessary
as the banks are rallying, along with
the most OF the people. to unqualified
support of the loan
BoYS IN KHAKI ARE
HELD UP AS EXAMPLE,
Army sales continued to increase to-
night until the boys in Khaki had
bought more than s25,00O,O00 in bonds.
Competition among Southern camps for
top honors is particularly keen Sneak
ers throughout the country are using
the example Of the soldiers, who are
willing to sacrifice both their lives and
| their dollars for the cause
ut is confidently predicted by per-
sons in close touch with the army sub
scripti6n situation that the total will
run we'll above s10o.OoO,OoO before the
drive closes"
Statements urging the people OF the
country to subscribe now were is
sued to-day by Secretary Houston and
Samuel Gompers.
Every man. woman or child who
wishes to feel he has had a part In
bringing about the wider liberty which
is coming to the world through the
war we are lighting" Mr.. Gompers
said, "can be assured he is contribut-
ing directly by buying a bond An in
vestment in one of these bonds is an
investment in liberty with n sure re-
turn of the money invested"
In statement addressed to the
farmers Of the nation, Secretary Hous-
ton said:
ut is every citizens duty to purchase
Liberty bond If he is in position
to do so. The nations task is a seri-
GUS one. 1t intimately touches each
OF us. 1t faces you and me. II we
do not win this war, we must prepare
ourselves for grave changes in our in
sttutions and to lead a different sort
OF life from that which we had planned
to live-from that which our fore
fathers died to give us the right to
live"
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