Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-07

SExclusive of banks and loan COM
panies.
Twelve committees of the Omaha
Manufacturers association are can
vassing the manufacturing districts
Of Omaha for subscriptions to the
Liberty loan. The work among the
manufacturers is under the general
leadership Of Jay Burns and J. L
Baker. Every one of the twelve COM
mittees will work i'll from ten TO twen-
ty-hve manufacturing establishments.
There are some $50 manufacturing
concerns in Omaha, but some Of them
work out the subscription of their
employees themselves, and thus re-
lieve the outside committees of this
work.
The insurance men after making a
record Tuesday when eighty-three of
them devoted the day to selling bonds,
are still working in some sections.
Some OF them did not get through
with the districts they hoped to cover.
Though less than one-third OF the ~
surance men working reported re-
suits last night, the subscriptions they
obtained totaled $53,650.
To Canvass Auto Row.
Thursday flock Of committees OF
automobile men will canvass Automo-
bile row.
The Boy Scouts in Tuesdays CAM
paign sold bonds totalling $1,000
Page Christie, one of tho Scouts, and
son Of DR.. Christie, sold one $500t
bond. Kenneth Metcalfe and Austif
Erickson, two Scouts, made records
during the day which entitle them tc
government medals. These medal!
are awarded TO any Boy Scout who
sells ten bonds of any denomination
Each of these boys sold his ten.
Letters to the number of 25,00(
are being printed and will be distri
buted to the school children of the
city Thursday to be taken to theil
parents. The letters explain the ma
ture of the bond, the installment pay
ment plan, and various other features
besides urging all to buy.
Travellers Subscribe.
The Travellers Health association
subscribed for $4,000 worth of bonds
The Mutual Benefit Health associa
ton took $4,000.
Twelve women and twenty-five
boys are out all day sticking posters
on the windshields of automobile.
parked in the streets. This poster
contains a simple picture of Uncle
Sam blowing bugle. Buy a Bond
Help Uncle Sam," is the wording thai
goes with the picture.i
Many Duplicatipns.
"Owing to unavoidable duplication:
in subscriptions reported at the mas:
meeting at the Commercial club, thu
popular subscriptions and those al
ready made through the banks, it i:
impossible at present to give accurate
grand totals for Omaha's subscrip
tions to the Liberty loan.
az the interest manifested in the
first three days of the campaign con
tinues, the committee is most con
fident that by the end of the cam
paign Omaha will have subscribed
more than $7,500000 to the Liberty
! loan.
I"LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE,
"By o. T. Eastman. Secretary
Implications Are Made.
Because subscriptions are reportet
from various committees. from banks
and from mass meetings, Implications
in figures have been hard to avoid. Il
has now become the set policy of thu
general committee to make reports
each day taken from the records O.
the bank, where all subscriptions mus
eventually be turned in, and where
Implications must be sifted out.
Thus, the figures given at the heat
Of the column today do not include
the subscription of $4,000,000 made BY
the banks themselves; they do not in,
clude the 81 100000 subscription By
the building and loan companies, anC
they do not include the $l,478,0O0 sub
scribed at the mass meeting Tuesday
noon. When this mass meeting sub
scription has been tabulated and prop
erly recorded at the banks, as it prob.
ably will be today, it will be giver
out with the total figures of popular
subscriptions. The committee hopes
to avoid confusing popular subscrip'
tions with subscriptions by banks and
loan companies, for the reason thai
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