New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Half of Nations
Subscription Taken
By N. Y. District
Aggregate for Five Days
$451, $4,000; $205, 100,-
600 of 1t Here

WASHINGTON, April 12-Liberty
Loan subscriptions reported 3 Federal
Reserve banks up to the close of bust
ness last night, representing results of
five days canvassing, were $451 ,744,0OO
or SIZE, $4,000 more than the total re-
ported last night. This is just about
enough to pay the United States's war
expenses for two weeks
1t is believed many millions of other
subscriptions have been signed and not
reported to local banks.
The New York Federal Reserve Dis.
trlct continues to furnish almost half
the couatry's total, with $2O5 100, 900
reported to-day. In the Minneapolis
district the loan campaign will not
really start until next Monday. and no
ngures are reported from there.
hural committees got into the cam
palgn IN earnest tonight, with Liberty
Loan rallies at country schoolhouses
IN practically every township. A mes
sage from Secretary McAdoo was read,
saying:
Il rely upon the farmers, than whom
there are no more vitality interested
IN protecting Americas future and
the liberties of .he world, to do
their utmost to help in this great Lib
erty Loan work"
10 celebrate Oregon's record of be-
ing the first state to have its claim of
oversubscribing its quota recognized
loO,0Oo Oregonians will hold a patriotic
demonstration in Portland Saturday
night Iowa also claims to have gone
over the top, and evidence is being
gathered by the Chicago Federal Re-
serve Bank to show whether Iowa or
Oregon officially reported oversubscrip
ton first. Portland, Ore, and Toledo.
Ohio, are the largest cities reported to
Gay to have won honor flags.
AS an example of the liberal sub
scrlptlons reported from railroad en-
ployes, K. II. Ashton, the railroad adj
mnistraticn's regional director located
at Chicago, announced to-day that 81
100000 had been pledged by men on
twenty Western lines.
Treasury officials are genuinely
pleased with the success of the loan in
the hrst week, closing tonight, but
they display some anxiety over reports
indicating that communities are over.
four weeks it is necessary to roll I'D
$125 100000 every working day, they
say, and the total officially reported
does not make this average.
Secretary McAdoos Message
Mr. McAdoo's message at the country
schoolhouse meetings said:
1T is a matter of supreme national
Importance that the Treasury Of the
United States shall be supplied at all
times with the amount of money needed
to furnish the food the clothing. the
guns, the ammunition required by our
soldiers to fight successfully for the
safety and liberty of America. To pay
the allowances made by the government
to the dependent wives and children Of
those soldiers an dto pay the life in
surance which the government permits
every soldier to buy from it, the Treas
ury also must have the necessary
money to extend credit to the valiant
Britons, Belgians, French and Italians
VINO are lighting alongside American
soldiers on the bloody battlefelds of
France; Be GUM and Italy
II the American people fail to lend
1he1r money to their government, for
these noble purposes, how can We gain
a victory in this glorious cause :?
All can help by lending their money
to the government. They do not mako
git of their money, they merely
reno IL on lmpregnable securitv
and are paid interest on the loan. at
the same time.
The farmers of the nation can rem
der genuinely patriotic service by lend
ing all the money they can to their
government and encouraging everv-
pody else to do the same. 1t makes no
dlference how small the loan 1t will
pe nelp1ul. Those who can only buy
thrift stamps should buv thrift
stamps. Those who can buv on1v ,,.ar
savings stamps should buy war SAVINGS
stamps. Those who can buy Liberty
bonds Shout d buy Liberty bonds. All,
ways they should buy as many stamps
ana as many bonds as they can instead
OF as few. The government has now
put tnese loans in such convenien+
form that there is no citizen in the
ian! "a VINO cannot help to some extent
II he is patriotic enough to do so.
Relies Upon Farmers
-, rely upon the farmers. than whom
mere are no more vitality interested in
protecting Americas future and tho
liberties of the world, to do their u rt-
most to help in this great Liberty Loan
work: The farmers are ALREADY Der
forming patriotic service of the high
est value In raising the foodstuffs
needed by our own military forces and
cltlzens at nome and by the soldiers
and civilian populations of the great
nations associated with us. but thew
have further duty to perform-they
should invest all of their available
money in the obligations of their gov
eminent. In doing so they will not only
benefit themselves by saving this
money, but will be helping to defend
their liberties, their rights and their
farms against the threatened agrees
sions of the most powerful autocratic
and military government ever created.
"The farmers of the nation tradi-
tionally are freedom-loving people
One hundred end forty-threc years
ago, on the nineteenth of this month,
the farmers at Lexington and Concord
fred the first shot for liberty, and it
was heard round the world. ! know
that the American farmers Of to-day
are just as liberty, loving as their
heroic ancestors. Il know that they
will join with other Americans of
every business and profession in pro-
viding the money which will enable
their government to fight to a victori-
Gus conclusion this great war for lib
erty. justice and Americas sacred
rights"