Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-09
FIVE BILLION
is GOAL SET
IN new DRIVE
Working to Pass Amount
Asked For-2O,OOO,OO
Subscribers Wanted.

Washington. April 9.-Ftve bill
lion dollars is the unofficial goal
toward which Liberty loan organ
izations all over the country are
working, despite the $3,0G0,0 900. 900
minimum set by the treasury for
the big war credit.
Several big cities are among
those which have sent word pri
vately that they hoped to double
their quotas and thereby win the
third Liberty loan honor flag with
one star. Promoters Of the loan
count strongly on the influence of
the honor flag competition to gath
er in subscriptions early in the
campaign and to prod communities
to work for the honor star after
the first goal is reached. So far,
reports have been genuinely en-
couraging. Although official esti-
mates have been barred, every in
dication is that small communities
are working strenuously. Farmers
also are said to be subscribing
freely.
This is a distinct contrast to con-
ditions of the last loan, when big
cities were the reliance to much
greater extent than this time.
Suggest SignbOard.
The suggestion has gone out to
small towns from headquarters
that a great signboard be erected
at the railway station, to bear the
design of the honor flag with the
words, Help our town win the
right to fly this flag" When wop,
the flag could be raised on a mast
at one side of the board, and the
sign changed to preach the win
ming OF a double subscription star.
Under Secretary McAdoo's new
arrangement for giving out only
figures on actual subscriptions
reaching federal reserve banks, it
will probably be three or four days
yet before an adequate idea of the
country's pledges can be deter
mined.
Urges Passing Mark.
Secretary McAdoo's wire from
Raleigh, n. c., as given out here
today, called on the country to fur
nish 20,000,000 subscribers to the
new Liberty loan. That number
of purchasers, he said, would mean
a loan of four or five billion dol
lars instead of three billion.
The statement authorized by Sec
retary McAdoo from Raleigh, n.
c., where he spoke today said:
Let US not stop when we have
reached our quota. Let us go for
ward and make the quota three or
four times as great, if 1t is possible
to do 1t, and let us at the same
time make the number of subscrib-
ers to the bonds three times as
great as it was before. There is
no answer that will carry such dis
couragement to the enemies Of
America and of civilization as that
twenty million American citizens
have subscribed this time for Lib
erty bonds.
Can Get Twenty Millions.
I'VE can get the twenty million
If we stay in the fight and make up
our minds to do it. If we do this
it will mean that we shall have not
three billion but four billion or five
billion to help our gallant men In
this supreme test of all times for
the liberties of the world"
$4,000 Statesmen on Job.
Chicago, April with four sub
scriptions in Chicago totaling 49,
600. 900. the seventh federal reserve
district today began the third dav
of its four weeks drive to raise
S425.000.000 for the third Liberty
loan.
Thirty-five thousand volunteer
bond statesmen reported for duty
this morning
Nine. Sarah Bernhard was the
chief speaker in today's bond cam
paign. Tomorrow Josephus Dan
iels. secretary OF the navy, will
come here to speak from the same
platform with Captain w. A Mot
felt, commandant at the Great
Lakes naval training station fol-
lowed by Marguerite Clark, motion
picture star