The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-03

buy Liberty Bonds, day in and day out
 for nearly a calendar month, the citi- zenry of Birmingham and Jefferson county, some people might think, were not only tired of buying but had reached the limit of their buying power.
 SLOGAN ADOPTED Some people who think they are logi. | cally correct in such deductions may but they don't know Birmingham and | the domain of which she is the capi- tai and metropolis.
 Tired of working? Tired of buying? "Bled white on Liberty Bonds? Not on your life.
 All Liberty committees in this city and county, men's committees and
 womenis committees gill be working today with more rsteata" than ever and 1 they will not close the cleanup" cam paign until the gong ri4gs time" at 6 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. | And as for the citizens of Birming-
 ham and Jefferson county, they have
 made the slogan, freshly printed yes- ] terday afternoon, Follow the Presi- 1 dent and buy another bond" their very /; own, and by their actions they are say 1 ing it's one of the most stirring of the war cries which have reached their attentive ears.
 The allied armies and the Boy Scouts went into the field yesterday morning with that slogan on their lips and it l didn't take them 10 minutes to learn | that they were putting their fingers in | the heart strings of Birmingham. How many thousands in additional sub scriptions have been secured so far as
 the result of this new appeal cannot | be accurately estimated at this writ l ing as many squads or committees
 of the allied armies have not yet re-
 ported at Liberty Loan headquarters, l but word came in yesterday from all
 of them that the buying of bonds was l much greater than they had antici-
 pated, and that a large proportion who 1 had already bought bonds. responded
 to the invitation to buy more with d
 cheerfulness that was truly inspiring
 MEASURE OF SUCCESS | The Boy Scouts had an equal measure
 of success They valiantly ptted them- selves against their big brothers in the allied armies and went into the attack with the elan with which the French will storm Berlin when the time comes. l the total of new subscriptions taken by the scouts yesterday was approximately
 s15, 900.
 l This is in addition to their master strike yesterday morning. All the week
 they have been going into the big office | buildings and halting people on the l streets with the simple, yet rather dscon- certing, question:; Are you the patriotic ! citizen of Birmingham that is going
 to make an additional subscription to the l third Liberty Loan?" The scouts were l told that the answer would be in cer- | tain five-hgured sum and not to report
 the find" until it was named. l They got the answer, heavily plussed. yesterday when a squad of them went l into the offices of the Alabama company | in the First National Bank building and ] interrogated w. J. Davis, the auditor. He
 responded by giving them a subscription
 of $30.000 from the employees of the com pany.
 l BAG BIG GAME | With this big game bagged, in addition
 to their stunt of $1OO,O0O in subserp- tions which they had finished Thursday,
 no one will blame the scouts for feeling
 a bit puffed up yesterday morning and willing and eager to tackle the most un- promising prospect"
 /! At Liberty Bond headquarters much | interest is expressed as to what the final 1 total of individual subscriptions will be- ! 1t is estimated that they will be some
 where around 25,00O, or one bond tor every fifteenth man, woman and child,
 White and coiored, in Jefferson county. ] Bert Meadow, assistant county chair man, said at 6 o'clock yesterday ait ernoon that the total of individual sub scriptions in the county outside of Great ! CT Brmin.ham was S471, representing $l,- ! 1000 in money.
 | Chairman Coffin. of the mems Greater | Birmingham committee, Mrs. Crawford l Johnson of the woman's Jefferson county committee, and Mrs. H. U. Sims.
 chairman, and Mrs. Oscar Wells. treas urer of the womans Greater Birming- | ham committee, continue to stress the {, imperative necessity for subscribers on pledge cards and partial payment sub scription forms going immediately to | the banks and validating their subscrip- | tions by making the stipulated pay ments.
 MAKE PAYMENT l Il know there is no news in thls,'- said Chairman Coffin, good -humoredIy to the reporters yesterday afternoon
 but want you to keep pounding away
 on the great importance of validating subscriptions at the banks, and to keep
 on urging citizens not to wait to be | solicited 10 buy bonds, but to come l to Liberty Loan headquarters, 4J9
 North Twentieth street, or the wom-
 ans headquarters in the Jefferson Bank
 building or to go direct to their banks
 and subscribe for bonds as freely as their means will allow. The government needs the money, and we don't intend to | let secretive dollar escape l The crowds at the Liberty Loan win doWs of the banks were larger yester- day than on Tuesday, showing that the people are hardening to the appeals of the chairmen.
 Chairman Coffin put in a good deal or time yesterday in running down several subscriptions of sizable propor- tions. but of an elusive nature That. however is another story, to be told l later.
 | T. J. Crittenden chairman of the | four-minute men. states that the
 Knights of Columbus throughout the county are following the Presidents S example and buying more bonds. For instance. he says. the local Knights of Columbus increased their subscricticn n I by $s000 yesterday.
 SHOWING OF COUNTIES 1 Fred M Jackson. of the Birmingham m zone. is naturally elated by the show 1 ing made by the 10 counties in his jur- isdiction. His records show: Blount over 1o0 per cent: Cullman over 2G0 per cent; Fayette over 1na
 per cent; Lamar approaching 150 ger