The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-14
This Condition Evidenced in Scores of Reports to Treas
 ury Headquarters
MANY COMMITTEES
 LAG IN WORK WHEN 1 GOALS ARE REACHED
Don't t Stop Because of Won- derful Accomplishments First Week, Is Urgent
 Message Sent
By the Associated Press

 Washington, April 13 -Over optimism, which has prompted workers in many communities to suspend operations after reaching their quota, or to slacken, their efforts, appeared today to officials as a serious menace to the success of the third Liberty Loan. This con
 dition is evidenced in scores of reports to headquarters.
 Federal reserve banks reported in- quiries from local committee chair men asking if they should suspend advertising after a towns goal was reached and other messages reflected la feeling that since the first weeks subscriptions had been so much greater than those of the first week in the Second Loan the success of this
 campaign was assured. Messages from Headquarters to com munities which showed signs of letting up in their efforts stated cmphaticaliy that despite the success that has att tended the campaign up to the present. hard work to the very last day is nec-
 essary, particularly if Secretary Mc- Adoo's hopes of a large oversubscrip- ton are to be realized. Official reports of subscriptions up
 to last night representing one week
 of canvassing, gave total of 357s.451,- 500 for the entire country. excluding
 the Minneapolis federal reserve dis- trict, where the campaign will open
 Monday. This is $12i,7o7.eoo more than was reported last night. DISTRICT SUBSCRIPTIONS By districts, subscriptions arc as fol- lows:
 New York. $2si 500, 900. Chicago, ;s3,si2.ooo. Boston. s5s,sss.7oo. St Louis. $47,o15.10o. Cleveland. $42,34S. .ooo Philadelphia, s3ss27 900 San Francisco. $2s,s5s.30o. Dallas, s19,s25,95o. Kansas City. $1s.s3teoo. Richmond. $9.3o7.55o. Atlanta. $s,5se, 500. It was estimated tonight that mo than 1000 communities have passed tis
 goals set for them by district comm tees. and have won honor flags. Many
 of these already have raised their fiaxs If
 starting on the way toward doubling their subscriptions. and winning the honor star. Although this spirit ap-
 pears quite general among these honor
 communities. the treasury is distinctly
 concerned over the cases in which q
 celebration over-reaching the goal is taken as an excuse for resting on the
 oars.l
 By districts the number of communi-
 ties which have won honor fiags is
 reported as follows;
 Cleveland. 134 Boston, 11s; Chicago. |114; New York. s4; Kansas City, 5f. Other districts have not reported their total. The largest cities which have claimed the honor flag are Detroit.
 Portland, Ore; Toledo. Oklahoma City.
 Erie. Pa; Des Moines. Ia.; Sioux City. Lynn. Mass; Danville and Joliet. III.
 and Evansville, Ind. Sioux City, with quota of 32.4oo,- 900. already had $3.soo,o0o subscrip- tions and Is trying to double it's quota Oklahoma City reported $2,4oo,ooo sub scriptions. and more coming Clover dale. Ore has oversuhscribed fts quota 10 times and it's flag will hear nine stars. From Alaska comes word that Ketchikan and Anchorage have been awarded flags. 1 Many workers today reported in- creased sales among farmers. as direct result of the nationwide series 1 of meetings held last night in school houses.
 Secretary McAdoo tonight closed weeks speaking tour in the south with an address at New Orleans. Next week he will go to Texas and Ari- zona 4 u