Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-09
GIVE NO OFFICIAL
FIGURES ON LOAN
Treasury Will Publish Only Cash
Receipts Paid on Lib
erty Bonds.
RACE SETTLES INTO STRIDE
Secretary McAdoo Asks Minis
ters to Preach Loan Ser
mons on the 2lst.
RACE SETTLES INTO STRIDE

wASIIINGToN, April s.-Away to a
"nyins start" the third Liberty loan
to-day settled down into strong
stride that will. If maintained. carry IL
over the Sc sooo,ooo,ooo line in record
time.
Secretary McAdoo. before leaving on
n tour of the South, clampcd the lid
on official announcements OF loan sales.
Consequently, tho Treasury Depart
ment tonight could not even make an
official estimate OF sales Saturday and
to-day. Unoficial figures. however.
SOW that sales and pledges for the
first TWO days run 10 approximately
$500 oOO. 900.
This amount. onc-;cnth Of the mini
mum total to be sold. representing
only two OF tho twcnty-four business
days ON which tho bonds viii be sold,
was highly gratifying 10 leaders in the
ca mpaiGn here. 30 reliably accurate
figures will be announced for some
days. it WAS said tonight at the Treas
ury Department.
When figures finally are produced
they will represent, not the total
amount of bonds pledged or sold on the
installment plan. but the amount OF
cash receipts paid on bonds. This idea
has been adopted to guard against
ovcrcnthusiastic reports. which might
cndanEer the success of the campaign.
Treasury officials have asked news
paper mon. in writing Of tho loan, TO
avoid speculation on its progress.
MORE CITIES REPORT
REACHING THEIR QUOTA
The pace did not slackcm great
deal today after the great burst ot
speed Saturday. Rather the campaign
seemed to settle down into "A steady
grind just as distance runners
lengthen their stride and steel them
selves for their long fight. Whereas
$50 cities wired in on Saturday before
noon that they had oversuhscribcd
their quotas. more than 100 additional
cities telegraphed to-day that they had
gone over the top.
Twenty seven California towns and
one county won honor flags and fifty
other California cities ovcrsubscribcd
their respective quotas. Lansing. Mich.
was the first State capital under tho
wire, sending word today that the
original quota had been left behind.
Sioux City wired To the Same effect.
and another Iowa city, Gcrmar.'a, be-
lied its name By subscribing far more
than its quota
April Il has been designated as Lib
er;y Loan sunday by Secretary McAdoo.
He sent letters 10 $4,000 ministers 20
day, asking them to preach sermons
on the loan on that date
Samuel Gompcrs, president of the
American Federation OF Labor issued
the following appeal on behalf OF the
loan:
Our rcpublic now finds it necessary
10 ask Americans to contribute To an
other Liberty loan. Our country is nj
war to maintain. To defend. the basic
principles upon which free government
is established. Our country calls for
service. Each and every man, woman
and child has personal duty to per-
form--an obligation accompanying the
opportunities freely accorded all Some
have offered and arc giving their lives.
others their abilities: but all can and
should contribute money according 10
their means. l, is the safest invest
mcnt in the whole world
Workers of America. you have rs
much, if not moro. az stake than any
other group of citizens. You are urged
to subscribe rs generously to this loan
as is within your power. Do all that
you can for the common cause Of de-
mocracy and freedom OF the world
over
PRESIDENT SUBSCRIBES
TO LOAN IN THEATER
President Wilson started a large part
OF theater audience Smelling OUT to-
night. when he subscribed to a $1,000
Liberty bond.
An eloquent -four minute" man had
just concluded an address 10 the audi
ence during the itnermssion, with an
appeal that his hearers come across"
The President searched hurricdly
through his clothes for pencil. Fail
ing TO find one. he leaned over the
railing OF his box and borrowed ono
from a man in the orchestra pit. He
then filled in a blank in the theatcr
program and handed it TO the usher.
When the -four minute" man an
nounccd the subscription of the chief
executive. the '..ouse" went wild win
cheering. y total of $4,000 was sub
scribcd 10 before the intermission was
over.
Secretary McAdoo authorized this
statement:
''In order 10 remove tho risk of in
accurate information and OF over
sanguine and misleading estimates
concerning the amount OF subscriD-
tions to the third Liberty loan. no
figures will be given out for some
days. and then only figures as TO the
actual amount of subscriptions of
an