New-York tribune., 1918-04-29
Rush to Buy Expected This
Week by Treasury
Officials
Rural Communities
Make Good Showing
Nations Total Placed at
$1,000, 900, 900, With
9,461, 900 Subscribers

nov; is looked for during the cam
epaign's final week. about to start, but
Treasury officials declared tonight the
FIVE billions needed would be subscribed
only if millions of citizens take shares
of the loan in the next six days.
It is apparent that with about s2,-
2O0O0o,O00 definitely pledged. many
other subscriptions in the hands of
campaign committees without the in
stalment payments and roll of 9,461.-
900 individual subscribers the third war
credit is truly "people's loan"
"But only the hardest kind of work
in the next six days will make possible
approach of the twenty million sub
scribers' goal asked for by Secretary
McAdoo," said the headquarters review
tonight.
Flood of Buyers Expected
When the second loan campaign was
ee-fourths over the Treasury esti-
mated that possibly s2,250, 100000 had
been subscribed, although only $685.
100000 had been officially reported, as
compared with the s2,2O0,O00,O0O now
officially tabulated for the third loan.
It is considered certain that reports
this week will include a great number
of pledges from wealthy men and COR
rorations which heretofore have held
eff, hoping for the government to ar
range a system of instalment payments
for income and excess profits taxes.
Since this has been definitely refused
they are expected to subscribe literally
to Liberty bonds. paying for them on
the instalment plan. In addition to
these big subscriptions campaign work
ers look for an avalanche of small pur-
chases on the last two days, Friday and
Saturday
The loan headquarters statement to-
night offered the comment chat Ger
many after three years of war recently
foated a loan which averaged one bono
to every ten persons in the empire, anc
that it behooves this country to go we'll
above this average in order to make an
impressive demonstration of unity
Distribution by States
The number of subscribers and dis
tributicn of bonds by states is shown
by the following Federal Reserve dis.
1trict reports:
NEW YORK DISTRICT
New York State 1,600,OO0 twelve north
ern counties of New Jersey. 200 900: Fair
hcid County. Conn.,. %. 900. Total. 1926. 900.
CHICAGO DISTRICT
,o5 5i,nois. n6S oa5 900; Iowa. 100000; Mchiea
!" Wisconsin, 2lo.O0o. Total. 1900 900
KANSAS CITY DISTRICT
Nebraska. $4,000: Oklahoma. 1s5. .ooo
Kansas, 10000 Missouri (western M -,
,9u,ooe Colorado. 49,, 900: Wyoming 10
eoo New Mexico. $4,000. Total. 800. 900.
SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT
California. 398,45s; Washington. 81 rs2
ooreson, 80 o42 Idaho. 1895: Utah. 34'297
~ tr,zona' 1880 Nevada. 8,os3 Total
ST. LOUIS DISTRICT
soI'os'; In'Tsansas rs ,5.o7s and those parts of tn
illinois. .l.742: Indiana. 52gs3 Ken.,ct..,
s"t.3le: Mississippi. 2o,lei: Missonri ''uesy Hsf
's'' Tennessee. 27,5a2. Total. 57s.4 '''
Estimates Of other districts total.
are: Boston, 523A56; Dallas. 750 600
philadelphia. 100000; Cleveland 75O
moo; Richmond, 100000; Minneano]is
$4,000, and Atlanta, 100000.
More Small Bonds Taken
Iorc small bonds are being sold j,
ms loan than were sold in the second
hence the individual number of sub
scrlbcrs must be much larger nov !,
order to raise the amount of monc
equal to that raised in the secon
loan N~0'''
:, One OF the most potent factors i
the success of the third loan to dat
mas been the splendid support given
ry the residents of rural communities.
SAID the Treasury review. "Thci
record lar surpasses those they mad
IN previous loans, and the farmin
clement has set buying pace durin
me present campaign that has sairl
&taggered urbanites. who were won
- say that the cities would have I
ananee the war. The war got homo
70 the cities first, and they bough
bonds heavily, and now that it is reach
'ng into the dooryards Of the farm
'ney. too. are buying wonderfully well.
The Minneapolis, ST. Louis and Kan
cas- City districts have attained thei
quotas largely because of purchases b
farmers
Never before in any of the three Lib
Ivan campaigns nave SO many SO
ncitors been in the field as will ste
Sortn Tomorrow morning. All of tn
ssg'Aar statesmen, even in the district
ina, nave attained their quotas, hay
,,neir books open and are eagerly 80
netting every available dollar in ordc
10 put the loan high over the top. Thi
gompef includes women as we'll az ncr
10 PICK up the stray subgcribers tber
arc f20. 900 Boy Scout workers in th
aeid- lhcy started cleaning last Sat
arday, and their first days work wa
nighiy encouraging. They arc out l.
beat the S10o,000.00o total thcv role
up in the second campaign.
Pershing Veterans to Aid
.Ffly new workers who viii h.
.Hro@n INTO the speaking and gellin,
no-m7rrow are members Of the Amer
san expcaitionary force Just back fror
france. They landed yesterday an,
morrow they will be on their wa,
5sariou5 cities to aid in the ana
.1Ws; sixteen of them will york /,
IT New York district, twelve in phila
aasohfA, ten in Boston, eight /,
h.eag1 and four in Washington.
announcement was made to-day tba
.ns navy.e total subscriptions were /.
1esss Of 5000, 900, Ii record OF NOR
ZEN xi.D00,009 day since IL entere.
sns campaign. Washington and PhiIa
"s'psA nary yards are striving /.
r,AHaf II not exceed the record Of TN