Arizona republican., 1918-03-10
NEXT LIBERTY LOAN WILL bE
 WELL LP0STERED
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WASHINGTON, March 9.-Posters proclaiming the Third Liberty Loan in striking phrases and colorful de- signs-nine million of them in more than dozen styles-now are being distributed to every city and hamlet of the United States
 They are the silent sales agents of the bonds, and their preparation has taken months of planning and careful choosing. Hardly had the Second Liberty Loan campaign closed before the countrys foremost artists and designers were invited to go to work on posters for the third loan.
 The result is a collection of strill- ing posters, considered artistically and psychologically better than any yet attempted in the two previous loan drives. Soon they will be familiar sights in store windows, on bill boards, and all public places. In addition, five million window stickers, 50,000,000 poster stamps, and 16,o00,0O0 badges have been ordered and will be ready for the opening day | of the campaign.
 Some of the designers of the Lib erty Loan posters are Howard Chand- Ter Christy, Joseph Pennell, J. c. Ley S, bert Paus, Henry Raleigh and Sydney 5. Stern. All contributed their work without pay, and scores of other ar lists submitted designes which were reluctantly rejected.
 Popular appeal was considered care fully in the final choice.
 We must reach all kinds and classes of persons" treasury officials reminded themselves continually. They hope to grip the heart strings and. equally the purse strings of the young and old, the city and country bred, the native American and the adopted alien
 1 one of the most striking posters that of Joseph Pennal, the Phila- delphla marine artist-portrays a great battleship alongside wharves bustllng with wartime activity-mo- tor trucks, swinging cranes, and smoking stacks, with airplanes over- head. It is executed in etching styie | and the title subscribed is Provide the Sinews of War, Buy Liberty Bonds
 Howard Chandler Christy contrib uted stirring design. slim young modernized goddess of liberty waves laloft an American banner, and witt outstretched arm points to a file O. soldiers marching past. Flight ol Buy Bonds," is the title.
 A poster which will arrest instan attention shows steel -helmetet American soldier springing from { trench and bearing a billowing Amer ican flag. "Over the Top For You Buy U. s. Government Bonds-Thirt Liberty Loan is the message it car ries. The work was done by Sydne, Riensenberg.
 The fact that many naturalizet Americans contributed largely to tn success of the first and second Liber ty Loans has been recognized and on of the posters was planned particu larly for distribution in the foreigl language sections of the cities. : sturdy immigrant, with his wife an boy, are seen in the foreground wit flag behind, and the words of tn advice are: tfRemember the Flag 0 Liberty. Support It. Buy l.. $ Government Bonds"
 The Lincoln poster has attracte I much attention in advance of il general publication. It shows a bronz tablet with a bas relief of the mar tyred president, the quotation fror his Gettysburg address: "So that gov ernment by the people, of the peo pie, and for the people shall not per ish from the earth" The word Buy Liberty Bonds have bee added.
 Halt the Hun" is the watchwor proclaimed by another poster showir a stalwart American soldier smith
 the helmeted figure of the enem
 about to seize a crouching woma
 with her child. Henry Raleigh dre
 the design in crayon. with a bu
 background streaked with red flame
 The figure of a little girl claspir
 a Liberty Bond to her breast, adori
 one of the posters with this sui
 scription: "MY Daddy Bought Me