The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

Boston, b1dSS.
 A0Ew ENGLAND as a war asset! lI\\Jl It bulks big in the accounts of u NJ the ration. For two months
 have been travelling over it, and find every state thoroughly mobilized and doing its part The whole sectlon haS gone over the top as to Liberty Aoahs Thrift Stamps, the Red cross anu ee Y M. c. A. It has contributed more than it's quota of volunteers, ana us d,.aft exemptions have been less compar- ati,eIv than most other parts Nor the union It is the arsenal Of the haIoh' and it's thousands of factories are run hing cay and night shifts making muni- tions and supplies for the soldiers. Its co,sts are peppered with new steel and wood sh:pbuilding plants, and it is rais- ing and saving food as never before.
 Take the Liberty Loan! The whole of New England has less than twice as many people as New York city. Never theless, it's six little states have pulled out of their jeans more than s1,000,0 oo0 to lend to the nation, and every one of then, has exceeded it's quota as to every demand The New England district ran & per cent ahead of it's allotment TOT the first loan, about 60 per cent the sec ond loan, and over 42 per cent on tne third So far one. person in every i've of the whole population has bought a war bond. and in some places the amounts have been enormously oversubscrlped. As to the last loan, Hartford led the nation with 251 per cent of its quola' and Portland, Me, took second place with U2 pef cent. Boston ranked 1lrst ;n inc metropolitan class. Connecticut made an oyersubscription Of tWo-thlr us and Vermont of more than one-naI. III getting subscriptions the women anu children have largely aided the men. During the last loan campaign tnere was s.s a liberty parade in Boston in which S4.ooo took part and hal1 ol eioSe III 'io i'io were women and girls
 AS to war charities every state has been thoroughly mobilized. Massa- chusetts has 100000 members in It's Red Cross society, and in addition are the junior members of the school branches who number 370,00o. She has subscribed more than s10,00o,O00 to the fund. In one month her Red Cross workers made 10000 pieces of knit goods, 10000 hospital garments ana 13.OO0 comfort kits. Last year the New England division made over lo,ooo,ooo surgical dressings and of these Massa- chusetts turned out one-hah. Both Ver- mont and New Hampshire have over subscribed to the Red Cross and the I. M c. A., and each has given to the Knights of Columbus, the Syrian re- lief and the Halifax relief Rhode Island has sent more than $1 1,O0G,- 900 to Belgium and has raised spe- cial fund for Palestine and Armenia. Among her other charities is So0,oco tobacco money, which has gone to the soldiers in France The women of New Hampshire have made house-to house the Red Cross and Liberty Loans and in Maine the high school boys and girls have been organized to collect Red Cross subscriptions
 A large proportion of the enlisted men in the ranks are Yankees rom the Rocky farms of New England Connecticut had 10000 men armed and equipped within three months after the war began, and 1t has supplied two volunteers for every man drafted. Ver- mont has furnished so many volunteers that some of it's counties did not have to give any men for the draft. It has more soldiers in France to it's popula- tion than any other state and it has filled it's maximum quota for the navy. Little New Hampshire has 5000 men in the service, and it had large num- Der in the forestry and railroad units which first went to France. Massa- chusetts has given far more than her share of soldiers. Within a year after the war began Boston had enlisted up. wards of 40, 900 volunteers for the army and navy, and it had sent something like 5000 men to the British army as well. It's enlistments have averaged more than 100 per day since the war began. Maine was among the first to ready and it has now more than 14.0co in federal service. It enlisted a full regiment of heavy artillery within 19 days after we declared war, and within