The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-04-16
tails are far from reaching this fig
ure. But from the zeal with which

ure. But from the zeal with which
most local committees are prosecut-
ing their campaigns, it is believed
that the minimum will be well ex-
ceeded before May 4th; and that the
oversubscription which has been ask
ed for by Secretary McAdoo will be
boosted by the southeast.
OF especial interest in the dis
trict since the campaign started a
week ago has been the tours Of the
two Liberty Loan special trains
which are carrying war relics from
France, wounded soldiers from the
front and speakers from every sec
ton of the country into the outlying
sections Of the South, giving farm
ing communities and those who live
far from the main centers of busi-
ness a chance to see exactly what
the war means.
The results have been startling.
Towns where stops have been made
have been seized with a sudden en-
thusiasm that has spreaed like wild
fire throughout the country dis
tricts. Reports which have been
received by train chairman, W. R.
c. Smith, from the two trains have
been full of encouragement.
Manager George Lowman, tele-
graphing from Alabama where train
No. One is on tour, wires as follows
"We had a very fine crowd at
Columbia and Lewisburg, but the
banner crowd, both in numbers and
enthusiasm, considering the size of
the town, was at Fayetteville, Ten
nessee. A really wonderful demon
stration was held at this town,
where we showed to 5000 people.
At Huntsville there was also a mag
nificent crowd, where we showed
last night, and we were magnificent
ly entertained at supper by the Ro-
tarians at Huntsville, and when they
found out that we were to have
breakfast before leaving there at
7:15 this morning, they Immediately
ordered all Rotarians to be at our
train at six o'clock with their auto
mobiles, to take us to breakfast and
back to our train. We tried to pay
for our breakfast, in fact, used a
little inside work to put this over,
but those Rotarians at Huntsville
were too slick for US, and our mon
ey was absolutely counterfeit"
Manager Eugene Harrington, Of
train number one, in spite of most
unreasonable weather in Tennessee
, has been meeting with the most
wonderful success. He reports from
Knoxville as follows:
"In spite of snow and cold wealth
er, crowd of 1000 was at the
train at Morristown, many Of them
having driven in from miles around
At Greenville, the crowds greatly ex.
ceeded the population of the town
At Johnson City, crowd of 5000
with brass band, complete organiza
ton of Boy Scouts and Red Cross
committees were at the train, Civ
ing most enthusiastic reception.
1--WE arrived at Bristol with snow
on the ground and weather very
cold. The crowd stood in the cold
for three hours and gave the trair
, a hearty reception. It did not dis.
perse until after midnight. The
enthusiasm is 50 great that the trair
is being converted into selling
proposition and arrangements arr
being made for Red Cross commit
tees and local chairmen to take sub
scription from the trains. Large
proportions of these subscription:
are from farmers and others have
! told US that it il their first subscrip
ton to Liberty Bonds.
cat coal mine stops in Tennessee
presidents of large corporations
have promised that every man in