The spectator., 1918-10-18
STRIKING POSTERS
 IN COLLECTION EOA THE FOURTH L0AN
ColoRFuL DISPLAY OF DRAWINGS AND PRINTED SLOGANS AT
 TRACTS WIDE ATTENTION.
SHOWN ALL OVER AMERICA
Design by Noted Artists Chosen oy
 Committee of Liberty Loan Workers

In every city and town III the ElsHth Federal District there has appeared a series k the most striking posters ever designed by artists for conveying ideas thst could arrest every eye.
 This wonderful collection of posters Was designed by artists whose work was chosen by committee of Nation a. Liberty Loan workers, and We're Sc lectsd from thousands of offerings.
 The posters made their appearance simultaneously all over the United States, and 1t is small wonder that the people, regardless of age. paused as they walked or drove along to admire tie striking display
 Walter H Everett's design. the orlgi- nal of which is an oil painting, shows . mother clutching a child to her breast while another clings to her skirt, the mothers left arm stretched forth in an agony of appeal. This poster Is lettered, Must children die and mothers plead in yain?" and is in 10 eolors. At the bottom Is the ex- hortAtion, Buy More Liberty Bonds.
 Joeeph Pennell has delineated the Statue of Liberty crumbiing under German shell fire. and sil!iouetted against a lurid sky are the blazing ruins of the city of New York This poster Is captioned, That Liberty Shall Not Perish From the Earth" and the observer Is admonished to buy Lib eTty Bonds to prevent the vision be coming a terrible reality
 Beat Back the Hun.
 A poster by F. StorthInan shows a sreen-eyed Hun with a bloody bayonet poering over the edge of Europe his predatory gaze fixed or the United States At the shoulder of the mon ster stands the ruins of 8 cathedral, while behind him floats the smoke of wanton conflagrarion. The picture Is Liberty Bonds"
 One poster Is bloody handprint csptioned, The Hun-His Mark, Blot 1t Out With Liberty Bonds. typifyinS the murder lust of the Hun. The artist is J. Allen St John.
 H pail Ol Dioody pOOtSI With the imperial German eagle and captioned, Keep These Off the U s." constitutes another poster The artist 1s John Norton
 A design by Ellsworth Young shows . silhouette of Hun dragging a girl against background flecked with blazing embers, and bears the signifi cant caption, Remember Belgium " This poster is in four colCrs.
 4 poster by J. Scott Williams repre- sents figure of Victory bearing Has and with marching troops sii. houetted against stormy background Behind the figure of Victory Is lla Jestic representation of the American eagle in full flight This poster is be ing Autographed in eight printings, and Is also being used as a 24-sheet poster Sor billboards
 Heroic Designs.
 Walter Whitehead has depicted an American in heroic attitude, rifle ana bayonet in hand. facing the foe. This poster bears the stirring admoni- tlon, Come On!" and Is lithographed 1n eight coloTs
 Hun or Home?" is the caption of poster by Henry Raleigh It represents . Hun invading a home while little girl with baby fin her arms gazes in startled apprehension.
 Howard Chandler Christy is the de sisner of d poster which shows the figure of Victory towering above a gun crew in action of battleship, and cap tionod Clearing the Way!" Mir. Christy's representation of the gun crew was taAen from a photograph made by an officer who was seated in a funnel on warship when a gun was actually being served
 Experts have declared the poster to be technically accurate. even to the marking of the shell itself, which dis ttnsuishes 1t from a target shell. and makes 1t clear to the initiated that il Is an actual service shell for sinking submarines