Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-13
Liberty BONDS
SOLD IN DRIVE.
BREAK RECORD
New York Leads List, Having
Taken Almost Half Total
Amount Purchased; Oregon
Claims Quota Subscribed.

CBy Review Leased Wire)
WARRINGTON. April 12.-Liberty
loan subscriptions reported to federal
reserve banks up to the close of busi-
ness last night. representing results of
five days canvassing, were S451. .744.-
600 or $175.S25, 900 more than the total
reported last night This is just
about enough to pay the United States
war expenses for two weeks.
Only part of these pledges have
bsen received by federal reserve
banks in binding form. accompanied
by initial payments. bun it is believed
many millions of other subscriptions
have been signed and not yet reported
TO local banks
New York Leads.
The New York federal reserve dis
trict continues to furnish almost half
of the country's total with S205. .100. 900
reported today In the Minneapolis
district, the loan campaign will not
really start until next Monday. and no
figures are reported from there Other
district reports, as given today in
messages to headquarters here follow I:
Chicago. S55, 100000; Boston, S46.-
361 .OOO;. Cleveland. $50, ,SS9 900; Phila.
delphia. 1897 900; ST Louis, S29,.
5000; Dallas. S15,347, 600; aKnsas
City. S13,267 900; San Francisco. SILL.
426.C00; Richmond, S6,916, 900; Atlanta
sS,259 900.
Rural communities got int othe cam
paign in earnest tonight with liberty
loan rallies at country school houses
in virtually every township. A mes
sage from Secretary McAdoo was read
saying:
Il rely upon the farmers. than
whom there are none more vitality in
teresied in protecting Americas fu-
ture and the liberties of the world. TO
do their utmost to help in this great
liberty loan work"
Oregon to Celebrate.
To celebrate Oregon's record of be.
ing the first state to have its claim
of Oversuhscribing its quota recOgniz-
ed. 100000 Oregonians will hold a pa
triOtic demonstration in Portland Sat
urday right. Iowa also claims to have
gone over the top, and evidence is be-
ing gathered by the Chicago federal
reserve bank to show whether Iowa
or Oregon officially reported the first
oveTsubscription.
Portland, Oregon. and Toledo, Ohio,
are the largest cities reported today
TO have won honor flags.
Treasury officials are genuinely
pleased with the success of the loan in
the first week closing tonight. but they
display some anxiety over reports in
that communities are Over-op-
timistiC To make three billion dol
lars in four weeks, it is necessary to
roll up S125. 200. 900 every working day.
they said. and the total officially re-
ported does not make this average.
Mr. McAdoO's message at the coun-
try school house meetings tonight
said:
McAdoo Makes Appeal.
1T is a matter of supreme national
Importance that the treasury of the
United States shall be supplied at all
times with the amount of money need
ed TO furnish the food. the clothing,
the guns. the ammunition required by
our soldiers 10 fight successfully for
the safety and liberty of America. to
pay the allowances made by the gov
ernment to the dependent wvies and
of these soldiers and to pay
the life insurance which the govern
ment permits every soldier to buy
from it. The treasury must also have
the necessary monev to extend credit
To the valiant Britons. Belgians.
French and Italians who are fighting
aloneside American soldiers on the
bloody battle fields of France. Belgium
and italy. If the American Deople fail
to lend their money to their govern
ment fol these noble nurnOses how can
we gain a victory in this glorious
cause? Everyone can helD bv lending
their monev to the government. They
do not make a gift of their money:
thew merely lend it on impregnable Sc
curity and are paid interest on the
loan at the same time.
THE farmers of the nation can
render genuinely patriotic service nv
lending all the money they can 10
their government and encouragin ev-
fTybodv else to do the same. It makes
nc difference how small the loan. it
will be helpful Those who can only
buy thrift stamps should buv thrift
stamps. Those who can buy only war
savin~S stamps should buy war saw
inEs stamps Those who can buy lib
erty bonds should buv liberty bonds
Always theiy should buv as MANY
stamps and as many bonds as they can
instead of as few. The government
has now put these loans in such CON
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