New-York tribune., 1918-04-22
District Must Redouble Its
Effort. to Fill
Allotment
Mothers to March
To Help Campaign
DR.. Reisner Warns Owners
of Money That Is Lying
Idle Here

Two weeks old, Americas third Lib
erty Loan, campaign is approaching the
stage where enormous daily increases
in subscriptions are expected. In the
previous loans the overwhelming part
of the popular subscriptions were forth
coming in the last half Of the cam
paign.
Intensified campaigning in the last
two weeks of earlier loans overcame
the deficit of the opening weeks. The
effect of the strategy OF the Liberty
Loan committees showed cumulative
results and the units Of gold rolled into
the national Treasury at an unprece-
. dented speed.
Unless q similar turn in the present
campaign takes place this week the loan
workers feel that the advantages gained
in the first two weeks over the previous
if the rate of increase is repeated, as
they confidently expect, the American
people, confronted by an unparalleled
world crisis, will pour forth their
moneys in greater quantities than ever
-
before.
Districts Standing Low
New York and the rest of the Fed
eral Reserve District. tied for ninth
place in the relative standing of the
districts with Cleveland. filled only Al
per cent Of. its official minimum. At
that rate the Second Federal Reserve
District would subscribe less than
S78O,O0O,O00 by May a, when the cam
paign ends, although its quota is $780,
100000 and its goal $1,000, 100000. A
comparison with the figures of the
ment in this district is less than for
the country as whole.
If the twelve Federal Reserve dis
tricts should fail to improve their pres
cnt rate only s2,856,350,O00 would be
raised. The official minimum has been
fixed at 100000, and the people
S5,000,000,000. To attain its official
quota the country as whole must av-
erage s125,ooo,o0o daily for the thir-
teen days not yet reported, which in
clude last Saturday. More than $780,
100000 must be the daily average to
feacn the UUU,UUO,UUO goal.
In the New York district the resi-
dents will have to transform $4O,000,-
900 into Liberty bonds daily on the av-
erage for the rest of the campaign to
bring the grand total up to S9OO,OO0,-
600, and S86,696,90O daily to finish a:
the s1,5O0,0oO,O0o mark.
Moreover, the people Of this district
face the task Of lifting the Second Fed
eral Reserve District toward the top of
the relative standing of the various
districts. If this district reaches it's
goal it will have filled 166 2-3 per cent
OF ats minimum, quota, and if the St
Louis district, which is now in the
lead. merely keeps up its present rate
Of filling its financial quota. it will
allotment by May 4.
Friday Is Liberty Loan Day
The campaign will be once more
forcibly pulled UP from the routine of
mere bond selling on Friday, which
erty Loan Day. In the afternoon pa
rades and patriotic exercises will be
held under the auspices of the Liberty
Loan committee throughout the forty
eight states.
Announcement of the days pro-
gramme for New York City on Liberty
Loan Day has not been made. How
ever, one of the leading features Of
the day. which was announced in all
churches yesterday. will be Service
Flag Parade up Fifth Avenue. in which
the mothers and other relatives of men
under the colors will participate.
From the pulpits new appeals were
made yesterday. At the Grace Metho
dist Episcopal Church last night the
Rev: DR.. Christian F. Reisner said:
Buying bonds will build a citizen
ship that will be more able to see and
do the things that win the war. Our
country needs the money, but it more
certainly needs folk who are built by
the. sacrifice required to get the money
to buy bonds and who trust the nation
enough to risk their all in her cause.
Plenty of money Is lying idle in New
York and is drying up the souls of the
owners" ''N