New Britain herald., 1918-05-01
VOLUNTARY SERVICE
 AND BOND PURCHASE
Fighters for Uncle Sam Giving Up
 Money To Prosecute War

Third Liberty Bonds in the United States army. In the Second Liberty Loan campaign subscriptions in the army amounted to something more tLan $90,0O0,000. Of this amount more than $SO.000,OO0 were sub- scribed for under the army allotment plan whereby portion of a soldiers monthly pay was set aside for the purchase of bonds by installments.
 In the Second Liberty Loan cam- paign in the army an arrangement was made with the Federal Reserve bank of New York, enabling officers, enlisted men and permanent civilian employees of the army to purchase $50 bonds at the rate of $5 per IT. onth for nine months and $4.75 for the tenth month, the bond being de- liVered with one coupon detached. Under this arrangement $54,000,000 were allotted on the Federal Reserve bank, New York.
 The campaign in the army was q competitive one between companies hGttalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, and so keen was the rival " and so interested were the men
 
 of the enlisted men and some of the ,oHcef,s so obligated their pay that they have been on.thc verge of com parative bankruptcy ever since, but notwithstanding this fact the War Department has received many calls from officers and men for opportun- ity to enable the commissioned off, cers and enlisted men to subscribe Q l il of the number of men now alloting pay to complete their purchases of Second Liberty Bonds. and the de- mands made upon enlisted men un- der the War Risk Insurance Act which requires allotments of soldiers pay for support of their families, with the necessity also of setting aside pay to pay government insur- ance premiums, it is the policy of the secretary of war that in this third sale of Liberty Bonds, all competitive features be eliminated, and enlisted men who have but a small margin of pay remaining after the discharge of their fixed monthly obligations will not be encouraged to assume addi- tional burdens, and instructions have been issued to organization cOm- manders to see to it that soldiers do not so obliGate their pay that they are unable to provide for their fam flies or to provide themselves with money for their own personal uses.
 The whole character of the canl> paign in the Army for the Third Lib erty Loan, if it can be considered a campaign, will be to see that the mil- itary personnel is given necessary in- formation as to the Bonds and every facility to subscribe if they wish to do so voluntarily. To afford these ia cilities to the officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Treasury De partment has made an arrangement under the provisions of the Bond Act approved April 4. 1918, by which persons in the military forces of tho United States may alIot directly to the Secretary of the Treasury
 Under this arrangement. which vas approved by the Treasury Depart ment the 18th instant, officers and en- listed men of the United States Army may purchase a $50 Bond by a}lotting to the Secretary cf the Treasury $5 per month for ten months. Such all lottments will commence in the month of April 1918, of pay due April 30, 1918, and will terminate With the allottmen of pay due Jan uary 31, 1919. To adjust the accrued interest, Bonds purchased on such al- lottments will bear interest only from September 15, 1918. and will be de- livered with the coupon due Septcm- Der 15, 1918, detached, and the pur- chaser of the Bond shall not be en- titled to delivery of such coupon.
 Instructions governing the pur- chase of bonds under this treasury regulation were issued to the army by the Adjutant General of the army the 16th instant, being tclegraphed to all departments, tactical divisions, indc- pendent stations and to the American forces abroad in France, China, Philip pines, Hawaii. also to the Canal Zone Porto Rico, and Alaska. A Liberty loan officer has been detailed at the headquarters of every department and each tactical division, and a Liberty loan officer has been appointed fo1 every regiment and every other simi- lar command in the army. A tele- graphs report is to be rendered week ly showing amount of subscriptions and furnishing such other facts a. may be pertinent to the progress ot the sale.
 Colonel Herbert M. Lord, Quarter. master corps, has been designated officer in charge of sale of War Savins Stamps and Liberty Loan bonds fol the army.
 The sale in the army offices in thi. ! city is proceeding most satisfactorily 1 The Air division of the Signal corps Washington, D. C.. Major Reubel Fleet, Liberty Loan officer. report. ! $200,000 subscribed for the Thiro 1 Liberty bonds at this date.
 MANY FIRE CALLS.