The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-10-18
STRIKING POSTERS
IN COLLECTION FOR
THE FOURTH LOAN
coLoRFUL DISPLAY OF DRAWINGS
AND PRINTED SLOGANS AT.
TRACTS WIDE ATTENTION
SHOWN ALL OVER AMERICA
Designs by Noted Artists Chosen by
Committee OF Liberty Loan
Workers

In every city and town in the Eighth
Federal District there has appeared a
series of the most striking posters
ever designed by artists for conveying
ideas that could arrest every eye.
This wonderful collection of posters
was designed by artists whose work
was chosen by committee of Nation
al Liberty Loan workers, and were Sc
lected from thousands of offerings.
The posters made their appearance
simultaneously all over the United
States, and it is small wonder that the
people, regardless of age, paused as
they walked or drove along to admire
the striking display.
Walter II. Everett's design, the origi.
nal of which is an oil painting, shows
a mother clutohing 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 vain?" and is in
10 colors. At the bottom is the ex-
hortation, Buy More Liberty Bonds"
Joseph Pencil has delineated the
Statue of Liberty crumbling under
German shell fire. and silhouetted
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
erty Bonds to prevent the vision be-
coming a terrible reality.
Beat Back the Hun.
A poster by +. Storthman shows a
green-eyed Hun with bloody bayonet
peering over the edge of Europe. his
predatory gaze fixed on the United
States. At the shoulder of the mon
ster stands the ruins of cathedral.
while behind him floats the smoke of
wanton conflagration. The picture is
captioned. Beat Back the Hun With
Liberty Bonds"
One poster is a bloody handprint
captioned. The Hun-His Mark: Blot
It Out With Liberty Bonds" typifying
the murder lust of the Hun. The
artist is j. Allen st. John.
a pair Of bloody boots, ornamented
with the imperial German eagle and
captioned. Keep These Off the U. S."
constitutes another poster. The artist
Is John Norton.
A design by Ellsworth Young shows
a silhouette of Hun dragging a girl
against a background flecked with
blazing embers, and bears the signifi-
cant caption, Remember Belgium"
This poster is in four colors.
"A poster by j. Scott Williams repre-
sents figure of Victory bearing a
flag and with marching troops sill,
houetted against a stormy background.
Behind the figure of Victory is a ma.
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 2i-sheet poster
tor billboards.
Heroic Designs.
Walter Whitehead has depicted an
American in a heroic attitude. rifle
and bayonet in hand, facing the foe.
This poster bears the stirring admoni.
ton. Come ON" and is Autographed
In eight colors.
Hun or Homer" is the caption of a
poster by Henry Raleigh 1t represents
Hun invading a home while a little
girl with baby in her arms gazes in
startled apprehension.
Howard Chandler Christy is the de.
signer of poster which shows the
figure OF Victory towering above gun
crew in action Of battleship, and cap
toned, Clearing the Way!" Mr..
Christy's representation of the gun
crew was taken from photograph
made by an officer who was seated in
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.
tinguishes It from a target shell, and
makes ii clear to the initiated that il
Is an actual service shell for sinking