Catoctin clarion., 1918-04-18
Generous Response
Third Liberty Loan
Counties Subscribing Qu,tas and
Ara Working Hard For
honor Flag
lover There" Proves e;g Help

Reports coming from all parts Of
the country to the National Liberty
Loan Committee indicate that the
country districts with the towns and
smaller communities are going to ex.
ceed all former efforts In their contrI.
buttons to the Liberty Loan o. the
present issue.
That the counties Of Maryland are
not to fall behind those of other com.
mOnwealths Is likewise indicated by
the enthusiastic zeal with which their
They have an excellent example In
the pledge Of old Frederick that 1--WE
are going to send our dollars to back
up our boys at the front" This mes.
cage was conveyed to the Maryland
Publicity Committee in Baltimore In
4 telegram a week ago, and since then
Frederick has been diligently at work
to fulfill Its pledge.
1t Ia not yet known how many Mary.
tand communities have completed their
the Honor Flag, but it is known that
the best licks are being hit by all of
them In efforts to achieve this dis,
tinction. Montgomery. first county to
report. has already subscribed Its
quota of $329,800.
On Saturday the reports to the Ma.
tiOnal Committee showed that 700
communities throughout the country
had won this honor, and the list was
growing rapidly. Another feature in
this connection is that almost invar.
iably when a community reports 1t
says:
I'VE have filled our quota, but have
not relaxed our efforts. We will try
to double the quota"
Thus is evidenced the spirit OF the
American people which has been
whstted to the point of enthusiasm by
the larger part that our people are
now playing In the theatre of war
There Is another big outstanding
feature of the present drive In the
smaller as well as the larger com
munities, and that Is the more deter
mined and successful part being play.
ed by women in raising the loan that
Uncle Sam has called for.
The Maryland Section of the Mary
land League for National Defense on
last Thursday subscribed $4,000. The
various women's organizations of Bal
timore are daily reporting large lists
of subscriptions.
Mary Pickford. the movie actress
was at the "Over There" Cantonment
at Baltimore last Monday, and when
she had finished her little speech and
made an appeal for funds the audience
responded with subscriptions fol
$4,000 worth of bonds. And the best
part Of 1t was that these subscriptions
were principally in small amounts, so
that the number of subscribers was
very large.
Down in Richmond on the opening
day Of the loan the women's commit
tee sold s201 900 worth of bonds,
In the tirst two days of the loan the
women Of Delaware sold $50, 900 worth
OF bonds.
In the town of Virden, ILL.,, on the
first day Of the loan the women went
to work and carried the town over its
quota entirely through their own eff
forts. That shows just what a live
organization In a small community can
DO
On April 9Th the women of Hoquaim
Washington, sold $55,410 worth OF
bonds.
In New Braunfels, Texas, the wom
ems committee reports that the full
quota Of $124,100 has been subscribed
and they are still pushing on This
town subscribed only s7,l5O to the first
loan, and $4,000 to the second loan
There Is no question that the country
Is awake.
And there is no question in the
minds Of the Maryland Committee that
the communities of this state will
measure up to the records of sister
states.
The quotas apportioned to Baltimore
City and the counties of Liberty Loan
were officially announced yesterday
afternoon by the Reserve Bank of the
Fifth Regional District. OF the total
Of $3S, ,4S2, 200 apportioned to the State
of Maryland Baltimore City is called
upon to subscribe TO $2S,453 800 or ap-
proximately three-fou>ths of the total
amount leaving $i0,C2S,30O for the
counties. The following are the
amounts each county is required to
subscribe:
Allegheny County. 81, ,47S,30O
Anne Arundel County. ....... 244 900
Baltimore County. ........... G50,000
Calvert County. ............. $500
Carroll County. 500
Caroline County,. 200
Cecil County. 10000
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