The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-04-17
Generous Response
Third Liberty Lean
Counties Subscribing Quotas and
Are Working Hard For
Honor Flag
lover There" Proves Big Help


! country districts with the towns and
smaller communities are going TO eX-
coed all former efforts in their cont"i-
buttons to the Liberty Loan o. ;he
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
people have gone to work for the loan.
They have an excellent example in
the pledge of old Frederick that we
are going to send our dollars to back
up our boys at the trent" This mes
sage was conveyed to the Maryland
Publicity Committee in Baltimore in
telegram week ago, and since then
Frederick has been diligently at work
to fulfill its pledge.
1t is not yet known how many Mary
land communities have completed their
entire quota of the loan and earned
the Honor Flag, but it is known that
the best ticks 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 s329,SOO.
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 it
says:
I'VE have filed 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
whetted 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 CON-
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 for
100000 worth of bonds. And the best
part Of It 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 1901, 900 worth of bonds.
In the first 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 it's
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 s55,41O worth OF
bonds.
In New Braunfels, Texas, the wcm-
ems committee reports that the full
quota of S124, LOO has been subscribed
and they are still pushing on. This
town subscribed only $7,150 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 $38, 4S2 200 apportioned to the State
of Maryland, Baltimore City is called
upon to subscribe to S28,453 900 or ap-
proximately three-fourths of the total
amount leaving $10,02S,300 for the
counties. The following are the
amounts each county is required to
subscribe;