The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-15
CITIZENS MAKE GOOD RESPONSE ID APPEAL FOR ADDED LOAN SUBSCRIPTION Liberty Bells Toll Death Knell to German War
 Lords and Register
 Subscriptions
NEW LINE OF ACTION
 DECIDED UPON AT
 LEADERS MEETING
Discharged Soldier From the Battle fields of France Buys Liberty Bonds to Continue His Fight
 Against the Hun

Against the Hun
 l Liberty Loan workers entered upon the I final week of the campaign yesterday feeling confident of putting Birmingham | and Jefferson county over by Saturday night, but at the same time they real
 ized that hard work would be required | to do it. They started over the terri ] tory already canvassed, seeking addi-
 tional subscriptions from persons who
 have previously bought Liberty Bonds
 of the Fourth Loan.
 l Bells located at all prominent street corners were rung at half-hour intervals l throughout the day, performing the double duty of registering good Ameri- l can dollars as they fell into the hands of hard working soldiers of the allied
 armies and Liberty Loan workers, and 1 tolling the death knell of the German
 war lords and their deceived serfs. DOUBLE UP SLOGAN l Workers returning to headquarters in
 the afternoon reported generally that the | people had responded generously to the slogan double up" by at least increas- l ing their subscriptions if they did not double them While the figures for the 1 day could not be announced last night, | because of the accounting staff's in- ability to tabulate and total them before | closing hour, it is known that several hundred thousand dollars was added to ! the subscriptions in hand. With s3,00o,000 to go, the people real | ized that it was up to them to make good and to back up President Wilson l in his refusal to treat with the treach- erous rulers of the German empire, | refusal they accurately forecasted when l inc text of the German chancellor's lat 1 est note was made public sunday morn | ing.
 1 At a council of war held at Liberty ! Loan headquarters in the Jefferson Couh- , ty Bank building yesterday afternoon. | attended by County Chairman Murray Brown, Field Marshal J. Frank Rush- l ton and all the generals of the allied 1 armies, including Gen. F. J. Rowe. out l for the first time in three or TOUT days, after a touch of the influenza, general sa tisfaction with the results Of the nrsl day's double up drive was manifest. But 1 despite the encouraging outlook II was made clear that hard work IS yet 10 be done before the country's quota IS attained. Chairman Brown and ms eAecutlse committee held a special meeting yes tarday at which the status of the cam
 
 paisn was discussed and few new lines of action determined upon
 s100,OOO SUBSCRIPTION The largest subscription noted yester- day was that of the Woodward Iron company for s1O0,00O reported by c. T. Fairbairn, chairman of the special cor porations committee, while $1o,OOO sub scriptions by the Gulf Refining com pany by Gregory Johnson, local man ager, and the Railway Supply company. In the double up campaign the follow ing persons increased their subscriptions J. l.. Yancey, 5000; W. B. Leedy, s2ooo, previously subscribed $5000; w. ". .Leedy Co, 5000, previously subscribed $lOO0; w. B. Caldwell $500, previously subscribed
 5000; J. S. Leedy. $500 previously sub scribed $500.
 George Huddleston, representative Tn Congress, subscribed to 5000 of bonds through Chairman John R. T. Rives of the Labor division of the allied armies A REAL PATRIOT
 Accompanying his double up sub scription Mir Yancey wrote Chairman Brown the following patriotic letter: MT. Murray Brown, Chairman Fourth Liberty Loan Committee, Birmingham Ala.
 nDear Sir; I had subscribed to the l four QlIIeT6nl 1iDcity A<Se~AA 4'oS>SS " l the full limit, as I thought. but upon mature reflection, and seeing the grave conseouences likely to follow the failure 1 of the entire last Loan to be subscribed, | [ have decided that there is no limit to l the duty that every patriotic American owes his country until he has gone 10 the last trench so I am increasing my | last subscription by an additional sloo' and if necessary will respond asain' Yours very truly,
 "J. L. YANCEY." 1 Thomas T. Burton, flagman on the 1 I louisville and Nashville railroad, called at headquarters of --the Labor diVislon l of the allied armies early yesterday 1 morning and. reaching down in hrs DOCK ct pulled out $500 in cash whlch ne ex- 1 changed for eight $100 bonds.
 c. F. Hynd, a soldier dlscharseo run the army because of wounds received m action in France which permanently dls- abled him, bought $1o0 bond. stating that he knew what it meant 10 Iight on the battlefields of France. ana tnat while he was unable to rejoin the army he was doing the next best thing, SUD scribing for Liberty Bonds to his lmlt. MT. Hynd is now employed by an eiec- trical company in Birmingham. ART OF PERSUASION E. Rothschild. soliciting among the night workers Sunday night, tackled foreigner ITO hell with the bonds!' blurted out the foreigner when asked to buy. Hardly had he uttered the words when a well directed blow from Mir. Rothschild's fist sent him sprawling in the street. Slowly rising to his feet, dusting off his clothes and eyeing MT. Rothschild closely. he pulled from the recesses of his clothes $100 in soiled bills and saying: T gotta da mon. Give me da bond. Please don't report me-" Charles F. DeBardeleben. president of the Alabama Fuel and Iron company, met Georgian on the street and tackled him for a subscription. "All right" said the Georgian. T have 5000 to pay for a bond and want Birmingham to get cred- | it for 1t. But don't let my name get in the papers, as I sometimes am conn pelled, for business reasons. to visit At lanta.''
 Gen. C.. S. Bissell strutted into head quarters yesterday gloating nightly over the fact that the Italian army, which hA commands had f,Nrned into tha ac-