Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
PLEA OF POSTERS
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
Graphic Portraiture Brings Coun-
try's Needs Home To Patri-
otic Americans
HUN OR THE HOME

After the fourth liberty loan cam
paig opens next Saturday ten posters
designed by American artists and re-
produced millions of times, will be
found on every wall and in every
window
These posters are TO urge the buy
ing of the next bond issue. The ten
designs selected from among numbers
bers of designs contributed TO the
Treasury Department through the di-
vision of pictorial publicity. of which
Charles Dana Gibson is chairman.
were chosen as giving the most pow
erful presentation of ideas that are be-
hind Americas cause.
Joseph Pennell. whose line draw
ings of industrial processes are widely
known. has pictured the Titan Statue
of Liberty crumbling under shell fire
in New York harbor. against the lurid
background of the blazing city. Over
it is the caption: THAT Liberty Shall
Not Perish From The Eatrh." and be-
low that the exhortation TO buy Bonds
that the vision may never see realiza-
ton.
An oil painting of a mother with
two children stretching out an arm in
appeal. the work of Walter H. Ev-
erett, is lettered Must Children Die
and Mothers Plead in Vain?
Another reminder of German war
fare and its menace, in F. Strethmans
poster. depicts Hun peering over the
edge of ravaged Europe, clinging to a
bloodied bayonet, with hungry eyes
fixed on America. Beat Back the
Hun With Liberty Bonds" is the ex-
hortation lettered on this.
Cartoon simplicity is illustrated in a
poster by j. Allen st. John, called
1.-The Hun-His Mark" and showing
only a bloody hand print. blot il
out with liberty bonds" the artist adj
jures. Likewise, John Norton, whose
design shows pair of bloody boots
ornamented with the imperial German
eagle, puts over the easily understood
message, Keep these off the u. S. A.
Belgium's tragedy gives the theme
for Ellsworth Young's accepted offer
ing in which a silhoutted Hun drag
ging girl through scene of fire and
desolation points the necessity of It's
legend. Remember Belgium" There
will be 100000 Autographs of this
poster alone.
Marching troops following victory
and the eagle through the storm OF
battle, as depicted by J. Scott Will
liams, has proved a subject lending
itself to reproduction in heroic size
1t will appear on the cards. and also
be spread out over twenty-four-sheet
billboards Walter Whitehead has
typified the soldiers admonition
Come ON" over a khaki figure that
faces the foe.
Henry Raleigh, whose Halt the
Hun" poster in previous loan cam
paigns won wide renown, this time
offers "Hun or Homer" in which lit
tie girl, baby in her arms, gazes in
startled apprehension upon Hun
breaking into the household.
Howard Chandler Christy, designing
the tenth poster, took novel subject
marked by realism, when he copied a
photograph of battleship's gun and
its crew in action. A figure of VIC
tory towers above the toiling gunners
who send home the shell. and the pos
ter is marked, Clear the Way"
Besides the posters there also will
be distributed widely card carrying
picture of the fourth liberty loan
button and exhorting every loyal
American to wear it,