The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-26
In Larger Cities Especial
Efforts Will Be Made for
Corporation Subscriptions
DISTRICT STANDINGS
REMAIN ABOUT SAME;
NEW YORK TAGGING
st. Louis, Having Won
Honor Flag, Now Busy
Putting the State of
Tennessee Over

Washington, April Is. lib
erty Day will be celebrated to-
morrow by the nation with
patriotic demonstrations i'm
practically every city and
town to speed the sale Of Lib
ertv Bonds.
Subscriptions by tomorrow
night are expected to be we'll
above $2,000,000,000, or two
thirds of the minimum total.
In big cities special efforts will be
made to get banks and corporations
to turn in their pledges, held back
heretofore for multitude of bust
ness reasons, and local campaign com
mittees sent word tonight that the
days sales undoubtedly would break
records for the campaign.
In many states a legal holiday has
been declared, and in others arrange
ments have been made for business
houses and factories to close for part
of the day to allow citizens to partici-
pate in Liberty parades. or to make
house to house canvasses for subscrip-
tons.
HOLIDAY AT CAPITAL
In Washington government clerks
will be released from work to march
in a great procession down Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Many high officials had
enrolled tonight to march.
Subscription reports Jagged today,
adding only $10S,00o,O00 to previous
reports, and making the total $685.
7S5,050 Officials had looked for much
larger figure for today than even the
$i2o,oo0,ooo daily average which must
be maintained to reach the $4,000, o00-
600 by the end of next week, the close
of the campaign.
STANDING OF DISTRICTS
The standing of federal reserve dis
tricts did not change materially They
subscriptions and percentage records
include:
Kansas City. subscription, s1i,224,-
100; percentage. s4
Chicago, subscriptions. ssoo.77o,7oo:
percentage, TO-
Dallas, subscription. s54,9s4.e5o; per-
centage, 6s.
New York subscription. sieS, 72a.s5o;
percentage, So
Richmond. subscription. ss5.s9i,s5o;
percentage, so.
Atlanta. subscription, SIS, 1892 per
centage, 81
The Kansas City district committee
believes that district has obtained its
quota, but there are no official cor
roboratiive figures New York, the low
position of which has been sur
prise of the campaign, reported it had
determined to climb out of tenth place.
which it has held several days.
PUTTING TENNESSEE over
Having won the honor of being the
first district to attain its quota, the
st. Louis district now is engaged in a
final effort to put Tennessee over the
top. All of the state is over except
the city of Memphis, and 80 teams of
10 men each today started a house to
house canvass there. for subscriptions.
One hundred thousand dollars an hour
was collected during the first half day
Subscribers in the st. Louis district
now are estimated at 1000 000
gain of only s2i.000.000 was re-
ported today by the New York district.
This represents the smaller subscrip-
tons in the main, it was explained, be-
cause the large corporations and
wealthy buyers continue to delay pur-
chases.
Both the Atlanta and Richmond dis
tricts report that it is impossible for
them to obtain detailed information re-
garding the subscriptions in their dis
tricts.