The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
LIBERTY LOAN
f. IN FULL SWING
THIS MORNING
Campaign to Be Pushed in
! Washington by Noted
Sousa Band.
PARADE THROUGH CITY
Three Concerts Will Be
Given at Intervals Dur
ing the Day.
PARADE THROUGH CITY

y
! today will strike its full stride in the
! campaign for subscription of the
] greatest single war loan ever asked
/ by a government OF the people, and
all reports received by the Treasury
Department and local loan officials
have promised even a greater success
for THE Fighting Fourth" Liberty
Loan than that met with in the three
previous loan campaigns.
With more than S2,5O0, 900 subscribed
Saturday. the first day of the cam
paign, the need of the government for
the loan of Americas dollars will be
told by scores of speakers and the
Great Lakes Naval Station Band,
made famous by John Phillip Sousa,
| former leader OF the Marine Band, will
| lead three parades through the DOWN
town sections of the city, preceding
concerts.
Scores of small cities throughout
| the country had laid careful plans and
reported full subscription of their
quotas yesterday, but in addition to
that few estimates as to the sales
| have been received by the Treasury
! Department here, although New York
! City reported subscriptions OF $780,
I CO., coo, or one-ninth of its quota
Big Parade Today.
The band will head a big parade
through the streets of Washington
| this afternoon, will give two concerts
during the day, and will provide a
| musical climax for the evening az a
big mass meeting to be held at 7:SO
o'clock in Liberty Hut. Vice Presi-
dent Marshall is TO be the principal
, speaker. A brief address also is to
l.
lister of wills of the District, who lost
, both his legs in the civil war. Charles
| W. Darr will preside. At 7:15 o'clock
the doors of the building will be
| thrown open to the general public. No
! tickets of admission will be required
| The Sousa Band will arrive in
! Washington early this morning on a
! special train. which is conveying il
on a tour throughout the country in
| behalf of the Fourth Liberty Loan
! At IL o'clock the band will leave
! Liberty Hut and march along F
| street to Ninth, down Ninth to the
| south steps of the National Mu-
! scum, where the first concert will
/ be given at 12:30 At 3 o'clock the
! procession will be resumed, begin
| ming at Tenth and 3 streets. The
band will proceed along B street
| west to Pennsylvania avenue, west
along Pennsylvania avenue to Four
| teenth street, north on Fourteenth
street to H. west on H to Nineteenth
and Pennsylvania avenue, then east
on Pennsylvania avenue to East Ex-
ecutive avenue and south on Exec
| utve avenue to the south steps of
the Treasury. where a second big
concert will be given at 4:30.
Prominent speakers will address
the audiences at both the concerts.
Banks Stay Open Late.
To offer every facility to the peo-
! pie of Washington for entering
their subscriptions early to the
| Fourth Liberty Loan, every bank
in Washington will remain open
until o'clock tonight and tomor-
row. Every bank will help per-
sons of small means own a liberty
bond by accepting s. cash and S.
a month on a $50 bond and siO
cash and $40 a month on a s1OO
bond.
/ Liberty loan rallies were held
yesterday in every church in Wash
| ington. The Sunday school of the
old historic First Presbyterian
| Church on John Marshall place
northwest raised 5000 in bonds. A,
E. L Leckie, who returned last
week from Mexico, led the drive,
which had not been planned before
| hand.
| The Washington agency of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York has subscribed for $4,000,
according to the statement yesterday Y
Of Thomas P. Morgan, manager.
A patriotic sermon was preached
yesterday by DIR. Walter H. Brooks,
pastor Of the Nineteenth Street Bap-
list Church. urging his congregation
to buy bonds.
Announcement has been made by N.
II. Burroughs, president of the Ma
Ntional Training School, that 1000 col
ored women OF the Red Cross Train
ing School will take part in the wom-
ans liberty loan parade next Sa ur-
day on Pennsylvania avenue. A meet
! ing will be held at the Twelfth
street branch Of the Y. NJ. C. A. 10 &.
morrow night at o'clock.