Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-10
Ccuntry's S Foremost Artists Contribute Designs for
 silent Sales Agents.
MILLIONS BEING
 DISTRIBUTED NOW
Months of Planning and Preparation spent OH Striking Posters Design. cd to Arouse Americans to Need
 oi Buying Libert, Bonds.

Washington, March a.--Posters pro- claiming the Third Liberty loan in striking phrases and colorful designs --nine million of them in more than a dozen styles-now are being distrib- uted to every city and hamlet of the United States.
 They are the silent sales agents of the bonds, and their preparation has taken months of planning and careful choosing. Hardly had the Second Lib- erty loan campaign closed before the country's foremost artists and design CTS were invited to go to work on pos ters for the Third loan.
 The result is a collection of strlk- ing posters, considered artistlcally and psychologically better than any yet at tempted in the two previous loan drives. Soon they will be familiar sights in store windows, on bill boards, and all public places.
 l In addition, five million window stickers, 50,0O0,000 poster stamps, and 1 16,0O0,OO0 badges have been ordered and will be ready for the opening day of the campaign.
 Some of the designers of the Liber- | ty loan posters are Howard Chandler Christy. Joseph Pennell, J. c. Leyen- decker, Sydney Rosenberg, Herbert Paus, Henry Raleigh and Sydney $. Stern. All contributed their work without pay, and scores of other ar lists submitted designs which were re- luctantly rejected.
 Popular appeal was considered care fully in the final choice.
 "We must reach all kinds and classes of persons" treasury officials remind ed themselves continually. They hope to grip the heart-strings-and equal ly the purse strings-of the young and old, the city and country bred, the native American and the adopted alien.
 One of the most striking posters that of Joseph Pennell, the Philadel- phia marine artist-poltrays a great battle ship alongside wharves bustling with wartime activity-motor trucks, swinging cranes, and smoking stacks, with airplanes overhead. It is ex- ecuted in etching style, and the title subscribed is: 'Provide the Sinews of :, War, Buy Liberty Bonds"
 ''Fight or Buy Bonds
 Howard Chandler Christy contrib uted a stirring design. A slim young modernized goddess of liberty waves aloft an American banner, and with outstretched arm points to a file of Soldiers marching past, "Fight or Buy Bonds," is the title.
 E A poster which will arrest instant attention shows steel-helmeted American soldier springing from a trench and bearing a billowing Ameri- can flag. "Over the Top For You Buy U. s. Government Bonds-Third Liberty Loan" is the message it car ries. The work was done by Sydeny Rosenberg.
 The fact that many naturalized Americans contributed largely to the success of the first and second Liberty leans has been recognized and one of the posters was planned particularly for distribution in the foreign lan- guaoe sections of the cities. A sturdy immigrant. with his wife and boy, are seen in the foreeround, with flag be- hind, and the words of the advice are: "Rennember the flag of Liberty. Sup port It. Buy U. s. Government Bonds.'
 The Lincoln poster has attracted much attention in advance o fits gen. eral publication. It shows a bronze tablet with a bas relief of the martyr ed nresident. the quotation from his Gettvsburg address: "So that govern ment by the peorle of the peonle. and for the people shall not nerish from the earth" The words "Buy Liberty
 Bonds" have been added.
 "Ha1t the Hun" is the watchword proclaimed bv another poster showing a stalwart American soldier smiting the helmeted figure of the enemv about to seize a crourhing woman with her child. Henry Raleigh drew the design in crayon. with a buff back. ground streaked with red flames. Appeal tn Parents. The figure of little girl c1asp'ng a
 Liberty Bond to her breast. adorns
 one of the posters with this suhscript- ion: "Wv Daddy Ronpht Me a Govern
 ment Bond Third Lihertv Loan. Did Yours?" Publicity directors of the
 loan regard it as ono of the most ap- pealing of their entire collection.
 An agricultural noster dep;cits q farmer lad in khaki hiddino farewell to his father. saving: "Good-bve. Dad,
 Pm of 10 Fight for old Glory. You bHV U. D. NIOVefnrneN'i DcnuS Independence Hall is shown on one poster. with tho historic liberty bell in a corner "Ring It. Again. Buy U
 s. Government Bonds" is the inscript- ion
 "Are Yon 100 per cent American ?' is thn caption of an attractive poster by Sidney s. Stern, young New York artist. 
 Herbert Pans has contributed anoth- CT of the soldier designs showing a o~oun of fiphtino men climbing over the trench top with the subscription "To Mako the World 2 Denont Place to Live Jn." The dark figures are si'houetted against lurid skv. For billboards the publicitv r1anag- CT has a-- ',upa dnsipn of 2
 soldier asleep, with No-Man's-Land in the distance, and above hir' in a !. -7.. -