The Coconino sun., 1918-11-01
WHO GIVES MONEY
 AND WHO GETS IT
Southern Newspapers Assert That the South's Support of the Third
 Loan Is Best in Nation. l
WHAT OFFICIAL DATA SHOWS
South Raised Only IS Per Cent of Loan, Lowest in Per Capita, De- spite Money U. s. Poured
 Into Southern Camps.

Digest there appeared series or ad- vertisements inserted by a Southern advertising agency on behalf of the newspapers of Southern states. One of these ads reads in part as follows
 Subscriptions of the Southern
 people to Liberty Bonds exceeds
 the average of the United States.
 Returns from subscriptions for
 the Third Liberty Loan show that
 every Southern district very
 largely oversubscribed it's quotas
 *** How did this happen?
 No one contends that the South
 erner is more patriotic than the
 rest of his countrymen. But as
 the above figures show clearly
 that he invested more literally in
 Liberty Bonds than his brethren,
 there is only one reasonable de-
 duction--he has more money to
 spend. You can't get away from
 it. You don't have to
 wait till harvest time in the
 South, as in the North and West, when the farmer is supposed to
 have more money. Every day is
 harvest time in the South"
 This effort to make it appear that the South did more than its share in subscribing to the Third Liberty Loan is not sustained by the data issued nv the United States Treasury Depart rnent. The official figures taken from the treasury departments report of the Third Liherty T,oan show that the Fourth Southern Federal Reserve District subscribed only S639 .965 .050 out of total national subscription of $,176.516.850. or only about 15 per cent of the total subscriptions of the United States. notwithstanding the four Southern federal reserve districts comprise one-third of the federal re- serve districts of the United States.
 U. s. Didn't Break Even.
 The S639. .965,O50 the Southern states contributed to the Third Lib- erty Loan is but little more than the amount of money the government spent in those states building army cantonments. camps and other nilitp- rv plants. In other words. the South did but little more than lend to the government the equivalent of the mil lions in real money the government had actually piven the South. Count ing in the millions of dollars northern soldiers sent to southern camps and friends of northern soldiers visitinp them in southern camps spent in the South. the South did not lend the United States as much money in tho Third Liberty Loan as the United States had spent in the South since April. 1917, In other words, the South did not draw upon it's own wealth or normal income at all.
 The unofficial figures given out bv the United States Treasury Depart- ment show that the Southern states were at the bottom of the list, not only in total amounts subscribed to the Third Liberty loan, but also in the per cent of population which suh- scribed to the loan. The average per- centage of population of the entire country which subscribed to the Lib erty Loan was TIT. This low per centage was because the Southern states pulled down the national av- craze.
 Contrast in Giving.
 The average number of subscrip- tions in proportion to the population in the Southern states were as fol lows: Alabama, 4.6 per cent: Arkan- sas, 9.2 pc rcent; Florida, S.4 per cent; Georgia 6.1 per cent: Kentucky 7.9 per cent: Louisiana. 7.3 per cent; Mississippi. per cent; North Caro- lima, 5. 3 per cent; Tennessee, 65 per cent; Virginia. 7.8 per cent.
 The percentage of population in some of the Northern states which subscribed to the Liberty Loan were as follows: California 25 per cent: Arizona. 20 per cent; Connecticut, 2S per cent; Iowa, 29 per cent; Mime sota, 25 per cent; Montana. 23 rer cent; Nevada, 20 per cent; Rhode Is- land, 26 rer cent.
 These figures refute the effort of the South to make it appear that its subscriptions to Liberty Bonds ex- ceed the average of the United States, despite the fact that nearly 75 per cent of the money expended by the government in war camps. cantonments and like military plants has been expended in the Southern states.
 The south is raising only a small per cent of the money needed by the government to maintain the various cantonments which are located in the south.