The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-28

make strides toward their supscrlp- tion goals that they sent solicitors to work at the stroke of midnight.
 Scores of towns are trying to give all expected of them before nfghtfal and to devote the remaining three weeks to doubling or trebling thelr quotas of the mighty war loan.
 million and half men, women and children are enrolled in an army of active campaigners to place a bond in every home.
 The whole vast machinery got smoothly into motion: Like the
 rmimer campaigns across the sea, every detail had been planned long in advance. Salesmen began gath ering subscriptions by well-organized methods. Posters appeared in shop windows and told the story of nber- ty bonds on streets and from fence corners. President Wilson's auto graphed appeal was published in newspapers throughout the land. In motion picture theatres films plan ned by leading stars told graphically why Americans should buy bonds, and 25,OOO volunteer speakers began to drive homo the appeal. More than score of special trains filled with war relies fresh from Frances bat tlefields started their Journeys from town to town.
 Indications are that the American
 people now realize more than in any
 of the three previous loan campaigns | the intimate relation between govern
 ment bonds and the fighting American
 soldiers in France, and that those
 spared the hardship of army life must
 economize to buy bonds, 1 After the opening enthusiasm of
 today, and a day in churches tomor-
 row, the country will settle down to the three weeks of drive to gather from rich and poor the billions need
 ed to crush Prussian autocracy.
 A reminder of the necessity came today in an official report that the government is spending nearly half billion dollars a week,-about ESQ., 900, 900 a day for the war. At the
 same time it was borne home that
 other nations-America's partners
 have done more per capita than this
 country now is called on to do. The
 British people. half as numerous as
 Americans, have loaned their govern
 ment about $14,00O, 100000. The French have raised nearly $7,000,0 ,000,- 900 from bonds, and the Russians nearly equalled this record even be-
 fore revolution and intrigue demoral-
 ized the country.
 ] By comparison, the United States
 already has sold nearly $1O,o00,0o0.- 900 of liberty bonds, with population of more than 100,000,000.
 The purpose for which these stu pendous sums go, the huge quantities : of guns and shells, airplanes and mo- ) tortrucks,, ships, food and other fight ing stuff which liberty loan dollars . buv-these will be explained con-
 cretely in propaganda of the fourth loan. Speakers, newspapers and so'
 licitors will combine to advertise the war itself along with the wars bonds The systematic methods by whicf this policy is to be carried out Is H. = lustrated by organization plans. 1T
 each of the twelve federal reserve dis = tricts, in each state, county, township city or town, and even in neighbor' hoods, factories, stores, and profes sional or trade groups.
 s At the top of this organization
 stands the Treasury, of course. Int e chief organizer in each federal reserve district is the governor of the fedora reserve bank, with central commit 3 tee and divisions of speakers, pub licity, accounting, organizations, sales l supplies and women. The form O Q organization extends to the states anC ;1g@ !, oI0 iV l. touch with the corresponding division = of the next unit, and welded into s working whole by the enthusiasm o l. the multitude of workers to fulfill am 6 ply their individual responsibilities.
 Subscriptions will not be oficiall.
 recognized unless accompanied by tn
 initial installmept payments, and thes 5 are turned into bank. Banks il
 a community then will compile thei h aggregate subscriptions and report t h district headquarters, which will gath = CT it's greater totals to be telegraphet @ to Washington. Thus will the natiol d be informed from day to day of tn l. rising tide of loan pledges.
 = The task of accounting for eacl T dollar received, and each item of cam o paign cost is distributed among thou u sands of expert accountants. Ever l. day and night of the three weeks the
 will work. to account for every penn l. of the bond subscription harvest.
 e Campaign organizers expect tn > fourth liberty loan honor flag to prov l. an even greater stimulus to communi & ties than in the third loan. It wi
 be given to a community when it sub o11 fAI yfo
 will be added when the communit has oversubscribed 5n per cent.
 n Honor emblem cards bearing a de 'f sign of the honor flag-will be award d ed to industries. stores churches, c e. other organizations holding eertai l. records of numbers of subscribers. I B. addition. there will be the honor roll '- of names of subscribers kept durin
 the third loan. Subscribers will ge D. bodges-metal buttons bearing tn at honor flag design on a blue field-an at will be urged to wear them. Thirt a- million badges have been ordered. 'n The communities making the be- m -ecords in the campaign will be pei is mitted to choose the names of a nun a. Der of new ships to be launched b
 the shipping board. This privilee O. was delegated to the loan bureau L C. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. to whom tE is shipping board originally assigned tt S. task of naming all new vessels. I on district organizations have been le IL the method of choosing what comm, to nities shall be given the privilege Id selecting the names.
 The daily newspapers in news co al umns and advertising sections, are r, ps lied upon as among the most acti, he lbond salesmen. Current news of tf