The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-24
POSTERS WILL
SELL THE
FIGHTING FOURTH
)
Ten Posters to be Spread
Broadcast Over the
Land
STRIKING PICTURES
BY GREAT ARTISTS
One Million Autographs OF
the Poster Remember
Belgium"

Washington, Sept. 24-Ten posters
designed by American artists, repro
duced millions of times, will urge the
buying of Fourth Liberty Loan bonds
and will be found on every wall and
window after the campaign opens on
Saturday, September %. The ten
were selected from among numbers
of designs contributed to the treas
ury department through the Division
of Pictorial Publicity, of which Char
les Dana Gibson is chairman, and
were chosen as giving the most pow
erful presentation of ideas that are
behind Americas cause.
Joseph Pennell, whose line draw
ings of industrial processes are wide
ly known, has pictured the Titan
statue of Liberty crumbling under
shell fire in New York harbor, against
the lurid background of the blazing
city. Over it is the caption: "That
Liberty Shall not Perish From the
Earth,'' and below the exhortation to
buy bonds that the vision may never
see realization.
An oil painting of mother with
two children stretching out an arm
in appeal, the work of Walter H.
Everett, is lettered "Must children
die and mothers plead in vain?"
Another reminder of German war
fare and its menace, in F. Streth-
mans poster, depicts Hun peering
over the edge of ravaged Europe
clinging to a bloodied bayonet, with
hungry eyes fixed ON America. "Beat
back the Hun with Liberty Bonds
is the exhortation lettered on this
last.
Cartoon simplicity is illustrated in
poster by J. Allen St. John, call
ed "The Hun-His Mark" and show
ing only a bloody hand print. "B1ot
it out with Liberty Bonds" the ar
tist adjures. Likewise John Norton
whose design shows pair of bloody
boots, ornamented with the Imperia
German eagle, puts over the easil.
understood message "Keep these of
the U. S. A."
Belgium's tragedy gives the them
for Ellsworth Young's accepted of
fering, in which a silhouetted HUI
dragging a girl through a scene 0
fire and desolation points the nee
essity of its legend, Remember Bel
gium." There will be 100000 lith
ographs of this poster along.
Marching troops following Victor
and the eagle through the storm o
battle, as depicted by ]. Scott vii
liams has proved a subject lendin
itself to reproduction in heroic sizt
1t will appear on the cards, and ais
be spread out over 24-sheet billboard
Walter Whitehead has typifed tn
soldiers admonition, "Come On!
over a khaki figure that faces the fo
Henry Raleigh, whose "Halt tn
Hun" poster in previous loan can
paigns won wide renown, this tin
offers "Hun or Homer" in which
little girl, a baby in her arms, gaze
in startled apprehension upon a Hu
breaking into the household.
Howard Chandler Christy, design
ing the tenth poster, took nov
subject, marked by realism, when l
copied a photograph of battleship
gun and its crew in action. A figul
of victory towers above the toilir
gunners who send home the shell, ar
the poster is marked "Clear ii
Way"
Besides the posters, there will all
be distributed widely card carryi1
a picture of the Fourth Liberty los
button, and exhorting every 10y
American to wear it.