Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-24
ARTISTS DESIGN
10 POSTERS FOR
LOAN CAMPAIGN
Government Plans Elaborate
Advertisements for Use
During Drive Beginning
Sept % and Ending Oct. 19


washington. Sept. 23.-Ten posterq
deslSned by American artists. repro-
uuced millions of times. will urge the
puylhg OF Fourth Liberty Loan bonds
ana VIII be found on every wall ana
window after the campaign opens on
saturday. September %. Tho ron
We're selected from among nunbers
OF designs contributed to the treasury
department through the division Of
pictorial publicity, of which Charles
Dana Gibson is chairman. ana war
chosen as giving the most powerfuI
presentation of ideas that arc behind
Americas cause.
Joseph Pennell, whose line draw
lngs of Industrial processes arc wideI,,
known, has pictured the Titan statI,e
OF Liberty crumbling under shell firo
IN New York harbor, against the mrjd
background Of the blazing CITY over
It is the caption: THAT Liberty shall
Not Perish From the Earth" and be-
low the eXhortation to buy bonds thar
the vision may never see realization
An oil painting of mother with
two children stretching out an arm in
appeal. the work of Walter II. Everett.
Is lettered. Must children die and
mothers plead in vain?"
Another reminder of German wa
fare and its menace, in Il. Strethman's
poster, depicts a Hun peering over
the edge of ravaged Europe, elinging
to q bloodied bayonet, with hungry
eyes fixed on America. BEAT back
the Hun with Liberty Bonds" is the
|exhortation lettered on this last.
Blot Out the Hun Mark.
Cartoon simplicity is illustrated In
poster by J. Allen St. John, called
THE Hun--His Mark" and showing
only bloody hand print ''Blot 1t out
with Liberty Bonds" the artist ad-
1ures. Likewise John Norton, whose
design shows pair of bloody boots.
ornamented with the imperial Ger
man gold eagle. puts over the easily
understood message. Keep these off
the u. S. A."
Belgium's tragedy gives the theme
for Ellsworth Young's accepted Of
fering, in which silhouetted Hun
dragging girl through scene of fire
and desolation points the necessity of
its legend, Remember Belgium"
There will be 100000 Autographs Of
this poster alone.
Marching troops following Victory
and the eagle. through the storm of
battle, as depicted by j. Scott Will
liams, has proved a subject lending
itself to reproduction in heroic size. II
will appear on the cards, and also be
spread out over 24-sheet biliboards
Walter Whitehead has typified the
soldiers admotion. Come Oni" over
a khaki figure that faces the foe.
Henry Raleigh, whose Halt the
Hun" poster in previous loan cam
paigns won wide renown. this time
offers "Hun or Home ?D in which a
little girl. a badly in her arms, gazes
in startled apprehension upon a Hun
breaking into the household.
Howard Chandler Christy. designing
the tenth poster. took novel SUB.
ject, marked by realism. when he
copied photograph of battleship's
gun and its crew in action, A figure
of victory towers above the toiling
gunners who send home the she'll. and
the poster is marked .Ciear the
Wayr'
Besides the posters there will also
be distributed widely card carrying
q picture Of the Fourth Liberty Loan
button and exhorting every loyai-
American to wear It.