The Washington herald., 1918-04-22
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
NEEDS MORE HELP
TO SCORE VICTORY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

lumbus will be at headquarters OF
the liberty loan committee. 14lS II
street. each day and communications
should be addressed to him there.
Now that the halfway mark in
the campaign has been passed. the
most noteworthy feature of the
drive. it is said, has been the re-
sponse from the rural districts. The
farmers of the nation have made up
completely for any lack of co-opera-
tion they might have showed in the
two preceding campaigns. The big
cities. though. have Jagged thus far
and the department is disappointed
in the showings made by them.
While no official report on the
aggregate of the loan was forth
coming from the Treasury Depart
ment. the Minneapolis district wir-
ed that it had exceeded its quota.
This was deemed some feat, in
as much as the selling campaign
there has been in progress only six
days Montana and North Dakota
are over their quotas. and South
Dakota was reported to have
achieved its minimum allotment Of
s22, 600, 900. Minnesota, outside OF
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth.
reported subscriptions of s3S,eoO,o 900
and the three cities mentioned have
subscriptions totaling $37.5oo,oOO.
surpass Quota.
Northern Wisconsin and northern
Michigan report $4,000 each in sub
scriptions with citizens Of German
descent buying heavily. The Min
neapolis Federal Reserve Bank re-
ports that subscriptions from farm
crs are astounding"
| The Atlanta district turned in some
cheering news when it wired that 80
| towns and communities have already
oyersubscribed. This indicates the
district, which has occupied the cell
lar position since the campaign open
| ed, is awake.
More than $40, 600 has been sub
scribed in the Cleveland district, OF
which approximately s26,ooo,ooo came
from the city Of Cleveland.
| The Chicago district Is going after
the greatest number Of individual
subscribers and already has netted
more than 100000.
Liberty loan sermons were preached
| from pulpits in every part OF The ma
ton yesterday. in response to the ap-
peal to churches made by Secretary
| McAdoo Three more speaking en-
gagements of the Secretary were an
nounced. They are Oklahoma City.
April %; St. Louis. April 2s; Chicago.
April % and Grand Rapids, Mich,
April go
Keith Returns.
John Poole. president of the Federal
National Bank, was the liberty bond
! pleader at B. F. Keith's Theater last
| night, and with Pat Rooney IL. Pat
| Rooney III, the soldier lads from
Camp Meade. and the audience itself,
| manag ged to make the matching bee
livelier and funnier than usual. Little
Pat insisted upon Rooney senior pledg-
/ ing him for a 800 bond. and then the
; elder comedian offered a 900 pledge
against four others of the same size.
| being taken by George N. Baxter. DR..
w. Robert Perkins. Mrs. H. II. Bresee
and Mr.. Poole
Then the contagion hit the orchestra
players and II. Todd. A. Pointner and
~. A. McConville matched each other
| for 800 each. A $50 bond was pledged
| for Ieona Scherz. A. L. Newmyer
asked for $1,000 worth and H. Berman
took $500.
| At the matinee a $50 bond was
pledged for a baby only three days
old.
| The grand total to date is 81, ,199, 200.