The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
LIBERTYLOAN
FIGURES SHOW
$3,316,62S,25O
Keep Your Bond for War
Period" Asks McAdoo
in Message.
ONE In 20 SUBSCRIBED
Unofficial Reports Indicate
DC. More Than Doubled
$4,000, 900 Quota.
ONE In 20 SUBSCRIBED

Official figures of the Third Lib
erty Loan last night were an
nounced by the Treasury Depart
ment as $3,3I6,628,25o.
The greatest and most effective
nights drive of the whole cam
paign is yet to be Tailed up, for
these figures represent sales in the
Boston and Philadelphia districts
only up to II o'clock Saturday
morning; in the New York dis
trict up to 4 o'clock in the after
noon, and in the remaining dis
tricts up to 3.
Final figures, it was optimistic
ally stated last night, will go well
over the $4,000, ,ooo, 900 mark, max
ing this the most successful loan
ever floated by any nation.
. Secretary McAdoo's Message.
Secretary McAdoo believes it is the
best message that the nation could
SeQQ 10 inc DOyS ONCI NhCAC. ~ .
statement made last night he says:
'sThe people of the United States
may well felicitate themselves upon
the triumphant success Of the Third
Liberty Loan. It Is a most heartening
manifestation of their patriotism and
Of their infiexible determination to
support our gallant army and navy
until a victorious decision for Amer
lea Is achieved
Il should like to thank the thou
sands Of men and women throughout
the country, the liberty loan commit
tees, bankers and business men. pa
triotic organizations, press associa-
lions, nswspapers and magazines. IN
fact every class Of our citizenship,
white and colored alike, for their re-
spective assistance and cooperation
in this great victory behind the lines,
without which q victory on the front
cannot be achieveds The enormous
number of individual subscribers, in
dicating a widespread distribution of
the loan among the people. IL par
ticularly gratifying. This is the
soundest form Of national war finance
the distribution of the loan among
the people themselves. The results
show that every section Of the nation
has Joined in sending a heartening
message to our gallant sons across the
sea. that we are trying to do our
part at home, even though we cannot
do it as gloriousIy as they are doing
theirs upon the front.
keep Your. Bond.-
IT earnestly hope that everyone
who has brought liberty bonds will
try to keep them for the period OF
the war at least. The slogan now
should be Keep Your Liberty Bond /"
No one does his share fully If he
merely buys a bond and then sells
it Immediately below par on the
market. OF course, IL imperative
necessity compels the sale of liberty
bonds. no just complaint can be made:
IL each and every purchaser keeps
his liberty bonds he helps to protect
the credit of the government by
maintaining the market for the bonds
at par, which Is a very helpful thing
in war time, and he also renders a
more essential service to our soldiers
and sailors in the field by practicing
those economies and savings which
release material and labor necessary
to the support, IL not to the very life,
Of our army and navy. Every SUBJ
scriber therefore. who keeps his lib
erty bond, is rendering a double serv-
ice to his country during the period
of the war.
The purchase of a government
bond to save the life of the nation
and the liberties of the world is not
a commercial transaction. The pa
triotism Of the American people Is
not determined by the rate Of in
terest on a government bond or by
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