Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-04-10
Hundreds Of Small Bonds Sold
Yesterday to People Who
Dug Down Deep in Pockets
to Subscribe.
SPLENDID SPIRIT OF
PATRIOTISM MANIFESTED
Many Big Subscriptions Are
Required From Wealthy
Persons and Concerns if
PennantS Are to Be Won.

on the job all day yesterday from
O'Clock in the morning until nearly
last evening, the selling forces in
the Third Liberty Loan campaign
succeeded in selling bonds totalling
$225,000. This figure appears rather
lnattractive when placed in the vicin-
ity of $750,000, the sum that Albu-
querque and Bernalillo county must
raise, if Uncle Sans orders are to be
carried out to the letter. The figure
representing subscriptions up to last
night, however, does not adequately
represent the splendid spirit of
patriotism that was manifested yes
terday and the day before on the part
of the people of city and county.
Veteran ampaigners-men who have
been in every soliciting stunt in Albu-
querque since 1SS6-declared that
never before in any campaign had
they experienced such spirit of CO.
operation, good will and genuine
i ~ rtgaGnG sasg was eyerywhere
III tTTdeIfce III the present drive. The
refusals to subscribe, with legitimate
reasons, were so infrequent, that to
meet with one--a real, point blank
refusal--was almost unheard of.
All DO Their Share.
The slips returned to Headquarters
by team captains last night indicated
very impressively one thing, and that
is that the rank and file of the people
of Albuquerque have bought Liberty
Bonds. The men who work in the
shops and the mills, the women who
work in stores and in offices; the
people who earn their daily bread
through hard work, who sacrifice to
make their payments, are ones who
have "come across with punch in
the present campaign This state
ment, however. should not be con-
strued TO mean that wealthy people
have not done their bit. But, in
looking over the subscriptions at
headquarters. to one familiar. more
or less, with the financial standing of
representative men of the community
and of the resources at the command
of corporations. partnerships and as
sociations, the question might have
been asked: Have these men, these
corporations, these business concerns,
done their bit? Have they gone down
into their pockets as deeply and with
the same courage and spirit, as their
less fortunte brothers." ?"
Need Big subscriptions.
The thought at the committee head
quarters last night, not expressed in
words, but apparent in the atmo-
sphere, was that the quota asked of
Bernalillo county will fail of fulfill
ment unless. large number of heavy
subscriptions are obtained. Ten thou
sand dollar subscriptions are needed;
and $25, 900 subscriptions are needed;
and even 100000 subscriptions-one
or two of them-must be received at
headquarters unless Bernalillo county
is to respond. when the roll of coun-
ties of the United States is called by
the treasury department-that the
imperial county of Bernalillo has
failed to come across
BE On the Job Early.
All workers in the campaign who
believe that the United States of
America is the greatest nation in the
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