The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-07


day of enthusiastic patriotic celebra-
tons backed up by subscriptions to
government bonds of the Third
Liberty Loan. Throughout the United
States communities observed the an
|niversary of the nations entrance
into the war and gave material evil
dence of their support BY pledglng
millions of dollars to insure success
full continuance of the struggle against
Germany.
While parades and public meetings
were in progress in nearly every city,
kilograms were pouring into Liberty
Loan headquarters at the treasury tell
ing of towns which had exceeded their
quotas in the first day of the four
weeks campaign or even within the
first hour. More than $50 had report
ed when the headquarters closed to-
night and more were coming in. Sioux
City and Lynn, Mass were the largest
cities exceeding their allotinents and
thereby winning the right to fly the
honor flag of the third Liberty Loan
The fact that most others were small
towns prompted an announcement by
the treasury that their aggregate sub
scriptions were Infinitely small COM
pared with the $4,000, 100000 campaign
goal, and that todays reports should
not he conducive to undue optimism re-
garding the final result"
NO ESTIMATION
| II was impossible tonight to even es-
innate the days subscriptions, since
workers in most cities reported they
were too busy celebrating to tabulate
their pledges. Ely Monday or Tuesday
campaign headquarters expects to have
| precise reports from every federal re-
serve district and to be able to mark
the daily harvest of the nations war
credit drive.
The treasury managers today tele-
graphed district directors to make ev-
cry effort to report exact figures OF
actual subscriptions. excluding all fu-
tu-e pledges or promises so that there
will be no duplication of subscriptions
in the current tabulations. The Off
cial attitude is that the country shall
know the results being obtained from
day to day, without regard to whether
| these are optimistic or depressing.
Millions of persons heard pleas for
| financial assistance of the war from
| speakers of national prominence. All
of next week the campaign will con-
tinue intensive, with the well organized
| committees in each state, county and
town.
Officials tonight intimated that more
than zoo communities had placed them
selves on the honor roll today by over
subscriptions Sharply at 8 o'clock, the
official opening. hour. came the first
report. and a score arrived within a
few minutes. These had solicited their
subscriptions in advance. however, and
had filed reports before the campaign
opened officially, misunderstanding
the contest rules eliminating consid-
GRAFTON of these in determining the
standings of the towns on the national
honor roll
1t will take a week or more to ex-
anime the various reports. and de-
termine which are fully entitled to
bona fide consideration, and it may be
impossible to determine which was
first.
There will be other contest align.
1 ments, however-for the first place in
population. first in the state or the
4 county. These are expected to furnish
the stuff for competitor until the cam
paign's end, May 4.
THE south showed particularly well