Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-13
NATION CALLED ON
:TOMAkE: SUPREME
EFFORT FOR LOAN
Secretary mcAdoo, in. Chi
.cago, Urges Everybody to
Buy More Bonds.
HOME ARMY SHOULD
BACK UP BOYS ABROAD
Indorses Installment Plan and Sug-
gests Bonds and Stamps for
Usual Christmas Gifts.

CHICAGO. October 12.-William G..
McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, ad-
dressed an appeal to the rich and poor
of the nation alike to make a supreme
effort to bring liberty loan subscrip-
| tons to the required $4,000, 000, 900
level in a speech before more than
5000 persons at mass meeting to-
night. .--.-....
IF our home army fails to put the
fourth liberty loan over" he declared,
| ut will counterfeit everything our SOL
diers are doing. 1t will be a new in
centive to Germany to keep on fighting
and it will be a confession in America
of humiliating and disastrous failure.
Our soldiers are winning victories with
their blood and heroisIn. Shall we at
home turn their victories into defeats?
No! Pershing has the Germans on the
run and we are going to lash the backs
/ of the fleeing enemy until the victory
is complete.
Pershing Needs Locomotives.
"Pershing needs locomotives and
rails to follow up our victories, and in
part of the money of the fourth lib
erty loan will be used to send them to
him.. 1t takes American locomotives
now to keep up with the fleeing Ger
the necessary locomotives are pro-
vided for the chase. We may as well
send our American soldiers in first
class trains to Berlin instead of leav-
ing them march that long distance on
foot.
THE fact that only one week re-
mains to- subscribe the fourth liberty
loan and that we are still short $3,-
500 100000 makes it necessary for US
to consider some of the specific things
that must be done to win success.
Many families, for instance, think they
head of the family subscribes for
bonds, but the head of the family has
not done his full duty unless he has
bought all of the bonds he can pay
for Immediately and in the near fu-
ture. II the wife is able to buy bonds
and has not done so, she should buy
them immediately. If the children are
able to buy bonds and have not done
so, they should buy Immediately.
- Farmers Are Appealed To.
"a word particularly. - the farmers:
They did splendid work in the, third
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for the fourth liberty loan. Farmers
have not yet sold their crops and may
not have ready money to pay for bonds
Immediately. But they are selling
their crops right along and will soon
have the money to invest in liberty
bonds, Each and every farmer in the
United States should subscribe for lib
1erty bonds now and pay for them when
he has sold: his crops. He can buy
bonds on the installment plan, and the
banks ought to carry the farmers and
every other class of our people on
their subscriptions until they can pay
for them.
1.-The banks owe it to the country to
still further demonstrate their patri-
otism by lending money to all sub
scribers to liberty bonds at the same
rate of interest the bonds bear, name
I.ly, Az per cent. The banks can afford
to do this and it is their duty to do
this. We must not penaiize the patri-
otism of subscribers to liberty bonds
by charging them higher rates of in
terest than the government pays.