New-York tribune., 1919-05-01
Last Issue Will Be Taken
Eagerly by Market Buyers
if Amy Is Offered After
Drive Closes, Says Banker
Workers Report Apathy
Lack of Interest Met bv
the Members of Two Big
Canvassing Committees

The Victory notes will go to par as
soon as they are quoted in the open
market and stay there, in the opinion
of Francis H. Ssson, of the Guaranty
Trust Company.
In addressing more than 1900 per-
sons in front Of the Sub Treasury
Building yesterday the banker said:
There have been rumors that some
people were chary of the Victory note
because previous bonds deprecated.
AS banking man | wish to say that
the comparison is not we'll taken. |
firmly believe that the present notes
will go above par and sta. there. If it
should happen that they % below you
Will see a rush for them and conse-
quont Jump. Unfortunately for some
| investors in previous loans, they had to
get rid of their bonds. That is their
misfortune, not Uncle Sans fault. He
stands ready to pay his bills and to
pay the interest.
1T cost a lot of money to run a war,
and our expenses were heavy But
1n0se 1n0 ooo expenses meant the saving Of
l0O,0O0 American boys, and l am loath
to believe the real American will be-
grudge penny of it."
Big Committees Disappoint
Victory Loan officials again ex-
pressed their desire yesterday that the
public be informed of serious tagging
OF the loan. The most disconcerting
TACT to the loan workers is that the
Two great canvassing committees-th
Ranbow Division and the Metropoli-
tan Canvass Ccmmittee-w which reach
the masses of the people, are getting
less than half the number and amount
OF subscriptions received in the fourth
campaign.
Men and women in charge of booths
IN various parts of the city yesterday
complained that the public was failing
to show the victory spirit. "The pub
lie lacks enthusiasm for the loan"
came from many lips.
The people are apathetic," said Nor
ris Henroten, chairman of the goth
district, which includes Victory Way.
East Forty-second Street and many of
the large hotels. "They have taken
Off their uniforms before receiving
their discharge papers. There is lit
tie enthusiasm, and it is like pulling
teeth to make many of them buy notes.
Must Get Busy Now
AT first we attributed the public
apathy to the fact that the campaign
was young. But the days passed and
still the people failed to buy rapidly,
Now, in the middle Of the second week
it is necessary to get busy, if we are
to put the loan across"
Mrs. A. d. Converse, captain of the
booth in front of the Public Library.
which in former campaigns was one Of
the dynamic centres of the city, said;
"We have great difficulty in getting a
crowd, and people do not buy securities
as avidly as they did in previous cam
paigns. Out of the streams of people
who pass this booth constantly few
remain, and those do little more than
listen to the music. The great crowds
which gathered in front of the library
during the other loan drives do not
come"
Mrs. Grantland Rice, captain of the
booth in the Grand Central Station, re
ported similar popular reaction. "This
is one of the busiest places in New
York." she said, "but we have quite
time to get crowd The previous
drives were not like this. Then, after
we had worked up enthusiasm by means
of war speeches, the people would rush
to buy. But now, often when some one
offers to buy a $1,000 note if we can
sell two $500 notes to other persons,
we have to turn down the offer because
we can find no one to match it,"
w OHltHS y SluOS NeSuitS
The Women's Clubs Committee yes
terday reported that it had received
subscriptions aggregating $1.U3, $780,
an increase of S645,95O for the day, the
largest daily gain thus far. The Colony
Club leads with total of $395,550 and
the Council of Jewish Women. New
York Branch, is second with $392,550.
L. +. Albce, chairman Of the Commit
tee on Theatres, Motion Pictures and
Allied Tro 1os reported that it has
raised s3,5OO,o0O.
New subscriptions for $4,000 or
more, many of which have not yet been
included in the official total included
the following:
r Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. .S5Ooo,ooo; American
Wom Sar and s.oon F0undry Compsny 9S5
Sewing Machine Company $500 600 Ameri-
can Hide and Leather Company. $500 900
Msr;so Mioneo Perera e. Co. tadditional, S5oo,ooo
O00 Pan American Petroleum and Trans
port Company, $375,000; Mutual Chemical
Company Of America. 100000; S. H. Kress
$20o 0o0 American Exchange Underwriters
S. Vaccaro Bros. & Co.. 100000; American
snrety ,Go ~ Company, 100000; A. H; Bull & Co.
levy Mbank 100000; Jeremiah Milbank,
100000; Sinclair Gulf Corporation, sl00, >
VVu !; bertha Streat Sl5,UOU; Allied Mutual
Liability Insurance Company, 100000; Man
hattan h. an saving. Institutions (additionaD
Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc, $4,000: II.
2. McKenny & Co., $50 O00 John Simmons
Company (additonaD, $50, 900 New Process
Metal Company. $4,000: II; Baker & Co.,
$50, 600; Greene & Co., $4,000: William G.
L. Betsch, $4,000; O'Sullivan Rubber Com
pany, $25,000 Nine. Maria Barrientos $685.
000 James Strcat, $4,000.
The Victory Loan parade, scheduled
for 1880 o'clock Saturday afternoon
next, will afford the public the first
good opportunity it has ever had to
realize what share of the victory be-
longs to the quartermaster's depart
ment. A series of floats built on army
trucks will depict the various activi-
ties of the department, showing among
other things how food supplies are in
spected, packed and eventually placed
before the men. Other exhibits in
clude bakery in actual operation, the
handling of clothing salvage and sam
pies of every form of motor truck used
in the army from tho little dispatch