Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
statesmen SEIZE
FAC END OF LOAN
TO SELL BONDS
City Still Far Behind Quota
Set by the Treasury
Department
MUCH WORK TO BE DONE
Verbal Patriots" Is Comment
of Artillerymen Who
Served Abroad

The fa= end Of the Victory Loan
campaign in the Harrisburg district
seized the employment Of many agen-
ctes in an effort to create the enthu-
Siasm necessary to secure the sale of
$1,000, 900 worth Of Victory Bonds
required to make up Harrisburg's $
Victory Bond quota.
The artillery train of last week,
the Victory war trophy train of to-
day. the presence Of speakers OF
Statewide reputat ton. the spectacle
of whippet tanks ChugEins through
the city, firing their machine guns
Lave all tended To create renewed in
terest in the Victory Loan, but
whether this interest will be suffi-
cient to take Harrisburg over the top
will not be known until Tuesday at
noon. when four hundred solicitors
report at luncheon TO he held at
Chestnut street Auditorium.
sin Far Behind
Coupled with the efforts of the
hundreds OF workers on the commit
tees under Postmaster Frank Sites
are those Of the members of the In
duStrial committee. When the last
report of this committee was made
on Thursday there still remained ap-
proximately one-third OF the Indus
tries of the city 10 be heard from. A
number OF big Establishments are re-
porting totals far less than In the
fourth loan. because Of the cutting
down of a number Of employees sec
retary JeSsop. OF the Industrial com
mittee, to-day declared that reports
are very favorable so far as he
knows. The members of the various
Homes committees have been hard
at work since Thursday and have Sc
cured quite number Of SubScrip-
tions. but the fact remains that there
are 10000 persons in Harrisburg VINO
own fourth Liberty Bonds but have
not purchased bonds Of the NTH is
sue 1t is also true that men and
women who bought from one thou
sand TO i've thousand dollars worth
OF the fourth issue bonds have cut
down to five hundred dollars worth.
The purchaser of nifty or one hundred
dollars worth of bonds of the fourth
issue has kept right at the notch and
owns the same quantity of this is
sues bonds.
The city of Harrisburg need not
think" said city Chairman Andrew
: Patterson this morning. that il
tomorrow noon reports show that We
are still shy i've hundred thousand
or seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars Of our quota that this amount
will be taken up by men of means.
That is impossible. our report VIII
20 to Washington just as it is re-
,-l,,e.,,,,,,t ,,,s ars noted as having
Taira5 ~ ~. Ias- caunaign. that will
ia',eu eu 49, -, fa,,I, mt tbe narsons who
- rafr.aS 70 rurrbssa Victory
bonds.
Wrong to Hold Buck
II understand that there are
80 800 rot ,.ar h,urht Victory
fn,ds for ~, reason. they say, that
In G",,.t,, -, = b,ltf-,,- G.cL in rider to un-
darr,ri,a the amount Harrisburg may
~ ~. rucsd,,- .t noon. want TO
- tSssa I,,.n rbat they should
;,rr,a5iateIv br, every dollars
,,,,+b ~ bords of which they are
'.rabie asl, an Of them and I ask
-. ,,,,,, - ,,or,,r in harrisburg
hc,,s-bt Londs ~ and a
s,,Ii.ftn- ir,r,s,iiorely- or to 90 TO one
- - - mako ri. or bar
,,,,,Shos.s.
Ifan1h.rs of .ha artillery who We're
-, ,,,i+L tr. .-,-fifa,, train saturday
.,,d Srrd,v and mon who we're with
,i,a ~ tro-by rr,fn This morning,
Ia T-ic,,r,. ca, bead1narters thar
,.hiIa ~ cIov,d. which erected them
n, rrfst,,rey GO Larger man the
,..,u.ds in cifias three or four times
Tho nopulati0n of Harrisburg, ;-rd
,..r.itoH ~, s,,trt,sias,,, seemed to he
80 ern.tar rE,n found aI.ewher..
,.,, tord nurrbases did NOT r,,uaI the
,,..1,,,.i.sr, .hovr
~, -. n 1,+ Of verbal Datrfat.:
J., II.rrisL,,r.r said one arrillary-
,.o,,,,. uis,rict. Do We'll
-" -, distri,ts outside of
lI,rrishHrg t0-day show that every-
tti,g in tho three counties is in ex-
S.Iinrt sbana
,.a, RIoorfiaId notified haadouar-
So. +bis roorninp tbat its quota is
80 e50 buT mat over ten per cent. OF
-. nonuIation has already subscribed