New-York tribune., 1919-04-30
Doughboys Work
Among Industries
For subscriptions
Appeal to Buy Victory
Notes Will BE Carried to
Thousands of Toilers by
Men From Fighting Front

Fresh from the battlehelds Of
France, forty soldiers from Camp
Merritt yesterday united with the
workers Of the Hainbow Division to
pesd up the Victory Liberty Loan
eampaiga in tho trades and industries
II ihs city, before The drive ends. on
tiay 10, they will have brought their
eeraohal appeal for funds TO pay Tho
money costs Of victory TO factory
workers. clerks, executives and oWn-
ers IN 10000 firms throughout the
city,
Under the direction of Sherwood NJ,
Hard, chairman of the Group Cam
yassing Division of the Advisory
Trades Committee, twenty of the dough-
boys made speeches and sold notes
yesterday in the cloak and suit in
dustry, and the rest were assigned to
the new machinery committee.
twenty-five nationalities are repre-
sented by the forty fighters, who speak
twenty different languages. They were
selected for the campaign by Maj OF
Sullivan, adjutant of Camp Merritt,
on the basis of their service records
and their skill as linguists.
Subscriptions aggregating $685.
$50 were reported to the headquarters
of the Rainbow Division at 1870 Brook
lyn, yesterday The largest order
was for S1,000,O0O of notes, from the
Sinclair Oil interests. The division is
now about S2O0,000,OO0 behind it's
schedule, which requires a daily aver
age of $38,O00,O00. s.
More Honor Flags Won
,Bertram II. Borden, chairman of the
Wholesale drygoods trade committee,
announced that the following five ad-
dltiona firms in his industry had won
industrial honor flags: George Riggs
& Co., E. f. Alley & Co., windsor
Print Works. Kahn Textile Company
Inc, and Charles Chipman's Sons
Company, Inc, oil of whom received
awards for getting 100 per cent Of
their employees to subscribe, and Win
shop Bolt & Co., so per cent award.
These subscriptions, totalling $780,
GOO, were announced by Mr.. Borden:
Minot, Hooper & Co., $100,000; Wilson
q Bradbury, 100000; Il. f. Bailey e.
CO., 25,oOOi Trippe, Barker & Co.,
$1,000; A. r. Rothsten, $4,000; Mar
ston Tcxtile Company, $4,000, and
subscriptions aggrcgating $317,300
were announced by Edward Wise,
chairman OF tho tobacco industry com,
mittee They follow Lehmaier
Schwartz & Co., $l00,00O; 8. Rossin g.
Sons, $4,000; c. II. Spitzncr Il SON
$20000; Charles h. Rowley, Sill 1900;
employees of E NJ Schwartz a. Co.,
SILL 100, and $4,000 each from Cassie
NJ. Hill, Tobacco Record Publishing
Company, Il. M. Schwartz g. Co. and
Kutinsky, Adler & Co.
William Goldman, chairman Of the
clothing and allied trades committee
placed yesterdays total for his com
mlttec at $l9S,000. Among the sub
scriptions received were: Samuel Ro-
senthal d Brothers, $l00,000; Denzer
q Nathan, $4,000; Hahlo Company
$4,000, and A. Rosenberg g. Co.
$4,000.
SUBSCRIPTIONS received by the hides
and leather committee totalled S443.-
oVu, coming from the following sources
among others: j. II. Roosbach &
Brothers, S1000O0; G. Levor & Co.
$lOO,OOO; Schmoll, Fills & Co. $50 900.
Abe Stein & Co, 10000; National
Sponge d Chamois Company, S25. 900:
Schleren Realty Company, S23,OOO and
H. Neuman d Co., S20O0O
Credit Men Sent Out Letter
Tho National Association of Credit
Men yesterday sent the following LET.
TER TO 2o,O0O of its members, urging
them to invest in Victory notes:
'Ihe Victory Loan has started of
with bound That it has surprises
none OF us, despite the forebodings
mat were expressed UP to the first of
April. There is surely no better in.
vestment available to-day, and perhaps
zone quite approaching it.
The terms Of the Victory Loan
signify confidence in the power of the
nation to adjust itself TO the new con.
ditlohs in the midst Of which we are
to be set as the affairs Of war arc
sntlstactorily closed for it Is fact
that u government Az per cent loan viii
steadily seek II value nbo9o the price
Of iasuo. and the government could
not justly make loan ut such higl
rate for longer than three or fo1l
j years.
The Victory Iiborty Loan appears
TO be not only solid Investment bu,
one that Will afford All excellent yielt
and contain splendid promise of ad
vance. We do not want cur CONNER
cial banks to carry this loan. The,
should be free to devote their re-
sources TO the upbuilding of our com
merce. They must be unhampered ir
their efforts to keep themselves il
+ highly liquid condition by the pur
chase Of that short-term commercial
paper which is constantly coming into
and going out Of their portfolios"