Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-04-24
"FIKlsH THE JOB IS SLOGAN

Washington. April 23-A quarter Of
billion dollars has been subscribed to
the Victory Liberty loan and officially
reported thru banks and federal reserve
district headquarters to the treasury.
but the actual figures officials are in
clined to believe amount to 5000, 900 900
The s25O,OO0.OOO reported covers
probably only the first two days of the
subscription period, which opened Mon
day and does not include the millions
or pledges On which subscribers are tax
Ing their time to pay the initial install
ment. Neither does it include officially
recorded subscriptions which have not
been tabulated by banks or which are
IN the process Of being reported to dis
trlct headquarters Or compiled there
Only 10 Of the L. districts were rep
resented in figures given ont tonight b.
the treasury. the Kansas City and At
ianta headquarters not having submit
ted official reports,
Telegrams from district heaaduarters
nf the loan organization turnout the
country told Of coatinnei enthusiasm and
tae adoption by i number Of communities
nf the slogan Finish the Job this week.
Many of these communities reported thpr
alre Idly had raised most of their quotas,
altho subscribers had not vet paid their
initial installments and. consequently. the
pledges were not counted officially
Sixteen Of thirty-fiyc counties In Ore
cen r. ported quotas subscribed at the
end Of the first day.
M atings. attended by 10000 people. have
stirred MP interest both among foreign
ho n and native Americans
FGrtv- eight cities and towns in New
England have reached their goal
In the Cleveland district campaign
managers estimate S60,00N.OGO sales had
been made np to today. Sixty-one honor
flags had been awarded 10 small towns
AZ compared with thirty-one at the end
Of the second day of thu fourth loan cam
payn. Soldiers III the Cleveland dis
tr1ct. as elsewhere arc proving success
full statesmen.
In the central Northwest district, the
subscription work among farmers has
been retarded somewhat BY bad roads
and work of the planting season.
The Oklahoma managers reported that
fifteen counties i'll the state had over
subscribed their quotas.
Avalon. N Catalina island. was the
first community in the Pacific coast dis
trict To report 100 per cent. over-sub-
scription.
Germans Gasp at Loans
A cablcgram from General pershing
tonight sald that an officer had sailed
for this country On April 20, bearing
pictures showing German people gasp
ing at Victory loan posters which re-
Gently were put up on German territory.
Supplementary adyices from Detroit.
which went over the top on the first day,
were to the effect that all loan workers
arc continuing their intensive campaign.
81 that every possible subscriber will be
reached.
The navy i actual subscription thus far
in the Victory Liberty loan campaign has
been almost s2.DOO.O0O or enough to
move the Victory ship, the y. s. s. !
Marblehead, approximately two miles on
its voyage from San Francisco to New
York.
The Victory ship il scheduled to reach
San Diego at noon. tomorrow, where she |
will be relieved by the T. :. s. Crane. /
which will take up the second leg Of the /
journey.