UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ||||| --- - ºr-- º, Tº ſº ºr - - ºlº GUIº Dº I * * * - --- tºº º r º º “º ºyººs R I.O.I. Tºšš BU º º º 7 E|) - TOP: . º, ºr " - - - - V - ºil. 1. Tº Yº º: Tº Tºº Tº -- - . . . . . . . . . . . . . *C. ºf Cºlºr ºf ſº - A * 3 DJ Jº IC - * - ---------- Tº TTTI º ºf ººººººº tº nºt rº rºº, ºr T ºn tº "Tºº J., ii. Litºr I Q ICF) Oº in tº 1. ) T. CTUR. J. A. º, --, -, -, -º- --, -º,-, - -º- - - - ---, -, --, -, -º -*. - - º "Tº A ºr ,—s ---- In ornation for the protection of the holders of Vic to * * * ~~~~ ºr -- " … ." --- * -: * ~~~~. - - - - - - - - - - - -- *. -º-º: * -, -, -, Tºº tº ºn ---- * * * Liberty Ioan ponds Jag given out resterday ºy the lederal Resºrvo 33. - - _º *… … - - º 7"… .". -- ~...~ * * ~ *- : * → *… … -º-, -, -, - …” --- … - - -- of Chicº o . The Victory loºes differed from the previous issue & Cº. -*. ** - º - - - - -º the Libe tº bonds by having an interest coupon attached . Decause of º º F. * .* º: -- ri rº- - º º **** º -º- ºn ºr H. : º º - - - * - - - - lº Qū Li i tº . Č ſº Cº. Cº º ( U O 3. VO C. Q 1 & "" ; ; ) ". colis a coupon was attached to the Vicº ory iſoº cº for the in- - --- - ------- - v- -, ----- - - - -: … .”. -". -- ~~~ - * - - * -, -º ºf egº iſ on May 20 to Le comber 15. The interest for all succeeding periods are paid py check. In previous issues of the Liberty bonds all he cº, Co ºne Écºle nº. 1 Reserve Banjº nº called Cº- * - - - - - -: -- -º- -º- -'- tº - * … -- ~, º, … .". --, … . . . ; geºtion o the fact of ºne odd into rest perio lº. - - ſ - 3. T. º º ! º i. C º 1. º l Q º - - *~. -- - -- * * * * - - - -- ºr- * - - - - - ** . . . . - wº- - - -, -, --, " - - - - - be unders ood by the ºncºs of Victory Totes. It is possible or un- 1. º, - --- --- -- - - - - - * - - - - -º- - -- -º-º: -- " - … -- - - - …” scrupulous persons, it was pointed out , to cut off ºn is cou on aid the ºn – * -, - -- -º-º- - ," ---, -, -, -, -º- -- *. : - -*-*. - - --> -- * _º - … -- - - - - . . . . . . in ºlder of ºne poºl ſºlº G 10 J . d is cover ºne logº of the in sº intº C Gº ** ** = c- - ... .". -- - *. - - - - - - - a -º- - -º-º-, . -- - . . . … → * - on his bond until he had received the chool-s for ºne other seriods. º -- " - - - -, *- : *-*… ----- * - "Je thin this warning - on ºccount of ºne od innºcideº, º - - - - coupºn covering the interest from May 20 to December 15 ino ºn ºf red G- - - on for is was to avoid delay in the issuance of checºs for the in- - *. --- -- - --- - º º --- -" -º-, - -º-, - … º. - -º- ºr - . º * - ". * - **, *- - ºrest period. S. ...ll out the first interest is ºn ió ºf checº . . . sº *_ _* no other issues of the Tibcº y ponds have had such a coupon tº aciº ed., owners of Victory iſ of es might overloo": it on d one e is a chºice of it being cult off by unscrupulous pºrº on; , ; -- - -, -º -- * -- * ~ --, -, -- - - sº º – nº º- - - - - - - - , , … . - - - - - _º -- - -- - e. ºr of the intercºt of the first period. This cou on , ºf cou º , is º jºr º; e. ºc º t Q C rºº gº tº gº d º * Clº º tº º º -- ***** * -, -, -ºº ºrº- ºr - ºr- ºr- ºil. J 3 ºu 3: C ... C. -- Gis Lºº; C – Qi. |-> * ilº ... tº 3 ºº) ſº Q ** -- Vº - -º-º: ºl. .º. - -*-*- - --~~~ - - º - - - - -, -º- - -, * * * -º-º- º, , , - - -º - - - - ºnent on the Ge coupons, so of that reaſ on the banjº feels ºne ºuplic * * * * * * * * * * -- - - - - - - -- iſ iſ iſ ºf ºf º TRE SURY DEP RTITNT ºf 7 WAR LQ N Cººl IZATION - Editors: - LIBFº Tºº BR ANCH . A = 3 For immediate releº - EUREAU OF PUBLICITY CHIC GO DISTRICT . ----------- KEEP THT 10 AM FIRES EURNING : --- Liberty Losr officials for Chicº go and the rest of the Seventh Federal Reserve District issued state ent s today ºn ing tº "º º in the organization that nothing chº iſ be permitted to de' ºf the car - tº toº Li he ºty Loan, -- - - - rying out of the planſ for the fººt tº ºn of - which positively, according to Ce ore tº y of the Treasury placed before the people not later tº an April 21 i. l l b º It is pointed out by the Liberty Loan officials that the reports from Washington are merely concenring the details of the big loan to be floated in the Spring and that no matteº what the tº ture of the securities, whether notes or bords, the Liberty Loan workers have a job cut out for them and they must move swiftly and with greater Vim and determination than ever before , - Charles H. Schºeppe, director of the Victory Liberty Loan caſh- paign, made the following statement in his appeal to the workers and the public : - "Now that Secretary of the Treasury Glass has definitely announced that the Victoryliberty Loan campaign will be launched not later than April 21 and that it will be an intensive ſº pº ºr campaign with a view of obtaining the best possible distri tº loriº workers in all branches of the general organization must eave nothing undone to crown the campaign with the degree of success that the great war victory warrants. - means the Government ille of to raise the money – whether through short term Treasury notes or long term bonds, but we o zºom that our job has been out out for us and that we must move swiftly and it h ºr a ter viſm and ſº etc. ºrnination the ſº over be for c . It is traditional that the American people never start anything they can tº finish, and I have no doubt that, whº tever plan the Government may adopt , the American people will deliver the goods . "We don't ºr or yet that nea --- - -1. The working out of details by Congress and the Treast, ry Department is recessary, and it should not be allo ed to inter- fere with the general plan to be in readiness to meet the task with every inch of fighting armor or . The authorities at Wash- ington have the interests of the people in mind , and I have no doubt that aside from the natural patriotic appeal the campaign will offer highly attractive inducements in an in vestment Way. "The Secretary of the Treasury has laid emphasis on the necessity of getting the widest distribution of the Government securities, and he depends on the loyal Liberty Loan organiza- tions to accºmplish that . But the organizations, no ma t < r how earnest and vigorºus they may be in their efforts, cannot get very far unless the public recognizes the necessity of success and lends its best support . The American people can be as pºt - riºtic in time of peace as in war , and we all must realize that our part of the big war job will not have been finished until the bills are paid and the victory made complete . - "The organization in this district will measure up to the rosiest expectations, as in the past , and at the end of the cam- paign the district will have every reason to feel proud of its practical patriotism." - # º # # # # # //ſ º/, / ſº º - - --- TRESURY DE 1 ºf ºn I CI ſy º, UFC U () iſ Tº º Aº nº ſº. Tº T - A rº - ºn - - - . - º ºl. Cººl I. ATION EDITOR, . For immediate release . LIBERTY LO All ER IN CH -- - - CHT C C. Cºſº Q DI TRICT . -- The unselfish, patriotic action of a majority of the publisher: O ºf Cric go dº i ly YeºS papers in entering into a ºn agreement to refuse to *** * the advertising of so-called "financial pirates, " who offer to º sº ties and stoc of doubtful value for Liberty bor is, means the saving of millions of dollars annually to the holders of Uſheie Sam ºr Securities in the Seventh Federal reserve District. º - - *** * - - -- - - - - - - 20-operating with the newspa ºr publishers, the Chicago Associal ºlº ºf 20 merge is exerting its full strength in a vigorous crusade ; : fate advertising, which, officials of the Association state, C & U.S. & S a loss of 500,000,000 ye rºl, among the people of this country - The "sharking" of Liberty bonds by "Shylocks" and the use of the advertising columns of the nº pe pers by promoters of wildcat stock 90 ºr is , offering to take Liberty bonds in return for securities pal- pably "insecure" and which cºme perilously near to being out-and-out *Windling, aroused the newspaper owners and the Association of Commerce tº united action to put a stop to the croo ea practice and protect the holders of Liberty bonds who are animated by an impulse to et rich Quick - - - - This movement should go a long way toward stamping out the swindling "financial pirate, " who has been waxing fat off the increau- lity of Liberty bond holders. - - agreement to refuse advert sing from individual Cº. ** "shºi º" ºf Liºtº boºs with the stateº --~~ - putable brokers are doing everything iſ their po ºr to persuade the public to exchange its Liberty bonds for oth ºr secur ties, a great portion of which are nºrthless," the Chicago publishers nounced the following rules, "to be used for hasty reference only, as means of recognizing quickly the more obvious forms of objectionable go " which also are submitted to the other publishers throughout the District : - - (1) I ever accept copy from a firm offering to exchange other Securities or commodities for Liberty bonds. ( 2) Never accept copy from a firm, even though it is reco- her ling good secº rities, unless you hºve first investi- gated its star ing. - - Do not accept copy that contains: (a) Extravagant state- ments; (b) prospective earnings directly coinſ ared ºith the earnings of old, established concerns; (c) suspicious use of such expressions as "absolutely safe, " "best investment ever offered the American public, " "immense profits on a small investment," "you take no chances, " etc.; (d) guara - tee or promise of large dividents from future earnings be the earning power has been thoroughly demonstrated ; (e) guarantee on the part of the broker to resell the stock at . à higher prise than it is selling for , (f) promises of ºr advance in the stock after a specific date , (4) Do not accept copy concerning any unproved prospects and developments, such s oil or mining securities, unless very carefully irºv tigº tº d and convince d of their positi º, r i t . - - - - (5) In case copy is received too short a time before re us sted insertion to permit of proper investigation, it should in all cases be held up pending investigation unlº s's the pro- position d vertised is obviously reputable - 2 ( 3. ) TRT AGURY OF EART ITN EURT ALI OF PUBLIC iſ WAR LO M. O'RC ANI 2, Jº ION 5, IT OR 3: FOR II/II, DIAT REL CE . L1 ERTY LO M. BRAN Cº. CHICAGO I) ISTRICT . rº- i tº . To Editors: Every publication throughout the Seventh Federal Reserve District can be of material aid to the War Loan Organization, in connection with the Victory Liberty Loan campaign, by joining in the crusade against the "Shylocºs" engaged in the "sharking" of Liber Bonds, and thereby swindling the on nºrs of the same. - The way in which the publications of this District can be of assistance in putting a quietus on this malodorous practice und bring - ing the swindlers to justice is by publishing regularly some such in- vitation to their readers as this: - º, --, cº- ºl]] 2. - wº. CH THT STOC. P. i. Rºi ERS: Get the names and addresses of ºil persons and companies offering you speculative or doubtful stocks and Securities, particularly in ex- change for your LIBF. TY BONDS or WAR SAVINGS GT Aiº S, with copies of their " i i tº rature . " Mail them promptly for investigation to the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Washington, D. C. --- THE VICTORY L.I.B RTY LO M. Immediately upon receipt of such information the Federal Trade Commission will call for full reports in proper cases. * The Federal Trade Commission Act provides a penalty of a fine or imprisonment for those who fail to or falsely report to the Commis- Sion . - It may make public so much of the information obtained as ºne be in the public interest, and it can prevent unfair methods of compe- tition and misrepresentations in the commerce, - We believe that all patriotic publi in the Seventh Feder Reserve Diº trict, whº º ve stood by the Liberty Loan Organization so loyally in the pest, will respond to this request, and ithout delay. - # * # # # # # # # - // - º/7 - º - TREA ºf Tºp ARTMFI. T. BURE U YE PUBLICITY To Editors: The following Goºy WAR I.O." N ºr G AN IATIOi! is offered it iſ ill- II B : TY Lºſ A BRANCH - mediate release . CHICAG DISTRICT . An interesting announcement from Washington, in connection with the coming victory ºperty Loan campaign, is that the workers in the Victory drive in be awarded means made from captured Ger- man cannon. An official message to this effect was received from the Treasury Department by Ben F. lic Cut 3 he on, Publicity Director of the Liberty Loan Organization, Seventh Federal Reserve District, the text of which follows: "You are at liberty to make full use of the an- nouncement that the Treasury Department will award medals mºde from captured German cºnnon to all work- - T ers during the Victory Liberty Loan campaign. The ſhe dº sil is the size of a nº if dollar and contains on on see . . . . . . . . building and on the transverse side a certification of Loan parti- cipation. Space is left for engraving the name of the recipient." "I he artily ºpprove of this otion of the Government in casting up honor medals made from Garman can on to award to Vic ory Liberty Loan workers", said Chº Les H. seawepºe, Director of Ca 1- paign for the Seventh Federal Reserve District. "It supplies an ad- º ded incentive to supreme endeavor and surel º y will have a good effect that will be shown in increased sales. The awarding of these medals ºde from cannon captured from the foe should result in bringing us a full complement of workers". TREASURY tº PARTITNT EUR AU OF THELICITY WAR Lºſ N ORG ANIZATION EDITORS: For immediate release - LIBERTY LO AN BRANCH CHICAGO DISTRICT . MICHIGAN VICTORY LOAN LEADERS IN CONFERENCE - An enthusiastic meeting of the state and county officials of the War loan organization at Chicago Friday April 21, was attended by virtually a full delegation from Michºgan, with a big representar tion from other states of the Seventh district. The War Loan organi- zation from Michigan, including the great majority of the men and women county chairmen, as well as the leaders of the state organiza- tion attended the convention in a body headed by Frederick R. Fenton, state director of sales. The delegation was accompanied by the Uni- versity of Michigan bond. All the Michigan delegates were identified by wearing the State University colors--maize and blue . -- The convention, which was held at the LaSalle hotel, was attended by delegates from all of the five states in the Seventh Fed- eral Reserve District. C. H. Sehweppe, director of campaign for the Seventh District, was chairman at the general meeting, and the prin- cipal speakers were Maj. -Gen. Leonard Wood ; Lafayette Young, Jr. . . Arthur H. Wandenberg, Frank Odell, of Omaha, Mrs. George Bass and Mrs Kellogg Fairbank. - The speeches were of an inspirational kind, and were enthus- iastically received by the state representatives. Maj. -Gen. Wood aroused particular enthusiasm with a short speech appealing to the people to "finish the job" as an act of good faith towards the govern- ment, and as appreciation of the work of the army and navy. - - Art Hº Wan ºn berg, of Grand Rapids, whose fame as an orator has become nation wide, stirred the meeting with an eloquent appeal for support of the coming loan as a duty which no citizen can afford to Shirº . Following the general meeting the Michigan delegation had a special busire ss session at the LaSalie at which plans were mapped out for the cording Victory Liberty Loan campaign. This meeting was marke by a display of "pep" which promises well for the succºs of the loan campaign . Frederick R. Fenton, director of sales for Michigan, pre- sided at this meeting . The speakers were Brig.-Gen. Louis C. Covell, U. S. A. . ; Mrs Edgar Allen, state chairman for women; Walter S, Foster, Chairman Ingham county; Charles F. Hilliker, director speakers' bureau for Michigan, Claud H Corrigan, Aistrict organizer, Russell W. Boyle, acting director of publicity for Michigan, and Mrs. Clara B. Mills, state organizer for women. Later at a dinner given in his honor, the delegates listened to an inspiring address by Hon. Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury. who outlined his views in regard to the coming campaign. According to the Michigan state officials of the War Loan Organization, the preliminary work of organizing the state is about finished , and everything is in readiness for a red hot campaign, which will ºut the state over the top for the Victory Liberty Loan with a good mºrgir. . Felix J. Streyckmans, director ºf the foreign language division, outlined gºans for the work among the foreign language people - # # 5 # # # # # * * * º Tºasury pºp annºn ſ/7 BUREAL OF PUBLICITY ºn Edity ºf - ſº ºn I. Iºn 443 For immediate release. CHICAGO LIGTIC ºr U. S. TO TRY ICAN Cºil'ICATES TO TITANCE IATIC Announcement is made by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago n hai, U. I. i º º on instructions from Secretary of the Treasury Glass : - -, - as -º- tº 3 º' Gº, bºo ºne sº of five months maturity, bearing in º 4 percent, will be issued somi-mºnthly on the 1st and lsº, begiº- ning August 1, for ºne ºut of ºne calen ºr your for the purpose of financing the Government's recuirements. The clºst issue, date ºugust l, due January 2, 1920, will be for $500,000,000. The quota assigned to the Seventh Federal Reserve District is sºooooooo and is to ºc ºc- an ortioned anons the banks of the district, as i.e percent of the toº al. resources as of December 31, 1910. Victory Loan certificates ºf an est- ed. The G & due August 12, Sept. 9, and Gotober 7 will be accoºted in pay tº for this issue. - In the official information sent out by the Treasury Dopart- -- mont, subsequent issues aside from August and September, which issues -- out 500,000,000 each, will be for about half the 6 º --- *** - -j- - - - ºre iſ 9 tº ot, all a I ºf 55,500,000,000. The same iod ºil - - - - - . º - --- see the rodernption of *2,997,540, 500 in loan and ta: cºrt ific ages, leav- in a net increase of 509,459,500 to be ſunded by the issue of º short * notes when market conditions are favorable and ºne terms advantes- ous to ºne Government, . Al `i. national ºrd state banks and trust corn anies will be cº- posted to take not less than 1.6 percent of their gross resou cos in cº ch semi-moºnly issue of ioan certificates during August and sector- bºr, with the percentage falling to . a toward the end of the galendar Year. The program may be varied occasionelly by the substitution of ta: ger ificateg. - - - Secretary Glass believes the investront Value of the corºi- tic at eg has been demonstrated to a large class of buyers in previous is- gues and at the banking institutions which have aided in the distribu- tion of ºne certificates have ſound arºle compensation in the depot its U. i. º 4. º º- tº ºl. from the Treasury "g practice of tº irº anch bººk the deposito- - - -- º - -º- -º-, 4- - º - - * --- --- - of the proceeds of certificates purchased. Reviewing tº financial condition of tº c. country Secretary sºi ated tº lºcomº for the figãal year ending June 30, 1980, at ,000,000, made tºp of internal ºvºlº $4,940, 500,000. customs 0 0 , scle ºf ºblic lands, 3,000,000; misdellºne ous, 300,000- C - º - - - tory Tºbert loan installments, 1,032,000, Cool - - - - - - - & - - - ºf RQM AR LOAN PRESS EUREAU EDITORS: - SEVENTH TEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT. Tºor immediate release. Subscriptions from the Seventh Federal Reserve District to the August 1st issue of the Treasury certificates of indebtedness to- - --- 8% º - - - - - -- taled $79,723,000 against a quota of $70,000,000. The showing state by state, including Cook county in Illinois was as follows: Cook County $27,005,000 Illinois 10,439,000 Indiana 7,427,500 Iowa 11,963,500 Michigan 11,948,500 Wisconsin 10, 939,500 The results show that many of the smaller banks do not under- stand the good reason for the cºntinuance of their support in these Treasury certificate offerings, as outlined in the Letter to d11 banks by Secretary Glass on July 26. Certificates of this series are of a straight maturity and the Treasury Department has not reserved the redemption privilege, which should make them more attractive both to the banks and go investors. Arrangements have also been made for deliveries promptly after the close of the subscription books. The second offering of the 1920 Treasury certificate series - will be dated August 15, maturing Januar y 15, 1920, and as the sub- scription books are subject to close without notice it is urged † haº the banks send in their subscriptions early- Announcement is made by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on instructions from Secretary of the Treasury Glass that United States Certificates of indebtedness of save months maturity, bearing interest at 4 percent, will be issued semi-monthly on the 1st, and 15th, for the rest of the aaienaar year. The first issue Vias ibºr $500,000,000. The quote assigned to the Seventh District is ~. º tº $ $70,000,000 and is reapportioned among the banks of the distric --- 1.6 percent of the total resources as of December 31, 1918. Victory Loan certificates of indebtedness due August 12, Sept. 9, and October 7 are accepted in payment for this issue. In the official information sent out by the Treasury Depart- ment, subsequent issues a side frºm August and September, which issues total about $500,000,000 each, will be for about half ºf amount ºne- ing a grand total of $3,536,669,606. The same Peº º will see the º demption of º in loan and ºa: certificates, leaving a lºº increase of $502,459,500 to be funded by the issue of shºrt term nº when marize; conditions are favorable and the terms advantageous to the Government. --- ºl º------ º - - - * * itſ ºf it ºf tº tºº ºldſ, ſº tº ſº...! -- º/7 / / J , TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY To Editors : It is urgently recommended LIBERTY - L0AN that you use the following CHICAGO DISTRICT. - material in your publica- - tion and thereby aid the Government, in its financial program for 1919. The War is over; peace reigns on earth. But in Europe today there are more than 2,000,000 American soldiers, who took an important part in bringing the War to a victorious end, and these men must be fed and clothed for a long while to come. I+. is estimated by the War Department that the cost of equipping and maintaining an American soldier in Europe is $423.27 a year. The American army was transported to France at the rate of 250,000 men 3. month by giving them first call, on the shipping facilities of the United States. If they could * * back to their homes thus speedily -- and it is doubtful that they could -- it would require at least eight months. It is obvious, therefore, that we must continue to raise money with which to maintain our army abroad. "We are going tº have to finance peace for a while," said Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, "just as we have had to finance war." And that means that the American people, having supported four Liberty Loans With a patriotism which future historians will surely extol, are to be vouchsafed an opportunity to support our victorious peace. There will certainly be at least one more Government Loan. There probably will be two more and possibly three. At any rate, the next Loan must be prepared for and its success made certain. Get ready now to buy more bonds. # , , , , , , , , , , , , , LL-33 ºf J º 7 A º TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - EDITORS: Publication of these suggestions by LIBERTY LOAN practical bankers might be of bene- CHICAGO DISTRICT. fit in maintaining the "carry on." spirit of Liberty bond subscribers, who are making partial payments from wages and current savings. The new "social ideal" is community service. That an enterprise is conducted by private individuals, for profit on their invested capital, does not lessen the obligation to serve. Bankers exercise functions of the highest responsibility and importance to the people. They perform their work with great fidelity and skill and in consequence enjoy to the highest degree the confidence of the public. This sense of responsibility for wide community service is expressed in a rather novel way by President John D. Cuddihy of the First National Bank of Calumet, Mich. , with reference to the keeping of Liberty bond pledges. Mr. Cuddihy writes: "We have instructed the officers and clerks in this Bank to insist upon payments every pay-day from subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan, to continue to educate our patrons to this plan of paying up for all Liberty Loan subscriptions as soon as possible, and to HOLD THE BONDS after all payments are made. "The writer, as Chairman of the local district for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, worked, with other members, on those lines. Our salesmen were instructed to impress the purchaser of bonds that while advances would be made by the banks to carry the bonds, it is James Couzens, President of the Highland Park State Bank (Highland, Mich.), says: "The millions of individuals who subscribed to the Fourth Liberty bonds and have made initial payments either under the Government plan or under some other deferred payment plan have committed themselves to certain obligations. I am earnestly in the hope that every individual will realize this is an ear- nest obligation the same as though he signed a note or promised to pay in any other business transaction. No one appreciates more than I do what this means to our country as a whole, be- cause unless our millions of citizens who have signed this agreement tº purchase Fourth Liberty bonds realize their obli- gations, our whole country will be discredited. The word must not be passed that our people do not mean what they say. I hope our citizens will realize that this has been the one great opportunity for them to save and to put up an asset for emer- gency and for old age which they rever had an opportunity of do- ing before. I hope that they will not exchange these bonds for merchandise or other thing , because unless they are willing to make sacrifices to preserve this wonderful security, they will find themselves loaded up with things they do not need and with unsafe and fake investments." # # # # # # # # # # # # Liº-898 enount all but ab ºn be ex ected in - ///? TREASURY DEPARTIENT A / 3 ºn AU of PUBLICITY - Editors : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release - CHICAGO DISTRICT . ARE LIBERTY BOND HOLDERS SIEEEING ON THEIR flºº. *ºing to information obtained at the Government Bond Depºtº ºf the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicº only about 55,000,000 ºf the Fººty Bonds have to date been presented for conversion into 44% bonds ºf this amount ºlz,000,000 are 4% bonds of the First Liberty Loan coºl- Yºſted and 80,000,000 are second Liberty Loan 4% Bonds. There were ºd, in this Federal Reserve District a total of $88,000,000 First Converted Fours and 527,000,000 second Fours, It ºpears, therefore, that only about one-seventh of these holder ºf 4% bonds have taken advantage of the opportunity to secure 4.6 on their investment. º - --- - The 4º conversion bonds are now available for prompt delivery in **Pºº form. Deliveries of resistered bonds require more time for ope *** **Qunts, preparation of address plates, checking and verifying * Sº inscribing bonds, etc. - It is a iroblem to reach the millions of bond holders and male the ºr stººd that they will not automatically receive 4.7% interest on the Pºlº without action on their part. Strange as it may seem to the ave ºe investor, there is hardly a doubt that millions of these bonds ºrº in the hands of people who may put them away for years without even cli Pºº ºld collecting the interest cou ons. It is said that some of ths U. S. 3% bonds due August 1, 1918, have been presented for payment with all the matured coupons attached. If this could accur in the case of aſ issue of bonds of which only 63,000,000 were outstanding * º tº º -- - - - - - - * * *- :- Hi-Fi º ** in the hands of banks, almost ºthine - - - - - - * ~ F -, -, -, * > the nature of care lessness where billions of dollars- of bonds have been sold to many miilions of subscribers, It has been suggested that bank tellers may save many people from lºs by calling attention to the conversion privilege whenever coupons clipped from 4% Liberty Bond's ºe presented for collection but this plain ** ſº ºuce results only where coupons already due are presented , for tº he interest coupon date will occur after the conversion privilege has expired, on November 9, 1918. The conversion privilege on 4% bonds of both the First and Second Liberty Loans expires on November 9, 1918, and they cannot be converted into subsequent issues of United States bonds which might come out at a higher rate . Therefore, holders of 4% Liberty Loan bonds should in *Very Case present them for conversion. By converting these bonds they Will not only receive 4 of 1% additional interest, but after the conver sion period has expired (November 9, 1918) there will undoubtedly be -- -- - - -- - - º - - several points difference in the marizet price of the 4% and 44% bonds , It is best for bond holders to arrange for the conversion of tº . bonds through the bank which handled the original subscription, but º who have changed their place of residence can, without doubt, handle the matter through any convenient bank - - ºf itſ tº n ºf . ºf . It all ; : ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - TREASURY LEEARTMENT *// 7 - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY * A 4. º Editors : - II ºf TY LOAN \, , For immediate release, - CHICAGO DISTRICT . By J. B. McDougal, Governor, Federal Reserve Tank of Chicago, Seventh Federal Reserve District , On behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as Fiscal Agent of the United States Treasury Department charged with the du- - - * - - - - º - - - - - - - ties and responsibilities of handling Liberty Loans in this district, ºr - c. * . ... - - - - - - - - I wish to express sincere appreciºtion and most cordial thanks to - those workers in Liberty Loan activities who have not been in the pub l lic eye, but who, nevertheless, have some the work that they have bee called upon to so, both patriotically and cheerfully. This class represents a vast army composed of committee men and solicitors, bank clerks, railroad employes and employes of other firms and corpora- tions in Chicago and other cities and towns throughout t; he District. | Subscritptions in this district, number, in round figures, some 2,500,000, and the worn involved in the handling of this enor- mous number of subscriptions means intensive labor and long hours, and it is on the army of workers just mentioned that this burden falls to - - - - a large extent. This work is all done voluntarily, without expense to this bank or the Treasury Department. - An additional word l of regiºn sººn a here be expressed tº o those employers ºne have co-operated in such splendid manner and made such a S Sistance possible . Those workers who have been in the public eye have to some extent been repeid by the enthusiastic applause of the public, and While fully ºppreciative of their efforts this public acknowledgement is particularly directed to those other earnest patriots whe have worked so hard during the campaign without special notice by the £6 ſlº ºral ºils and ºne will necessarily continue to be active in this connection for S Cºle time after the campaign s over, in segregating subscriptions, tabulºng them and taking care of the details relat- ing to subsequent payments to be made . tº ſºlº Liſt ſiliº iſ lºt ºf . - º ##########, jºjº - //J ///7 TREASURY DEP, RTIENT - ÉUREAU OF P UBLICITY - A / º - Eðitºrs : LIBERTY ICAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT, WH. T'S BEHIND ITEKTY BONDE 7 hen a man asks you to lend him rºoney you ask "What security can you give?" "Well", he replies, "I need 1,000, and I have a farm that is worth º,000. I Will give you a mortgage ..." You lend hill the money and feel pretty safe, although you know that a thousand things may happen that will prevent the prompt payment of the interest, or make impossible the repay ent of the loan. And you know that something may cause the far to depreciate, though you do not expect any such result. Now the United States Government comes to you and says: "A ran in Europe has opened war on us and intends if he possibly can to get the upper hand of us and make us pay a prodigious amount of money as a price of peace. If the Kaiser licks us he may compel us to pay him ºo,000,000,000 for immunity from further aggression. What We need is Thirty Dollars a head from all American citizens to fight the Kais- er and make it irºpossible for him to mulct us. But you need not give the money. lierely lend the government your loose funds . You will receive a Liberty Loan Bond, backed by the absolute promise of the United states to repay the money with 4 +/4- percent interest. And the money you lend will be exempt from º taxes while the government is using it." Security? Why, the security is absolute . one year's produce in this country is greater six times over than the entire amount of money the Government oves on an its bonds. The property value behind the LIBERTY ICAN BONDS is not less than $250,000,000,000. Add to that the money value of the lives of the pro- ducing population of America--figuring on the lowest basis--and you make a total security too big for the hºman mind to grasp. lioral : IVEST IN ALL THE LIBERTY BONDS YOU CAN . ######################### - t Aſ LIBERTY LOAN CHICAGO DISTRICT , . . . . . 2 / 7 - TREASURY DEPARTMENT a , , , - Biºd of Fusiliciº A & 3 Editors : - For immediate release . (Publication of this is con- sidered vital by Gov. J. B. McDougal of the Federal Re- serve Bank of Chicago). By W. G. McAdoo, - º Secretary of Treasury. * º º The prºvinese of conversion which arose in consequence of the issue of 44% bonds of º Third Liberty Loan will expire Cº. November 9th and under existing law cannot be extended or renewed: Holders of these 4% bonds lose noºns by exercising the priviliº of conversion and gain 4% interest per annua, Holders of 4% bonds should not wait until the last moment to exercise the privilege of conversion but proceed to do so promptly. Delay will result in over-burdening the banking institutions of the country and the Tre Ty Department by making it necessary to handle all acaversions st the last moment, and may result in the loss of the privilege of Col. version altogether. - ****** ** **** **** are strongly advised to redº issue of registered bonds in or aer to protect themselves against the risk of loss, the fit and aestruction of their bonds. - Official Department circular No. 114, with forms ºf ap- mºon, has been distributed to Federal Reserve Banks and banks and trust companies throughout the United States . These lastitu- tions are asked, as a matter of patriotic service, to assist bond holders in exchanging 4% bonds for 4.4% bonds and in registering their bonds. # # # # # # # # # # # * 3: Tºº Pº º: - - AB I Dº! i tº ºf iºd. -- *. -- - *-- hiº, ig i ij y: º incº ºngº, ºve ºth ºedºrºl ºr gerve pistºic It is not enºugh to buy a Libert Lond . The war is rich is; it is ºf our soors. - - Being a e mºst he "bitterly pººr is bic, " and we musº - apply tº 8 bit ºr ºrio ºism constructively here as we would apply it destructively "ºver there.” - - Then we buy Tiberty Coºs vie pay out our hºrd earned money h for them. ºld ºn: lend our ſºme ºf . In every day business vie soc -º- L - - º ... → *- i. ºf ith ºc 3.36 Kid thºgiº tº ly re realize what the ºr is ºn to us, the more ſºoney we rid ºr money so far as possible oney with us. - 3 & Viſº. It is just the sºme in this cre a business of bºoking up ºr government--which means nothing more nor less than back- iing up Odº sºlves. - - The business house that has a Liberty Loºn honor flºg in the Window is ºith us, and that is the store in which we should spend our money. º ...t. - If we do tº t , we help the 6 more Liberty Polº’s. - + - … - - "He who is not th us is +--- ºw- - º *… & A Liberty Boºd button on the shows where he stºº as . . * Liberty Lees editorial or 3. where that ºublic is that there is in which is not ºn ple movement . - A Liberty io º - eaſte §ly t t O h T liº ism . It gays: "This deale 3. y 6. -i. curity behin more he is leading a hand over it * - ~~ iſiº ſº a It is our duty to stand shoulder to "tº Øtº the ranks ºr 5 st C. l. ºn stººd the promise 3 of oºl government, to put more money into inst us . " - lapel of the coat of a friend -- * or in a neºspºr thºs s--and the fine pºrt of it all catiºn in his whole ºils tº icº supporting every governmental - - - a flag in the window of a store spells American- r km. on 3 the resource 3 &nd the See ind - º - º to º, tº boys over : shoulder in busing ºf , º, anding shoulder to shºulder in boys in ºr , - *...* iſ ºff-fill º ** 1. - ſtºl-ſºlº iſºfºº ####iſiº ſºft ºf ºff - - - º/7 A yº º - TRT ASURY TEPARTMTNT BURE ( U Of TUBLIC TTY WAR LOAN OTC AN TATION EDITORS : For immediate release - LIBERTY ICAN E ANCH, CHICAGO DISTRICT . - Volºſ F. viºlory loan DvºřTISING CONTEST. The state of Michigan has adopted what is known as the Volun- teer Plan of Campaign in the coming Victory Liberty Loan drive, and, in order to give it the wire sº possible publicity, aseries of prizes are offered for the three bosº full-page advertisements dealing with the Volunteer Plan as applied to the Victory Loan. The Publicity Department of the Liberty Loan Committee of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, aiding the enterprising plan of the Michigan liberty Loan Committee, offers three prizes of "Certificates of Distinguished Service" under the seal of the United States Treasu- ry Department for the three best pieces of full-page advertising copy submitted to it. The contest is open to all, and everybody is urged to compete . - - The general idea of the volunteer Plan is as follows: - Why should one American patriot solicit another P A true pat- riot knows his duty without being reminded of it, so why should one patriotic citizen consume valuable time and effort soliciting another - - - - - The first three days of the campaign, which will open on April 21 and close on May 10, are set aside as Volunteer Days, when every patrict is expected to go to an advertising booth and volunteer his or her subscription to his utmost financial ability. For this patriotic service the subscriber is presented with a button known as the Volun- teer Subscriber's Button, which automatically becomes the badge of honor" in the community. A special design is being made for use in Michigan. - The rules governing the advertising contest for the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in Michigan are as follows: º (1) Advertisements must be written for full page size, the space to be occupied being 15x20 inches. - - (2) Ali advertisements should be brief, direct and positive . (3) All copy must be in the office of Ben F. McCutcheon, Director of Publicity, War Loan Organization, Seventh Federal Reserve District, 105 West Monroe Street, Chicago, by noon on March 28, 1919. (4) No suggestions for illustrations need accompany advertise - ments, - - (5) The contestant 's name and full address should be carefully written or typed on manuscript submitted . - # # # # # # # # # # - //J lºsuº pºp prºnº *//7 Bºlſ UP PUBLICITY A WAR LOAN ORGANIZATION º *3. T, BTRTY LOAN BRANCH CHICAGO DISTRICT . EDITORS : For immediate release - The Publicity Department of the War Loan Organization of the seventh Federal Reserve District, 105 West Monroe Street, Chicago, announces that the Volunteer Victory Liberty Loan Advertis- ing contest, for the best full-page "ads" to be used in advertising the Loan in Michigan, closed in Chicago on April 1, and prizes for t; he three Winning contributions have been awarded as follows : First prize -- James E. Baird, Pontiac. Second prize-E. G. Weir, Dowagiac . Third prize --R . Calvert Haws, Benton Harbor . - Honorable mention also was made of further excellent "copy" furnished by James E. Baird, Ponties, and R. Calvert Haws, Benton Harbor . The prize to be awarded to each of the winners is a Cer- tificate of Distinguished Service with the seal of the United States - - Treas ºry Department upon it. The prize winners will be notified of their successful achievement by Ben F. McCutcheon, Director of Publicity of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, . # # # # # # # # * * * //7 | E3 ºf tº RT ITN. T. - LUR. A U OF TELIC II Y A 43. WAR I. Of N Dº (, NIT, ATION EDITORS: For immediate release : LIBERTY LO N E A CH CHICAGO DISTRICT . MICH IG E VI CºCº LOAN LEADTRS IN CONFERENCE - An enthusiastic meeting of the state and county officials of the War loan organization at Chicago Friday April 21, was attended by virtually a full led egation from Michigan, with a big representa: tion from other states of the Sever, ºn district . The War Loan or garll - zation from Michigan, including the great majority of the men and women county chairmen, as well as the leaders of the state organiza- tion attended the convention in a body headed by Frederick R. Fent on , state director of sales. The delegation was accompanied by the Uni- versity of Michigan band. in the Michigan delegates were identified by wearing the State University colors -- maize and blue . The convention, which was held at the LaSalle hotel , was attended by delegates from all of the five states in the Seventh Fed- eral Reserve District. C. H. Schweppe, director of campaign for the Sevent District, was chairman at the general meeting, and the prin- cipal speakers were Maj. -Gen. Leonard Wood ; Lafayette Young, Jr. . . Arthur H. Wardenberg. Frank Odell, of Omaha, Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Kellogg Fair bank. - The speeches were of an inspirational kind, and were enthus- iastically received by the state representatives. Maj. -Gen. Wood aroused particular entrusiasm with a short speech appealing to the people to "finish the job" as an act of good faith towards the govern- ment, and as appreciation of the work of the army and navy . =ºes of G and sepias, whose fame as an orator has become nation wide, stirred the meeting with an eloquent appeal for support of the coming loan as a duty which no citizen can afford to shirº , - Following the general meeting the Michigan delegation had a special busire ss session at the LaSalle at which plans were mapped out for the colling Victory Liberty Loan campaign. This meeting was marked by a display of "pep" which promises well for the success of the loan campaign Frederick R. Fenton, director of sales for Michigan, pre- sided at this meeting . The spealers were Brig. -Gen. Louis C , Covell, , U. S. A ; Mrs Edgar Allen, state chairman for women; Walter S. Foster, Chairman Ingham county; Charles F. Hill iker, director speakers' bureau for Michigan, Claud H Corrigan, Aistrict organizer, Russell W. Boyle. , acting director of publicity for Michigan, and Mrs. Clara B. Mills, state organizer for women. 3. - Later at a dinner given in his honor, the delegates listened to an inspiring address by Hon. Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury, who outlined his viºs in regard to the coming campaign. According to the Michigan state officials of the War Loan Organization, the ºr climinary work of organizing the state is about finished , and everything is in readiness for a red hot campaign, which will put the state over the top for the Victory Liberty Loan with a good margin . - - - Felix J. Streyckmans, director of the foreign language division, outline à pians for the work among the foreign language people . # # * : ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ºn 7 - tainable t a disco Unit Willing to sº il these bonds at a los ºf J A tº 3. T tº a tº ºn air. A tºrnº Trº ºn Tº a - - - º . . . . . ." iv. WAR ºn N ºn I. T.Ion LIBºº Lº N RAI C4 Easters: For immediate release . BUREAU OR PUBLIC II Y .." - - - CHICAGO DISTRICT . One of Chicago's best ºn tº assers ºnes. A. Hamill, president of the Corn Exchange National bºni, in a resent interview - referred to Liberty bonds a s” the premier investºnent security of the world," and advises everybody fortunate enough to possess War loan Securities not on tº hold onto those they now possess, but to as quire as many more as possible, as "they will rise in value a S S Üre & S the sun." "To saari rice at a loss what is with out doubt the premier in- V& Stinº nt Security of the World -- could anything seem less reasonable?" asked Mr. Hameill. "And that is wººt some of the holders of Liberty bonds scem to have been joing. Owing to the fact that these issues h ave been sold in so large volume and in so short a time, they have appeared too rapidly to permit of their permanent and complete absorp. tion by the 'ultimate consumer, and for this rººs on they are now ob- "We all know that no security could be more sound, and it is easy to understand that many wealthy and shrewd investors are glad to buy the se bonds at the in prº sent prices, but that anyone should be s is indeed a riddle . "In holding them one has everything to gain and nothing to lose ; in selling them at the present ºr ice one has nothing to gain and everything to lose . - - "As soon as our immense and immediate war financing is accomp- lished and our people with their wonderful wealth - producing ability have the little time which will be necessary for the in thoroughly to digest these securities, the price of our liberty bonds will rise as Surely as the sun, and it will be strange if their holders do not en- joy the profit which they deserve for having bought these bonds when their money was needed by the government. - - "The facts being so, it seems really unnecessary to appeal to patriotism in order to put an end to this unwise selling, and yet it ºuld be well, perhaps, to have everyone understand how important it is , unless actually compelled by circumstances, not to part with the liberty bonds at this time, and how each sale in itself is taking just so much away from the success of the campaign in which we are all eag- ºr to take part, and how it makes just that much more difficult the campaign for the victory loan . "It may some times be difficult to be patriotic but how can it be so hºn patriotism and self-interest walk so hand-in-hand 7 From every point the salº of liberty bonds this year is an equally regret - table mistake . " # # - A - - */ / / º 3. TREASURY CEP RTIENT EURE AU OF PUBLICITY - - - - - Aº OR 1 - U__º OF MICHICAN II CH ºf R LOAN ORſ. .NIZ.'ſ iON A MESSA LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH E. O.PE IV EY Nº. 5 ºf IN THE STATE WILL CHICA, Q DISTRICT RUN - - - Frederick R. Fenton, Director of Sales for Michigail. Michigan with a quota of $110, 925,000 for the Victory Liberty Loan did itself proud by exceeding its quota the fin sº dº of the drive. By so doing it made a name for itself of being the first state in the nation to secure its quo gº . As Michigan is leading the states in the amount of subscrip- tions secured relative to its quota, so Detroit is in the van of the big cities of the country. With subscriptions of approximately $80,000,000 and the campaign still going, the Michigan metropolis is setting a final record for the final loan which it is doubtful will be a proached by any city of magnitude in the country . Hany of the other big cities and populous counties of the state have also established magnificent records, showing that in the hearts of the people the Victory Liberty Loan is at one and the same time a Victory and a Thanksgiving Loan. - With all the splendid work of the big cities and the counties that have already registered their vote of gratitude for the work of the government of the United States, and their appreciation of the noble work of our army and navy there is to be no let up in the cam- paign until the last day of the campaign. Leaders of the Loan organization for Michigan, not only are not relaxing their efforts for a single moment, but are preparing to go - a head with renewed energy and determination until not only every county in the state has secured the quota assigned to it, but until every - ship as weii is over The ºrinº tier is tº meiºs the final ºr - - paign Michigan's inimous indorsement of the work of the na- Gion. In ºrite of big subscriptions which have helped put the state ov : , the loan is to be popular and it is expected to have the distri- ion record the best of any loan. º Cº- "Michigan is registering its vote of confidence in the nation, - in its vote of gratitude to the men who made victory possible, and re Will be no rest in this ca in eign until ever man and women in the t ck R. Fen son, in ector of sº les for "a my lichigan men who offered their lives for their country ºre back home, in the shops nd on the fºrms . The money we are sub- scribing now id for t e preparation hich unºfounded Cermany and o ght to the leaders of that country the realization of the futility of further fie in . The Victory loan is nº ine for Victory and for brine ing of the boys back home. "It is fine that iſichigan was the first state over , that Det- roit was the first big city to reach its quota, but this is not enough . Every county must go the whole route; and every township in every couri- ty must do its part. Citizenship means more than ever before, but it will not mean what it should if there is any laggard in this great loan campaign - "We must make lichigan's vote of gratitude unanimous. " gº # / ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; # º//7 - A ºf 3. TREASURY DEPART ſºlº I - EURIAU Ol' PUBLICITY - - WAR LOAN OFC NIZATION - Ei) ITORS - For immediate releas LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH - - CHICAGO DISTRICT. Liberty Loan Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, April 18, 1919. to Tin Pºoru of Michigan. Just on the eve of the Victory Liberty Loan Michigan leaders gave out the following interviews: Michigan is ready for the Victory Liberty Loan. We have a complete organization throughout the sixty-eight Counties which has had the experience of four Liberty Loans, and are ready to start Monday with the determination to not only secure the quota assigned to us by the Government but also to obtain a substantial over subscription. The fighting Michigan 32nd Division loaned their all for victory, and it is now up to the members of the fighting Michigan Division at home to subscribe to the Victory Liberty Loan to the limit of their ability if they are to measure up to the standard of the Michigan soldiers. The citizens of Michigan have responded promptly to every demand of the War, and with the successful flotation of the Victory Liberty Loan Michi- gan's record will continue to be 100%. - FREDERICK. R. FENTON, FOR MICHIC A.N. º The eve of the opening of the Victory Loan campaign finds the Women of Michigan ready. The spirit throughout the State is fine. Not a Word of pessimism; not a doubt of success. Reports of Coun- ty Chºirmen give assurance that they have their organization well in hand. The Women are lined up ready to go forward Monday morn- ing with unswerving devotion to Michigan's honor and a determina- tion to make this a Victory Loan in the full sense of the word. GRACE P. ALLEN , CHAIRMAN MICHIGAN WOMAN S LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE . - - The following inspiring poem written by Edwin L - Quarles, of Grand Rapids, Mich. has been dedicated to the Victory Liberty Loan. - A.J. ºf 7. / º - - TRIA SURY DEP ... Tº IT - BU ºf U on public I Tºy To ºdi tors: The following copy WAR LOAI ºr CAN 2 IOI. is offered for in- - L. B. F.TY I, IV ºf CH - mediate release . CHICAGO D I Tº ICT. - i ºn interesting announcement from Washington, in connection * * * * ºth the coming Victory Liberty Loan campaign, is that the or * - - - in the Victory drive will be awarded medals made from captured Gerº ºf Cºlº O'º - An official message to this effect was received from the Treasury Department by Ben F. McCutcheon, Publicity Director of the Liberty Loan Organization, sever tº Fe ºg ral Reserve District, the text of which follows: "You are at liberty to make full use of the an- ºrce at that the Treasury Department will ºard medals tº de from cºrtured German cºnnon to 11 orº- ºrs during the Victor, Liberty to an ºr ign. The º . . . . . . . I'm 6 ºr , building and tº or of the on the tº ºverse side certification of Loºr parti- ft for ºr graving the nºne of the f cip tion, $pºce is º recip; cºnt. " - - - "I he artily ºpprove ºf this action of the Government in - casting up renor medals made from Gerºn cannon to award to Victºry Libe tº lºan workers", sº id Charles E. Schweppe, Director of Cºm- º paign for the seventh Federal Reserve pistrict. "It supplies an ad- t fie º º ded incentive to supreme endeavor and surely will have a good º º º -- tº ill be shoº in increased seles. The averding of these neº. ºde from cannon captured from the be should result in bring ºne us - a full complement of ºorize rs". ºr º/, / A 3 IRºstºv pºp ºr nºnp - WAR 10AM of GANIZ. A Troy Editors: It is requested that LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH you give as mºch space BTREAU ().H. PUBLICITY as possible to the fol- CHICAGO DISTRICT . lowing: gan in the fifth gover hºtent ioan Gºſſº º- The Women of Michi paign will work under a new leader, Mrs. g. Edgar Allen of petroit has been appointed state chairman of women by the national Woman's Liberty Loan committee . Iſrs - Allen takes the place made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Delphine Dodge Ashbaugh of Detroit. ºs. As neau was state chairman in the preceding loans and was forced to resign by reason of ill health. Mrs. Allen, her successor, was city on airman of Deº - roit in the Fourth loan. She will mee her headquarters during the fifth campaign in her home city. - Mrs. Caroline Brink of C+and Rapids, who has been state vice chairman of women in the p - _ - - - - continue in that office during the fifth campaign. receding loan * J. - º/7 A /3 SURY DEPART TMT To Eitors. It is the desire of the tº ſº ºf ATION ºr easury Department that as much Tº ſº PIE I, ICITY ºnce as possible be given tº the BºAU ºf loving publicity matter. CHICAGO bismº Ign. The Government is asking for a spring billboard cleaning before the victory Liberty Loan campaign begins. Hundreds of thousands of tattered old posters from former patriotic drives still cling to walls, windows and fences in the Seventh Federal Reserve a strict. It is recommended now by the heads of the district and state loan organizations that citiz as everywhere get their premises in order for the new loan, great patriotic enterprise, it is pointed out was displayed by the people in offering window space, bill boards, t; hº Walls of handsome new business buildings and other space for the post- ers of the various Liberty Loans and for the Red Cross, United War work and other such cenpaigns. positions such as no ºnount of money acana buy for use by advertising agencies in the usual course of peace-time propaganda, it is explaine 3, ware of fered free tº the government and to the semi-Governmental agencies heliping to care for the armed forces. - Property owners and tenants all oved their places of business and resi- sence to be plastered over with these bills. Now, however, the patriotic gift of this space will not be com- plete until all old posters have been removed ana everything made ready for the reception of the new posters that are now being printed at Washington for distribution, some ten million of the se will be sent but to the various districts. It is greatly desired by the loan autho ities that no trace of for mer literature be left to compete With the appeal of the Victory Liberty Loan posters. The old dirty posters have long since iisappeared from the regular billboards, but thousands of them are still in evidence in empty store windows, on tences and build- ing walls, #################### ///7 º TREASURY DT PART, ITNT WAR II) AM. O. C. ANIZATION Edit or S : LIBERTY LOAN BR NCH - . For immediate release . BUREAL OF PUBLICITY CHICAGO Dº STRICT . - Two fine new ships of the Emergency Fleet Corporation will soon be honoring the state of Michigan by cºrrying to the commer ºial ports of the world the names, "City of Flint," and "City of Detrºit. " These are the names selected by the two Michigan cities awarded the prize for the greatest percentage of subscribers in the Fourth Liberty Loan, The government set aside two ships for this purpose for each of the five states in the Chicago federal reserve district . Arrangements are being now completed for the christening of the two honor ships awarded Michigan. - As recently announced Flint carried off first place amóng cities of more than 10,000 people in the Fourth Ioan competition by securing bond subscriptions in that campaign from 73 - 26 percent of her population, based on the 1910 census. Detroit was second among the large cities with a 55 percent subscription. Grand Rapids came in third with 53.99 percent of her inhabitants on record, Lansing was fourth with 51.9 percent, Adrian was fifth with 32, 86 percent, Bay City sixth with 32 per cent and Saginav seventh, with 29, 93 percent. Of the cities under the 10,000 population limit, Alma and East Lansing were found to have secured the highest percentage of subscriptions. Alma had 80.8 and East Lansing 61 percent. These cities would have been awarded the honor of naming battle tanks, but as the production of tanks was stopped by the signing of the armistice it is now hoped to secure permission to have small merchant ships named after the tº WLIIIſle Y S - - Preparations are now being made for naming committees from among prominent loan workers of Detroit and Flint to attend the launch- ing of the ships to be named after these cities, and to help the ves- sels down the ways with the customery honors. For Flint Mrs. Marcia Dort , wife of J. Dallas Dort, general Liberty Loan chairman, has been named as Spons or and will break the traditional bottle of champagne over the prow of the new Emergency Fleet liner and christen her , "City of Flint." For Detroit William Livingstone, general chairman of the Detroit and Wayne county Liberty Loan committee, has been chosen as Sporn SO r , - As under the laws governing the registration of vessels it is not allowable to have two ships with the same name, there may be a gonflict over "City of Detroit". In that case the name "Wayne" has been selected as second choice. No date has yet been set for the launchings, - # * * * * * * * Aſ TRE SURY DEPARTITNT º/ 7 AR iſ M. QRC NIZATION Editºr S : LIBFºº Tºº BR ANCH 44, 3 For immediate releº- EUREAU OF PUBLICITY CHIC ACO DISTRICT . KEEP THT 10 N FIRES EURNING - --- -------- --- est of the Seventh Liberty Losr officials for Chicº go and the res - Federal Reserve District issued statements today wºrn ing the worliers in the organization that nothing ºn d be permitted to de' ºf the car - rying out of the plans for the fic at ºn of tº cºor Lu Yeºty Loan which positively, according to Georegºry of the Treasury will be placed before the people not later than April 21 . - It is pointed out by the Liberty Loan officials that the reports from Washington are merely concerning the details of the big loan to be floated in the Spring, and that no matteº what the nature of the securities, whether notes or bonds, the Liberty Loan workers have a job cut out for them and they must move swiftly and with greater vim and determination than ever before . . - Charles H. Schºeppe, director of the Victory Liberty Loan cam- paign, made the following statement in his appeal to the workers and the public : "Now that Secretary of the Treasury Glass has definitely announced that the Victory Liberty Loan campaign will be launched not later than April 21 and that it will be an intensive popular campaign with a view of obtaining the best possible distriºti or , workers in all branches of the general organization must leave nothing undone to crown the campaign with the degree of success that the great war victory warrants. "We don't know yet what means the Government will adopt - to raise the money whether through short term Treasury notes - or long term bonds, but we o ºrow that our job has been cut out for us and that we must move swiftly and tº gº a ter. Vim and determination this ºn ever before . It is traditional that the American people never start anything they can a finish, and I have no doubt that, whatever plan the Government may adopt , the American people will deliver the goods . The working out of details by Congress and the Treast ry Department is necessary, and it should not be all oved to inter- fere with the general plan to be in readiness to meet the task with every inch of fighting armor on . The authorities at Wash- ington have the interests of the people in mind , and I have rio doubt that aside from the natural patriotic appeal the campaign will offer highly attractive inducements in an investment Way. "The Secretary of the Treasury has laid emphasis on the necessity of getting the widest distribution of the Government Securities, and he depends on the loyal Liberty Loaf of ºniº, a - tions to accºmplish that . But the organizations, no mºi º ºr how earnest and vigorºus they may be in their efforts, cannot get very far unless the public recognizes the necessity of success and lends its best support . The American pº or le can be as ºut- riºtic in time of peace as in war , and we all must realize that our part of the big war job will not have been finished until the bills are paid and the victory made complete . "The organization in this district will measure up to the rosiest expectations, as in the past , and at the end of the cam- paign the district will have every reason to feel proud of its practical patriotism." # # # # # 4 || || || TEASURY DEPARTMENT - - º V, AR LOAN F.C. AN IA ION º, to Y S : For iſºme iliate release : LIETRTY LO M. ET ANCH Please give vide St Jos- EUR FAU YE PUBLICITY sible publicity. - CHICAC () D [.. Tº TC'ſ . - --- - --- Twº A Tº ſº. A Tº T. j. - OM IT. WICTORY IT LERTY TO AM C AMT TCM . Liberty Loan workers throughout the district are askine or information about press reports that the "Fifth Liberty Loan is cºn- celled", etc. - - These reports are entirely wrong. Secretary Glass has officially announced that the Vic tory Liberty Loan will be offered as per pro ram. It will be a popular loan. It will be flo ted by a popul r campair, and popular subscrip- tion. The same organization which successfully handled previous Liberty Loans is counted upon to handle this one . Every worker is expected to stay with the job and work hard- er than ever for the success of the Victory Liberty issue. The Government is cle ºr ing up the war bills and expenditures are running very he vy. To obtain funds for current payments heavy borrowing has been done at the banks. The temporary loans against March taxes must be taken up to rive ºusiness the necessary credit facilities for spring business. To meet the situation thus set up, and to carry out the revenue arrangements enacted by the new law, it Will be necessary to go to the people for very liberal support of the Victory Liberty Loan, - - º - - - - - - - - . . Secretary Glass urges the Liberty Loan organization every- Where in the country to disreg d all irresponsible reports and gº on with their plans for the widest possible distributiºn of the C Oſlº Ig L O3 (l º º - w Only by generous subscribing by everybody in America can the Situation be met . Therefore patriotism requires steady Saving by all citizens and hearty co-operation with Liberty Loan V, ºrkers, so that the Loan may be heavily over subscribe a . No Liberty Loan worker has the right to throw a ºn his job while this Victory Liberty Loan is in sight . On the contrary, every Worker who has done nº coic things for tºe success of the previous is- sº shºuld make it a matter of personal pride to stay with the ºl. º and bring the urgent war financing to a triumphant comple- 1 C (1 . Whether the Victory Loan issue be bonds or notes makes little difference . The security will be a solemn pſ omise of the U. S. Govern- ſhººt to pay. The rate and terms will be favorable ańd the investment offered will be the best in the world. Spike all Canards. Don r + resign. Keep up preliminary work. Make sure that the Vic tory Liberty to a gºal ºv. the widest and best possible popular distribution. Nºtiºnal honor a Americ ºr prosperity are at issue . Now get busy . - # * * * * * * * * * * \ ºf J y ſº TREASURY ºr ARTMENT BUREAU 05. PUBLICITY - - WAR LOAN ORGANIZATION TO EDITORS: For immediate release . LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH, CHICAGO DISTRICT . "Michigan" stands for Valor and Victory because of the deeds of the 32nd Division. They're home again. All except those who made the "supreme Sacrifice" in the fearful fighting from Belleau Wood, through Soissons, Chateau. Thierry and the Argonne-Meuse to Sedan and Victory. The Dead-- those glorious sons of Michigan who hallowed France with their blood-- for them homage and tears and undying gratitude. For their comrades of the 32nd Division who landed at New York last Saturday--for the 119th Field Artillery and the Michiganders of the several unit 5 who are on the way--the State of Michigan will spare no gesture of honor and no symbol of glory. The "Terribles"--the Michiganders of the 32nd--come back with the glory of having fired more shells and penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other Division of the American Expeditionary Forces - They wrote the name of their State in letters of immortality in the sev- en terrible letters which spelled the "VICTORY" of Nov. 11, 1918. In a few days the 32nd Division will be again on the old home soil of Michigan. Every loyal Michigander will cheer them and pay them every token of honor. But how can they be sufficiently honored --how can the sacred memory of their Dead be in small measure recompensed? - - - - --- - only in one way: - but one way. Michigan must match every Service chevron, every wound chev- ron, every D. S. C. and Croix de Guerre with the Victory Loan Button : and the State must produce as grand a re-ord of Victory Loan devotion as their Divisional record of glory on the victorious fields that led to Sedan and Victory over the enemy . Their deeds are their patent of nobility and patriotism. Your Victory Liberty Loan button is yours - - If you will not do your duty in putting over the Victory Loan you have no rightful share in the thrill of pride Michigan feels for her Heroes of the 32nd Division - Buy, Buy BUY : ; Buy all you can and then borrow from the fu- ture to buy more . # # # # # # # # # # # # | * / 17 A43 TREASURY DEPARTMENT BłJREAU OF PUBLICITY WAR I. Of N ORGANIZATION EDITORS: For immediate release. T, IBERTY LOAN BRANCH - CHICAGO DISTRICT, Maj. -Gen. Grote Hutcheson, U. S. Army, has sent out from his headquarters at Camp Custer, Michigan, the following stirring appeal to the people of Michigan and the Seventh Federal Reserve District, to "Finish the Job" by giving hearty and victorious support to the Victory Liberty Loan, "with the same eagerness and determination that our sol- diers in France exhibited at Chateau. Thierry, at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne-Meuse. Following is the text of the official letter signed by - Maj.-Gen. Hutcheson: "You are about to launch a Victory Liberty Loan campaign. The government is approaching the citizens of the United States to se - cure money necessary to liquidate war debts and to pay the cost for maintenance of the large army that was created for the purpose of making the lives, the property and the homes of its citizens safe and secure, and to protect our children and our children's children from the necessity of the sacrifice and the loss that was forced upon us and the rest of the World in the great War. "The signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, stopped in large measure our constructive war activities and it also stopped the killing of our soldier boys, but it stopped only those things. The great military machine that had been created and was nearing completion in November, 1918, will take time to dissemble, and the rocess of getting back to a peace basis and of returning our hun-- dreds of thousands of soldiers to civil life promptly and in good health will require the expenditure of huge sums of money which the government believes should be secured in large part from the people directly in the form of personal loans. "A year ago we read the press dispatches from the European battle-fields with blanched faces and palpitating hearts; then, there was no thought of anything except united effort; we then thought and were impelled by that thought that we must do every- thing in our power to achieve success. "Our best military ability in consultation and conference with the highest military capacity of other countries felt that the war might be finished in the Fall of 1919. All our efforts, hence, were concentrated in a solution of that mighty problem. The sud- den collapse of the German Empire and the German Army could not be foreseen in a military sense, and the only safe and same thing for the government of the United States to do was to push ahead with the war preparations with the greatest speed possible. This was done, --and those preparations in no small degree are respon- sible for the collapse of Germany. "The time has now come for all of us to get together in the same co-operative spirit that impelled us to effort and to action a year ago, and to do our part now in helping the government in a way that will least disturb social life and domestic conditions. - "Let all do their part, each within the limit of his capacity, in the Victory Loan campaign ºbout to open, --with that same eager - mess and determination that our soldiers in France exhibited at Chateau-Thierry, at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne-Meuse.” # # # # # # # # # # # # # A/J - º//7 º TRT ASURY Dº ITNT EURF U (). PUBLIC I & - - WAR LO M. O'RC ANIZ iſ ION E IT OF S: FOR IMI, DIATT REL CE . L1 ERTY LO M. BRANCH CHICAGO LIST ICT. To Editors: Every publication throughout the Seventh Federal Reserve District can be of material aid to the War Loan Organization, in connection with the Victory Tiberty Loan campaign, by joining in the crusade against the "Shylocºs" engaged in the "sharking" of Libert Bonds, and there by swindling the owners of the same. The way in which the publications of this District can be of assistance in putting a quietus on this mulodorous practice und bring . iſ a the Swindlers to justice is by ºblishing regularly some such in- witution to their readers ºs this ; - WATCH itſ STOC, Pºl) L S : - - - - - -º-º-º-º-º- READERS: Get the names and addresses of all persons and companies offering you speculative or doubtful stocks and securities, particularly in ex- - change for your LIBF. T. BOINDS or - - WAR SA VICS GT \l 3, ºrith copies of - their "literature . " Mail them promptly for investigation to the ºn tº Tº A ºr Tº a tº FE DET, AL TRA Tº Lº COMMISSION, Washington, D. C. - - - - - - - -- - --- - - --- - - - - HELP THº VICTORY LIB RTY I, (), N - - - -- --- Immediately upon receipt of such information the Federal Trade Commission will call for full reports in proper cases. - The Federal Trade Commission Act provides a penalty of a fine or imprisonment for those who fail to or falsely report to the Commis- Sion, - - It may make public so much of the information obtained as may be in the public interest, and it can or event unfair methods of compe- tition and misrepresentations in the commerce. We believe that all patriotic publishers in the Seventh Federal Reserve U is trict, º have stood by the liberty Loan Organization so loyally in the pºst, will respond to this request, and ithout delay. º f # º l # º i. º: # # - º - ºn f * # - - - - *//7 ºf 3 TRTASURY DEP ART N T URE AU OR PUBLIC ITY - WAR LOAN ORG AN IV. ATION EDITORS: For immediate release - LIPERTY LOAN E ANCH - CHICAGO DISTRICT . - VQuº VICTORY LOAN DVCRTISING CONTEST: - The state of Michigan has adopted what is known as the Volun- teer Plan of Campaign in the coming Victory Liberty Loan drive, and, in order to give it the ºldest possible publicity, aseries of prizes are offered for the three to gº full-page advertisements dealing with the Volunteer Plan as applied to the Victory Loan. The Publicity Department of the Liberty Loan Committee of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, aiding the enterprising plan of the Michiº an Iiberty Loan Committee, offers three prizes of "Certificates of Distinguished Service" under the seal of the United States Treasu- ry Department for the three best pieces of full-page advertising copy submitted to it. The contest is open to all, and everybody is urged to compete . The general idea of the Volunteer Plan is as follows: - - Why should one American patriot solicit another 2 A true pat- riot knows his duty without being reminded of it, so why should one patriotic citizen consume valuable time and effort soliciting another - r * - --- OV - C *** - * -- - -- - - - - * - - - The first three days of the campaign, which will open on April 21 and close on May 10, are set aside as Volunteer Days, when every patriot is expected to go to an advertising booth and volunteer his or her subscription to his utmost financial ability. For this patriotic service the subscriber is presented with a button known as tº Volun- teer Subscriber's Button, which automatically becomes the badge of honor" in the community . A special design is being made for use in Michigan. - The rules governing the advertising contest for the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in Michigan are as follows: - (1) Advertisements must be written for full page size, the Space to be occupied being 15x20 inches. (2) All advertisements should be brief, direct and positive . - (3) All copy must be in the office of Ben F. Mo Cºltcheon, Director of Publicity, War Ioan Organization, Seventh Federal Reserve District, 105 West Monroe Street, Chicago, by noon on March 28, 1919. (4) No suggestions for illustrations need accompany advertise- ments. - (5) The contestant is name and full address should be carefully written or typed on manuscript submitted, # # # # # # # # # TRESURY DE 1 ºur U ºf El IOI jºy º - Cººl I. TICN EDITOR, . For immediate release . IBERTY LOAN ER IN CH - CHICAGO DISTRICT . + º- + The unselfish, retriotic action of a majority of the publisher: ºf Q 9 ºn d ily newspapers in entering into an agreement to refuse to ºccº ºf the advertising of so-called "financial pirates, " who offer to + + - t }. ºº is and stoo of doubtful value for Liberty boºs, means ºf Sºving of millions of dollars annually to the holders of Uncle Sam War Securities in the Seventh Federal Reserve District. . Co-operating With the newspa ºr publishers, the Chicago Associa 5 i on of Co merge is exerting its full strength in a vigorous crusade -- ºf fał & advertising, which, officials of the Association state, ººses a loss of 500,000,000 yearly among the people of this country . . - The "sharking" of Liberty bonds by "Shylocks" and the use of tº e advertising columns of the newspapers by promoters of wildcat stock 90 geºs, offering to take Liberty bonds in return for securities pal- º blº "insecure" and which cºme of rilously near to being out-and-out ºwindling, aroused the newspaper owners and the Association of commerce to united action to put a stop to the crooked practice and protect the hºlders of Liberty bonds who are animated by an impulse to et rich Quick . - This movement should go a long way toward stamping out the --- -- - - º - - - - - - - - - *Windling, financial pirate, " who has been waxing fat off the incredu- lity of Liberty bond holders. - - Prefacing their agreement to refuse advert sing from individua ºld its er - ++ * -- ~~ --- - - ." - - T ------- tº t "hundreas ºr to persuade the public to exchange its Liberty bonds for other secur £3 s. º - T. E. tº - C --- - - - - - - C of disreputabl Libert boilº - state E. their po * everything in e brokers are doi. ties, a great portion of which are wºrthless, " the Chicago publishers ºr ced the following rules, "to be used for hasty reference only, as he ºns of recognizing cuickly the more obvious forms of objectionable go " which also are submitted to the other publishers throughout the District ( 1) ( 2) (4) Never accept copy from a firm offering to exchange other Securities or commodities for Liberty bonds. Never accept copy from a firm, even though it is reco º- men in a good secºn rities, unless you hºve first investi- gated its star in g : - Do not accept copy that contains: (a) ºr tr ments; (b) prospective earnings directly compared ºith the earnings of old, established concerns; (c) suspicious use of Such expressions as "absolutely safe," "best investment ever offered the American public, " "immense profits on a small investment," "you take no chance , " etc.; (d) guaran tee or promise of large dividents from future earnings be the earning power has been thoroughly demonstrated ; (e) guarantee on the pºrt of the broker to resell the Stock at # higher pride than it is selling for , (f) promises of ºn ad vºice in the stock after a specific date . Do not accept copy concerning any unproved prospects and developments, such S oil or mining securities, unles very carefully invº tige tº d and convinced of their positiº ºn r i t , - In case copy is received too short a time before re us ste § insertion to permit of proper investigation, it should in all cases be held up pending investigation unlº 3s the pro- position advertised is obviously reputable . - Extravagarit ś tº t e - --- * º TR º PART I IT - 3. A Pºll CITY ºf J G \| AT iſ N ºn ITORS: For immediate release : i Ali I Rºi CH * - Čii ºº) ºl. STRICT . / An immense amount of preliminary work for the Victory Liberty Loan campaign, which starts April 21, has been done the last Week in all of the five states in the Seventh Federal Reserve district In each of the states the lead or s have been on the job day and night at- tending meetings of the county organizations and special meetings of the quota committees. Preparations have been made for a whir wind or - atorical campaign preceding the inauguration of the loan, and many º, i. already have rouging meetings . haº - º - º S º s toºs and ci. At all the meetings held so far there has been a surprising ºnount of optimism and ºn tº siasm displayed , and leaders of the War loan organization are much better pleased over the outlook than they were a few weeks ago . will conduct tours of the tanks and war ex will be band tours by divisions of the - º 1. - -, … 1 º -- * … t. - Eigh of the gº tº 3 3 ſº º - - - º: º- +, --- rains, and the e a º º tº gº skes Picº jagºs º bands, General ly the itineraries of these tour have been arrºn C and between now and April 21 every county in every ºn this district will have been visited either by the tanks or b. the War Exhibit Trains. In many instances speakers will accompany the tanks and trains, and at most points sº ecial Victory Loan meetings have been arranged . - - The War Loan organizations of eight Illinois counties will have a special group meeting at Mattoon the coming week. In the other counties there will be special organization meetings to arrange the fi nº details for the campaign, as well as to map out speaking and ex- hibition programs. Loan workers in this state are eager for the ºn- paign to start, and express confidence that the excellent recoid nºte by Illinois in previous loans will be equalled in the coming drive Community meetings will feature the Indiana organization Worl, the coming week in every county in the state . The battle t. began their trip through Indiana y sterday ( ºriday) in nº e º 'º' - stop at South Bend, Lafayette and Clinton. At those towns the re were addresses by well known speakers and special patriotic programs . The tanks will cover the entire state, going over land from town to town, so that virtually the whole population of the state will hººve he view of the ee new instruments of war fare . Indiana county chairmen, as well - as the state leaders are optimistic over the outlook . . a kºs º- In Michigan county meetings have been slated for the coming Wesk over the entire state , and in some a ſistances these meetings of the cot it; cºgºnizations have been held alſº eady. Frederick R. Fenton, state 6 ºctor of sºlº e s icº Michigan, has been in consºrt attend ºnce & C ºr meetings at if ferent points in the state the last week , The cities of Alma and East Lansing, lichiº, will have the first view of the battle tail s, the sº two cities being the winners of the prizes for the best à sº but i on showing in the last loon. Starting at the 26 two cities, ſº tººks will visit each county in the state, accompani their crews of retired solºier8 - War exhibit trains will start on their ivi ºleraries tº coºli ºg vºtek. - Two trips hºve ºeen erranged for Iowa of the War exhibit trains and of the clue jacket band and drill squads. A state wide itin- erºr; for the battle tanks is also on the cºal ºn program for this st te . Sºeciº 1 county meetings are being hold tº cuzhout the state, and S tº gº dº ºctor G. I. Mollider ºnd his assis tº its hºve beer working overtine geºcºng everything in re dine C & for the campaign. Notable soe Kers ha e been sectº ed to dºess the Victory Loºn meetings . In is consin he preliminary campaign work is progressiº avorably, and ºn enthusic sm is reported by the county chairſºn. As in other states ºne tours of the tanks and ºr exhibit trains have beer in pºed out, ſell as the speaking campaigns. A feature of the Wis consin prºlini cºnce s been a rºbºr of group meetings cover- ing sever all courity or ºr in each instance. - - - º iſ ſº iſ iſ iſ if f iſ iſ iſ ºf 7 º TR.A.&RY ºf Rºſſ BURTAU CF PUBLIC ITY - ºf it cºs; I, IECRTY I,() iſ ſº in he did tº release CHICAGO L T STRIC ºf , - T, TEL. T. LOA, NOT A (; , , ſo 6 CE. I.F. ( . --- --------- - ----------- Tº ºr º-, -, -º * * : * ~ * ºn tº cº-, -º ºn - ºf Pº of . Cuºſº || Vºſlºv : ºlº rºº tº " … " " -, -, - ... .ºn … : º ºr -, ºr rº Team of C. ºn L., & 3G 01. º tº kiºlº" 3 × - - - … ." . * … . ºf "º º - ºr ºx ºf . Uij V Cº. iſ ºf it tº O L S - - -- - --- -: - -tº . . . All Yaº meº is loss. There is no vºy ſor ºil bºdy to pºol iſ in time of ºr except by means that cºe either disloyal or jºir picºl - - - -- - - * -- - - º 1 5 Ji sacrifice their hºlds Cºd. * -1. ſººn tº -- º- This vº Cº. fº Y S for Sº if its g . Come ºi a rins, 0 ºne S (; r- - -i. heir feet and legs, still others their eyes, and more than ten illions of pºem, women and on 6 men already have 5 criſi their lives in the rest sºuggle to determine whether Liberty Shºll perish from the earth. - - - Every loyal man, woman and child will be willing to sº ºriº --- - -- º - --- -, *, * -- -º-, - fice all that he or she has to give . From this country only gº dier will be called upon to sacrifice life or limb, but everybody is - called upon to sacrifice in food, in clothing, in comfort , ºf in 4. º tº 2 property. - The Liberty bond is not a cºll to sacrifice It is a final cial investment at a rºte higher than is afforded in many lines of business. The investment is as safe as the government itself. I wish sometimes that the Liberty bond were a call to scorifice, for if we lose the war it will be through the failure of our civil populº- tion to learn the legson of sacrific . Wii. 11 the on is be lost; if we lose the war º Possibly, and so will the title to our homes. If we lose the war, the deed to the farmer is home is not worth the paper it is written on Therefore we economine, save, sºilº º - rake and scrape in every way to get funds for Liberty bonds. Then shall we win the wer. In no other way ºn it be one. How much erº we ºbo do not fight illing to sacrifice? How much will Vie earn and Save in order to win the war º - - - Jº Jºlliſi iſ iſ ſilii iſ tº it tº ſº. ####### if ifºſiſ, if iſº, iſ iſ ſº - - - * - - - -- - ºf --- - A BIT OF FINANCIA. I. H. TORY -- --- The gredit of the United States was so high and unquestion- able that in 1900, two years after the war with Spain, 2 per cent bonds were offered at pair and ºr subscribed . This a fiſhºlicial per formance no other nation has every equalled. United Stateſ, 4 per ce tº bonds in 1888 sold as high as 100 and in 1901 brought 139 7/8 in the open mar": t: , - The United States has never de fºulted in any of its obli- gations. Not one of its bondholders has ever lost 3 cent of princip al or interest except those who have voluntarily taken losses by sell ing their bonds in a period of temporary price depression : One hun- dred cents on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid . - - sources stands the rugged honesty of America. Liberty lo n bonds are the safest security in the world - - are the ºf - ſºlº ill-lººkºlºlº iſ lººd. ºffiliſiºn # jºir ##### #º - |- - TREASURY DEPARTMENT A BUREAU OF PUBLICITY º 7 Editors: LIBERTY LOAN - For immediate release a CHICAGO DISTRICT . - A º Detroit has established a splendid record in the Fourth Liberty loan being the first large city of importance in the country to complete its quota . The $73,000,000 allotment of the city was over subscribed Thursday after approximately a ten days campaign. The Detroit quota was raised without the banks subscribing a dollar. The Michigan quota has been boosted to $141,000,000, leaving about £7,000,000 to be secured during the remainder of the campaign. "Michigan has done well but must do still better," said Frederick R. Fenton, director of sales for Michigan. "There ap- pears to be some confusion in the state in regard to the peace prº- posals . No one should allow themselves to be deceived for a single minute in this regard. The Fourth loan must go through exactly as if the war was to continue for months, as it is very likely it will Even if peace were to be assured, it would still be just as necessary to secure the loan, as the greater part of it already has been expended "Our troops will have to be maintained just the same and it Will be months before they could be brought home. The government is going ahead with its program of drafting troops, transporting sol- diers to France, building up the navy and merchant marine, and manu- facturing guns, ammunition and supplies on a world beating basis just as if there had been no peace bid, "The citizens of this country must go ahead on the same basis . This is no time to fall behind, and the Liberty loan workers must exert every effort to get out the subscription, and an adequate subscription, from every man or woman financially capable of subscrib- ing . "If the people back home do not do their share in raising money and furnishing the backing for our wonderful army abroad, they Will be failing the country in its greatest crisis. Counties that had the colunteer plan did well, but it is necessary to make up the balance by direct solicitation, and every man and woman must do his duty, - "The alibi buyers must be brought to light and made to buy bonds on a scale commensurate with their ability. Too many have bought a $50 bond and hid behind the button when they should have bought bonds of the value of hundreds or thousands of dollars, "It is not fair to the loyal citizens of the state to make them subscribe for the share of the slackers in addition to their own part . There will be no let up in the Michigan campaign until every man and woman has done his or her share, and county organizations must keep this ever in mind . " Michigan in the Fourth loan will have upwards of 750,000 in- dividual subscribers against 579,000 in the last loan. The percent - age of distribution will be better than 25 percent , Twenty-one coun- ties have secured their quotas or better: Allegan, Alpena, Bay, Ber- rien, Cheboygan, Crawford, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Jackson, Leelenau, Missaukee, Monroe, Montmorency, Muskegon, Ogemaw, Ottawa, St. Clair and Wayne - - # # # # # # # # # # # - // *//7 A * * TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. Additional counties in Michigan reported over the top of their quotas in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign and therefore en- titles to fly the Liberty Loan honor flag include Allegan, Bay and Oakland. Every county in Michigan, falling within the seventh federal reserve district, has been awarded an honor flag. - # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-57 A/J º/ / ſº TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLFCITY Edit, or S : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. A large percentage of the money which will be subscribed to the Fifth Liberty Loan will go toward the rehabilitation of wounded men. The United States Government is resolved to do its utmost to restore every wounded American soldier and sailor to health, strength and self-supporting activity. He will not be dis- charged from the hospital until all the medical and surgical treatment necessary to restore him to health has been given him, under the jurisdiction of military or naval authorities, according to the branch of service he is in . Then his future will be considered by the Federal Board for Vocation- al Education. If he has been disabled in such a way that he cannot take up the Work he left to go into the country 's Service, a large vocational field is opened up to him, with a wide choice of occupations. He is carefully trained to self- supporting activity. If he needs an artificial limb or mechanical appliance, the Government will supply it fre, keep it in repair and renew it when necessary. If , after his discharge from the hospital, he again needs medical treatment on account of his. disability, the Government will supply it free. While he is in the hospital and while in training afterwards the soldier or sailor will receive compensation as if in service and his family or dependents will receive their allotments. - - - -- ity prevents him from taking up his former employment, may take a course in voca- tional training, free of cost, and the war-risk insurance compensation will be paid him during the time of training. In this case no allotment will be paid to his family. The training branches, with their thousands of trained instructors, will use millions of the nation’s dollars, and the country, instead of being filled with dependent cripples and beggars, an eyes ore to the nation and a con- stant reminder of the horrible side of the great War, with its glorified cause and its magnificent victory, will have thousands of highly trained men--heroes, the glory of whose sacrifice will not have bean tarnished by a moral and mental disintegration. That's one of the reasons why the Fifth Liberty Loan must be oversub- scribed. The first three loans launched America in the war-— built training camps and equipped and sent men overseas; the Fourth Liberty Loan, the "fighting" loan, backed up the fighting men and made overwhelming victory for the allies possible. The Fifth or Victory Loan will be just as important in the annals of war loans, for both moral and material reasons. America would be monstrously ungrateful should she not stay with her men in khaki and blue until they are returned to their homes, physically strong and able to earn a livelihood. The best way for every person to show his personal gratitude is to start, now planning how much he can subscribe to the Fifth Loan. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Also, a wounded soldier or sailor, regardless of whether his disabil- LL-66 - TREASURY DEPARTMENT º BUREAU OF PUBLICITY º//? Editors : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. A yº - Michigan is the first state in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, of the Liberty Loan organization to announce the cities which are entitled to give names to two American ships as the reward for having the highest percent- age of subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan. The announcement was made by F. R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of sales for Michigan, who has received from Governor Albert E. Sleeper, chair- man of the Michigan War Preparedness Board, the findings of that body, which gives the honor to Flint and Detroit. In the fourth loan campaign Detroit, which is in Wayne county, had a record of 258,977 subscribers, population subscribing, 55 percent, while Flint, which is in Genesee county, showed a total of 38,245, With a percentage 73. 26. The award was made on the basis of the 1910 popula- tion; according to the Government ruling in the contest. º Grand Rapids, which was third, made a wonderful showing with a record of 60,775 subscribers, having a percentage of 53.99. When this contest was announced during the fourth loan campaign, each Federal Reserve District was to be allowed to name ten ships. Ten cities of 10,000 or more population showing the highest percentage of subscribers were to receive this honor. At the same time ten cities in each district under 10,000 population were to be allowed to name ten tanks on the same basis of Competi- tion. For Michigan this honor goes to Alma and East Lansing. In the fourth campaign, 2, 229 subscribed for Liberty bonds in Alma, which is in Gratiot county, while East Lansing, which is in Ingham county, showed a record of 490 subscribers. - In announcing the findings of the Tar Preparedness Board, Mr. Fenton made the following statement: - ******* * * * * * * * ****** * ****** ºr more population which have been found entitled to the honor of naming two ships and this find- ing has been sent to the Emergency Fleet corporation. In case some American ship already bears either of these names, the cities will have the right to select another name. I think there is a ship named the "Detroiter", so a dif- ferent appelation would have to be selected in the case of Detroit . "The 1910 population had to be the basis of calculation in making the awards, in accordance with the contest rules laid down by the Government. The State War Board of Michigan reviewed the figures submitted by the county chair- men of the sixty-eight counties representing the lower peninsula which is part of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, "Of the cities of a population under 10,000 Alma and East Lansing captured the honors. Under the regulations f the contest these places would be entitled to name two tanks, but as the building of tanks has ceased as the result of the ending of the War, the Emergency Fleet Corporation will be asked to permit the smaller towns to name two ships as in the case of Detroit and Flint, . - - - -- - - - "In making this announcement I would like to take occasion again to praise the workers of the district and their leaders for the magnificent work they performed during the fourth campaign. The spirit of competition for the honor of Winning these awards was something to be proud of . " Aside from the winners, Detroit and Flint, the five highest cities, with their records, follow : - - NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF CITY SUBSCRIBERS POPULATION SUBSCRIBING Grand Rapids . 60, 775 53, 99 Lansing 16, 226 51.9 Adrian 3, 536 - 32.86 Bay City 14,695 32.00 Saginaw - 15, 119 29.93 ############## LL-90 - Aſ ºf 7 ºf 3 TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: It is earnestly requested that LIBERTY LOAN you give the widest possible CHICAGO DISTRICT. - publicity to the following. BUY FIFTH LIBERTY BONDS AND BE SAFE. About the saddest thing in the world is to undergo self-denial for years, to save money and then to see the "rainy day fund" wiped out by the failure of Sorne "Wild cat," Scheme. This happens every day. Widows and hard-working men are credulous. They listen to the oily promises of "get rich quick" promoters and hand over their savings to slick salesmen with "blue sky" securities promising impossible profits. And when the bolt falls out of the clear sky the pitiful savings of years disappear in an instant. "The Bonanza Patroil Co. has gone up. We are ruined " Then there is nothing to do but begin life all over--and at a time when earning capacity has begun to ebb and the way is thornier than ever before. Whatever the temptation may have been in the past to do this thing, there is no excuse for it now. Hundreds of thousands of experienced public- ity and investment men have been at Work for nearly two years, under the au- thority of the American Government, educating millions of people in the fine art of safe investing. It is doubtedly the fact that more people are sav- ing money to-day than ever ... . in all the history of the World. And more of the people are interested in the proper handling of their savings accumula - tions. Literally millions have been taught to buy Government bonds, and they have learned to buy Thrift and Tſar Savings Stamps as the best possible way to prevent the waste of fugitive quarters and dimes. The Government will offer another chance to "get in on the ground floor." during the spring when the Fifth Liberty Loan is offered. The money Will be spent to pay the cost of maintaining and restoring to their homes the valiant soldiers who have won for America, the World’s greatest victory. The bills must be paid and the American people must pay them. - From the "thrift and savings" viewpoint the Fifth Liberty Loan will be as good as , or even better than , the previous Liberty Loans. It is likely to have a shorter maturity and that will enable the holder to obtain a generous income while he holds them and get his principle back, with a hand some appreciation during the coming period of intense activity and prosperity. If anything "goes up in value" Liberty bonds surely Will. The Way to get the benefit of such advances in value is to buy the coming Fifth Liberty bonds. To buy them when they are offered everybody should begin saving up now. Set aside all the money you can spare out of your wages and have it in your savings bank for the initial payment on Fifth Liberty Bonds. # # # # # # 4 || || || || || || || LL 73 TREASURY DEPARTMENT * T BUREAU OF PUBLIC ITY ſº Editors : LIBERTY LOAN A. º For immediate release - CHICAGO DISTRICT . // A 3. Detroit has established a splendid record in the Fourth Liberty loan being the first large city of importance in the country to complete its quota . The $73,000,000 allotment of the city was over subscribed Thursday after approximately a ten days campaign. The Detroit quota was raised without the banks subscribing a dollar. The Michigan quota has been boosted to $141,000,000, leaving about § 7,000,000 to be secured during the remainder of the campaign. "Michigan has done well but must do still better," said Frederick R. Fenton, director of sales for Michigan. "There ap- pears to be some confusion in the state in regard to the peace prº - posals . No one shoud allow themselves to be deceived for a single minute in this regard . The Fourth loan must go through exactly as if the war was to continue for months, as it is very likely it will Even if peace were to be assured, it would still be just as necessary to secure the loan, as the greater part of it already has been expended "Our troops will have to be maintained just the same and it will be months before they could be brought home . The government is going ahead with its program of drafting troops, transporting sol- diers to France, building up the navy and merchant marine, and manu- facturing guns, ammunition and supplies on a world beating basis just as if there had been no peace bid. "The citizens of this country must go ahead on the same basis . This is no time to fall behind, and the Liberty loan workers must exert every effort to get out the subscription, and an adequate subscription, from every man or woman financially capable of subscrib- ing . "If the people back home do not do their share in raising money and furnishing the backing for our wonderful army abroad, they will be failing the country in its greatest crisis : Counties that had the colunteer plan did well, but it is necessary to make up the balance by direct solicitation, and every man and woman must do his duty, - "The alibi buyers must be brought to light and made to buy bonds on a scale commensurate with their ability. Too many have bought a $50 bond and hid behind the button when they should have bought bonds of the value of hundreds or thousands of dollars, - "It is not fair to the loyal citizens of the state to make them Subscribe for the share of the slackers in addition to their own part . There will be no let up in the Michigan campaign until every man and woman has done his or her share, and county organizations must keep this ever in mind . " Michigan in the Fourth loan will have upwards of 750,000 in- dividual subscribers against 579,000 in the last loan. The percent - age of distribution will be better than 25 percent , Twenty-one coun- ties have secured their quotas or better: Allegan, Alpena, Bay, Ber- rien, Cheboygan, Crawford, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Jackson, Leelenau, Missaukee, Monroe, Montmorency, Muskegon, Ogemaw, Ottawa, St. Clair and Wayne - # # # # # # # # # # # A. J. TREASURY DEPARTMENT 2 / / / - BiºA. J OR PUBLIC T Y E6 it cºr g : L. BERTY LOAN *A** 3 for immediate Release. CHICAGO DISTRICT . Lansing, Michigan, and Ingham County, in which it lies . Iºn sing oversubscribed its quota 100 per cent on the first day of the J. Gaº reason of its pianº of volunteer subscription days, Similar result have aiso been secured in war chest and war savings stamp campaigº The loan committee of Lansing is so well satisfied that it will st cl: to the plan, without modification, throughout the war . Lansing 's achievement of a 100 per cent over subscription in the first day of the Third loan drive was managed absolutely with - out. Solicitation. Its population is 60,000 and its quota was #817, 660 - The population of Ingham County is 80,000 and the entire county quota of $1,210,432 was oversubscribed the first day by real- son of the subscriptions in Lansing, the fact that East Lansing City, and the townships of Leslie and Stockbridge each reached their quota, and the further fact of generous subscriptions throughout the balance of the county. The Tarasing slogan was a "floyal Tan si ng Volunteer: Tiet do S] a olzer Escape" - It was the attitude of the county committee that no loyal person need be asked to buy bonds; that they should come for ward voluntarily and lend their money willingly . There is no reason why one person should give up his regular duties to solicit another per- son, who is able to buy . The people were thoroughly informed that voluntary subscriptions would be received on Saturday and Sunday , for which purpose the banks and churches would be open, as well as numerous other volunteer sub-stations not only in the cities and _Villages, but in town halls and some of the district schools. In the spring of 1918 this county went upon a permanent was record basis, and a card record was made of every individual in the county, showing his financial ability, and his previous purchases of bonds or contributions to war charities, which record will be con- tinued during the war . It was announced that any person who was "financially able to buy, and physically able to reach a volunteer booth on those two days and does not is a slacker , " To every person who did voluntarily subscribe was given a small round tag with an "I've my V. Where 's Yours?" with the request that it be worn through the entire national bond campaign . It was also announced that they would go upon the permanent war records as voluntary subscribers . Voluntary sub-stations were, of course, placed in all the factories, with a result that the factory men of Lansing alone not including the office forces, more than subscribed Lansing ‘s quota on the first day. There were many sub-stations in the business district besides the banks, - - April 6th and 7th were set aside as voluntary subscription days. The public was assured -- and the plan was faithfully carried out -- that absolutely no soliciting would be done on those two days - Assurance was also given that those who did not subscribe would be solicited afterward, and that those who "sneaked in" with a voluntary subscription less than it should be, would be handled by the "clean up committee", and if then unsatisfactory, reported to the vigilance committee . - An elaborate soliciting organization was formed and its membership published in full, In fact it was not used except on delinquents and persons unable to reach a booth - Stickers were pasted on all electric, gas, water and tele- phone bills bearing the words, "Get a V'; "Be a Volunteer"; "Sub- scribe for your Third Liberty Loan Bonds on April 6 and 7"; "Don't wait to be solicited"; "Fight or Buy". Moving picture slides were shown; four minute speeches were made at all gatherings; leading actors explained the volunteer plan; publicity was also given in churches, lodges and societies • Repre- sentatives of different nationalities explained to their own country- Iſleſ a - 2 - Patriotic full-page ads. were placed in local newspa P5+ ° on each of the five days preceding April 6 - Some of these ads - were in the foreign languages, most predominant in Lansing: A banner, bearing the soigans. "Get a V in the center, "BREAK BERLIN APRIL 6TH AND /TH in a red circle on the right, and "GET A V - BUY YOUR BONDS APRIL 6TH AND 7TH" in a red circle on the left , was stretched across the street in front of headquarters. Triangular - red, white and blue pennants, bearine the inscription "BUY YOUR PONº APRIL 6TH AND 7TH" were strung from the trolley span wires. Tº - night before the campaign opened five hundred letters were del rºº to prominent business men by the state mounted police . The fºllºé appeared on the outside of the envelope : "Your Government requests that you read the enclosed just before going to sleep - Do not ºpe” until then." The letter itseif was an appeal to the recipient to pause before going to sleep and to concentrate his mind upon t; he crisis now confronting his country - A large military demonstration was held on Sunday after- noon, to which everyone was invited, or the one condition that he come with a "V" tag. After the voluntary days, similar cards were used, but the red volunteer "v" was omitteå. Several weeks before the campaign opened, a solicit or 's card was made out for every man and Woºd in Lansing who could be considered a prospective subscriber . The local gas company's mailing list formed the basis. A record of all sub- scriptions was filed with the committee . Naturally such a plan as that used in Ingham Courity re- ceived more prompt response where the population was centered . In townships having no bank, or not even a village, the results were , of course, slower. On Sunday, however, the City of Mason and the townships of Aurelius and Ingham reached their quºtas. On Monday and Tuesday several-mee-ºesºps ºver-subscribedº º º direct re- sºrt TThe voluntary subscriptiºns taken on Saturday and Sunday : In spite of the fact that the county was way beyonº its quota, the committee began its::sºlitiºitation work to see that the volunteers alone did not carry the burden. The cºmmittee felt that it owed to every volunteer the duty ºf finding out why all other persºns, if any, whº were financially able, had not subscribed . To do honor to George A. Crouter, the young marine who - died at Paris Island, the training camp in North Carolina, Sentember ll, the blue-jackets' band which is touring the state of Michigan will provide music at the funeral services which will be held ºriday September 20 at Charlevoix, Mich. Telegraphic arrangements to this end have been made with the Naval Department at Washington . The young patriot enlisted in the marines about a year ago - He ô is d at Paris Island, and the body has been sent to his home at Charlevoix - (crouter story goes with cut which will be sent under separate cover) TREASURY DEPARTMENT // ſ. BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors : LIBERTY LOAN % /7 For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. A / 3 - Insert story "Cities to name ships" The percentage of Alma subscribing to the Fourth Liberty Loan was 80.8 and that of East Lansing 6l.00 End Insert. # , , ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; LL 9i Aſ J ſº TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. A large percentage of the money which will be subscribed to the Fifth Liberty Loan will go toward the rehabilitation of wounded men. The United States Government is resolved to do its utmost to restore every wounded American soldier and sailor to health, strength and self-supporting activity. He will not be dis- charged from the hospital until all the medical and surgical treatment necessary to restore him to health has been given him, under the jurisdiction of military or naval authorities, according to the branch of service he is in . Then his future Will be considered by the Federal Board for Vocation- al Education. If he has been disabled in such a way that he cannot take up the Work he left to go into the country’s service, a large vocational field is opened up to him, with a wide choice of occupations. He is carefully trained to self- supporting activity. - If he needs an artificial limb or mechanical appliance, the Government will supply it fre, keep it in repair and renew it. When necessary. If , after his discharge from the hospital, he again needs medical treatment on account of his disability, the Government will supply it free. While he is in the hospital and While in training afterwards the soldier or sailor will receive compensation as if in service and his family or dependents will receive their allotments. ity prevents him from taking up his former employment, may take a course in voca- tional training, free of cost, and the war-risk insurance compensation Will be paid him during the time of training. In this case no allotment will be paid to his family. The training branches, with their thousands of trained instructors, will use millions of the nation’s dollars, and the country, instead of being filled with dependent cripples and beggars, an eyesore to the nation and a con- stant reminder of the horrible side of the great War, with its glorified cause and its magnificent victory, will have thousands of highly trained men--heroes, the glory of whose sacrifice will not have been tarnished by a moral and mental disintegration. That’s one of the reasons why the Fifth Liberty Loan must be oversub- scribed. The first three loans launched America in the War-- built training camps and equipped and sent men overseas; the Fourth Liberty Loan, the "fighting" loan, backed up the fighting men and made overwhelming victory for the allies possible. The Fifth or Victory Loan will be just as important in the annals of war loans, for both moral and material reasons. America would be monstrously ungrateful should she not stay with her men in khaki and blue until they are returned to their homes, physically strong and able to earn a livelihood. The best way for every person to show his personal gratitude is to start now planning how much he can Subscribe to the Fifth Loan . - # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-66 Also, a wounded soldier or sailor, regardless of whether his disabil- Aſ J - ºf 7 TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - A ºn 3. To Editors : LIBERTY LOAN - Please give this all possible publicity. CHICAGO DISTRICT. . "Hold tight to your Liberty bonds; they are the best investment in the World. Don’t let anyone induce you to sell them or trade them in for some other so-called 'security " . Keep your Liberty bonds and your Liberty bonds will keep you." The foregoing in effect sums up the warning and request, issued to every bondholder in t e United states through a message to the head of the Seventh Fed- eral Reserve Liberty Loan Orga ization in Chicago, from Willim G. McAdoo, then Sec- retary of the Treasury, and which, it is hoped, Will accomplish its purpose through dissemination by the press. The full text of the message follows: "Hold your Liberty bonds –- first , because they are the best invest- ment in the World, backed by every resource in the United States, and al- so because you have made sacrifices in order to buy them. Why turn over to someone else the contract you have entered into With the Government 7 "Hold them because, even though the war may be over, it has not yet been paid for . The Treasury Department must soon issue more bonds, the Fifth loan being planned for next April. Every sale now made by you makes future Government issues more difficult and more expensive. This expense must be borne by the people of the United States--therefore, why * to the already large buries being ºne by the taxpayers ºf the ººº- try? - - "Hold them because the time may come when such an investment may prove to be a true friend in time of need--a guarantee against the fear of debt and insurance, against real hardship. - "Hold them because the need for saving is not over, GOVERNMENT EX- PENSES ARE TODAY LARGER THAN AT ANY TIME DURING THE WAR. Our brave boys in Germany and France and Russia must be paid and fed and clothed and, when their work is over, transported home--back onto American soil. THEY HAVE NOT QUIT. WHY SHOULD YOU” "Hold your Liberty bonds instead of exchanging them for some other so-called security, because you know the Security of your United States bond and often cannot know the Worth of What is offered in exchange. The get-rich-quick’ crook is ready to steal your bonds away from you at the first opportunity. DON'T LET HIM. Don’t be swindled out of your bonds. - "Hold them because of the interest they pay, because it is good business to do so. What good Will the idle pleasure or needless lux- ury bought today with the proceeds of your bonds be to you a year from now Your bonds work for you, drawing interest day and night, Weekdays and Sundays. "By all means HOLD YOUR BONDS. DON'T BE A QUITTER. BE A PATRIOT. "WILLIAM G. McAD00, "Secretary of the Treasury." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-68 Aſ T. *//7 - - / º TREASURY DEPARTMENT - - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: It is earnestly requested that LIBERTY LOAN - you give the widest possible CHICAGO DISTRICT. publicity to the following. BUY FIFTH LIBERTY BONDS AND BE SAFE. --- - ----- About the saddest thing in the World is to undergo self-denial for years, to save money and then to see the "rainy day fund" wiped out by the failure of some "Wild cat," Scheme. - This happens every day. Widows and hard-working men are credulous. They listen to the oily promises of "get rich quick" promoters and hand over their savings to slick salesmen with "blue sky" securities promising impossible profits. And when the bolt falls out of the clear sky the pitiful savings of years disappear in an instant . "The Bonanza, Patroil Co. has gone up. We are ruined ' " Then there is nothing to do but begin life all Over--and at a time when earning capacity has begun to ebb and the way is thornier than ever before. Whatever the temptation may have been in the past to do this thing, there is no excuse for it now. Hundreds of thousands of experienced public- ity and investment men have been at work for nearly two years, under the au- thority of the American Government, educating millions of people in the fine art of safe investing. It is undoubtedly the fact that more people are sav- ing money to-day than ever before in all the history of the World. And more of the people are interested in tº handºing their savings accumula – tions . Literally millions have been taught to buy Government bonds, and they have learned to buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps as the best possible way to prevent the Waste of fugitive quarters and dimes . H-E-F-Gº-Opººg of The Government will offer another chance to "get in on the ground floor" during the spring when the Fifth Liberty Loan is offered. The money Will be spent to pay the cost of maintaining and restoring to their homes the valiant soldiers who have ſon for America, the World’s greatest victory. The bills must be paid and the American people must pay them. From the "thrift and savings" viewpoint the Fifth Liberty Loan will be as good as , or even better than , the previous Liberty Loans. It is likely to have a shorter maturity and that Will enable the holder to obtain a generous income While he holds them and get his principle back, with a hand some appreciation during the coming period of intense activity and prosperity. If anything "goes up in value" Liberty bonds surely will. The Way to get the benefit of such advances in value is to buy the coming Fifth Liberty bonds. To buy them when they are offered everybody should begin saving up now. Set aside all the money you can spare out of your wages and have it in your savings bank for the initial payment on Fifth Liberty Bonds. - # # # # # # # # / ; ; ; ; ; LL 73 Hº ºsmº pººr - 2//7 BURAL OF PUBLICITY Editors: a 3 º: ºrsº For immediate rººs. - - - Cº. ºGº TRICT . º The last day of the Liberty Loan drive found the women wº of the seventh district keyed up and eager for the final dash. They show a marvelous record of achievement by the women of the five states in this third Liberty Loan, "The women of the Seventh District", said Miss Grace iºn - (their director) Saturday, "have arisen to their responsibilities it i. ſ sharing in the obligation of financing this war. Whereas in he last loan, we raised thirty-five million in the District and received the commendation of the Treasury Department, this time through the ordination of effort with the men's committee we have raised one an. dred millions of dollars, with the prospect that this amount may be increase d five to to a million more. " - In Illinois, not ºn anne Chicago and Cook County, over . 20,000,000 of this sum has been subscribed , ºd in on san, accord. ing te the state chairman Frederick ſector, the women under the le ship of Mrs. H. D. Ashbaugh have raised another 20,000,000. "The cent visit of secretary and Mrs. McAdoo tºo ºrºd Rºids has so stiºn º º lated the women there for Liberty Loan work", said ºr , Fenton, " al they really needed no spur, having done remarkable work from e bº ginning of the campaign. I feel thet wher the final figure are it. it will be found that they have gone over the 20,000,000 may . " - - Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin women also are making big re or In Chicago, the emergetic chairman for the the women, Mrs. . . . Baur has set her heart on 50,000,000 as the share for the women of Chicago and Cook County. "We have raised º. oºo,000, " she declared, "and what's and ºler $8,000,000 when you will do it? "W" stands for the women and - stands for the "will". Without the "W" Chicago not to "I will. " Let's put the "wº back in it. $30,000,000 by Saturday night." ################### - - - º º ºr. -, --------------- # ###| ####. firiº infºiſi Aſ J *//7 A iſ 3. TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. In viewſ of the failure of the banks in the Seventh Federal Re- Serve District to subscribe their quota of the second issue of the Cer- tificates of Indebtedness in anticipation of the Fourth Liberty Loan, Director ºr sus. M. A. Traylor Westerday (Thursday) sent an appeal to all county directors and associates to realize what this means to their country and analyzing the situation. Following is the complete text of the letter which Mr. Traylor sent to all the workers for the certificates: *We regret exceedingly to advise you that subscriptions from the Seventh District to the second issue of Certificates in anticipa- tion of the Fourth Liberty Loan were approximately eight million short of the District allotment of $105,000,000. This performance is, of course, somewhat discouraging both to ourselves and the Treasury De- partment, who, after all, are most vitally concerned in the distribut- tion of these Certificates since upon them rests the responsibility of meeting promptly the disbursements necessary to keep our army in the field, but in view of all the circumstances, possibly we have not done so badly, since ºne oversubscription to the first issue more than makes tº ºne snoºga in subscriptions ºne less issue, with tºe resu that ºne pist icº is ºne ºf allotment tº in the "More discouraging, however, to us than the actual shortage of subscriptions, is the spirit of criticism which we understand in some sections and on the part on some bankers has been leveled at County Directors, their associates, as well as this office and even at the Government itself. This citicism as it reaches us reflects not only an apparent disagreement with the Government's plan of financing our war requirements, but a disposition on the part of a great many to charge this office and the County Directors and their associates with a lack of proper regard for the condition of the banks in the District in the matter of making allotments and announcing quotas for the res- pective counties and individual banks, and with undue and unnecessary activity and insistance in our efforts to procure subscriptions for the full quotas necessary to absorb the allotment of the District. "In this connection won’t you please make it plain to the bankers of your respective counties that neither this office nor your- selves have anything whatever to do with the fixing of the allotment to the District or the naming of the quota to any county or to any - - bank in the District, other than after we are advised by the Treasury Department of the allotment to the Seventh District (which so far in view of the total offering, we are frank to say is no more than our just portion of the whole) of any particalar issue, we are charged clearly but only with the responsibility of apportioning the allotment to each State, each County and each bank in an absolutely equal and impartial manner at the minimum figure necessary to produce the allot- ment of the District. - - - "This is done by using the latest available figures of the total resources of the banks in the District (which are the figures of December 31, 1917 used in apportioning the last Liberty Loan) and for and allotment to the District of $105,000,000 require subscriptions from each individual bank in almost exactly the proportion suggested before the campaign started by the Treasury Department which was the bi-weekly subscription of 2 percent of total resources. - TREASURY DEPARTMENT Aſ J BUREAU OF PUBLICITY EDITORS - The purpose of this official LIBERTY LOAN ºf 7. statement is to encourage CHICAGO DISTRICT. - housewives in the rigid e- - * * * conomy that is necessary to meet payments on the Fourth Lib- erty bond pledges. Meeting Liberty bond pledges often falls on the housewife, as general manager of the family income and outgo. The breadwinner may be ſell-paid and industrious but it fails on the woman as the monitor of the home to handle the income in the way of prudence. Upon her rests the "making of the budget" which insures the most effective possible use of the "pay envelope". And, very ºften in her centers the keen sense of responsibility for Liberty bond payments. Miss Grace Dixon, Federal Reserve Director fºr Women, has issued the following appeal to encourage all domestic "business managers" in this vital patriotic duty : "Thousands of women throughout the Seventh Federal Reservº District bought bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan. They bought in a spirit of patriotic service and sacrifice --- of the Fourth Liberty Loan. . 110 ... . . . . it be 'dire necessity', affect the completeness and ºte glory of that a...r.º. Under no consideration trade in your Liberty Bond for merchandise. You know you lent the money your bond represents for those who are winning to sacrifice their lives, in turn, for humanity. Also, do not neglect to complete payments on bonds for which you have subscribed. The country is counting on the dollars you have pledged. | Do not fail your country at the time of test." # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LL-899 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Aſ - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - Editors : LIBERTY LOAN * //7 For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. * * - (EDITORS: You are earnestly requested to give as wide circulation as possible to the fol- lowing matter. Of course you are en- tirely free to bring the matter within your space limits, and modify the form to meet your judgment.) Wherever the English tongue is spoken, people know the meaning of "sportsman". "A fair field and may the best man win" is the supreme law of all our games and sports. And that law, observed as a matter of honor, on every baseball, football, cricket and lacrosse field, accounts in no small measure for the magnificent victories of the Allies on the western front. Our national sports have made us despise "quitting" and the "yellow streak". The same code of honor holds with reference to Liberty loan subscrip- tions. And it has a vital element in addition—that of loyalty to Country and loyalty to the Army and Navy. Every man, woman and child in America who subscribed for Fourth Liberty bonds on a deferred payment plan is in honor bound to live up to the terms of the subscription pledge. Nothing but "dire necessity", in the words of Retary McAdoo can possibly excuse "quitting" and failure to carry through the plan. Make all the payments, receive the Liberty bonds and hold them fast until the Government repays the principal. This is a rule on the ball field. Fight for a fair hit. Run hard for the bases and the home plate. Work with the team. Fight down any self- ishness. Combat any disposition to quit or accept defeat. Be honorable and play the game like a man. - This is the programme that Liberty Bond subscribers are in honor bound to carry through. No matter how much self-denial it may call for--no matter how hard the "scrimping" and economizing may seem--every subscriber is bound by the law of Patriotism, and by the "honor rule" of good "sportsmanship" to accept the sacrifices and make good-the-subscription pledge. Any other course throws a burden on the government, and interferes with the best interest of the Army and Navy, an is a stain on one’s personal self respect. Be a good "sportsman". Be a patriot. Have "Nerve". Pay for every Liberty bond you signed for. ########## LL-885 Women in the seventh ºr serve tº ºil Y Dº I ºf T * // 7 UREAT OF QUBLIC’ſ my Tº it, or § { - - º -- ºr . a nº * - - -- - -- - - - - III ºf ) N - A. º º - lºgº imiladiº e releº. SG . C tº ºf ºt) D. Gºl (; , , SETION ON PATRIOTIS - Lý A 1000 Per Cent, Americ ºn . I o dism of many thousands of men and is ºr ict, that the Liberty Loan execu- § -- |- - - - - Here is a sermor on patriotism It comes to Chico go from Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The star.dard of patrio ºf sºn preached in this Ser- tº on is so much above tº c ºx i & tive committee is send nº ºne tory bºne icºst throughout the district in the hote of rousing a s rit of enuſ ºf ion in the breasts of all citizen & , both nature iſ ed and native yoºn. Were every man in the Chicº o district to stain the standard of Demos thenes of Gºurgeoiſ Bay, Wis , , it is pointed out , the whole 3,000,000,000 would be sub- scribed in this one º is trio tº a lone : - Demos themes, a 1,000 per cent American, has the following ºne Gººge for Uncle Sam : "You can borrow anything and everything I have . " And this is not his message alone. It is also the me & Sºge of his two brothers – Anº one os and 5 ºr os . The ir surname is Aſlºnos topoulos, and they conduct a small candy store in Sturgeon Bºy, Wis . Let Demos thene's And no stopoulos do the rest of the talling: - - "We boys didn't have anything villen we cºme to this country. My brother's and I were very poor in the old country. All We have We made here . This country has given us great opportunity. What ever we have we owe to this country. "We don't consider that we have done anything beyond a fair º i. - -- * ir º * : º CC wo. º gy-F - + * º º need S- º took 1,600 of the second loan, and our allotment for the third loan, figured by the appraisel & C ºmittee on the basis of essessed valuation of property, was 100 each, or COC for the three of us. But as we had the money and we knew that Uncle Sam wanted to raise much money for the ºr , we decided to let him have all our savings . We know that it is a safe investment, and we don't consider that we have been particularly patriotic in lending this amount to the Government . - - "We talked it over , and we decided that we owed this country something-- yes, everything – and we tº it the least we could do would be to lend money to the Government . "' Tony is in the draft and probably ill go to one of the cantonment s on the next dºll for soldi ºn S . He is glad to go and fight for his country . We -- Stavros and myself--are glad to have him go, and if we are called , we, too, will be glad to go "We don't consider that we are entitled to be known as patrº * ots for lending our money to the Government. The security is so good, the interest is so high, the investment is so excellent in every way, the t we would have been glad to take advantage of the opportunity even if t e best country in the world had not been º war and in need of money . - "In the sixteen years we have lived here, we have prospered We know that Amºrica gives every industrious main a splendid on por - tunity. We want that op, or tunity continued . Thºt is the real reason we subscribed . " ſºilſ ºf ſºlº iſ iſ lºſt ſº tººl-tº-l. º # fºil iſ ºf ſº Tºsºy Dºe RT tº ºr BUP II (), pu`I, ſº I ºf ºditors: - Triº Rºy LO N A / º For immediº tº relegiº's C iº DISTI ICT . Heads of the Liberty Loan foreign language division for the seventh federal reserve district at a meeting in Chicago reported that people of foreign bir ºn and parentage are subscribing 80 per gent stronger in this Liberty Loan campaign than in the second cam- pºign - These figures are based on rººts ºn ºne oranea language Civision chairmen not only º Chicº tºo, but throughout the seventh federal reserve gistrict. . . At the meeting pany instances We lºgº given to show that Ameri- cans of foreign birth and renºse, loven gºld patriotic to the core, are carrying out ºr actions maº tº in advance that they would Surpass all previous records sºng tº his ºn. - - Felix J. Streyckmans, federal reserve director of the foreign language division, praised the work of the loyal foreign language Yle." Sºapefs and the efforts of the foreign language committee repre- Santing thirty different nationalities, as ºeing largely responsible - -- - - - - for the records made. - The amount the thousands of workers in the foreign language division in Chicago during the first week of the campaign, 7. it. was aſſinounced, was ºf, 812, occ. This does not mean the amount subscribed by men and women of foreign birth and parentage, but only the amount sold by committees of the foreign language division. Not only are more of the foreign born buying than ºn the first campaign, but those who bought bonds last time are now ºurchasing considere ly larger emounts in this campaign. - - At one large factory, it wis reported, men who invested in $50 bonds last time are buying ºgoo, 300 and 500 worth in this campaign. Furthermore, they are in many cases paying cash for the bonds in stead of taking them on tº instainment plan. "They had the money all the time, " said ºr strewoºns, "but as a not realize how good use they could make of it by investing in Liberty bonds and thus help the country." ſº tº ſº ſº tºº ſlºtſ tº ſº. ºffilińſ TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY To Editors : It is urgently recommended LIBERTY LOAN - that you use the following CHICAGO DISTRICT. material in your publica- tion and thereby aid the Government, in its financial program for 1919. The War is over; peace reigns on earth. But in Europe today there are more than 2,000,000 American soldiers, who took an important part in bringing the War to a victorious end, and these men must be fed and clothed for a long while to come. I+. is estimated by the War Department that the cost of equipping and maintaining an American soldier in Europe is $423.27 a year. The American army was transported to France at the rate of 250,000 men a month by giving them first call on the shipping facilities of the United States . If they could be brought back to their homes thus speedily -- and it is doubtful that they could - - it would require at least eight months. It, is obvious, therefore, that We must continue to raise money with which to maintain our army abroad. "We are going to have to finance peace for a while," said Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, "just as we have had to finance war." And that means that the American people, having supported four Liberty Loans with a patriotism which future historians will surely extol, are to be vouchsafed an opportunity to support our victorious peace. There will certainly be at least One more Gºvernment Loan. There probably will be two more -- and possibly three. At any rate, the next Loan must be prepared for and its success made certain. Get ready now to buy - more bonds. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-33 Aſ J 3// 7 Aº TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - LIBERTY L0AN Editors: CHICAGO DISTRICT For immediate release. Through an error, the victory Reveille of November 25th failed to give the complete list of Michigan counties that were awarded Honor Flags for exceeding their quotas in the Fourth Liberty Loan . campaign, the following counties being omitted: Alcona ; º Branch; Clare; Eaton ; Gratiot ; Hillsdale ; Huron; Lake : Laºs. Lenawee : Living- ston; Newaygo; Osceola; Sanilac ; Shiawassee; St. Joseph; and Wexford. The someº alsº of counties in Michigan, now entitled to fly the Liberty Honor Flag, follows: Benzie; Berrian; seasºn. band. Cass; ona, voix; Cheboygan; Clare; Clinton; Crawford; Eaton; Emmet; Gene see; Grand traverse, clawia, Gratiot : Hinsdale. Huron; Ingham; Ionia; Iosco; Isabella; Jackson; Kalamazoo; Kalkaska; Kent; Lake; Lapeer; Lenawee ; Leelanau; Livingston; Macomb; Manistee; Mason; Mecosta ; Midland; Missaukee : Monroe; Mont- calm; Montmorency ; Muskegon; Neway go; beeana, bee- maw; Osceola ; Oscoda ; Otsego ; Ottawa ; Presque Isle; Roscommon ; Sanilac ; Saginaw ; St. Clair; St. Joseph: -- Shiawassee; Tuscola; Van Buren; Washtenau; Wayne; Wexford. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-35 º//? - º tº supy pºss #,” ”º ºl. º tº - - ºr i ºiate ºlºssºs C#1CAGO IISTRICT, ºr iºnºsºiate rºle James B. McDougal, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago gave out the following ººlºgram received from the Secretary of the Treasury Moains: "While enthusiastic rººs of the progress of the fºrth ºberty lºan Campaign are º: from many companies ºf the * Quatry, subseeiptiºns fºied wºº tº incorporated Banks ºn: ºrust. ºpºlº and reported to the ºrgaºry Department for the first tº businese days of the campaign tºº ºly six hundred twenty ºr º: lion five hundred and six thousanā ºrg. Incorder that the full amount of six billion iºn are mey be ºken, subscriptiºns mºst.*.*** gaived at the average rate of over three haired and fifteen sººn dollare for each of the nineteen business days in the campaigº ºn: yet up to date, subscriptions are being recºved at only shoºt one-hº this mºssary rate . - "While I am confident that the American people wiłł, in the ead complete the enormous tasy now before them, I desire tº ºrgs sº ºe ºpº º to subscribe to the utmost of his ability, but tº sub- scribe at the earliest possible moment in order that subscriptiº º serve as an inspiratiº to others. The campaign is handicapped by two factors, the first being the unfortunate spread of Influenzº tº roughout many of the Eastern states, necessitating the cancelling ºf public meetings, parades and other semonstrations för the loan: Tºº Itſon makes it necessary for the people to come forward with their subºriptions without waiting to be º upon. The second unfavor- able factor, and by far the most serious one, is the feeling º prevalent in some communities that the glorious news from the tººls fronts refleets a military situation which warrants a slºkening ºf our effort here at home. Nothing could be further from the truth an ric ºre insidious propaganºa ºn this could be circulated by the ºne º **. "The time is ripe for the final stroke which stºl lººd, tº complete victory and enduring seece, but that stroke cannot be elivr ered in a day or a week. Gerºny is not trushed, she has ºil lions ºf strong fighting men still on the bettle Iines and with invasiºn of their own territory facing then, they will fight even mºre desperatel than heretofore . - - - - - *. *The strength of our military efforts must be multiplied- ºg fighting forces must feel behind them the steadying suppºrt of the ºn erican people. The supply of Americºn arms and munition mºst not . interrupted or Aiminishei. ºº is the time for ºffeed-speedºid the maximum of force at the present time means ºn earlier return ºf ºr boys from the blogºy battlefielás-ºsans the saving of American lives and the sinning ºf a glorious and ecºlusive victory." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TREASURY DEPARTIENT - E. At OF QUBLIC ITY - Eð it, or § LIBº: LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO ºf STRICT . - - - - - - - * - - .. - WONDERFUL WORK BY. *Oiſº , - - - By Grace Dixon, Director for Woman, Seventh Federal ºc serve District. . . This is the last week of the third Liberty loan drive Dy Saturday this country must have subscribed not only the 3,000,000,000 asked of us by the national government but many times that amount The ºr ºf our people, ºne mºie gº our trºops, dººr is that this gree." great loan be over sº pocribed tº inºch as it is hºnºully possible to have it, , We must and will show to the world that we as true and lºyal Americans are behind the American government . Think for a moment of the psychological effect of the nº upon our men over there if we should fail in this, our part : Think of the joy it would bring to the Beast of Cºrlin if he sºuld hº that the American people are so indifferent to the oute ºne of this ſº that they must be forced to contribute their share to the successful prosecution of it, and will only alo what they can not set out of , ºf Surely such a thing can never come to pass . our boys are over there in France, offering their iives for us, suffering unicil horrors tº we may be safe and the world made a decent place to live in . They are depending upon us here at home to back them up, to provide theº with the best possible equipment that can be used to defeat the Huiſh Cºſì º him quickly, so that Peace may come . Are we going to fºil tº O º The men and women of the seventh district have alſº slow that they will not fail if they keep on increasing the effectivene 9 their organizations as they have done in the past. Already the Wºº, of this district have raised ºd, odo, ogo as painst tº Coº tº by them in the last Liberty Loºn's rive, and the men have also ºceeded the amount of their last Liberty Joan Subscriptions : But that is nothing. The fight grows worse and worse. We must go on fighting harder too . Terrible things are happening over thºſe where our thiº. line of soldiers stands between us and all that spells ruin for the civilization of the whole world. , We must strengthen that line at 9 º' We must send more men at once and keep on sending them : To send mºll we must see to it that they are the best equipped soldiers in the world. The time has come for sacrifice on the part of not only out soldiers and saiors and men of the air, but of every man, woman and child in America, we women must sacrifice all the little luxuries which have been dear to us, we must help the men in the little hºº economies so that more money may be withdrawn from the housekeepiº budgets and invested in Liberty Bonds. There is no investment in the world so safe, for although our line may bend it can not break so long as the American people are working together to keep it straight and firm against the foe, and to see that the soldiers in it return to us victorious. We shall win Of that there is no doubt; but we must win quickly. Will you help with ail the strength that is in you? Let us then all dedigºs ºr selves anew to the great cause . Let us make this week the banner Wee of the whole campaign and go over the top as gallantly here at home as our soldiers will do in France . ###################### A. J. TREASURY DEPARTMENT ºf - - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors : LIBERTY LOAN ºº - For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. The United States Government is resolved to do its best to re- store every Wounded American soldier and sailor to health, strength, and self-supporting activity. part of this a work of restoring to he strength, and a run the men who have suffered for their country. - Until his discharge from the hospital all the medical and sur- gical treatment necessary to restore him to health is under the jurisdic- tion of the military or naval authorities, according to the branch of the service he is in. The vocational ºne, educatiºn and rehabili- tation necessary to restore him to self-supporting unae. the jurisdiction of the Federal Boa tº vocational Education. If he needs an Cº. an the Govern ment, Will supply it free, in keep . and renew it. When neces Sary - If a his discº ge ne again a u on account of his disability, the a sºn, free. While he is in the hospital and while in or sailor will receive compensation as if in sº as and his Or aenendents Will receive their allotment. - A wounded ºciate. or sailor, although his a lit, ace. not pre- vent him from returning to employment Without training, can take a course of vocational training free of cost and provided by the war- risk insurance act will be paid to him and the training will be free, but no allotment will be paid to his family. * 3: 33 3: x < HOT D YOUR LIBERTY BONDS. Don't surrender your Liberty Bond conditionally or ºnconditionally. - Hold fast to that which is good Keep your Liberty Bonds. ºr ºf - - - A 43 Tº easuº Deº ºnent Bºedu ºf Pu ic - * . - - - - - Liberſ; y Toal. * * *, - Editors : ºl. Q3 iſ ſº y LCºll Foºt immediate release. Chicago Distric & Secretary of t - º e Treasury William C. McAdoo in a telegram -, *, * -- - T. - º ----- * - . - - - - - - -- - - ***** Ved by H. T. Sºuzºt, director of ºne thira Liberty Loan campaign _r: ºt - - lº -- - -- - - - t - - ºf tºle seventh federal **Serve district, urges the people to start right now and get the habit of Saving . It is pointed out that June º º º * cº-a -, -, - * - - - . - - - - £8 has been C & Signated as National War Savings Day when a special ef- *** * be made to secure pledges from every American to save and e- ***** and to purchase War Savings stamps. A Special & ppeal is made by secretary McAdoo to oil Liberty loan workers to assist in this special campaign, as the spirit of saving and economy will be of great aid in future Liberty loan bond campaigns . The text of the telegram received by Mr. Stuart is as follows: "Tºo all Liberty loan workers: A greater number of individuals than ever before known own Government bonds as the result of your splendid work during the Third Liberty loan campaign. The number of stockholders in the Government should be still further increased through the sale of War Savings stamps, and the teaching of thrift and economy and the necessity of conserving labor and material should be continuous. - - "Friday, June 28, has been designated 3, § National War Savings Day, when a special effort will be made throughout the nation to se - cure pledges from every American to save economize and to purchase º Savings stamps. - - - - - "I earnestly desire that Liberty Loan Workers shall render all assistance possible to War Savings committees in this campaign. The more thoroughly the necessity for individual saving and economy is brought home to the people, the easier will be our Work in future Liberty bond issues, the more quickly and adequately can the army and º be equipped, and the more certain will be the fºre * * prosperity of our people . "May I beg you to do every thing in your power tº o * every American as a patriotic War sever and owner ºf Wºr saving stamps." ################### // J - ºrº r - º/7 --- - * † - - ºr *- … º, C RT'ſ - NT - - Tº H. 5 i. i. Y S : . . . º - ** A ºn tº l y : " . º º º --- U y - Tº º, º - W IMG 3 OF ºu lº by the Trºº I ºn - G. A. M I Z. A II " " ' " you give as innºh Pºoligiº as pººr B. Jº FAſ ſº I Jr. º sible tº the followi tº ºn tº Cºſ y º go tº 3 - - --- Sº sº º l - C. A \! ºlº - I () ſº IT * T CT º º r- -i. Despite the pangs of read justment through which tº go tº try is now passing, the people of the United States, taker as & Whole Wºłº never in a better position to contribute to a Government loº. In thºr tºº, will be when the Victory Liberty loan is offered in the spring : - " - The country has enjoyed -- and will soon again enjoy--an ºperºl led prosperity. There must , of course, be a period of transition ºucers and wholesalers sti have goods made and bought at the peak * the war time price aivºrce. They naturally wish prices sustained unt they can get out from under. Consumºrs, on the other hand, nº hat lover prices are inevitable, and are witholing orders. This leads to temporary idleness and to unemployment . - But tºe cause is only tempor ry. The nation has a bottled-up de mand for commodities of all kind sº accumulated 3 uring the Year or ſhore of war conditions that made it inrossible to get supplies for general consumption, or that forced the price level to prohibitive heights . In lines, the refore, the public is now awaiting a return to ºr ctical conditions to begin a great buying campaign. Every body has money. on December 1 lºst the per capitº supply th * * * of money had reºched the highest point ever known -- 56. & Compare this ºf thiſ tº sºme date in the ye r 1879 – 16.92. The Government is borrow - ing in huge amounts, but the we ith of the nation has grown enormously . Eve in eleven months the mount of money in circulation for every man, woman and child in the nºtion increased from 48.76 to $ 56.23. The ot ºl stock of money in the United States increased in the twelve months ºl 1918 by 1, 5, 4, 59.5, 335. The investment over of the people at large is oº greatºr in the United tº es that it has ever before been in the history in any country. The late st bºnk rer crit is sufficient answer to the gloomy plaints that are now being he ºrd from individuals ºn o cannot see beyond the short in terval of read justment for which ºne nºtion has now paused. The is test bank figures show that the American people have accumuli ted a ºr ºf ºne ºf thºsuch s no ot ºr GeºTI -- ºssessed. The public coul subscribe a 12,000, C , C. C loan in Apr ºf ºat i or a crisis ºn e this nº cessary, it li tie real hard ºn in C. y quarter . - The following table should reassu ºf h iſ t eled a ſov tº is gº en r is . i 1- - e anyone who is fair 1. n omi e of h S s to the future of the United States . It shows the un ra a cºs he a -- in nations l veult and tº e pace at which the United St. ing into international lead ºr ship in commer ce. With - e futur e of OWſ ºf r- º T tº ºse figures in mind, no one can fail to be serene as to t tº is nation, or in doubt as to the nation's ability, and hi sonal ability, now to over subscribe the Victory Liberty Loan, - This ten sº ows nº Unite i a e s balance of trºe -- the excess of merchandise or tº over in orts -- in the last ten years: 2 19 9 - * 25.2, 677, 92.1 1910 - 30 C, 4, 75.3 - - 1911. 56, , 167, 586 1912 - 581,144 998 | 9 || 3 631 4 ºl, G12 | 93 4. 324, 348, 0.49 1915 776, O'74, 15? 1916 C 91,005, 766 | 9 || 7 , 381, U 44, 64? 1918 (a pººr oxim tº 3,050, CJC , COU º > - t With those figures before him, who sº a ble to float another Liberty loanº say hat America is un- 1. º º It . - ºf # º # -*. * - Aſ ſ//7 - A43 * Editors; tº is the desire of TREAttºx ºr Frºnt Tº WAR L0 iſ GAVTCS OR - the Treasury Department that *...* M T Z. A T T O N - you give as much Publicity as BURE AU of PUBLTC TY to the following matter . CHT CA GO DT STRT CT . - - -, * - - Secretery of the Treasury Carter Glass hºs of ficially an- nounced from Washington that tº a hºme of the next (Fifth) war loan will be the "Victory Liberty Loan ." ºriginally it had been planned to ea in the next issue the "Fifth Liberty Loan, victory issue, but secretary class, after civ- ing the matter due consideration, finally brought for thf he haſ ſº coin- binº ti or - - - 11 Victory Liberty Loan ." - - - So "Victory Liberty Loºn" it is, and it is believed that every Worker will be inspire & with renewed zeal to back it up to a victorious finish, and every consistent American patriot with the e- termination either to start saving or continue to save in order to acquire "Victory Liberty" bonds when they are offered next spring, ºws gº ºute ºn two tº ense, (l) Bring the victors home. (2) Finish the job. The honor flag of the Victory Liberty Loan" will bear 3. blue "V" on a white field, surrounded by a red border, the "W" dº not - ing both "five" (Fifth Loan) and "victory." # # # # # # # TREASURY DEPARTMENT - º BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors : GOVERNMENT LOAN AND ºf For immediate release. SAVINGS ORGANIZATION º º CHICAGO DISTRICT. In the reorganization of the W. S. S., which is now a part of the Government Loan and Savings organization, extensive plans are being Worked out in the Seventh Feder- al Reserve District for the purpose of carrying on a great savings º this year. Dr. Shailer Matthews, secretary of the W. S.S. for minois, has been selected as chairman of a committee to outline the work for the educational institutions of the alºre, which comprise the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsº, and Iowa. - Plans contemplate Penny Savings in the schools. Pupils will be encouraged in a spirit of competition to save their pennies usually spent for candy and other fri- volities and put these penny savings into Thrift stamps. The War Savings societies in the schools as well as in the manufacturing plants and business concerns will be utilized on a more extensive scale to stimulate saving. º are 5700 War Savings Societies in the schools of Cook county, Illinois, with a membership of 228,000. In the plants and business Concerns there are 4350 Societies, with a membership of 174,500. According to T. A. Brownlee, who has charge of the War Savings societies, there is the keenest kiºd of rival among these sºcieti is ºn tº the schoºls º business concerns, and it is planned to throw out incentives in the form o: Honor Flags or other inducements to competition in getting the biggest membership. Saving as the road to will be the keynote of the 1919 campaign, wher- ever the Community or state Food Administrations have gone out of business, their work of preaching general conservation of money, labor and material, especially as it applies to the househola, Will be assumed by the W. S.S. Banks, Post Offices and Other public institutions will be enlisted to boom the sale of the stamps. The principal methods of reaching ºne at large Will be through the schools and the Post Offices. Banks and schools each month Will be Supplied with hanging cards showing the a. monthly price of the stamps. State superintendents º Public Instruction will be linked with the general savings campaigns, carrying the big message to the schools of the entire seventh - district. C. H. Schweppe, Director of Campaign in the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, is Director of the Government Loan and Savings Organization for the Seventh Federal Re- serve District. J. H. Puelicher, pioneer in the º, sº ºn Wisconsin, is Direc- + or of Sales for the district. He also retains the post of State Director. Ben F. McCutcheon is Director of Publicity of the Government Loan and Savings organizatiºn for the district. Luman W. Goodenough succeeded Frank T. Hubbard as state Director . Ryers on: Indian -- for Michigan. The - J D C wer, and Iºwa a. * ſ/7 - - / / 3 SURY DEPARTIFNT . . . . - F- *…* a tº tº - ... º. f* * * * - Iº. * ºn Jº º Nº. 99- º G. A ſº. 3 & T I O N º ºº: UFºº Yº Yºu º LICITY ... * **** pminº º " ) CHICAC ºn DISTRICT . sº tº a is especi tº that you de vote as much erºse to 1" as possible . When the American people, in the Victory Liberty Loan re ºt Spring, raise billions of dollars to pay for munitions that never . reached the firing line in France, they will not in reality be paying for those munitions but for the saving of 200,000 American livºs It was not the American army in France that forced defeat upºn Germany in 1918; it was the enormous production of munitions in this country that the German general staff ºnev would soon be flowing into action at the front and which would make victory impossible for the Kaiser. Had it not been for tº is knowledge the Germans would have fought through 1919. - - These statements were made by Lewis B. Franklin, head of the Liberty Loan organization at Washington, at a big rally of Liberty ºn officials of the Seventh Federal Reserve district, held in Chicº º J ºuary 29 as a preliminary to the Fifth Loan campaign which is sched- uled , according to latest advices, for April . - - "Our expenditures for December," said ºr . Franklin, "were the largest on record, being 2,060,000, Coo, a sum almost double the total annual expenditure of our Government in pre-war times. Many people ill call that paying for a dead horse. True , only one battery of American made artillery ever reached France . Practically none of our tanks got into action. But on tº e way was a stream of artillºry and shells that would have bloºr, the Gºrman army off tº º earth; we were be- ginning to deliver mustard gas ten times as fast as the Germans could make it, and our program of tan all in ºe tº tº evº five fººt ºf f : *T. - "Do we realize that the German army as never really routed 7 That to the last it was, fighting on for eign soilº It was only the knowledge of this great stream of munitions or the way that ºr is d ºre ºr in 1918 instead of 1919, and saved the lives of from 100,000 to 200,000 American boys." - - ºr , Frank 1 in said the Seventh Federal Reserve district has º chieved a more general distribution of bonds than any of the ºther ºli stricts . - - purchasers of 1,000 or less as against a ratio of 4 "In the Four thioan," he said, " you sold 53% of your bonds to nºtion . I have had a good many suggestions that thi 0.6 for the whole s loan ought to be O tº en by the large banking interests and by the men of great wealth t e should make no appeals to the common people; the t they ought to be called upon ºf air . We might remind those people that this one is for war expenses and if this was not a peoples war, I should like to know whose war it was . It was ºr for ºr e free ion of e ºld ºith the people ºf America vigorously back of it. And I to nºt is ſº they want tº be derrived of a cºnce to see it through from he financial side . * º -- # # º - º º i. - Aſ º/7 ºº TRE SURY DEPARTITNT º, AP LOAN. QºI. I. Tº ATION º, , T S A WTC 3 Bº CH Editors. For immediate release - AU OF PUBI, ICT TY i. i. º *- CHIC AC () DISTRICT . w ºf T. T º - HE AR IS NOT OVER. “ C. H. Schweppe, Director of the ºar Loan organizºtion for the Seventh Federal Reserve District, has sent throughout the five sº tº comprising the Seventh district an appeal from Postmaster General Burleson urging the postmasters to continue the ir cooperation i ºn the sºle of War Savings stamps ºn 3 to do everything in their poºr to suº port the great thrift movement of the Government during the prºse ſit year. In his a c e ] to the postmasters the Postmaster General points tº the fact tººt t}} e ºar is Yi Qt, over and ºil 1, act be until the finani- gial obligations incurred by he war have been completely discharged . Following is the statement issued by the Postmaster General; "The post office Depart ent deeply appreciated the splend id ſº tº riotic War Savings service of the postina stºrs dur G C. * * * * * * - - - in nue, as the thrift movement is one ºf . , , , , operations of the United States Government for he year 1919 the post office De - partnent earnestly asks your co-operation with the county, city and - town ºr Savings chairmen. It is not true, as many seem to believe , tº t the war is over. The war is not over and Will not be over , sº far as our people are c or ºr ſte § , until the financian obligations ºve hººve incurred have been completely discharged. "As a represent tive man of your community there seven ºlº Or. Qū a duty to our country ºrid to the people With who you a.m. i yº C grº - teet to co-operate in this most import & citivity sponsored by our overnment. Hence, I be speak your card an co-operation in ºr Sº wing & for this year." # 5 # # # ; ; ; ; ; ; - º º ; - Tº GURY DF} - O'ſ Pū I Tº Tº ſº. Tº - tº it. º, *//7 Edit or º, . II ºy I,( , ; - - For immediate release - tº in A H 3 - Cº. Lºº LIG (T • -- - illis' º ºrict, Vºlo … ." . . . . - - - -, * † : -- -- : * ~ * , - -- - - "… . º … --, - ,-- - 3 - 1 -- " - - tº ended the Chicago meeting Tuesday ( June 18) went on record that the id Gºry out the demand of the government in selling their quota of ver, i ſi on tº gº of 3 mſ cº, ºn cºg in zºº, a H = a ºf ºne ºf our tº libert --- C. § º - Cº. C & º C. I. I.L.C. º. O º, & Cº. Gº 3 ill ºi º A. C. L. --- U + Cº. Q iſ Jil & QUlſ Lil - - - ... u gºa C. -- - tº 8, ºn . . . . º 5 ſiejº º Tº ench º Cºlhoun º Gº SS º Charlevoix Co . . - iſ º Cheboygan º - C - º Cleº e Clint on º - iſ mºnet. 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U 3, ... jº 1. … . * , . . . . * - - -- ºn -- - -: nº. - halmers C C is ºn 3 S C ; O'Kle, ºn Clº & for the seventh district is 105,000,000 for the firs a £5 and a similar amount every tºo weels until October 25 ºld total of $40,000,000 for one district. lichigan hººkers who inton sº the resolution to put the & Certific tº 5 "over the tº p" were as follows: John ºcerº or Aloona Connº y Savings Bank Harrisvill ºf R. In ºri (, nº º ſº º Tanlº Sangºuolº F., T , Chicle sº e º ſº. º Nº on Tº ſºlº Allºg ºn Al `ena A pºla. - h -- - - - - ºn nº ºn ºn tº º, . ºlº G ºf Il §: . . . . . h. a . . . . . . . G º º Tºgº ºi nº (; ;- - -- ºw cº-º ſº tº ſº, () ſº º – º – C 116 - * --- - - ſº - º: - Bºrº º or nº ñºs º, º ºr º "? - º, , , º, …, 2.5 - -º- - -- - !CL - i. 3." Gº Yº G - c. … y º, ſº ºte 3 T º, º - º T tº - † -- Tº -> -- - - - - iſ . Tº nº s tº . . Tº º - - - tº ºr 7 º' - ºt º * - --- -- - U → Y iſ tº sº i tº , - ºn 3 ºn | 3 +…º- ºn - - -, * * º --- *: . - --tº $3 tº ſº. 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Tº - - * - - - - - -º iºl Cº. lt º a C. ºf ield. tº ºf . tº º ºſt T - -, -, - Lºº, i. i. 3 ºil. --~~ k ºr ......º. * * * - ſº R. J. Smith La e Cou º - - º … - - . - º -> º - - º - J - I º * , , , , tº . - - - - - - - J Q iſ Sūlīl First National Bank Tº dº * -, -,-, - If º -- --> - - Tº º ºncu l) e º a º º in * , , , * --- - ºr . ºil . . ." ii. Tº C, i. The newee ty Mr. rt --> Living ston" Iſa.comb {{ º º Manistee " º 11 Mason. " Midland. ºf º I Cºroe ºf Montmorency Muskegon " W. H. . . . on º º ºr - - - r -- * - " * - - - - º - º C iſ a ry, Jr. • National lºli erººn s Cººk Oakland. " Cramen ºn th Porlºid so lºs Bºrº Oakland. Oceana º C & Geola, 17 º it. tawa. If scommon iſ lºgiłław ly º tº Sanilac 11 11 º Shiawasse ºf - n - t Sº, Clair tº 11 tº fy Sº a Joseph" 11 ty Tüsco 19. " Van Buren " t! º it. Washtenaw " 17 º Wayne " º º - º tº 11 tº º º º, ºr - º, - * - º Q/ º º º º F - T - Perry Oakland County Cevings Brik Pontiac R. J. Ranking First National Bank Hart; J. W. Parl-hurgºt; First National Bank Reed City George Glerum First Sº Savings Bank Evart, B. P. Sherwood Grand Haven State Bank Grand Haven C. H. DeWaele Roscommon State Bank Roscommon --- -- - - - º - - Otto Schº ºn' Saginov, Saginaw George B. Morley Second I gional Bank Saginaw Charles J. Oleson Steve ºn of Sandusky Sandusky Melville H. Aitkin State Panºr of Crosweli Cr; 557ell. W. R. Gallagher State ºwings Bank OWo SSO B. P. Hicles Shiawº see County Bank Durand Gus Hill. First National Bank Port; Hur Or. C. R. Walker are , iſ us Hill, First Mat . Bak Port Huroſ. Norman W. Garrison First National Bank Three River, º, C. Gºroshigg a Sturgis National Bank Sturgis J. H. Bect on People & State Bank Cairo Fred C. Cogshell Citizeis State Bank South Haven. E. F. Parks First ſat ional Bank Paw Paw C. J. Walz F. T. Callú William J. Gray p State savings Bank First Nºt orial Bank Wm W. Moore Richard P. Joy National Bank of Commerce W. L. Dunham Highland Park State Bank J. R. Boddle The Peoples State Bank Henry Knowlton state peak Ann Arbor Ypsilanti First and Old Detroit Natl Balz Detroit Wayne County and Home Sav. Bnk Detroit De tº roit; Highland Paº n TY Wexford 17 it. Frank Welt, on | || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ########## º Detroit, Cadilla º º Cadillac *J º//7 A 3 TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY LIBERTY CHICAGO LOAN Editors: DISTRICT For immediate release. Through an error, the Victory Reveille of November 25th failed to give the complete list of Michigan counties that were awarded Honor Flags for exceeding their quotas in the Fourth Liberty Loan. Campaign, the following Counties being omitted: Honor Flag, Alcona ; Antrim; Branch; Clare; Eaton; Gratiot; - Hillsdale ; Huron; Lake : La peer; Lenawee : Living- ston; Newaygo; Osceola; Sanilac ; Shiawassee; St. Joseph; and Wexford. The complete list of counties in Michigan, now entitled to fly the Liberty follows : Alcona ; Alpena; Antrim; Arenac : Barry ; Berrien; Benzie; Beccan, scanon, cannoun. Cass; ºna. voix; Cheboygan; Clare; Clinton; Crawford; Eaton; Emmet ; Gene see : Grand Traverse; Gladwin; Gratiot ; Hillsdale; Huron; Ingham; Ionia; Iosco; Isabella; Jackson; Kalamazoo; Kalkaska; Kent; Lake; Lapeer; Lenawee. Leelanau; Livingston; Macomb; Manistee; Mason; Midland; Missaukee; Monroe; Mont- calm; ºne, a Neway go; Oceana; 0ge- maw; Osceola; Oscoda ; Otsego ; Ottawa; Presque Isle; Roscommon; Sanilac ; Saginaw; St. Clair; St. Joseph; Shiawassee; Tuscola; Van Buren; ºna, Wayne; Wexford. - # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-35 A ſº º / ºf Rofor to - 3-D-St-1896 The International IIows Sorvico prosonts horowith, for froc public ation by Michigan nowspapors, tho first of a so rics of ton artic los by Commandor Truman H. Nowborry, Aido to Commandant, of the Third Naval District comprising Now York, Now Jorsoy as far south as Barno gat, and Connocticut as far cast as Now London. This is tho most important naval district in the world. Command or Novſborry, whose homo is in Dotroit, has boon invited to do livor the so to n artic los in tho form of loctures bof gro the Good Governmont Club of Brooklyn. Ho will dolivor orio locture a wook, and the so loctures will be furnished to Michigan Hºspapers Wockly, for role asc on roccipt. Editors aro roquosted to give crodit to International Novºs Sorvio o as follows: "THE OPERATIONS OF THE FEDERAT, GOVERNMENT." First of a scrics of ton patriotic talks by Commandor Truman H. Newborry, Aido to Commandant, Third United Statos Naval District. (Supplied by International Nows Servico ) Know lodgo is power - how trito, and yot how truct To be a power in YOUR government you ought to be informed on its actual operations. I shall mako an offort, to to 11 you in ordinary language of ovoryday life what the Toderal Government dogs and how it does it. ------ -- Our Government is no longer a mere collector of taxes, but one that aids its people in the creation of Wealth and culture, It is a builder and operator. It has in its employ over half a million men and women and spends in ordinary times more than a billion to keep its machinery going. It is the land of plenty. We have a fourth of the Wealth of the world, one fifth of its wheat, one third of its coal, one fourth of its gold , one third of its manu- factured Viares, one half of its steel, more than half of its petroleum, two thirds of its cotton and nearly all of its corn. It is divided into three co-ordinate and equal branches: The executive, legislative and judicial . The executive or law-enforcing function is vested in the President. All Cabinet officers, who superintend the departments, are appointed by him. The legislative or law making function is vested in Congress. The people elect their Representatives and they compose the House of Representatives, or lower chamber. All bills must originate there if they have to do with tººting the people . The Senate, or upper chamber, is com- posed of Senators chosen from the States, tºo from each St. tºe. The Senate is required to concur in all legislative ºcts and in certºin executive cots, including the rati- fir, ºtions of treaties ond the appointment of officers . If the resident vetoe s a bill it must be passed the second time by two-thirds vote in both Houses before it can be- come a lºſ. - - TREASURY CEPARTIENT a - -- - BJREAT OF PULLICITY - A 43 - Editors; LIBERTY LO.N - For irmediate release . . CHICAGO. DISTRICT, . . " - IS UNGLº Sºlºš V. QRI, GCCD: a mortgage on his place. The d Bill Simcoe borrows ºld)0, add giveſ his note ºn security is all right , of cºurse, ºr le ºil ºn lºve been able to pry 100.5e the *1000. But behind that stands ºng fºr ºf the hºld Fasº. in ºil sin- ope's word, "His word is a good as his ound" that iſ: what the ſºigºs say of him, Faith in Bill Simcoe º as much co dº with transaction as anything else, The United States of America includes Bill sincoe, and you, and me and 111,000,000 others equally as good as we are. Whereas Bill Simcoe's ability to repay what he borrows rests entirely on his farm and his strong right arm, the ability of the United States to pay back what it borrows ref #5 on the earning power of 111,000,000 husky men and women who wear "stars and Stripes" in their button holes . Uncle Sam has the power to tax everyone of the people to make good any promise of payment he makes, And the ºic have 3,000,000 square miles of territºry to earn tax money for them, when Trio & Søm gº is . º irº ºniº Hºnasterº ºr tº ºne ºne tº out to cºver - - º - able to levy Fifty Billion Dollars tribute - the United states, so that he will be from the American people, If he can win the war he will be able to make up pay anything he demands. Novi uncle Sam comes to the people and says: "I must borrow some money to beat off the Kaiser, I will pay you back in a few years and in the º I will give you 4 1/4 percent interest and certain tax exemptions. You wont lose a cent but on the contrary you will have the sarest and best investment in the world, holding LIBERTY BONLS .” Do you believe Uncle sarº is his wara goºds Well, you are part of Uncle Sam yourself. re y Cºl. dºn't believe Uncle Sam you haven't any faith in yourself 1.0FAL: INVEST IN LL THE LIBERTY soºns YOU FOSSIBLY CAN . ############################# - - - - º -- - - º ºr tº "… .” -- - - -----------, -, -- º// 7 - Lºlº Gº G : Oſlº ſºon inning, ºi º e º zºº -º-º-º-º-º: "OT iſ line diºe Yellº. ºf STRICT. /º/º "3 ITTER PATRICT Tºlſ., . Apº II Dº - - " ºr *** * 2-, -, -, -, -º- y Wilbur D. He shit, Th: - - - - - - - º "Yº - ?. : … - * * * * Director of Dublicity, Tº ird - - “… --- --- - ºri Yūji º , Sºh Tedºrºl ºr ºrve iliº ºrig it. is not grºugh to buy a Tibºrº, Lond, The war is with its; it is ºf our doors. - - Being ºf ºar, we must be "bitterly gº triotic, " and we must apply tº 8 bit ºn metriotism constructively here as we would º - i ºn -- ~~ - - - a 3-- sº * … . - - º- -- - - ºpply it destructively "over the e." - Then we buy Liberty Bonds ºne pay out our hard earned money for ºlien. The more intensely ºne realize what the war is and hºt it me is and might me ºn to us, the more money we lend our government, . - In every day business we secºnd our money so fºr as possible ºith those who spend their money with us. - - It is just the sºme in this cre & business of backing up ºur government--which means nothing more nor less than back- ing up our sºlves. -- - The business house that has a Liberty Loºn honor flºg in the Windowſ is with us, and that is cºe stºre in which we should spend our money. - - - - If we do tº t , we help that dealer to put more money into more Liberty Bonds. - - - "He who is not with us is age A Liberty Bonº, button on the shows where he stººd as . * Liberty Boeºediºial arºs. * * * - where that ºupliº tº on stands--a pºrt of it all is that there is not ºn ublication in his whole ºf strict which is not wholeheartedly supporting every governmental movemerit . - A Liberty Ioan flag in the vind or of a store sº ism. It says: "This dealer knows the resource & 8 º the coat of a friend revisiºner shows º º - in ºiº- à. iſ § § º ºi. º curity behind the promises of oº government, and fº more he is leading a hand to our boys over thºre ". over he re. . . " - - - - It is our duty to stand shoulder to shoulder in business, ºs our boys in the ranks are standing shoulder to shoulder in Wºº Y - - ºf fººt it tººl.º.º.º.º.º. ºf ºſt-ſº j ñ, ſº ſº, jºiºſiſ ºff º/7 A TREASURY DEPART.ET BUREAU ºf PUBLIC ºf / º º Editors: Tº ſººn - For immediate reigases dºw ºntº - Volunteer WHO will volunteer for a Liberº Ican courtship and wedding? The Lºberty Loan commit jºg for the seven ºn £eferal reserve district wants to know. The committee Vanºs º £ind two sweet;hearºs go patriotic that they will forego diamonas and monogrammed spoons for the sake of setting an example to all the oth- er couples that are about to be married diring the coming Liberty Loan drive • Liberty bomas are to become , in effect, the bonds of matrimony. This is a time of war, it is pointed out by the committee, and every energy must be concentrated upon winning the war. The people must buy Liberty bonds, not sterling trinkets, Diamond tierras do nothing to help the American army-unless the diamonds are put up as collateral for a bond-money loan. But the money spent in Chicago and the seventh district in a single month on useless, though adorable, wedding tokens, would equip a regiment and transport it to France. The typical Liberty Loan courtship and wedding should begin with the betºothal gift of the man's faſhily to his fiancee. The typical wedding, it is explained, puts all the formeixties that accompany the bridal celebration in those circles where the high cost of living does not chill and limit the spirit of the giver. In the less pretentious and formal affairs of the every-day working Wol J 1, the typical Liberty loan Wedding can, of course, be followed only in so far as is practical in each case, The typical ceremony, as stated before, is, to begin with the bet: othal gift from the young man's family. This, of course, would take the form of a nice Liberty bond of the thira issue. Next we arrive--to º over intermediate ter- rier purs and other transcient tokens--at the sacred moment preceding the wedding When the bride groom presents his Wedding gift to the bride. In place of fasten- ing about her throat a jewelled necklace, he will unfold before her adoring eyes a beautiful steel engraving--one of Uncle Saifi's new bonds--for her very own. The Liberty 4 1/4s are, it is pointed out, especially fitted for such a sacramental use. It is almost as if the government had had sweethearts and brides in view. For next to the wedding itself the wedding anniversary is held most sacres in the eyes of the bride. But many and many a heart ache has befallen, says the committed, when hubby has forgotten the event. Here, however, the bond comes in as a watch dog to maºimomial bliss. With the jewelled necklace, there were no interest coupons to come due upon the twelve month. But the bond bears its coupons which hubby, as fiscal agent for the household, will be required to clip. When he opens the family safetybox to clip the coupon he will exclaim: - * - º "Why, we arº married in the month that bond was issued, and Tuesday after tº: is the anniversary dºe . " The Liberty bond, giveſ tº bride to have ala to hold until ºath, or the mºturity of the bond, doth them pers, constitutes a sort of ºperennial wedding present. Every year, upon the anniversary of the wedding, the bond bears an anniversary gift--the interest due. No jewelled necklace, no matter how fine , could as this. Next, sº the question of the bride's dowery. For the Liversy loan wedding this endowment must, of course, come in the form of new government 4 1/4s. No other investment for ºne benefit at the new couple could take any other form hºlf so patriotis as a box full of Liberty bonds, helping the government in its hour of greatest need, and standing by the couple as a convertable asset and an income producer in their hour of greatest need. The same argument applies to any endowments that the groom's Uncle Fred may have in store for the pride and groom. No summer cottages or winter cars will do this time. The gift must be in bonds. As for the general run of wedding º these , of course, must all be in bonds. This, naturally, will lead to a considerable duplication: But the - - - - - haºs pair, according tº the committee's view, will not object to duplicate bonds. On the big mahogany table where the gifts are on display, a plain anºes man hiding behind the portierres, one may see a $1,000 tead here, a $500 there. Again, an engraved little ºo, the gift of half a dozen of the bride-groom's office bºys. How much more preferable these, from the point of view of the donor, the committee - points but, than carving knives or upholstered rockers. With the first imick in the blade of the knife, or the first rip in the upholstery, the gift goes into the garret and with it, probably, all recoilection of the friend who gave it. But with the bond, there is the ever-recurring interest coupon to bring up anew the warm glow of friendship and love. But the giving of Liberty bonds does rºot confine itself to the wedding, That is only the first stºp. Following the wedding come the birthdays of the bride and the groom. more songs are in order. Patriotism suggests, through the loan committee, that these bonds be purchased during the coming drive, and laid away for use when ºne occasion arrives. If not that, they may be purchased in the open market. Again the wedding anniversary, already endowed with a flood of coupons, can be made more sweet by an anniversary gift of an additional bond or two. Then, again, there is the patriot, Will surely make his gift a baby is named -or the woman, if it for the presentation of bonds and the ... - -- . . .” 27& Sºggº gº. this latter event, baby bonds - The tºpical Liberty Loan wedding patriotic lovers in the seventh reserve district may follow. make the Liberty Loan wedding the fashion, ################ * - . … x -- . cliriº: “eling. ºr lºgoment of Incle Sam's war fund, The god father, if he is a T. in eity rond and as for the man for whom the Ł he that kind of name--here is another excuse In as appºop.": ate . is intended as an example which all It is the hope to ############# Aſ . . . .” lººk ºf Aºiſ NT A. 2 Bººt ºf ſºciº ºf ºf it on s : LIBORTY I OAM ºr inted isºe release, CHICAGO I, T Sº ICT. - TN WESºſſ GAA Tº . When a farmer buys a mortgage on a neighboring farm he feels pretty safe, because he knows what the land will produce and he knows the farmer who is working the land with the borrowed capital, But the ºg are elements of danger the tº no man can fore see . Drought may come and ruin the crop, compelling the borrower to miss an interest pay- º meiºſ; , The boºo ºr may fall sick and fail to work the land. Some - thing may happen to cause depreciation of the property, so that the lender cannot recover all the money he has loaned . Such things have hºppened and that is why large investors follow the principle of "dis- tº i outing their investments" over as wide an area as possible . When you buy a LIBERTY BOND you buy en investinent that has a mortgage on nearly 3,000,000 square miles of the American continent, including - Alaska and the islands of the gea. No ºrought ever hit all America º - at one time. The corn crop may fail, but the American iron, gold, - - - - - -- coºl, and copper crops never fail. A fºrmer may be unable to meet his mortgage interest, but Uncle Sam levies taxes big enough to pay all his interest and redeem all his mortgages. He has to do it. If fails to do it he ceases to be a respectable member of the fºmily h º ºf natiºns. And if that ever should happer, tho investment on this continent would be worth anything at all . no property except what can be carried in the pocket would be wºrth anything, The govereign Nation is all that insures the value of any property or the safety of any individual. - - - No matter how safe a farm mortgage may look to you, it is a million ºnes less sere than a Lº Peº, with the constitute an - f; he congress o: the United States behind it . We raise enough fºrm produce in a single season to pay off all the authorized Government bonds and have enough money left to rebuild from the ground up a city as big as Chicago . - Hence for Safety, INVEST IN LIB RTY BONDS. ſ' ſtºlºgiºlº. Iliº iſºlº ###### º ###### ºn a -º º º, Tºrº rº - - - --- - Tº ſº IFP. º, RT --- - ſº - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *.* º - º “ - - - - - **- - - - E 5 ºf '' . Fú tº - - - - º º - -- - - ºf - º! - - - --- ºn tº ºn tº ºn Gº (..." - Mº., º Aº ONTS. - What is a mortgage? It is a cºnvºyance ºf pºem by to a trustee, as a pledge - and gº ºurity for the name tº of a lorn with irºerest. When ºne ºut is pºº - - - - --- --------- - -- --- ºf , . - º … 3 º lº, º º º . º . º ſ ºv º º * * * * - - º -- - - . . . . * -, - * , ---, -º- -, -º- --- - - - - - - - - … -- --- --- -º-º-º-º-º: - - Whº is a jº nº - a leº is a shºre in the benefits cº a mºrtº a ſº- - gº ºn º *e tº . cºred hy a specific lºst is ºe *C. r. intereº reº tºrn. What, 3.8 g. º nºt * : i , º, ø, ºnvºr ºt of the Iºnited States of ºnerica to rerºy a cer: º, e amount of poºr ºved mºney at a fixed tºe with interes: payments at ºf ºri cºis . Whet is the security behind a Liberty Bond? All the pººr ºy of tº - --- - - - - - - --- -- - - - - - - - * † -: * * * …” states ºf America and the agreement of the Government to use its consº it tº - - - - - right of taxation ºn most ºne terms of the bond. V. . . . . . ; ºr º, º C 3. Tº ºr ºne hoº cººr tº der the Liberty ºf contract, The People of the United States. By Whº's authority dº they borrow? By authority of the Constitution, embodied in on Acº of Cºmº ess . -> ºne is the redeemex ºn tº Ponds? The People of the United tº º How is she repaymen ºº ed? by the operºi on of a speci - io any ºssed by - - - - - -, * * * * ~. --- -- - * * * * ~ -- --- - - - --- - - - - - º - *. º - º: º - º Congress, rais, as revere sufficienº for boºn principal and intº the ºlº to box row, and ºne ºligº ºn to repay loans by ºxº ºil, excises impºsts a dutiºs, ºr fºre ºr a gº tº ºne cºus ºf Gove:-jºort, When thºse prin- ciples ſell, the gº º ºn is and arºchy res ºf . Ard when anarchy reigns no property is secure, to sº º is seºe, no personal right is inviolº Therefore, the Best security in tº world is a º ºg Liberty Icon Bond. ºne whole Nation is the boil rººm. The wºols Nation pledges its ºn ºn and taxing powers fog ºne a cºres or the debt. And the wealth of the United 3tates is not less ºne ºcco coodoo. That is thirty times ºne amºunt ºf the Liberty Bonds authorized. ############################ a TREASURY DEPARTMENT Wºº - Bºſtº OF PUBLIC TTY - Editors: L T Đº NY LOAN * A/3 For immediate release . . . CIICAGO DISTRICT. - The "Four Minute Speakers" is an established in- stitutiºn. Today, (April 10), however, Chicago was introduced to the "I'our Second Speaker" . - The question "What is the strongest reason why a man should invest in Third Liberty Loan Bonds" was put to a number of members of the Nºticial Chamber of Cºmmerce at their annual ºn Cº- **on ºf the Congress Hotel, Chicago, yesterday. The mon, bºr & Yºſe tsked to pie se couch their replies in one sentence. The fºllowing ºposion, includes a few of the concise expressions by these men. They constitute the first "Four Second Speeches" of the war. - John H. Fahey, Boston, Mass; – "It should not be Considered a sacrifice to purchase a Liberty Boğd, but a duty and a privilege . " Chºrles Nagºe, St. Louis, Mo. – "There arc ºs tº reasons for buying a Liberty Bond as there are American Soldiers in France and Americºn Sailors on the sea.” Jas. H. Defrees, Chicago, Ill. - "Liberty Bonds 33 G º supreme investment, both from a patriotic and business stºnd- point - " - John Joy Edson, Washington, D. C. - "Buying a Liberty Bond is a patriotic Duty to be performed promptly ºnd cheer- fully, with all of our ability – for liberty and civilization cºnd the peace and happiness of the world.” - E11 iott H. Goodwin, Washington, D. C. - "Where the heart is, there the treasure is . Q. E. D." - - Archer Wall Douglas, St. Louis, Mo. – "Liberty bonds are the only tººl investment f ºuture on the nºt toº - - - - -- - - - ºrry A. Black, Galveston, Texas - "Buying a Lib- erty Bond is one of the best of the many ways in which men above the draft age can help." - W. L. Clause, Pittsburgh, Pa. - "Because it is the first step necessary in our determination to make the world safe for democracy." - R. T. Cunningham, Fairmont, W. Va. – "We should buy Liberty Bonds oecause by so doing we afford the necessary support to the war program and ºrvé aotice on the enemy that we are going through with it. . " - Edw. A. Filene, Boston, Mass. - "If we do not buy Liberty Bonds freely, we shall be spiritually poor and materially poor; for if we buy, we shall have bonds and if we do not buy we shall ºay the money in taxes and have nothing to show for it." - Frank H. Johnston, New Britain, Conn. — "We should buy Liberty Bonds because every dollar saves the lives of your boy and mine and brings nearer a realization of the glorious hour when the flag of true civilization and liberty shall float over the world . " R. A. McCormick, Baltimore, Md. - "War for the right of existence is today the first business of every citizen. mºerefore, money contributed to this business is necessary and is the East whether a man is a citizen or a renegade." - Lewis E. Pierson, New York City - "The war must be won - without money it cannot be won - speed in reisi ng money and creating efficient governmental organization will save blood, civili- 2 : on and our country." C. Simon, New Orleans - "Liberty Bonds are tinued freedom withoºd which all other inves thless .. " - - ſº iſ iſ ºff ºf lºſt lºſt ºf ºf nº ºf _-_ - - H. ºf 17 ºf TREASURY DEPARTMENT ºf OR PUBLIC ITY - - ºči it, on s : T Fºº T.fy † : " . . . . . . tº Y. Iſ)..N. - ºo: iumediate release. --- - wº - - - - - Cºſº A.C. () DJ STRICT . º -- - - - - - - - - - - - - The general plan announced by the breasuty department Provides for the ceiling of approximately ºcs, OOC,000 of certifi- s —, ± - - - -- . . . . . - - - - - -- --- - --- -s tº - º --- - - - cates of indebtedness in anticipation of the fourth Liberty loan ever º---- --- * --- - ... - --" - -- - 1. - - -j-. - - - - º - - two weeks in the seventh district, or a total of about $750,000,000 by the time of the fourth loan. Cook county is expected to absorb 32,062 per cent of the total for the district, the county's total banking resources being -º-; - - - - º, - - - -- - fixed at ºl, 744, 590,885. Other data on banking resources and per- Tº s centage of the district, is total ailotment of the certificates follo - - - Percenº ge Division Banking Resources of distric - to tº 1. Illinois (outside of Cook Co.) . . . . . , 605, 878,889 . . . . . . . . . . . Cº- All of Illinois in district . . . . . . . . 2,350, 4tº), 774 . . . . . . . . 43 001 - All of indiana, iº. flisº ict, . . . . . . . . 585, 656. C55 . . . . . . . . lºw cº- Iowa ( entire stºº e ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 º 0.67 . . . . . . . .18, 4 º’s Michigan ( Lower peninsula) . . . . . . . . . 940, fºg, 69% . . . . . . . . . . . ºoº- Wisconsin (southern portion). . . . . . . . . . . . . ºf . . . . .ºlº sºlº Total for: district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000, 855,244 - The above ºil on the condition 36 C tº - of federal reserve member banks, including national and state insti- tutions, and of non-member banks, including state banks, trust con- as situtions as at the close of - i. s panies, Savings banks and private business Dec - 31, 1917, or the nearest availaable date : ºl-lill-l liſt. Lºſtºl lºilº...! iſ "illº - ####ji iſ iſ Fif# ## Ti ####. of To go covering sixty eight counties, coºnty by county, and the per cent of ,- º, ºr uſ. Alº DI STRIC T - Following -> he state total: County --- Aloona A. Lºgan A pena. An ºim Aºnacº Barºy Bay Bºrn gi o Boº, en Braich Calhoun rt C 3, §§ Charlevoix Cheboygan Clare Clint on Crawford Eat, on Eſºmet, Genne see Cladwin Gr. Tº averse Chºe ºilot Hillsdale Hinº on Ingham Ionia Toºse 6 Isabella Jackson Kalamazoo Kalkaska. Kent Ilalºe Lapeer Leelanau Lenawee Livingston Macomb Manistee Mason Mecosta Midland Missaulkee Monrod Montcalm Montmorency Muskegon Newaygo Oakland Oceans. Ogemaw Oceola, Oscoda, Otsego Ottawa Presque Isle Roscommon Saginº St. Clair St. , Jºseph. Sani e Q Shia is see Tusc º Wan ºn Was W. War º, tº º ºf ------- A/J Editors: - * / / 7 For immediate release. / / 3 Banking Resources --------- Amount --- § 394,686 5, 751, 836 5, 104,981. l, 6 ºf , 606 55, 21% 4, 376, 364 22,030, Cº. 2 6', 3 800 10, 652, 702 5, 155,067 24, 31%, 9.2% 3,935, 312 2, 341,063 l, 972, 106 1, 164, 335 3,921, 558 360, 148 5, 778,451. 2,450 , 29.3 28, 267, 525 1, 269,065 5, 30%. , 6.33 5, 979, Ogº 4, 61.7 515 4,861, 172 14, 102, 575 7,145,000 1, 356 ºg ºil ºf 379 17,082, 57]. 16,738, 231 405, 106 70, 19% 744 598, 915 5, 777, 399 998, 263 14, its 5 2,994, 169 ll, Clº 800 3, 630, 337 3, 110, 799 , 340,364. 1,654, 849 ºf 5, 276 8, 7.6%. , 808 6,0° 303 260, 816 9, 503,087 2. idº 18, 213,904 1, 7 ºf 24 5 ºf , ºº, 3 2, 77 , 102 123 - 113 889, 840 10,930 & 5 1, 344, 962 - - - 163,493 2 6 C. ºn tº Zºº º º 12 lºº, 675 º -º-º: º & ºf 222 - -- - -- 6 ºf , ºº, 7 50 ºf º, º A Tº Yº - a tº º * - - - º - ---. - 5 º * Q - º º - º - - - - - º - - º - - - - - - - - - - Per Cent are the banking resources of the state of Michigan, 2, to Total * CA-2 ... 618 - 54.8 * I ºf 9 , O'70 a 470 2, 367 . O'Y2 l, 1.44 - 554. 2 - 613 423 ... 252 - 212 125 a 42]. - Oº 6.21 , 283 3,037 , 136 • 570 , 642 - 496 522 1 .. 515 768 º, 14.6 , غ 1. 835 1, 798 - Cº. 4. 7, 542 - CA 3 -107 l, 515 - 32.2 1 - 184 . 390 . 334 - 25l. 178 ... O 3 .942 * 64.7 ... O & 3 1. Cºl. , 269 1,957 Hº 2 ... O C4 , 293 - O | 3. Oº 1 - 130 ------- - ined through a questionaire issued to the is ºliº: Sion of the seventh Federal i u ü i oils of , requesting a report of conditions at the close of 9 / . - ll. L.fi.i.d. J. L.H.’ſ liſt ſºlºiſ ill. Lºſ # #| iſ # - ###, ºff, - º ſ Page No. 2 º//7 / "No banker should criticise any of you for these quotas nor, as we see it, should they criticise you for your activity and earnest en- deavor to get them to subscribe to such quotas. None of us are respon- sible for allotments no for the fact that offerings are made every two weeks our only duty is that of obtaining full subscriptions. The three things that should be kept clearly in mind by every banker in the District, in our opinion, are these:- - . The Government ess and expect the amount of money they are asking for Any larger an s can and will be properly used; any smaller amount will not be enough for actual requirements. 2. They undoubtedly ed and expect the full amount asked for on exactly and pecifically the dates requested. Subscriptions next fall when cºops have been marketed and bankers are in funds, or subscrip- tions at some later or more convenient riod will not meet the re- quirements. Now or when the issues are offered is the time for sub- scriptions and no amount of sacrifice should be permitted to prevent a banker from subscribing in full- 3. ºvery barker in he District should, we think, feel the per- sonal responsibility of meeting the issue for himself and his own institution to the maximum equired, in the consciousness that if we fail in producing the credit required by the Government, when and as requested, we handicap the Government in the prompt and efficient ex- ecution of its tremendous task and directly expose our boys at the front to the hazard of unnecessary danger iſ not ultimate defeat. e nines mind, it seems to us that when bankers of ºne of ºne and their quota, the - º and their promptly earnest solicitation that they do so Frºm perso º we ºn too well that entreaties and begging on you per a as distasteful to you as they º annoying to the banker approached, and we shall be keenly dis- appointed if on future issues such activities will again be necessary in order to procure subscriptions to our full quota." - "Keep - you have a se ºne sº ºn tº be * * - ºz. /º/, 3 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Editors: The following copy, which is issued BUREAU OF PUBLICITY for immediate release, is of import- LIBERTY LOAN ance to the Government 's financial CHICAGO DISTRICT. program. By publishing it you will be assisting very materially in that program. Pointing out that the monetary requirements of the Government are greater and more pressing now than ever before, the Secretary of the Treasury has issued a statement in which he calls upon every person in the Seventh Federal Reserve District to buy War Savings Stamps to the limit. Only by borrowing from the public can the Government's huge bills be paid; hence the drive for the "war savies." The Secretary's message follows: "I most earnestly urge upon you that your organization make every possible effort to the end that pledges for the purchase of War Savings be fulfilled before the close of the year. The Government's monetary requirements were never greater nor more pressing than they are today. Expenditures for November were greater than in any similar eriod. These expenditures growing out of the ... mus. be met , , ..…. from the people and the r magnificent response heretofore to the Government's requirements makes me confident that they will not fail to continue their support to the end that all payments resulting from War necessities will be promptly met. "Much remains to be done. Our brave troops must be maintained and paid until their work is fully accomplished and they are returned to their homes. This is not a time for us to relax Our efforts and the Treasury Department is making plans for larger and even more important Work during the coming year. Please make every effort to bring this statement before the people in your district and to urge upon them the continued holding of their War Savings certificates, the fulfillment of their pledges and additional purchases as their me ns permit." # # # # 4 || | | | | | | | || LL-64 *J TREASURY DEPARTMENT - º - - - BUREAU OF EUBLICITY º ºl. 5 - EDITORS. This matter of late NETS is ºf LIBERTY LOAN the highest importance to every CHICAGO DISTRICT . Federal Tax payer in the Seventh - - - pº sºlicit . - Please give it as much prominen. as you space will permit. - Federal income and profits taxes for 1919. ºne new Revenue Act will - amount to 6,000,000,000. The first third ºf ºne tº ill due and March 15, 1919. These taxes must be paid in an ºf a ce preparations were made to provide means of payment, the strain ºn the oa in and business C dits of the country, might lead to embarrassing est is tº a ºn the U. S. has payers may supply themselves in advance meeting ºne arch ºn meas, an Revenue - - ºn is aene by offering 4. - obligation of the U. S. tº dated - - The Banks and all private ºne. , , , , buying these Government Tax Anticipations & "waiting for conditions otherwise be idle, - the government. Current fu dis are needed to ca on the demobilization operations following the armistice. There is no way to obtain this money except by "bor ſing against the taxes" to be collected in 1919. This is one by the issue of these T - Anticipations. When March 15 rolls around the holder of Series need not or row money a ºn tº a his rederal which the gº ºn acces ºn face. . of .. The Treasury reserves a Series "I" O º tº rease Fa Hierº is in Chicago Exchange, is us ºf August 20, 1918. - - tº avoid possible hiºn in fail in - a tax these Tax It is 3. - LT-22 º// 7 *J - - / /3 TREASURY DºTIENT BURTAL OF Pujº LICITY Editors - LIBERT. * OAN - Fºr immediate tº lease. CHICAGO DISTRICT, - Friday, April 12, has been suggested by W. G. McAdoo, secretary of the Treasury, as an appropiriate occasion for" schools of patriotism" in the rural dis- tricts of America, school trustees, alº of Wºon. have received the suggestion from the head of the treasury Department, are arranging school house mºtings. The full meaning of the loan, the iſ politar.ce of prompt and generous sup- port and the importance of unanimous co-operation have bºº ºld as appropriate subjects for presentation and discussion at these meetinge. The letter from Secretary McAdoo conveys the added suggestion that programs of patriotic songs, reading of patriotic verses, lighting of bonfires in the school house yards, ringing of the school house bells and other devices be rº- sorted to in an effort to stimulate interest and exºthusiasm. An official message from Washington directed to the rural residents of America, is suggested as a poſſ- Sible feature, Agricultural agents and demonstrators in every county in the States of - Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois an - - - ponding to an appeal from the Secretary of Agriculture, David P. Houston, to find a place in the local Liberty loan organizations and render every possible assistance in bringing into the campaign farmers and their families. ############################### 3. Vº go origin. have been sº iſ lºſſ. ** ºr. - ºut tº // Tº - --- - *U ſº *//7 Editºrs: - Pºº". Y. T. ()/ N - For immediate release . - - I. ºf a dº . Cº. ºO D1 Tº ſº. A tº 3 ches of war service, women can and muct tale their place --- - * American women ax ºr gºeg toºl from the hardships tº the tº encies by the courage of American men. It will never be recessºry ty to recruit, an Americ ºn Eat a lion of one the but in the other two bran- S Women are tal in men's places in the workshop, the office, * * tº fields. ſhe evor ºn trº is woºl. to do the American V'ſ Oſlº. It will do it. No other nation has given its women wo much-none other do sºves so much from them. Women can invest in Liberty loads. Women gain our tºil Waste and stimulate thrift, and invest in more I iberty bonds. W. H. G n \, ºn save money to invest in Liberty bonds they serve -- doubly, for they release all the labor and the mºtorials that would d have been used in manufacturing the thin s they didn't buy, at the sºme time aiding their government in continuing America's holy war. the morale of our army by unflinching courage and heroic devotion at the third Liberty Loan . - --- WOiſº lºſſ GT S A Tº A M D . ORK - Women, stand beside our fighting boys in spirit: ; Keep up - * - home. The third Liberty Loan points your duty-–the third nation- Wide as in to universal service--the third Sword Sharpened for ºctory in the forge of ºr each. America must win – – it doros lot fail – ºr it is America the Rºſi - Conquered that calls. - women, it is said, spend nine tenths of all the money ºn tº is spent. Let every women scrutinize her family budget. She must do the major part in taking her family's share of Liberty bonds. Upon the women of America must rest, in a large measure, the success of - - --- - - - - - -- º - TO THE AM ºr CAN iſſº'ſ H. R. A boy, yours or your neighbor's, perhaps, lies Shivering in the trenches "over there", wet, cold, weary, or , worse yet, on the Stre ºgheg of No Man's Land, wounded, along, dying. You cannot pºar: oe; "over the to for hiº one agony; you cannot give him life, he ith or hºppiness; but if all America does her futy, you can give to every ºne rigº lººd who " the glory of bopº -- the reasonable certºirty of 3. victory the exultation of knowing tº t he does not ſºle in vai - that America has risen as one to male the world it for lite , fi : for on (PAGº TWO) or , fit for freedom. - Invest in Tiberty bonds nov. Subscribe until it hurts. Take whº tº you can outright, ºnd take on as you can stººger under. Remember -- it's no longer "do your bit", but do your ALT . - -- - Hold fast for Victory ! *_lliſ' 'Lºlºiſt fl. - -------. - *:::" "...Jº'ſ tº iſ ſº iſ jºiºſ" --- ºf ºf all the investments you have. //J *//7 ... // ? Tº º ARTMENT BUI ºf Qº ſº. ICITY Fººtors: For immediate rejººse a LiFERTY Iſ)..N. ºf . º CHICAGO DISTRICT. i. Law and order underly all investinents. ºf life and person are insecure every- thing else is in danger, That is the reason why the fºrench poet ºrote the lines: *There is only one ºutare--that of our Country : There is only one Foresight-e Gūr Country? There is only one Economy-Clar Country?" No matter how many farm nortgages you may have; no matter hºw nºmy cºy scrapers you may own; no matter how many flat buildings you ney have for renº, or how many factories you lay be operating--every investinent you have rests or the Soverignty of the United States of ºverica, The slightest danger that confronts the United States acts as a depreciation of every piece of property you own. Your farm is valuable to you because the United States of America has enacted laws which insure your right to the fee and title of your land. Anything that weakens the authority of the United States weakens your hold on your farm. Any- *ě that cheapens the United States of America in tº evas of nations cººsas_ - Anything º to as º ºns ºn tº sº. jeºtitº, tº fºreign powers, tends to bring ºn tº sº. to a position of danger. Every shrewd investor--every wise property owner--every same wºrkingmap-- knows that the safety of all persons and of all property in the United States rests on the safety of the United States as a º power. If the United States is lost every dollar of our invested capital is depreciated or entirely wiped out . - We are engaged at the present tire in a desperate war. The issue is our right to remain "free and independent". If the military tyrant of Europe beats º: we eust be his vassals and his slaves - To Whip hiº and retain our liberty and to insure our independence, we must win a complete victory over Ger- many. If we fail our mortgages and flats are worthless, The moral is: INVEST IN LIBERTY BONES and WIN the WAR: ############################ - - - - º/7 - º º - II. Fºlitors: QAM - Foi iºns liate release. Over in Michigan the farmer who insists on selling hiº Lib erty bonds before the wºº is OY Cº., is . a s ) - der Word has gone out & long ºne a s ºf that shºe ºn tº tº man who buys a b pressure of a loºn irive, and then seeiºs t sell it afterwards, when he is ºr aer no no cossivy of ºld in sº, is 3. bad eitizen and, as ºuch, is not entitled to bank cºncil ºr for . the regular operations ºf his fºrm. - The first case in point comes from the Antrim County Stºte Savings bank, of Mancelona, Mich. A former appeºred in the bank this Week with a * 50 bond of the secona is ºuc and Goning up tº the ce shier's window, said: "I want to sell this bond and get my cº sh out of it, . " - "But, brother, " said the cashiºn, E. J. L. Mills, ºdor ºt - - - you realize that it is rather unpatriotic of you to sell this bond, a re riot, ºf Sº- - ea tº # F yo, ºne on and ºn ºn . . . . . . . . . . But the cºrner insisted on sein . He also refuses the offer of e i a ºn tº boni, with the i tº a security. "T vºlt; my cash," he said. - - - - ºvery vein, sº a ºne easier, ºn handed out the money. Then he eadea. "But, farmer, how much noney did our bank lens you last year for see ºn - "Th: e.g. hºme, a a tº ety, ". f; fre frºg i. e. mana now much ºn yºu want this ye rºº von, about the same ºn 1 guess." "Well, you can ºt get it here. yºur creat is 1. onºr good at this bank." - The farmer asped. "But why? ---he he ºn . ºr nº. ºve, you my business for years and always paid back on the dot." - - "I admit that, " responded Mr. Mills, "but this bank is kee ins its money for the enefit of those ºf ºur custºmers whº are ºn ing for the benefit of our ºvernment. If you men ºne overnº in its time of need, we help you in your time of need. But you hº shown that you are not that stamp of mººn. get your funds someº else. Good day." - - - - - º! / º "I Dº, º Tº A/ . . . * - - - - --- - - - -- - - -- - X. ºf º irº at 3 g º lease . r -- -º-º-º-º-º- - º 9 - º C 'll Ç º - ºw- --- --- - - º Mºſſº, º Aº ONTC. -- - - ------ - -- - --- * ----, -, - - * - What is a now tº ge. It is a cºnce ºf pºeity to a trustee, as a pledge - - - - - - - - - -, -, -º- i. º. -- - ----- - - as ºr . ºn , … … " - *. - - - and sº cariº, fºr the payment of a Lorn with interest. When the debt is peºd ---, - …, x -------, - , , , , - -, * * º, º f ºf ºf 70 it a -- --- -- - Whº is a scº nond is a dº nºte shºre in the benefits ºf a nºrtº, ºr cºres ºf a specific ºrest in the pºlºgº prºperty and entitled to a gºe interes; reº. What, 3.8 a Lºbº ºngº ºf the ºver ºnt of the Inited States of America to - repay a definite amºng of boºed gºey at a fixed time with intereº payments What is the security behind a Line ºy Roniº All the property of the Inited . . . sy - S --- * * *-*. - - -: - - ------ - - - - - ... . . - - - - * -- … * * * : * * * * - tates of America and the agreezeº, of the Goº cºminent to use its consºliº ºne- - - - -- - right of taxation to most ºne terms of the bond * . . . . . ; ºr º 'º - Yºº the hºw ºr tº der the ſiderº ºnd contracº. The People of the United Sºetes. By whº adºhová tº dº they borrows. By authority of the Constitution, embodied in on Acº of Cºngress, The Whole Nation is ºne on y º ºne whold Mation ºf es - mºrs tº reº ºf ſºy Bºnds? The People of the United Cºes. -- - - - --- - - -- - - - - - . . . - - ------ rº - - How is the repayºn 3 sº ed? By ºne operation of a specific law, ºssº Ły - º Congress, raiºns ºvere sufficien; for both principal arº intº at the riº º to boº row and whº ºbligation to repºy loans by ºxºicº, excises, impos tº and - - -------------- - --- - -, *-*. - * --- º - - - - - - --- --- - -- - -- dutiºs, arº fººdamental and vital gºinci pº ºf Goveº ent, Then the 50 prin- - - - º ciples fall, the government fºlls and arºchy reigº: , Ard when anºº re-º no property is secure, ſo sº is sº - Therefore, the Best ºccº ºy in world is a U º ºxes I, berry Loan Bºrd- i t § º , , - 5 ºr tº cºal woºl ºn and taxing powers for the disonºrge of the debt ºn the wealth of the United states is not less than $250 000 000,000. That is thirty ºimes ºne amºunt of tº Liberty Bonds authorized . - ############################ - - TREASTRY DEPARTMENT A/J Blººd OF PUBLICITY *//7 Fàitors: L TEER IVY LOAN *A* > For immediate release . . . CHICAGO DISTRICT. The "Four Minute Speakers" is an established in- º ------- *. - * ----- - ſº º *_ _- - - stitutiºn. Today, (April 10), however, Chicago was introduced to -- u "Four Second Speaker" . - The question "What is the strongest reason why & mºn should invest in Third Liberty Loan Bonds" was put to a number of members of the National Chamber of Cºmmerce at their annual cº- on ºf the Congress Hotel, Chicago, yesterday. The mom, bºrº Yº ſº tº e to please couch their replies in one sentenco . The tº Lloºſing Fºllºsion includes a few of the concise expressions by these men- they constitute the first "Four Second Speeches" of the war. - John H. Fahey, Boston, Mass; – "It should not be considered a sacrifice to purchase a Liberty Borjã, but a duty and a privilege." - - Chºrles Nagºe, St. Louis, Mo. – "There arc ºs many reasons for buying a Liberty Bond as there are American Soldiers in France and American Sailors on the sea.” - Jas. H. Defrees, Chicago, Ill. - "Liberty Bonds are the supreme investment, both from a patriotic and business stºrić - point." - John Joy Edson, Washington, D. C. - "Buying a Liberty Bond is a patriotic Duty to be performed promptly ºld cheer- fully, with all of our ability – for liberty and civilization ºnd the peace and happiness of the world." £11 iott H. Goodwin, Washington, D. C. - "Where the heart is, there the treasure is. Q . E. D. " Archer Wall Douglas bonds are the only rºº investº : St. Louis, Mo. – "Liberty ºrry A. Black, Galveston, Texas - "Buying a Lib erty Bond is one of ºne best of the many ways in which men above the draft age can help." W. L. Clause, Pittsburgh, Pa. - "Because it is the first step necessary in our determination to make the world safe for democracy." - - R. T. Cunningham, Fairmont, W. Va. – "We should buy Liberty Bonds oecause by so doing we afford the necessary support to the war program and ºrvé aotice on the enemy that we are going through with it." - - - Edw. A. Filene, Boston, Mass. - "If we do not buy Liberty Bonds freely, we shall be spiritually poor and materially oor; for if we buy, we shall have bonds and if we do not buy we shall ºay the money in taxes and have nothing to show for it." Frank H. Johnston, New Britain, Conn. — "We should buy Liberty Bonds because every dollar seves the lives of your boy and mińe and brings nearer a realization of the glorious hour when the - flag of true civilization and liberty shall float over the world." R. A. McCormicit, Baltimore, Md. - "War for the right of existence is today the first business of every citizen. Therefore, money contributed to this business is necessary and is the £est whether a man is a citizen or a renegade." Lewis E. Pierson, New York City - "The war must be won – without money it cannot be won - speed in reising money and eating efficient governmental organization will save blood, civili - 2 gion and our country." - is on C. Simon, New Orleans - "Liberty Borås are an investment in our continued freedom without which all other invºs ments º Te Worse than ºrthless . " -- U - ºf "ſtºl tº - # #: º º jº. º, - - ºf Tº ºf ART NT ºf Z. gºt ºf IUB I, CITY A / 2 ºf it or 5 - LIB Rºy I OAN ** 2. ºr in g : " : º 'º - . . CHICAGO DISTRIC. T. TN WESºſº CAF ºf , When a farmer buys a moºse ºn a neighboring farm he feels pretty safe, because he knows what the land will produce and he knows the farmer who is working the land with the borrowed capital, But there are elements of danger that no man can fore see . Drought may come and ruin the crop, compelling the borrower to miss an interest pay- ment - The borrower may fall sick and fail to work the land. Some - irº dº happer, to cause depreciation of the property, so that the lender cannot recover all the money he hºg loaned. | Such things have happened and that is why large investors follow the principle of "dis- tributing their investments" over as wide an area as possible. When you buy a irºny BOND you buy an investment the t has a mortgage on nearly 3, 000,000 square miles of the American Continent, including Alaska and the isºlºids of the gea. No drought ever hit tº 1 America at one time. The corn crop may fail, but the American iron, gold, 1. A coºl, and copper crops never fai fºrmer may be unable to mee N. his mortgage interest, ºf Tºº Sº Tevies taxes big enough to pay º all his interest and redeem all his mortgages. He has to do it. If he fails to do it he ceases to be a respectable member of the family of nations. - And if that ever should happen fio investment on this continent would be worth anything at all. No property except what can be carried in the pocket would be wºrth anything. The 3overeign Nation is all that insures the value of any property or the safety of any individual. - - No matter how safe a farm mortgage may look to you, it is a million times less sººfe than A LIBERTY BOINT), with the Constitution anº the Congress of the United States behind it. We raise enough fºrm produce in & Single season to pay off all the authorized Government bonds and have enough money left to rebuild from the ground up a city as big as Chicago . Hence for Safety, INVEST IN LIBERTY BONDS. ºf ſºlº tººl-tº-'l-tº-ſºlºiſillºt: º: ºf 1777, ###### º Aſ J -- º/ / TREASURY DEPARTMENT ºr BUILA. C. put I Torº *** * * * CHICAGO DISTRICT, ** * * it ºr § . . . ºf “iº jitte release, FE Cº. YOUR FARM WITH IIB RTY BONDS. - You put fences ºr ound your farm to keep your stoc in and to keep mºrºuders out. There is a terrific War going on in ºr ope, A- merican soldiers are fi hiting thero. What for Well, for one thin they are fighting to keep Williºn of Germany from reaching into your bºrns and granaries and stealing your we ith--the product of your lo- box . - Suppose Germany should win this wer, whº t the nº If Germºny shoula win this Wºr it; would be just the sºme as breaking loºm every fence, overy bºr, every lock, that prºtect 3 the wealth of America. In , hºt, Qºse Germany could º would exact proligious tribute from Americºns. Notting would be sº against that demand. No fence could keep out the Teuton tax rather American Fºrmer, yºu have only one trustworthy fence for the protection of yºur farm and ºr ºriaries : Thºt, fence is the supremacy of the American nation on this continent. As long E. S. that fence is intact you ºn your fºr ºre sº fe . When it fºlls yOl. are lost , . Fence your farm with Liberty Loºn BOND5, Bºing out your every dollar you have and lend it to the Government. The United States Government is the safest borrºwer in the world. Your money will be secured by National wealth in excess of $250,000,000, 00: It will be protected by the constitutional rights of tºxºtion. It. will be protected by the ºtion's promise tº repoy principal ºn in- terest at 4 1/4 percent. - - Invest all your spºre money in LIBº TY ICAN BOND This is the best way to build a sºe, Solid fence around your farm . Remember : If the Americºn Liberty is lost, all you have is lost - - Invest to THE LIMIT. Is Lºrry Boºts. | | | || ill ſºlº ſili iſ ſºlº tºº ſih iſ lºſſ ſºlº ################################# º ſº. BUREAU GF PUBLICI ſº Editors : Tº B.E.Rº OAN - For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. The itineraries of Douglas Fairbanks, and L-arguerite Clark for their speaking tours at points in th. Seventh Federal Reserve district during the forthcoming Liberty Loan campaign follows: Lir, Fairbanks will sneak in Saginaw, ich t \fternoon), Jackson, Mich. (Evening), April 11; Indianapolis, Ind. (Afternoon), April 12: Kenosha, Racine : and ºwaukee, wis. {Evening), April 15; LaCrosse, Wis. (Evening), April 16. Miss Clark speaks in Detroit, i.ich - the evening of April 9. ; ############## ############### TREASUR. DEP RTIENT BUREAU CF PUBLIC TY Eºtºs LIBER'ſº ICAN . Fºr immediate release . CHICAGO DISTRICT, Governor Simon Bamberger, of Utah, is one of the big cards in the Liberty Loan speaking campaign for Michigan, having been booked at pºtºiotic meetings to be held in Flint Sunday evening Apº 1 '', at Williarºſton, Ilich. ºonday evening April 8, and at Grand Rapids, ºuesday evening April 9, Simon Bamberger is the first non-lorn on and ijemocrat elecººd Go", ºr or of the state since Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896, is a sºongh stºpporter of President in the war and has brought up the resources of his sº be in the way of men and money behind the War to the highest point of efficiercy, ###################### ####### - ºf J Tº ſº. RTIENT º? EUR / O PULLIC ITY ºitors: Lº ſº. 1.0 All . A. º ºr immediate reºase. CHICAGO ISTIR£GT. FENCE YOUR F.H. WITH IIBERTY BONDº You, put fences around your tariº to keep your stock in and to keep marauders oute ºnese is a terrific War going on in Europe, American soldiers arº fighting there . what for? Well, for rºº thing , ºney are figh sing to keep winia. of Germany from reaching into your barns and granaries and stealing your wealth--the product of your labor. Suppose Germany should win this War. What º If germany should win this War it would be just the same as breaking down every fence, every bar, every lock, that protects the wealth of America. In that case, Germany could and would exact prodigious tribute fºom Americană Noth- ing would be safe against that: demand. No fence could keep out the Teuton tax gatherers . American Farmer, you have only one trustworthy fence for the protec- tion of your farm and granaries : That fence is the supremacy of the American ma- ºr - - - - that fence is intºct you and your farm are tion on this continent . As long as safe. When it falls you are lost, peace your farm with LIBERTY ICAN BONES. Bring out every dollar you have and lend it to the government, The United States Government is the safest borrower in the world, Your money will be secured by National wealth in excess of *250,000,000,000 ºil be protected by the constitutional rights of taxation, It will be protected by the Nation is promise to repay principal and interest at 4 1/4 percent. Invest all your spare money in LIBERTY LOAN PONTs. This is the best way to build a safe, solid fence around your farm, Remember: If American Liberty is lost, all you have is lost. INVEST TO THE LI IT in Litºmy souts, ############################### Aſ ºf º º -- * f º TRºRY DEPARTIENT - BUREAU Cº. PUBLICT TY - Fººt ºg : LIBERTY IQ.N. Fºr ºs diate release. CHICAGO DISTRIC'ſ. - INVEST.E. T. S. Rºy. When a farmer buys a mortgage cº, a netº, ºg £arm he feels prºtty safe, because no knows what the lºrd will produce and no knows the fºrmer who is work ºrg the land with the borrowcº tºº. § 3 ºzº, there are elenºs of danger ºn no man can foresee . Drought rººf ºilº ºn whº crop, cºcºe: 3 in the nº cºver to miss an interest payment £º ºr es º fall sº gº ºng fºr to woº: the land. Something may hapſ ºn to cause Genºeciº ion of the º, so thºi, the Lºnder cannot recover all the nº he has joined. Sarn things have happened and that is why large investors ºilº ºne principle of "distributing their investmentº over as wide an area as possible. ºhen you buy a Liº, ºf you buy an inves grent that has a mortgagº on nearly 3,000,000 square miles of ºne ſºner a cºinent, including laska and tie islands of the sea. No drought ever hit all America at one time. The corn crop may fail. but the American iron, gold, coal, and coºper crops never fail. A farmer may be unable to meet ig enough tº rº am lºits vºs º all his interest and redeem all his mortgages. He has to do it. If he fails to do it he ceases to be a respectable member of the family of nations. And if that ever should happen no invest at on this cºatiaeet would be ºn anything at all. No property except what can be carried in the pocket ºcºa be ſon ºn any ºthing The Sovereign lation is all that insures the value of any º, or the safety of any individual. No matter how safe a farm moºgage may look to you, it is a million times less safe than A LIBERTY Bººp, with the gone ºf tºrs on and the Congress of the Unite States behind it . We raise prºvºº in a single season to pay off all the authorized Government boºs and rava eacºn ºf Leº tº rebuild from the - ground up a city as big as Chicago . a de sº safety, INVEST in LIBERTY BONDº ############################# /ºr ºf 7 - - º A / . BUIREAU CE PUBLIC iTY F'ditors : I, IBTRTY I, OAN For immediate release, CHICAGO DISTRICT . FARMºs ABIP. To support Loºn. By Clifford V. Gregory, Editor, The Prairie Farmer . It takes money to fight a grent war through to victory and it is up to us to furnish it . Thore vis, 3 some ºriticism at the time of the second Liberty Loan to the effect that farmers were not buying bonds as liberally as they should . Most of this ºriticism was un- justified, though there is here and there a slacker in the country at well as elsewhere. We are in better shape to subscribe to this Loa: for it comes at a time when we have more of the year 's products turn into Cash . Let us subscribe with a willingress that will make criticism impossible, that will show Uncle Sam tºle farmers of America are be- hind him with their money as well as with their plows. Every doll subscribed to the Liberty Loan helps to bring the Kaiser 's day of reckoning nearer. Fºº Fºllº Lº ICA By Alison Secor, - Editor, Successful Farming, Des Moines, Iowa . There are about 2,000,000 men now under arms training to fight, and it tº kes a lot of money to ſeed, clothe, transport and equip such a force of consumers who previously were self-supporting, Uncle Sam cannot at once reach into the pockets of those who stay at home and draw out by taxation enough money to pay the bills of such an army and navy . The only possible source of ready cash is to borº row from those who have it. . . . . The farmers have showſ their energy in producing the largest crops and have endured hardships due to a shortage of help, and I be lieve they will loan to Uncle San every dollar they can spare, thus giving full support to the farmers' sons who are ready to make the supreme sacrifice, that we may not be conquered by such a foe as Germany. -- Just as your few bushels of grain and pounds of meet will, when put with the products of all the forms, save a world from star, stion, so the amount of your money, put with all the money which may be loaned to the government for Liberty bonds, will prevent this- great war from ending in favor of the foe, Liberty bords are re- ceipt for the money you lend Uncle Sam, and they bear 4 1/4 interest. FARMERS ALIVE TO SITUATION: By Arthur C. Page, Editor, Orange Judd Farmer The more we learn about the underhanded work which led up to this war, the more proud we are to be in it; and the more determined that it must be a thorough job. It is costing a great deal of money but no money was ever better spent . In the middle west forming we have learned the importance of using the best machinery, the best livestock and the best seed. Now that we are engaged for awhile in another occupation, we favor having the best army and the best guns and equipment for it. The spirit of these western prairies was pretty well typified in President Wilson's remark that the cuickest way out of this war is straight through - - Knowing farm folks as I do, I assume that no urging is neces. º º ºr. A ºn in Dºi º T, Tº Tſº Sº it, or S : ºf 7 ºn JºA U OE PUBLICITY as - º a T. Tº Y LOAN For immediate release. * 3 ºr gº, promºicº. - An important meeting of the Chºirmºn both men sº women of the Liberty loan organization for the loº Pºlº of Michigan will be held Tuesday . Sept. 10 at the Hotel Paºlº Liſld a Grand Rapids, Mich. The meeting will convene at Q - 90 & ºn 2 Frederick R. Fenton, Teleral Reserve Director of Sales for -- Michigan will preside, and it is expected all of tre county chºi men will be present. The chairmen of the women's county ºf tions have been invited to attend the meeting, as well as repºº sentatives of other departments of Liberty Loan works - - I º, - 3. The meetine will be for the purpose of melting final arrangements for the ecºnduct of the Fourth Tiberty loan campºº which starts Sept. 8. There will be a discussion of the Volvº teer plans and other problems affecting the cºmpaign - - Among the speakers will be J. B. McDougal, of Chicºº: governor of the Severtº Roderal Reserve bank; C - H - Schweppe a 9– Chicago, Director on Campaign; Miss Cºlace Dixon, of Chicago . Federal Reserve Director for Women; and A. He Variº either gº edit Cº. - of the Grand Rapid even J. and coºd toº or of the Jackie band toº Reports received from county chairmen throughout Michigan are decide on timistic, and enthusiasm is expected to run high at the cond g meeting. - "Our Michigan organization was never better prepared than at the present time, " said Tºrº eriol: R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of ºo is for Michigan, ºr overnor Sleeper's announcement that nº es will ste adjoºn a during the Liberty Loan campaign instºe tºe active co-opezāº iºn of everyone. All of the Vºs line have tº ºn gº tº - º - - - C. J. Y. º, ºr ºl anid º - the Coming 2 º'e a nº e Te º 'º º Tºº C tº the Fourth Liberty Loon over with a is nº tº otments will be given out as this meeting and everything will be in slºpe fº Y the campaign when tº starts - " - The patriotic for a political truce duri iction of Governor Sleeper in asking -- º "U campaign is expected to ha 3. ng the period of the Liberty Loan e a tremem àous effect, in centrali zing the efforts of the people towards making the loan a quick Succesº In his announcement the governor said in part : "I would suggest that both political part the date the Liberty Ioan drive starºs - -, *, * : og & sº I are a truce from - - - Sept. 28 until the compeiº is closed - Politics should really be adjourned, while we are drafting our dollars for Uncle Sam . "While the Liberty Loan campaign is in progress I want my Republican friends to remember that it is more important that we win this war and win it with honor, then that any paºji- san organization should triumph in the November election. The energy and money that both parties will put into the election will be needed to put Michigan far over the top in the Tiberty Loan campaign." - --- HJ ºn 7 ºf 3 Treasury Deparºon: Blºedu of Public Liberty Loan Chicago District . Rºit, oº's : - Bºom immediate release. Secº et air º y of tre Treasury William C. McAdoo in a telegram received by H. T. Stuart, director of ºne third Liberty Loan campaign for tºe seventh federal reserve district, urges the people to start ºright now and get the habit of saving. It is pointed out that June 80 has been designated as National War Savings Day when a special ef- foºt will be made to secure pledges from every American to save and e- Conomize and to purchase War Savings stamps. A special appeal is made by Secretary McAdoo to all Liberty loan workers tº Q assist in this Special campaign, as the spirit of saving and econoſ4y will be of great aid in future Liberty loan bond campaigns. The text of the telegram received by Mr. Stuart is as follows: "To all Liberty loan workers: A greater number of individuals than ever before known own government bonds as the result sº your splendid Work during the Third Liberty loan campaign. The number ºf stockholders in the Government should be still further increased * * * * * *evings stamps, and the teachine of thrift and economy and the ºcessity of conserving labor and material should be continuous. - "Friday, June 28, has been designated as National War Savings Day, when a special effort will be made throughout the nation to se - cure pledges from every American to save economize and to purchase "º Savings stamps. - "I earnestly aesire that: Liberty Loan workers shall render all assistance possible to War Savings committees in this campaign - The more thoroughly the necessity for individual saving and economy is brought home to the people, the easier will be our work in future Liberº bond issues, the mºre suickly and adequately can the army * . . . - . . . . ; - . . . . . . a pare and navy be equipped, and the more certain will be the future welfare a prosperity of our people. - "May I beg you to do every thing in your Powº to enlist every American as a patriotic war sever and owner of War Sāvilºg stamps ... " ºn Ayr ºn 7 ºf 3. TREASTRY DEPARTMENT - - ºf OR PUBLIC IT - Edit, on s : T ºn tº º º T () º N - º - -: ny, - - T - - * - - ºoi immediate release. - Cºliº A.C.C DT GTRI (; , - - - l The general plan announced by the treasury department; provides for the selling of approximately ºos, 000,000 of certifi- * U - G i: 3. †: I.- O º gates of indebt, ediness in ºn: of the fourth Liberty loan ever two weeks in the seventh district, or a total of about $750,000,000 hy the time of the fourth loan. - C Cook county is expected to absorb 32 - C6.2 per cºnt of the 3. º total for the district, the county's total banking resources being fixed at $1,744, 590,885. ther data on banking resources and per- centage of the district, is total allotment of the certificates follows: º - - - Perce ſtººge Division - Banking Resources of distric - - - to Cºl. Illinois ( outside of Cook Co.) . . . . . . 605, 378,889 . . . . . . . . 11 º' - - - - - - - º - - 1 ºz. - º All of Illinois in district . . . . . . . . 2, 350 . º. 774. . . . . . . . 43 & 1 - All of Indiana, ir fli sºigt, , . . . . . . . . 585, sº . C55 . . . . . . . .10 ºf º- Iowa (entire stººs ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 @ 99.06% . . . . . . . .18, 9. Michigan ( Lower peninsula) . . . . . . . . . 920, 68, 6.9% . . . . . . . .1% ºf Wisconsin (southern portion). . . . . . . . . . g . . . . . . .12 ºl. Total for district, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 5,300, 855,244 º of fede national a ral reserve member banks, includin ind state insti- tutions, and of non-member banks, including state banks, trust comi- panies, savings banks and private institutions as at the close of business Dec. 31, 1917, or the nearest availaable date : ###################. TREASURY DETTTTTTT ºn tº 'º - ºn ---- -- OF QUETT TY Aſ ºf . , , , , * . -º-º-º-º: º 2 / 7 *10 GQ DISTRICT . A 4.3 covering sixt the state total : County ------- Aloona A. Lºgan Alpena. An ºim Air ºn 26 Bºrº y Bay Bººie Boº ign Bºniloh Calhoun Cass Charlevoix Che") oygan Clare Clinton Crawford Est; on Eſºmet, Genne see Gladviſiºn Gr. Tº averse - - Gºat i Ot, Hillsdale Huº ºn Ingham Tornia Toºse 6 Isabella Jackson Kalamazoo Kalkaska, Kent, Iake Lapeer Leelanau Lenawee Livingst on Magomb Manist, ee Mason Meg ost, a Midland. Missaulkee Monr Otº Montcalm Montmorency Muskegon Newaygo Oakland. Oceans Ogemaw Oce, ola Oscoda, Otsego Ottawa - Presque Isle Roso ommon Saginº St. , C ºiº St. , J C Seºh Shiavº's See Tusc a Van eſſ Was W War - We 3 is gº Sarii º ſº. Edit, or S : For immediate release . Banking Resources ------ Amount --- § 394,686 5, 75l. , 836 5, 104,981. l, 6 ºf , º, 66 653, ºn 3 4, ºf 6, § 64. 22,000, 72 6', 3 800 10, 65% '02 5, 155,067 24, Clº , 9.2% 3,935, 313 2, 341,063 l, 972, 106 l, 164, 335 3, 9 ºf , 558 360, 148 5, 778,451. 2,450 , 29.3 28, 207, 525 1, 269,065 5, 309, 635 5, 979,007 4. , 6.17 ± 5.15 4, 86. 172 14, 102,575 7, 146, O O 17,082, 57. 16, 708, 231 405, 106 70, 19 74.4 395, 915 5, '''''', 399 14. º * , 1.05 - 295 º, ll, Ol' , 800 3, 630, 337 3, 110, 799 2, 340,364 *:::::::: 5, 276 8,767, 808 * * º,037 2, 439, 183 18, 218, 904 * , 789 . . 24. 597 63 ºf 1.0% 23 113 Q 9 SAO 10, 980, 895 l, Cººl, 962 l68, 4.92 0, Ol, 512 2, 7 " | 803 & . º - , 9 2 3. 222 º º º - - º º * r * : * ~ * tº a ºr A , º, ºn Tº * - ſº . . . -- --------- -------- --- tº - - - - - - - - - per Cent Following are the banking resources of the state of Michigan. ty eight counties, corºnty by county, and the per cent of State Total --- .042 a 6.18 • 54.8 179 , O'C) , 470 2, 367 O' 2 1, 144. 554. 2 - 613 , 423 ... 252 . 212 125 a 42]. ... O 39 6, 21. , 283 3,037 , 136 • 570 642 - 496 , 522 1, 515 ... 'ſ Ó 8 ºl. 34.2 1, 835 | , 798 , 0.44. 7, 54.2 ,043 , 620 , 107 l, 51.5 , 32 l, 184 . 390 • 352 25l. 1.78 ... O 3 , 94.2 * 64.7 Cº. 3 1 - 0.2]. , 269 1. , 9.57 a lº 2 ... O 64. , 29 & O 3 A Qºº 1 1 90 slº. 5 ... ( .. 8 3 - ? - * * 1. * . . 4-6- 1C0. Per - ºgue: of this division of the seventh Fodo Yal equesting a report of conditions at the close Iecember 31, 1917. lººk-lºſt lºſiſ iſ liſt # iſ jºiº º º iſ ſº * ºr TT, * T Ty: Tºº - - - º GURY DEL INT A - U. If C ºu I, ICITY * Edit on 5: . * * * * * - --- - - - - - - - ºf . , -, -, * ºn LCºl. - - For imined in Je Yelease - º "I .# ºf Lº * { () D T ſ - All the bankers of the seventh led eral Reserve district who - - - - . *- - - - - -- in º- 4.- : ended the Chicago meeting Tuesda ( June 18) went on record that the 16 carry out the demand of e overnment in selling their quota of -- --- -- - -º-º: - - - ºr . . a . - e º ºr j ificate º O ºf ind & yº gº ºne ºg in ºn a The quota fo º U G º G V º - º º fl. i §: ºi C º: i S -i. O º O O O O J O f O Y º } - € I i. --- S * - - - -- --- … ... -- --- - --- - -º- --- --------- - -- " - ..". -- -, *- - - º, ſº i sue on June 25 and a similar amount ºvery tº o e º 'ºs until October ºb on or a grand got of 840, 000,000 for one district - The Michigan hººkers ºn o in on sº the resolution to put the le of these certific des "over the to were as follows : on a Co . 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"… ..., , "… An ºn Arºor jº. 3 C G \º Lilºš tº. ºnly Ann fºLºſ O O ºr sº ºt, onal Bºnk Ypsilanti. º - *** * * --- * † *". Trºi. -- : *- H Tº Gº Old Detroit tº - . . . . . - --- Sº - ºf Dºº * ºr & 13 ºf , ºld Home ºa V - Bº Đº C - - - - - - - - Tº —ſº ºr ºn - - i on a ſilº of Cºme ºf C & L- The ºr oit High nº Tºri º º state Panjº ſigºlº ºf The Leople's 5tate Bank Detrois Caº il tº . Cºd iſ lºg State Carlº Peoples Savings Bank. || || || || || || || || || || || || || "...l. º ###### º º' a lº * TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU (). PUBLICITY Editors : LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. In view o: the failure of the banks in the sevents Federal Re- serve District to subscribe their quota of the second issue of the Cer- tificates of Indebtedness in anticipation of the Fourth Liberty Loan, Director of sales u, a. Traylor º º sent an appeal to all county directors and assºciates tº realize what this means to their country and analyzing the situation. Following is the complete text of the letter which Mr. Traylor sent to all the workers for the certificates: "We regret exceedingly to advise you that subscriptions from the Seventh District to the second issue of Certificates in anticipa- tion of the Fourth Liberty Loan were approximately eight million short of the District allotment of $105,000,000. This performance is, of course, somewhat discouraging both to ourselves and the Treasury De- partment, who, after all, are most vitally concerned in the distribut- tion of these Certificates since upon them rests the responsibility of meeting promptly the disbursements necessary to keep our army in the field, but in view of all the circumstances, possibly we have not done so badly, since the oversubscription to ºne first issue more than makes ºn is alſº gº ºn in the campaign. º S. C. - "More discouraging, however, to us than the actual shortage of subscriptions, is the spirit of criticism which we understand in some sections and on the part on some bankers has been leveled at County Directors, their associates, as well as this office and even at the Government itself. This citicism as it reaches us reflects not only an apparent disagreement with the Government's plan of financing our war requirements, but a disposition on the part of a great many to charge this office and the County Directors and their associates with a lack of proper regard for the condition of the banks in the District in the matter of making allotments and announcing quotas for the res- pective counties and individual banks, and with undue and unnecessary activity and insistance in our efforts to procure subscriptions for the full quotas necessary to absorb the allotment of the District. - "In this connection won’t you please make it plain to the bankers of your respective counties that neither this office nor your- selves have anything whatever to do with the fixing of the allotment to the District or the naming of the quota to any county or to any bank in the District, other than after we are advised by the Treasury Department of the allotment to the Seventh District (which so far in view of the total offering, we are frank to say is no more than our just portion of the whole) of any particalar issue, we are charged clearly but only with the responsibility of apportioning the allotment to each State, each County and each bank in an absolutely equal and impartial manner at the minimum figure necessary to produce the allot- ment of the District. "This is done by using the latest available figures of the total resources of the banks in the District (which are the figures of December 31, 1917 used in apportioning the last Liberty Loan) and for and allotment to the District of $105,000,000 require subscriptions from each individual bank in almost exactly the proportion suggested before the campaign started by the Treasury Department which was the bi-weekly subscription of 2% percent of total resources. º Page no. 2 ºne banker should criticise any of you for these quotas more as we see it, should they criticise you for your activity and earnest en- deavo, to get them to subscribe to such quotas. None of us are respon- sible for allotments nor for the fact that offerings are made every two weeks, our only duty is that of obtaining full subscriptions: The three things that should be kept clearly in mind by every banker in the District, in our opinion, are these tº - - l. The Government needs and expects the amount of money they are asking for. Any larger amounts can and will be properly used; any smaller amount will not be enough for actual requirements: 2. They undoubtedly need and expect the full amount asked for on exactly and specifically the dates requested. Subscriptions next fall when crops have been marketed and bankers are in funds, or subscrip- tions at some later or more convenient period will not meet the re- quirements. Now or when the issues are offered is the time for sub- scriptions and no amount of sacrifice should be permitted to prevent a banker from subscribing in full- 3. Every barker in the District should we think, feel the per- sonal responsibility of meeting the issue for himself and his own institution to the maximum required, in the consciousness that if we fail in producing the credit required by the Government, when and as requested, we handicap the Government in the prompt and efficient ex- ecution of its tremendous task and airectly expose our boys at the front to the hazard of unnecessary danger if not ultimate defeat. mind, it seems to us that when a ºne quota, the - tººls: –and their- sy fa. promptly tº send in their in ºr earnest solicitation that they as so ºn personal experience we ºn tº well that entreaties and begging on your part a as distasteful tº yºu as they are annoying to the banker approached, and we shall be keenly dis- appointed if on future is s such activities will again be necessary in order to procure subscriptions to ºur full quota." -------------- ------------ - - - - - T º º 3. TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY I, IIRT Y LOAN CHICAGO DISTRICT . Editors: - For immediate release . º NATION | S WOMEN LOAN CHIEFS MEED IN CHICAGO JULY 15, For the purpose of mapping out the organization plans for the th Liberty loan campaign, more than seventy women leaders from all estions of the country will assemble in Chicago on July 15 for a ser- ºs of meetings to take up the problems of the next war loan drive, whic s scheduled to start in October or November. These women leaders will include the twelve members of the national Liberty loan committee, heade ºy Mr S. William G. McAdoo: the twelve federal reserve chairmen and the forty eight state chairmen, including those from Alaska and the District of Columbia. The sessions will be held at the Blackstone hotel, and as far as arranged, the program announced by Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, a member of the national committee, will be as follows: July 15, meeting of national committee . July 16, meeting of federal reserve chairmen. July 17, meeting of state chairmen. July is, another session of state chairmen. - There probably will be other meetings, formal and informal, and provisions will be made for the entertainment of the war workers: ºnese piºns have not been announced. Mrs. Fair bank returned to Chicago lºst week from a conference at Washington with Mrs. McAdoo and others of the Liberty loan leaders at the national capital and announced the change in the date of the meetings, the first of which originally had been sche ºiled for July 9 - - Following are the members of the national committee; Mrs. Will iam G. McAdoo, chairman; ºre. Kennese Fairbank, Mrs. George Bass and Mrs Antoine Jºe Runº, onic so. Mrs. Frank L. Higginson, Boston; Mrs. Frank Wanderlip, New York; Mrs. J - O - Miller, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Ella Flagg You Washington; Mrs. E. R. Brainard, San Francisco. Mrs. Thatcher Guernsey, neas. Mrs. Mary Synon, Washington; and Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Nasville , Team . - The twelve federal reserve chairmen are: First alsº set, Mrs. E. I. Higginson, Boston; Second distric ºrs. John Prºtt, New York: Third district, Mrs. James Starr, Jr., Fºllº aelphia; Fourth district , ( No appointment); Fifth district, Mr. George - -- - - - - - º º A \º J. Seay, Richmond; Sixth district, Mrs. Haynes McFadden; Atlanta; Seventº aistrict, Miss Grace Dixon, Chicago; Tighth district , liº ºlorence J. Wade, St. Louis, Ninth district, Mrs. C. A. Sevsº º ul, Tenth district, Mrs. George W. Fuller, Kansas City; Pleº ºrict, Mrs. E. B. Reppert, Dallas; Twelfth district, Mrs. A : S. Ball ºn Francisco - - - - - - -y -º- Following are the state chairmen who helped put over the tº hi. loan, all of whom are expected to attend the Chicago conference? Alabama, nºrs, solon Jacobs, Birmingham; Alaska, Iſrs. T. J. nonohoe, Valdez, Arizona, Miss Alice M. Birdsall, Phoenix, Arkºnº ſº e º C. H. Brough, Titule Rock; California, Mrs. E. R. Craiº +25 seles; Colorado, lºrs. Helen Ring Robinson, Denver; Connecticº II: S → Iorgan I - Bulkeley, Horto Delaware, lies. Henry Ridgely, Do Yeº ºlorida, Iſrs. W. S. Jennings Jacksonville Georgia, is . Williºn R. Leaken, Savannah; Idaho, - - - - º ; lºs, Teresa II. Cºhen, Coeur d'Alene; Illinois Mrs. Howard T. Wilson, Virder; Indiana, irs. Frederick H. Mººlºº Fort Wayne; Ione, Mrs. Jilou: I. Marsh; eterloo; Kansas, ºr sº Donald McDonald, Louisville; Louisian a, Mrs. i. ºence Williams, New Orleads: susta; Maryland, Mrs. Sydney M. Conº Bal- arrett endell, Boston; iichigan, lºs. hbaugh, Detroit: Minnesota, Iſrs. Francis Chamberlain Minneapolis; liissouri, ii. s. Theodore Benoist, St . Touis; Mississiº Mrs. R. L. ſcieurin, ic sourg; Montana, Mrs. W. J. McDowell. But te: Nebrasia, Maine, ii. S. John I. Hill, timore : Massachusetts, lºs Delphine D. Ág - - - ---> Mrs. A. G. Peterson, Aurora; Nevada, Mrs. S. H. Belford , Rejº New Hampshire, Mrs. Wilſº iam H. Schoefield, Peter chorough; Nº. Jersey, Mrs. H. O. Wiilt pen, Hoboken; New Mexico, I s. ſo arc Huey, Santa Fe New York, Mrs. John Pratt, New York City, North Carolina, iſ sº ºf H- Tatham, Salem; North Dakota, Mrs. Minnie Nielson, Valley City, Ohio, Mrs. Wrank Muihauser, Cleveland, Oregon, Mrs. Sarah Evans, Portland: Oklahoma, Dr. Leola E. Anºs, Orlahoma City, Pennsylvania, sº Fitter, Pittsbºrg Rhode Island, slº II s is ter. A Peel, Provid south Gerolina, in s. m. s. nºnseii, columbia, south Dakota, Mrs. Elwood Perisho, Brookings, Tennessee, Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Nashville; Teºs, Mrs. Minnie Eisner Cunningham, Calveston, Utah, iſ . . . Mont Ferry Salt Lake City; Vermont, I g . E. C. § in g . E. C. Smith, St. Albans; Virginia. Its John L. Hagº ºn, Danville ; a shington, Mrs. Overton C. Ellis, Tacoma; West Virginia, Mrs. George Poffenberger, Chºrlest on ; isconsid John W. Mariner, iiilwaukee; yoming : - * -- - - - - º, Iſrs. T. S. Taliaferro, Rock 5 riºt - - ºl." tºll-ſil iſ lºſt ſºlº tººl-l firiññññºiriſiſ ºrifif . º º DEPARTMENT --> -ºº ºn tº ----, -ī- ºr TT 5 - Editors : Enº Cº. ººl, ICITY i". - --- … . . . . - - - - L C Bºº. - LOAN - For immediate release: C. H. C.I.G.O DISTRICT . Borås of the First and Second Liberty Loans may º' gº * Yl November 6, 1913, be converted into 44% bonds. Loºs 5 elive iſ 3 ſt *::: conversion will have the same maturity as the bonds sºnic randered . sº ill-º- i. ºf - - - - - - —º +. ** -. all other respects they will be identical with the bººs of the Third Liberty ioan', This conversion may be effected through the subscrib- er 's bank. Holders of a beas of the First Liberty Loan Convertº Pº. senting them for conversion on or before November 9, 1918, Will ºf eeive in exchange, with an adjustment of interest º, Gold Bonº of 1932–47, bearing interest at the increased rate from Jºº 15, 1918. Honders of aſ bones of the second Liberty loan, presentine tº for conversion on or be ore November 3, 1918, will receive in exchange without an ad justment on iſ exe ºf , 44% gend Bonº g of 1927-42, bear iſłº, interest at the increased cate from May 15, 1918 - - Holdiers of Coupon honºs may receive at their option either Coupon bonds of Registered bonds; but Registered bonds only will be aiivered upon conversion of Registered roads, and such bonds will be registered only in the sºme name as the bond s surrendered for coº'º " sign, when Registered ponds are presented for conversion, they should be assigned to "The Secretary of the Treasury for Conversion", on the form appearing on the backs of registered bonds . Such as - signments, however, need not be witnessed. - All unmatured cottpons must be attached. to the bonds presented for conversion, and all matured coupons must be detached . - - * * * - - --- Holders of Cºº bonds of the First Liberty Loan, ºresenting them for conversion on or befºre November 9, 1918, will tºº * * a Gºld Pºe at lege ºne intº it ºne tºse ºf 1. On June 15, 1918, but such holders must pay accrued interest at the rate of ºº of to the date of conversion . the United States government 1% per annum from June 15, 1918 The conversion privilege on 4% bonds of both the First and Seº. ond Liberty loans expires on November 9, 1918, and they cannot be tº of vºted into subsequent issues of United States bonds which ºight goº out at a higher rote . Therefore, holders of 4. Liberty Load bonds ghould in 8 vºy case present them for conversion. By converting those bonds they will nºt only receive + of iſ additional interest , after the conversion period has expired (November 9, 1918) there ºil undoubtedly be several points difference in the market price of tº 4% and 4% bonds. - - -- ºil-º-º-º-º-º-º-º-tºll-ºl-i-Ilºilº iſ lºſt II II iſ#### Iriſiſ iſ firſt fif †† # º Lºº ºl. T EUREAL OF QUBLICITY Editors: - LIERTY LOAN \ . - For immediate release, CHICAGO DISTRICT . By J. B. ºbsºn, Governor, Federal Reserve Tank of Chicago, - Seventh Federal Reserve District, On behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as Fiscal Agent of the United States Treasury Department charged with the du- ties and responsibilities of handing Liberty Loans in this district , I wish to express sincere appreciation and most cordial thanks to those workers in Tiberty Loan activities who have not been in the pub lic eye, but who, nevertheless, have done the work that they have bee l called upon to as, both patriotically and cheerfully. This class represents a vast army composed of committee men and solicitors, bank clerºs, railroad employes and emºneyes of other firms and corpora - - tions in chicago and other eities and towns throughout the District. Subscriptions in this a stºiet number, in round figures, some 2, soo, boo, and the ºoº- involved in the handling of this enor- mous number of subscriptions means intensive labor and long hours, and it is on the army of workers just ment ones that this burden falls to - This work is all done voluntarily, Without expense a large extent. to this ban. or the Treasury Department. - An additional word 1 of see tº should here be expressed to those employers who have co-operated in such splendid manner and made such assistance possible . . -- Those workers who have been in the public eye have to some extent been repaid by the enthusiastic applause of the public. and while fully appreciative of their efforts this public acknowledgement is particularly a reeves tº those other earnest patriots ºne have worked so hard during the campaign without special notice by the gen- active in this eral public and ºne ºn necessºrily continue to be connection tº sºme time atter ºne can ea is over, in segregating subscriptions, tabulºs them and taking care of the details relat- ing to subsequent payments to be made. iſ lift iſ ſºlº iſ iſ tº Lºt L. - - - ºf ººº-º-º-º: #############, ºriº TREASURY DEPARTMENT Editors : BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - A 13 º LIBERTY LOAN CHICAGO DISTRICT. Immediate release of this matter With urgent invita- tion to circulate Widely. Your help is needed to stay the Wave of apathy which threatens to dim the glory of the American arms. American Marines and Soldiers held for three mortal days on the Marne at Chateau. Thierry against the picked troops of the German army. Did they quit the mo– ment the Germans turned back and tried to find a place to dig in No they did not. They went right on fighting the German rear guard. They drove them until the retreat turned into a desperate rout. And they kept right on chasing them, first at one point and then at another until they had cleaned them out of the valley of the Meuse and the forest of Argonne, and the town of Sedan. Then came the German surrender -- the most abject and rushing fall in all the annals of Warfare. In plain language, the American troops operated on the good American rules of the game: "Keep your eye on the ball. Follow through. Play the game right and play it to the finish." Of course, they won. They game of War that Way. couldn’t lose playing the tragic Now there is a parallel calling for the same method of play. The American Expeditionary Forces went abroad to fight, to be wounded, to be killed, if necessary--fully determined to carry out their pledge of Victory. What was the direct pledge of the American people to those men? The con- tract was not all on the shoulders of the troops. The nation had to take One side of the contract. The American people assumed the solemn obligation to back up the fight- ers with money, arms, supplies, medical, moral and social maintenance. The Army in France took a contrº ct to fight. The Fighting Americans have made good on The Army at home took a contract to pay the bills. their contract. Now it is up to the people at home to pay the bills. That is why the Treasury is selling Anticipation Certificates covering next year’s Federal Taxes and discounting the subscriptions to the coming Fifth Loan. All the money raised on the previous four Liberty Loans has been spent and the bills have not been paid. Nearly all the American soldiers are over seas and it will cost many hun- dred millions to bring them back. Meantime, they must be fed and kept up to the scratch in appearance, health, morals, spirits and every other way . There is only one way to do it. This paying business takes grit. Every American must go right on saving as hard as before the armistice. Save every nickie ; every dime, quarter and dollar that can be spared from living expenses. Put savings into the banks, or buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Then when the time comes to subscribe for the Fifth Loan everybody will be ready to carry out the contracts we have on hand. The soldiers won the Peace by fighting. We have the job of Paving for the Peace. Save and prepare for the Fifth Loan. || | | | | | | | | | | || LL-61 Aſ ºf 7 THE SURY DEPART.ET ºn 3 BUREAU ºf PUBLICY ſy £º toº, - - IºE’Riº !CAN ºgy immediate release, Gººg º gº - *olunteer : WHO will volunteer for a Liberg; ſcan courtship and wedding? The Iºberty Loan commit bee for the seven ºn £e feral reserve district, wants to know, The committee wants to find two sweethearts so patriotic that they will forego diamonds and monogrammed spoons for the sake of setting an example to all the oth— er couples that are about to be married during the coming Liberty Loan drive. Liberty bonds are to become, in effect, the bonds of matrimony. This is a time of war, it is pointed out by the committee, and every energy must be concentrated upon winning the war, The people must buy Liberty bonds, not sterling trinkets, Diamond tierras do nothing to help the American army-unless the diamonds are put up as collateral for a bond-money loan. But the money spent in Chicago and the seventh district in a single month on useless, . . . though adorable, wedding tokens, would equip a regiment and transport it to France. The typical Liberty Loan courtship and wedding should begin with the betrothal gift of the man's family to his fiancee. The typical wedding, it is - - - - - º circles where the high cost of living does not chill and limit the spirit of the giver. In the less pretentious and formal affairs of the every-day working Wor J . , the typical Liberty loan Wedding can, of course, be followed only in so far as is practical in each case. The typical ceremony, as stated before, is to begin with the bet; othal gift from the young man's family. This, of course, would take the form of a nice Liberty bond of the thira issue. Next we arrive--to sº over intermediate ter- rier pups and other transcient tokens--at the sacred moment preceding the wedding When the bride groom presents his Wedding gift to the bride . In place of fasten- ing about her throat a jewelled necklace, he will unfold before her adoring eyes a beautiful steel engraving--one of Uncle Sara's new bonds-for her very own. The Liberty 4 1/4s are, it is pointed out, especially fitted for such a sacramental use. It is almost as if the government had had sweethearts and brides in view, For next to the wedding itself the wedding anniversary is held most sacred in the eyes of the bride. But many and many a heart ache has befallen, says the committed, when hubby has forgotten the event. Here, however, the bond comes in as a watch dog to matrimonial bliss. With the jewelled necklace, there were no interest coupons to come due upon the twelve month. But the bond bears its coupons which hubby, as fiscal agent for the household, will be required to clip. When he opens the family safetybox to clip the coupon he will explain: ºny, we are married in the month that bond was issued, and Tuesday after next is the anniversary date. " The Tibcº bond, giveſ, tº brine to have and to hold until ºath, or the mºturity of the bond, doth them pers, constitutes a sort of ºperennial wedding present. Every year, upon the anniversary of the weading, the bond bears an anniversary gift--the interest due - No jewelled necklace, no matter how fine, could do this, Next comes the question of the bride's dowery. For the Liberty loan wedding this endowment must , of courge, cºme in the form of new government 4 1/4s. No other investº ºr the benefit of the new couple could take any other form hºlf so patriotis as a box full of Liberty bonds, helping the government in its hour of greatest need, and standing by the couple as a scºverease asset and an income producer in their hour of greatest need. ºne same argument applies to any endowments that the groom's Uncle Fred may have in store for the bride and groom. No summer cottages or ºr cars will do this time. The gift must be in bonds, - As for the general run of wedding presente these, of course, must all be happy pair, according to the committee's view, will not object to duplicate bonds. On the big mahogany table where the gifºs are on display, a plain clothes man hiding behind the portierres, one may see a $1,000 bond here, a $500 there. Again, an engraved little ºo, the gift of half a dozen of the bride-groom's office bºys. How much more preferable these, from the point of view of the donor, the committee points out , than carving knives or upholstered rockers. With the first knick in the blade of the knife, or the first rip in the upholstery, the gift goes into the garret and with it, probably, all recollection of the friend who gave it. But with the bond, there is the ever-recurring interest coupon to bring up anew the warm glow of friendship and love. ºne seasºn But the giving of Liberty bonds does not confine itself to That is only the first step. Following the wedding come the birthdays of the bride and the groom. More bonds are in order. Patriotism suggests, through the loan committee, that these bonds be purchased during the coming drive, ana laid away for use when the occasion arrives, f not that, they may be purchased in the open market. Again the wedding anniversary, already ena was with a flood of Coupons , can be made flore sweet by ºn anniversary gift of an additional bond or two . - - º - º - - - - - - º - - º - Then, again, there is the christening. The god father, if he is a patriot - will surely make his gift a Liberty bond and as for the man for whom the bºy is mained--or the woman, if it, he that kind of ºne here is another excuse fox whº presentation of bonds and the ºn largoment sº ºne Sam's war fund. In --- this lººter event, hºw bonds are sºggested as appropriate. The tºpical Liber by Loan wedding is intended as an example which all patriotic lovers in the seventh reserve district may follow. It is the hope to make the Liberty Ioan wedding the fashion. ############################### , , ºr TREASURY DEPARTMENT # ºv : ſº Editors: . LTTERTY LOAN A /3 For immediate release - CHT (; ji (; () DT STRICT! • º A3. An important meeting of the Chairmºn both mºn and women of the Liberty Loan organization for the lower pºniº º of Michigan will be held Tuesday, Sept - 10 at the Hotel Paºlº liſld 3 Grand Rapids, Mich. The meeting will convene at 9 : 00 a ºne Frederick R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of Sºles for - iſiºn ºil i.e., and it is expected all of the coºty ºf . men will be present. The chairmen of the women s county or ºn tº " tions have been invited to attend the meeting, as well as tºº " sentatives of other departments of Liberty Loan work- The meeting will be for the purpose of melting final arrangements for the ecºnduct of the Fourth Tiberty Loan campº” which starts Sept. 28. There will be a discussion of the volt!" teer plan, and other problems affecting the campaign - - Among ºne speakers will be J.B. McDougal, of Chicagº: governor of the Seventh Federal Reserve bank; G = H . Schweppe z of Chicago, Director of Campaign: Miss Grace Dixon, of Chicago Federal Reserve Director for Women; and A. H. Vandenberg; edito: of the Grand Rapids erald, and conductor of the Jackie band toº Reports received from county chairmen throughout Michigan ºre decideº y optimistic, and enthusiasm is expected to run high at the coming meeting . - - "Our Michigan organization was never better prepared than at the present time," said Irederick R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of Sales for Michigan. "Governor Sleeper's announcement that poliº ics will stand adjourned during the Liberty Loan campaign insures the active co-operation of everyone. All of the weak spots in our line have been sºrcing ºpenei and at the coming meeting the final arrangements will be made for putting the Fourth Liberty Loan over with a rusº. The pilotments will be given out at this meeting and everything will be in shape for the campaign when it starts." The patriotic action of Governor Sleeper in asking for a political truce during the period of the Liberty Loan campaign is expected to have a tremendous effect in centralizing the efforts of the people towards making the loan a quick success - In his announcement the governor said in part: "I would suggest that both political parties declare a truce from the date the Liberty Ioan drive starts Sept. 28 until the campaign is closed a Politics Shoºld really be adjourned, while we are drafting our dollars for Uncle Sam & - *While the Liberty Loan campaign is in progress I want my Republican frients to remember that it is more important that we win this war and win it with honor, than that any parti- san organization should triumph in the November elections The energy and money that both parties will put into the election will be needed to put Michigan far over the top in the Tiberty Loan campaign - ". - - Aſ ºf Rºstºy DEPARTENT ºf 3 BUREAt 05 ºf HI, ICITY - - Editors: | Tºy LOAN For immediate release - C4ICAGO DISTRICT . - - IMFORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING REGISTRATION OF Foºds. Important information conserming the registration of Liberty Loan bonds, as given out by the bond department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago contains the following quotation from a letter from the Treasury department ; "With reference to accepting subscriptions for bonds to be registered in the names of persons giving only initials rather than the full name, I have to say that it is the intent of the Department, not for its own sake, but for the sake of the holders of registered bonds, to have them registered in such manner as to enable the said ºbliers, or their legal representatives, to dispose of them in the simplest and readiest manner . Bonds issued to women under their ini- tials, or under the initials of their husbands, are not readily treas: ferable in case of the death of the hoiſier , "Though letters of administration woul - -- name of the deceased, and the bonds would be inscribed in her name, tº d b ler her initials, or thºse of her husband, as the case might be . The letters of administration and the bonds would not agree as to the name , and therefore the administrator of Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, say, would have * to prove that she and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith ( or Mrs. S. Smith) were ene and the same person. It is to avoid troubles of this character that he Department has insisted on receiving the legal name of persons sºlº 3ribing for registered bonds . "Of course, the Department cannot refuse to issue bonds un- ºr initials if the parties interested insist upon it , but it is re- aested that you, in all cases where it is possible, insist on receiv- ºng the full names of persons subscribing for registered bonds." # * * * * * * * * * * : …, ºn 1 A. J. *//7 º ºf Aßlſº ºf R iſ I BUR A J OR PUBLIC ITY ºf it cºs: LIETRTY L (). I - Foº in no di ºg relºse . CHICAGO T, T STRIC is - - ------ Tº Prof. Tuº ºne Dººr port, Teºn of College of , ºr icºlºure, University of Iº ind is . All Taº mesis loss. There is no way for nºbody to profit in time of war except by means that cºe either disloyal or oil picºl eiº - --- º- - s --- ---, -º-; , , … - - * -- ". -- . … º.º. -º-º- - * * : º This ºr cºllis for Sacrific, tº . Comic ill gº ori ſide ºnoir hºlds tº arms, o ºne & their feet, and legs, still others their eyes, ºrd more than ten ºil ions of ºen, ſomen and cni & red already have Gºgrific ed their lives in the great struggle to determine whether Liberty Shºll perish from the earth. - t Every loyal' man, woman and child will be willing to Sºcri- fice all that he or she has to give . From this country only the 501 sº - - dier will be called upon to sacrifice life or limb, but evºry body is - alled upon to sacrifice in food, in clothing, in comfort, and in property. - - The Liberty bond is not a c. cial investment at a rºte higher than business. The invoº tºlen G is a 5 gº fº wish sometimes that the Liberty bond vº we lose the war it will be through the feilure ºf our civil populº- tion to learn the lessor of sacrific , Mill the on is be lost if vº lose the war º Possibly, and so will the title to our homes. If we lose the ºar, the deed to the farmer is home is not worth the paper it - *º-sºº ake and scrape in every way to get funds for Liberty bonds. Then Shºll we win the war. In no other way cºn it be one. How much are we Who do not fight ºil ling to sacrifice? How much will we earn and §3. We in order to win the War ºf - c 1 || || 0 sacrifice . Tº is a firiº i. fforded in many line 3 of as the government itself. I G { Gº º § - º re a call to sacrifice , for i f - "…fººl lºſiſ. It iſ ſºlº iſ iſ ºf H.H. º jºid - - - - - ################ º: - - - - -- - - -- - tº - -- A BIT OF FINATIC IAI HºſſoRº - - The credit of the United States was so high and uniquestion- able that in 1900, two years after the war with Spain, 2 per cent bonds were offered at par and ºr subscribed . This a financial per- formance no other nation has every equal led . United States 4 per ge; bonds in 1888 sold as high as 130 and in 1901 brought 139 7/8 in the open marºot . - - The United States has never defºulted in any of its obli- gations. Not one of its bondholdiers has ever lost a cent of princip- al or interest except those who have voluntarily taker, losses by sell ing their bonds in a period of temporary price depression. One hum dred cents on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid . - - - - Back of the approximated .350,000,000,000 of nºtional re- sources stands the rugged honesty of Americº . Liberty Loºn bonº are the safest security in the world. - - are the ºr ºil histºl." Lillº tº liff lift.º. ºfº ############# ºr TREASURY DEPARTMENT - *//7 BUREAU OF PUBLICITY / Editors : - LIBERTY LOAN /43 For immediate release. CHICAGO DIS. RICT. Michigan is the first state in the seventh Federal Reserve District of the Liberty Loan organization to announce the cities which are entitled to give names to two American ships as the reward for having the highest percent- age of subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan. The announcement was made by F. R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of sales for Michigan, who has received from Governor Albert E. Sleeper, chair- man of the Michigan War Preparedness Board, the findings of that body, which gives the honor to Flint and Detroit. In the fourth loan campaign Detroit, which is in Tayne county, had a record of 258,977 subscribers, population subscribing, 55 percent, while Flint, which is in Gene see county, showed a total of 38,245, With a percentage 73. 26. The award was made on the basis of the 1910 popula- tion, according to the Government ruling in the contest. º Grand Rapids, which was third, made a wonderful showing with a record of 60,775 subscribers, having a percentage of 53.99. º' When this contest was announced during the fourth loan campaign, each Federal Reserve District was to be allowed to name ten ships. Ten cities of 10,000 or more population showing the highest percentage of subscribers were to receive this honor. At the same time ten cities in each district under 10,000 population Were to be allowed to name ten tanks on the same basis of competi- tion. For Michigan this honor goes to Alma and East Lansing. In the fourth campaign, 2, 229 subscribed for Liberty bonds in Alma, which is in Gratiot county, while East Lansing , which is in Ingham county, showed a record of 490 subscribers. In announcing the findings of the Tſar Preparedne s Board, Mr. Fenton made the following statement: - - ºbeseeiº ans u ºne two vitries ºr tº UCO or more population which have been found entitled to the honor of naming two ships and this find- ing has been sent to the Emergency Fleet corporation. In case some American ship already bears either of these names, the cities will have the right to - select another name. I think there is a ship named the "Detroiter", so a dif- ferent appelation would have to be selected in the case of Detroit. * --> "The 1910 population had to be the basis of calculation in making the awards, in accordance with the contest ru es laid down by the Government. The State War Board of Michigan reviewed the figures submitted by the county chair- men of the sixty-eight counties representing the lower peninsula which is part of the Seventh Federal Reserve District. "Of the cities of a population under lo,000 Alma and East Lansing captured the honors. Under the regulations of the contest these places would be entitled to name two tanks, but as the building of tanks has ceased as the result of the ending of the War, the Emergency Fleet Corporation will be asked to permit the smaller towns to name two ships as in the case of Detroit and Flint, . "In making this announcement. I would like to take occasion again to praise the Workers of the district and their leaders for the magnific ent work they performed during the fourth campaign. The spirit of competition for the honor of winning these awards was something to be proud of . " Aside from the Winners, Detroit and Flint, the five highest cities, with their records, follow : - NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF CITY - SUBSCRIBERS POPULATION SUBSCRIBING Grand Rapids 60, 775 53.9% Lansing 16, 226 - - 51.9 Adrian 3, 536 - 32.86 Bay City 14,695 32. OO Saginaw 15, 119 29 - 93 ############## LL-90 TREASURY DEPARTMEN”. ºf T BUREAU OF PUBLICITY º/, / Editors: LIBERTY LOAN A. º For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. A / 3 (EDITORS: You are earnestly requested to give as wide circulation as possible to the fol- lowing matter. Of course you are en- tirely free to bring the matter within your space limits, and modify the form to meet your judgment.) Therever the English tongue is spoken, people know the meaning of "sportsman". "A fair field and may the best man win" is the supreme law of all our games and sports. And that law, observed as a matter of honors on every baseball, football, cricket and lacrosse field, accounts in no small measure for the magnificent victories of the Allies on the western front. Our national sports have made us despise "quitting" and the "yellow streak". The same code of honor holds with reference to Liberty loan subscrip- tions. And it has a vital element in addition—that of loyalty to Country and loyalty to the Army and Navy. - Every man, woman and child in America who subscribed for Fourth Liberty bonds on a deferred payment plan is in honor bound to live up to the terms of the subscription pledge. Nothing but "dire necessity", in the words of º possibl J excuse *quitting" and failure to carry through - - - - until the Government repays the principal. This is a rule on the ball field. Fight for a fair hit. Run hard for the bases and the home plate. Work with the team. Fight down any self- ishness. Combat any disposition to quit or accept defeat. Be honorable and play the game like a man. This is the programme that Liberty Bond subscribers are in honor bound to carry through. No matter how much self-denial it may call for--no matter how hard the "scrimping" and economizing may seem--every subscriber is bound by the law of Patriotism, and by the "honor rule" of good "sportsmanship" to accept the sacrifices and make good-the-subscription pledge. Any other course throws a burden on the government, and interferes with the best interest of the Army and Navy, an is a stain on one’s personal self respect. Be a good "sportsman". Be a patriot. Have "Nerve". Pay for every Liberty bond you signed for. LL-885 make all the payments, receive the Liberty bonds and hold them fast Hº & ºf - A tº 3. TREASURY Diºp RTIENT FURE.J OF P UBLICITY Editºrs : LIBERTY ICAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT, WH. T. "S BEHIND IIBERTY BONDE 7 hen a man asks you to 1end him rºoney you ask "What security can you give?" "Well", he replies, "I need loco, and I have a farm that is worth º COO. I Will give you a mortgage " You lend hiſ the money and feel º safe, although you know that a thousand things may happen that will prevent the prompt payment of the interest, or make impossible the repay ent of the loan. And you know that something may cause the far to depreciate, though you do not expect any such result. Now the United States Government comes to you and says: "A ran in Europe has opened war on us and intends if he possibly can to get the upper hand of us and make us pay a prodigious amount of money as a price of peace. If the Kaiser licks us he may compel us to pay him ºffo,000,000,000 for immunity from further aggression. What we need is Thirty Dollars a head from all American citizens to fight the Kais- er and make it in possible for him to mulct us. But you need not give the money. Lerely lend the Government your loose funds, you waii receive a ºver tº cº- backed by the absolute promise of the United states to repay the money with 4 1/4 percent interest. And the money you lend will be exempt from most taxes while the government is using it." - Security? Why, the security is absolute. One year's produce in this country is greater six times over than the entire amount of money the Government oves on all its bonds. The property value behind the LIBERTY ICAN BONDS is not less than $250,000,000,000. Add to that the money value of the lives of the pro- ducing population of America--figuring on the lowest basis--and you make a total security too big for the hºman mind to grasp. Iloral: Iſ WEST IN AIL THE LIBERTY BONDS YOU CAN. ############################ mºasury DEPARTMENT BiºA. J OR PUBLIC IT Y F.C. § 5 ºr g : - | LIBERTY T.O.A.N. For immediate Reiga, sº . ºn 3 ºil Cºo DISTRICT . º - Local Liberty Loan committees throughout the Seventh Federal Reserve district, in their efforts to get better results than ever before in the Fourth Loan drive, have been giving consider at loº to the Volunteer day plan tried during the Third loan by the city of Lansing, Michigan, and Ingham County, in which it lies. Ian Sºrø oversubscribed its quota iQ0 per cent on the first day of the load by reason of its pianº of volunteer subscription days, Similar results have aiso been secured in war chest and war savings stamp campaigº The loan committee of Lansing is so well satisfied that it will stºck to the plan, without modification, throughout the war. - Lansing 's achievement of a 100 per cent over subscription in the first day of the Third loan drive was managed absolutely with- olº solicitation. Its population is 60,000 and its quota was #8.7, 660 - The population of Ingham County is 80,000 and the entire county quota of $1,210,432 was oversubscribed the first day by rear son of the subscriptions in Lansing, the fact that East Lansing City, and the townships of Leslie and Stockbridge each reached their quota, and the further fact of generous subscriptions throughout the balance of the county. - - The Tarasive slogan was a "Loyal Tian sing volunteer: Tet º SJ alolzer Escape" - - It was the attitude of the county committee that no loyal person need be asked to buy bonds; that they should come for Ward voluntarily and lend their money willingly. There is no reason why one person should give up his regular duties to solicit another per- son, who is able to buy . The people were thoroughly informed that voluntary subscriptions would be received on Saturday and Sunday , for which purpose the banks and churches would be open as well as numerous other volunteer sub-stations not only in the cities and villages, but in town halls and some of the district schools. _In the spring of 1918 this county went upon a permanent was record basis, and a card record was made of every individual in the county, showing his financial ability, and his previous purchases of bonds or contributions to war charities, which record will be con- tinued during the war . It was announced that any person who was "financially able to buy, and physically able to reach a volunteer booth on those two days and does not is a slacker , " To every person who did voluntarily subscribe was given a small round tag with an "I've my V . Where 's Yours?" with the request that it be worn through the entire national bond campaign . It was also announced that they would go upon the permanent war records as voluntary subscribers . Voluntary sub-stations were, of course, placed in all the factories, with a result that the factory men of Lansing alone not including the office forces, more than subscribed Lansing 's quota on the first day. º: were many sub-stations in the business district besides the anks . - - April 6th and 7th were set aside as voluntary subscription days . The public was assured -- and the plan was faithfully carried out -- that absolutely no soliciting would be done on those two days - Assurance was also given that those who did not subscribe would be solicited afterward, and that those who "sneaked in" with a voluntary subscription less than it should be, would be handled by the "clean up committee", and if then unsatisfactory, reported to the vigilance committee . - - - An elaborate soliciting organization was formed and its membership published in full, In fact it was not used except on delinquents and persons unable to reach a booth - Stickers were pasted on all electric , gas, water and tele- phone bills bearing the words, "Get a V'; "Be a Volunteer"; "Sub- scribe for your Third Liberty Loan Bonds on April 6 and 7"; "Don't wait to be solicited"; "Fight or Buy" . - Moving picture slides were shown; four minute speeches were made at all gatherings; leading actors explained the volunteer plan; publicity was also given in churches, lodges and societies • Repre- sentatives of different nationalities explained to their own country- ſº Gº a - ºr 7 A 43 -- 2 - Patriotic full-page ads. were placed in local newspa Pºº on each of the five days preceding April 6. Some of these ads . were in the foreign languages, most predominant in Lam sing: A banner, bearing the solgans: "Get a V" in the center, tº BREAK BERLIN APRIL 6TH AND TH in a red circle on the right, and "GET A V - BUY your Bonds APRIL 6TH AND 7TH" in a red circle on the left, was stretched across the street in front of headquarters. Triangular - red, white and blue pennants, bearine the inscription "BUY YOU! BONDS APRIL 6TH AND 7TH" were strung from the trolley span wires. Tº night before the campaign opened five hundred letters were de to prominent business men by the state mounted police . The foº. 1 owing appeared on the outside of the envelope: "Your Government requests that you read the enclosed just before going to sleep - Do not ºpeſ. until then." The letter itself was an appeal to the recipient to pause before going to sleep and to concentrate his mind upon the crisis now confronting his country - - A large military demonstration was held on Sunday after - noon, to which everyone was invited, or the one condition that he come with a "W" tag. After the voluntary days, similar cards were used, but the red volunteer ºv" was omitted . Severa weeks before the campalºº opened, a solicit or 's card was made out for every man and woman in Lansing who could be considered a prospective subscriber : The local gas company's mailing list formed the basis. A record of all sub- scriptions was filed with the committee . . - Naturally such a plan as that used in Ingham County re- ceived more prompt response where the population was centered . In townships having no bank, or not even a village, the results were of course, slower. On Sunday, however, the City of Mason and the townships of Aurelius and Ingham reached their quºtas. On Monday and Tuesday several more townships over-subscribed, as a direct re- sult of the voluntary subscriptiºns taken on Saturday and Sunday . ºn spite of the fact that the county was way beyºnº its quota, the committee began its: săitºitation work to see that the volunteers alone did not carry the burden . The cºmmittee felt that it owed to every volunteer the duty of finding out why all other persons, if any, whº were financially able, had not subscribed . To do honor to George A. Crouter, the young marine who died at Paris Island, the training camp in North Carolina, September 11, the blue-jackets' band which is touring the state of Michiº a wiil provide music at the funeral services which will be held ºriday September 20 at Charlevoix, Mich. Telegraphic arrangements to this end have been made with the Naval Department at Washington . The yºung patriot enlisted in the marines about a year ago - He died at Paris Island, and the body has been sent to his home at Charlevoix - (Crouter story goes with cut which will be sent under separate cover) - º/7 TºAGU ' DºT IIIT - - BURE U OF PIEITſº, TO TDITORS, WA. S. VIII 3 Cº. LATION, - FOR IIIT DIATE REIT, ºs - CHIC.C.O ºf S.H.IC'ſ. REAT, WAR ºf OPHIES FOR SCHOOL CHILDRENs Banks of the Seventh ºodoº. Pºseºve Digºrict are sending in rºsh orders - for tº ºridgrentle bººks which the Woº Saviºrs ºrganization of the Seventh Federal Rogerve Tisº.cº is going to is gribute through the banks to the school. children this fºllo Under the scheme adopted by the banks, theyºrill "lendº a grenade bank to any child under seventeen years old who applies for it. To secure cºrnership of the grenade bon": ºne child will be required to earn enough money to purchase one viºr Savings Stony, if under ten years, and ºo if older, and bººke the money to the institution where the gronºde bºlt was secured and buy a War Sovings Stºp there. The children will be cºllowed the entire stºmer to do the work and they will be required to surrender the grenade banjº unless they purchase a War Savings Stºp before October 1. This plan has the adventº ge of allºwing the child the - use of the grenade bank ºo save his pennies ºf enough to buy his Wºr 5 ºngs 3 bºos. After the re-fºliº of school and after all the qualifying children hgºe been supplied, º º' grenades will be given to persons over 17 yeº who purchase three on toº ſº. Sº S. - The banks beliº Gºt the advertising they will receive through it cºiſ - ing themselves with the work of the Sºvings Division of the Treasury Depºtrerº in the grenade bank distributiºn, the new coºtacts which they will establish anong children and adults who cºre prospective depositors will be worth the For nearly five hundred years the military forces of the world have been developing the hand grenade as ºn engine of dicººn and destruction. It mºined for ſºmerica to ºr nsform this encient weapon into a peaceful so true- give agency in the fight for ºrift ºrd individ tº ºrgs- ----------- - ºf - - The hººd grenºdes, which cro ºhc highest towelº, b of the time-honorod - 2 = º ºpon, ºr ºr nsformed into ºr if ºgºncios by the simple process of clocring º Cºrplosivo chºcº cºtt sing tº slot Ghrough whº shrºnel cºsting which is on 5 ºn - Gho body of ºhc gron dº, nº substi ºu Girº tº r novºbic scrow for the bºso of the -- cºsting. The grºic bººk will hold or hundred ponnies or ono hundrød dinos. With º he cºcº 5 ion of thºse cling 3 ºhc gronºdic romain in the ºzºict form designed for their original purpose. Across the face of the grenade baric appear the words “Biny W.S.S." - - This hard grenade was designed by American Army Officers and cºplosivo cº- - pºts , who had before them the results of throo years of cºrºricºnco with hºnd gro- ºdes in the Allied ºnios • The gronode carried c. hoºvy charge of high explosive ºnd a dischºrged by a fuse timed to five seconds. The iron casting which f ºrmed She body of the grencie was deeply scored into frºm ants roughly an inch square, Which scº, rººted by the force of the explosion spread deoth ºnd destruction over - ---- - - - ºiſie C. *GC, e. The striker which ignited the fuse in the grenode was controlled by a sºpring held in place at "safety" by a light metal "spoon” or levor which passed - - ºr the top ºrd down one side of the grenade. This spoon was fºstered to the body of the grenade by a cott ºr pine The grenade thrower removed the cotter pin and held the spoon in position with his closed hºnd in the act of throwing. As soon as the grenºde left the hºnd the "spoon” flew off, releosing the firing mechanism. This grenade is the modern successor of the first; flasks filled with gun powder which were used in 1427 in the defense of Gasnimoggiore. From that time until the eighteenth century all Crºnies experimented with various forms of grenºes, mºde of heavy glºss or met cle During the reign of Louis XIV in France, the picked corps of soldiers assigned to the dangerous cºnd difficult task of hººdling the grena, le in bºº ºle acquired the distinctive title of grenciers, from the "grenadiere,” & Lºiº pocket in which they cºrried their vetº one During the ºpoleonic vers º ºxea. º. fell into disuse, but lºoleon's Grenº is lºg of the Gºrd, fore his bravest and e : most faithful soldiers. The title of Gronºdiers Vºs perpc quºted in the nºnes of many regiments in vºious European cºmics. - - - The Grenºde was revived during the 19th century. Its retl revivºl, however, cºme with the siege of Port Arthur in 1904, and every ºr my vros experimenting with the grenade when the trench wºrfare in the great world vºr forcéd it into action in eºnest, Grenºdes of ºil jºinds were developod omong the British, French ºnd Gerºn ºrigies, but the most effective wºº the British foºm, ºne Iſilk hand bomb ºvſhich the ºverage soldier could throwſ 100 feet or more frºm º brench. The hand bomb formed ºne basis for the Americºn "defensive" crorºde which has now been directed ºgº inst the ---, -º- º ºs º ºr cº- tº. tº inches of Vºs dea jºr TRE ºf Tºy Dºp ºn Nº. º, AR LOAN OFC All T 2, ATION R S A V TNC S BP CH ºa i + or sº. For immediate release : BURE AU OF PIEI, I. CITY CHICAGO DISTRICT . THE AR IS NOT OVE!' . tº C. H. Schweppe, Director of the War Loan organization for the Seventh Federal Reserve District, has sent throughout the five stºtes comprising the Seventh district an appeal from Postmaster general s. Burleson urging the postmasters to continue their cooperation in the sale of lar savings stamps and to do everything in their power to sup- port the great thrift movement of the Government during the prise it year. In his appeal to the postmasters the Postmaster General points to the fact that the war is not over and will not be until the finari- gial obligations incurred by the war have been completely discharged . Following is the statement ºved by the Postmaster General: * The Post office Depart ºne nt deeply appreciated the splendid a t- - * y & C { § - tº during the year 2 - inasmuch as the th: - to be one of the major operations - - O of the United States covernment for he year 1919 the post office De- partment earnestly asks your co-operation with the county, city ºf d toº far savings chairmen . It is not true, as many seen to believe , that the war is over . The war is not over and ºil 1 not be over , sº far as our people are cones ºnes, until the financial obligations ºve hºve incurrel have been completely discharged . "As a represent tive man of your community there aevolves tº Orl you a duty to our country and to the people with ºne. you come in son- - tact to co-operate in this most important ectivity sponsored by oºr overnment . Hence, I bespeak your cordial co-operation in ºr 5 win º for this year." ºn as Jºy To Edit r s : It is tº lily A Lºl SAVINGS OF - A ſº º by the Treasury Leo rººt G. A. M I Z. A 1 1 0 1 - you give as nºch Pºlic B.JR EA LI Cº Urºl ICITY - ºil ble to the following met tº CHICAGO DISTRICT . - - - - - Despite the pangs of read justment through which tº country is. now passing, the people of the United States, taker as a Whole Wºłº never in a better position to contribute to a Government loºr than tº will be when the Victory Liberty Loan is offered in the spring : The country has enjoyed -- and will soon again enjoy -- an unparalº" led prosperity. Thore must, of course, be a period of transition Prº ºucers and wholesalers still have goods made and bought at the peak ºf the war time price advance. They naturally wish prices sustained unt they can get out from under. Consumers, on the other hand, know that lover prices are inevitable, and are witholding orders. This leads go temporary idleness and to unemployment. - - But the pause is only temporary. The nation has a bottled up dº mand for commodities of all kinds - accumulated during the year or more of war conditions that made it impossible to get supplies for general consumption, or that forced the price level to prohibitive heights • lº all lines, the refore, the public is now awaiting a return to ºr ctical Gonditions to begin a great buying campaign - - Everybody has money. ºn December 1 lºst the per capitº supply of money had reached the highest point ever known -- 56 . . . . Compare this tº the same date in the year 1879 – lo. 92. The Government is borrow - ing in huge amounts, but the we it h of the retion has grown enormously Even in eleven months tº e mount of money in circulation for every mºr, -- º woman and child in the nºtion in ore ced from 48.76 to $ 56. 23. The to ºl stock of money in the United States increased in the twelve months ol 1918 by l, 5' 4, 59.5, 335. The investment over of the people at large is noº great ºr in the United S e s ther, it has ever before been in the history in any country. - The latest be nº rer ort is sufficient answer to the gloomy plaints that are now being he rà from ºividuals ºno cannot see beyond the short interval of read justment for nich ºne nation has now paused. The latest bank figures shºw that the ºrien le have accumul ted mass ore alth such s no other people ever pºssessed . The public couſtº subscribe a 12,000, C , C 0 loan in April, if a national crisis ºn e his nº cessary, with li tile real hardship in a y quarter. The following table should reassure anyone who is faint ºf he ºrt tº $ to the future of the United States . It shows the unpº ralleled a row tº in national we lith and the pace at which the United States has bº en ris- ing into international lead ºr ship in commer ce. With the romise of these figures in mind, no one can fail to be serene as to the future of this nation, or in doubt as to the nation's ability, and his own ner- sonal ability, now to over subscribe the Victory Liberty Loan. This table sº owns the Unite i States bº lance of tra º e -- the excess ºf merchandise ºn ports over in orts--in the last ten years: | 9 || 9 * 2:52, 677, 92.1 1910 - - 30 C, @ 54, 753 1911 56 167, 586 | 9 || 2 - - 581,144, 958 | 9 || 3 631 4 ºl, G12 - 19|| 4 º 4, 548, 949. - 1915 1, 776, 074, 15? 1916 3, Cººl, QC 5, 766 1917 º, 281 44, 64? - - 1918 (a poºr oximate) & , 0.50, 000 , 000 With those figures before him, who sº sil say that America is un- able to float another Liberty loanº | # , ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; # -- º Tº Yºº AT Tº Tº ... º.º. º . DºP A R. Lºir I T , , , º, º is ºr G. A. º. 3 A T I O N º *UPT ºf OR PUBLIC ITY . . . . .” - nº y CHICAG O DISTRICT . ſº it is ei tº that you de vote ſuch eeeºº tº as possible . When the American people, in the Victory Liberty Loan re:t Spring, raise billions of dollars to pay for munitions that never . reached the firing line in France, trey will not in reality be pay tº for those munitions but for the saving of 200,000 American lives: It was not the American army in France that forced defeat upon Germany in 1918; it was the enormous production of munitions in this country that the German general staff ºnev would soon be flowing into action at the front and hich would make victory impossible for the Kaiser . Had it not been for tº is knowledge tº e Germans would have fought through 1919. - These statements were made by Lewis B. Franklin, head of the Liberty Loan organization at Washington, at a big rally of Liberty Loan officials of the Seventh Federal Reserve district, held in Chicagº J nuary 29 as a preliminary to the Fifth Loan campaign which is sched." uled , according to latest advices, for April . - - "Our expenditures for December, " said ºr . Franklin, "were the largest on record, being 2,060,000, Cool, a sum almost double the total annual expenditure of our Government in pre-war times. Many people will call that paying for a dead horse. True, only one battery of American made artillery ever reached France. Practically none of our tanks got into action. But on tº e way was a stream of artillºry and shells that would have blown the German army off tº e earth; we were be- ginning to deliver mustard gas ten times as fast as the Germans c make it, and our program of tanks call or one tº ** = five tº et ºf f ; it - - "Do we realize that the German army as never really route dº That to the last it was fighting on for eign soil.’’ t was only the knowledge of this great stream of munitions on the way that ºn led tº war in 1918 instead of 1919, and saved the lives of from 100,000 to 200,000 American boys." ºr , Franklin said the Seventh Federal Reserve district has chieved a more general distribution of bonds than any of the ºther ºli Stricts . - - - - "In the Four thioan, " he said, " you sold 53% of your bonds to purch sers of il, C or less as against a ratio of 40% for the whole i or . I have had a good many suggestions that this loºr ought to be en by the large banking interests and by the men of great wealth; hºt º'e should make no appeals to the common people; the t they ought nºt to be called upon again. We might remind those people that this ºloney is for war expenses and if this was not a peoples war, should like to know whose war it was . It was ºr for the free ion of the ºld ºith the people ºf America vigorously back of it. And I do not believe they want to be deprived of a cºnce to see it through from he financial side,” # # , ; ; # * * * * * * * * * º: TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - WAR LOAN AND - º SAVINGS ORGANIZATION CHICAGO DISTRICT. | TO EDITORS: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OBSERVE "FRANKLIN DAY, " JAN. 17 | | | WITH W. S. S. SAVING PLAN FOR YEAR | "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose. One - today is Worth two tomorrows. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. We may make these times even better if We best irº ourselves. Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting." One might think, from reading the fore going, that it had been written by some * philosopher of the day, bent upon spreading the gospel of thrift and saving, and parti- - anaº, a. it applies to the purchase of Thrift and War saw sºn. While the ap- plication in this respect is pertinent, it has no relation Whatever to the little stamps that spell plenty and prosperity to consistent buyers, but was written nearly 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin, apostle of thrift and author of that quaint guide to clear conscience and wealth, "Poor Richard’s Almanac, " from which the above paragraph is ex- cerpted. nºw ºn that manuary in is the pºinter-philosopher’s birthday anni- versary and that it has come to be generally celebrated thrºughout the United States as "Franklin Day," when the patron saint of the printing º is variously toasted and lauded for his virtues, his say iſºgs, his services to his country, and what he did to inculcate the habit of thrift and saving into the lives of the people of his day, a goodly portion of whom were improvident, as are the people of today . Acting upon "Poor Richard's" advice to "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today, " the Government Loan and Savings organization of the Seventh Federal Reserve District has issued an appeal to every man, Woman and child in the district to observe "Franklin Day" by either beginning the purchase of Thrift or War Savings Stamps or adding to they already have , and laboring among their kin and friends to do the same thing –—not to neglect this opportunity to become wealthy by "thinking of Sav- ing as well as getting," for, as "Poor Richard" says: "A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for Want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe mail. " Benjamin Franklin, when he wrote his famous thrift maxims and business saws under –2– the pseudy nom of "Richard Saunders," alias "Poor Richard," alia's "Poor Dick," was speaking to an extravagant and improvident generation. They were spending their money for things--mostly knick-knacks and rich apparel from the mes. rºades ºne, really did not need, and what was worse still, running in debt for much of it and taking a long chance on being sent to jail for fa ling on º to meet ºnes. financial obligations. He implored them tº live within their comes, to foress needless ºries and to foil- low out a plan of systematic saving in language after this fashion: "When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by Scouring, mending, or even patching, if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a writ on your back and no money to take if of f . " "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last." "Away with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families." "You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little enter- *-* * * * *** **** - but remember, many a little makes a mick e. Beware - of little expenses. A small leak uſi II sink a great ship." As if "Poor Richard" a tually were making a plea the people of this day and age tº invest their savings in Thrift and War Savings Stamps, he says: "For age and Wan gave While you may ; nº morning sun lasts a whole day . " "Get what you can, and what you get hold ; 'tis the stone that will turn all your lºad into gold." "The use of money is all the advantages there is in having money . " "He that loses f va Shillings, nºt only loses that sum, but all the advantage that might be - made by turning it in dealing, which, by the time that young man be comes old, Will amount tº - a considerable sum of money." If you expect the Fates to be kind to you and to swell your bank account, you mujt, be in readiness to grasp every opportunity that comes your way, or, ere long, or otherwise, if Opportunity finds you dawdling or unprofitably engaged when she raps at your door only to receive no answer again and again, she will cease her visits to you. Just now Opportunity is asking you, for you own good and for the love of country, to buy Thrift, and War sº in Stamps. "Poor Dick’s" guiding Wºrds again may be a light to your path: - "Friends, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them, but We have many others and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, Let us hearken to good advice and something may be done for us. God helps them that helps themselves." "However, remember this, they that will not be counselled cannot be helped ; and further, that if you will not hear to reason, she will surely rap your knuckles." Benjamin Franklin was not only an apostle of thrift; he was a prophet, the forerunner of the great savings campaign the Government today is conducting. If he were here today, it would not be difficult to picture him as saying : "And also remember, friends, in this great savings campaign now on, that many a little makes a muckle, so to speak. Save all your jitneys and buy thrift stamps with them. You will be surprised how soon you will have enough of them to exchange for a War Savings Stamp, which soon, by consistent saving and thrifts will grow into a score of them and either add to your bank account or start you on the road to wealth.” And now you know how to observe, to celebrate, Franklin Day, January 17. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL 95 *//7 TREASURY DEPARTMENT A 3. A. J. Bºlj Cº. Tº TCITY Editors : W.R. A.W. Nº CºCANIZATION Foº iºnediate release. CHICAGO ºf STRICT - $100 AMD 31,000 “BABY BONDst, CUT, More complete details concerning the aw: $100 and $1,000 Trotsury Savings cortificºtes just issued hºvo been received º the hot-dquarters of the Seventh Federal Reserve District in Chicago. The new certificates, which the Wor Sºvings officiº is believe will be c. big fºctor in º tho Government; in the future, will be issued ot the following prices: Month Denomination of $100 Denomination of $1,000 July $65,60 $353.00 August º, a 30 853,00 September 84 a Q0 - 8:0 00 Ocºob or 84 a 20 §4.2.00 Iſºber 84 40 344,00 ºccCºmbor 84 60 846.00 Thero is ºn increase of twonty cents a month in the prico of the $100 cortificato and two dollars a month in the price of the $1,000 certificato. in form ºhey are more like ºut he we no ºpense Five **** **ss Certificates ºro convertible into the ºloo and $1,000 seasºn. ios, which bear the same rºto of intorost ºs War Savings Stamps, four per cent compounded quarterly. ºho º certificates dro in registered form only ºrd rºturo January 1, 1924. They are rodoenable before rºturity after ten drys written demºnd and - surrondor of the certificatos to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Division of Loºns end Currency, Washington. The Treasury certificºtes are not transferable ºrd Cro poyable only to the owner nomed theroon oxcopt in the cose of the death or disability of the holder. Thoy dro exempt both as º, principal and intorost frºm all Federal, state cºnd locºl taxes, surta-zos and excess profits and war profits taxos, The certificates may be purchased from ºmy post office and incorporated bºnks and º compºnies that cre duly qualified agents for the salo of W. S. S. certificates. War Savings certificates filled with two nty War Savings Stamps may be exchanged for certificates of $100 denomination ºna ten Wºr savings Stamps may be excharged for Treasury Savings certificates of the $1,000 denomina- tion. Howevor, no War Sºvings Stamps oxcept of the 1919 issue may bo 0xchanged for Treasury Savings cortificates and only completely filled War Savings cer- tificates con be used for such exchºrgos º/7 - Aº TREASURY DEPARTMENT - Tº Editors: It is the de i re of "AR L0Ai SA WTCS OR- the Treasury Department that G A M T Z. A T T O N - you give as much ºt, blicity as BURE AU of PUBLTC TY to the following matter . CHT CAGO DT STRT CT . Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass hºs of ficially an- nounced from Washington that the name of the next (Fifth) war loan Will be the ºvatory Liberty loan." ºriginally it had been planned to call the next issue the "Fifth Liberty Loan, Victory Issue," but Secretary Glass, after eiv- ing the matter due consideration, finally brought for the he happy & Oſſi- binº ti or - - - "Victory Liberty Loan." so "Victory Liberty Loºn" it is, and it is believed that & Very worker will be inspired with renewed zeal to back it up to a victorious finish, and every consistent American patriot with the e- termination either to start saving or continue to save in order to acquire "Victory Liberty" bonds when they are offered next spring , and - - - thus contribute to two gº triotic enºs, viz: (1) Bring the victors home. (2) Finish the job. - The honor flag of the Victory Liberty Loan" will bear a blue "V" on a white field, surrounded by a red border, the "V" denot- ing both "five" (Fifth Loan) and "victory." # # # # # # # # # iſ REASURY DEPARTMENT - UREAU OF PUBLICITY A. J. - Editors : GOVERNMENT LOAN AND º/ - For immediate release. SAVINGS ORGANIZATION - // ºngo DISTRICT. A ſº In the reorganization of the W. S.S., which is now a part of the Government Loan and savings organization, extensive plans are being worked out in the Seventh Feder- al Reserve District for the purpose of carrying on a great savings campaign this year. Dr. Shailer Matthews, secretary of the W. S. S. for Illinois, has been selected as chairman of a committee to outline the Work for the educational institutions of the district, which comprises the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa. - Plans contemplate Penny Savings in the schools. Pupils will be encouraged in a spirit of competition to save their pennies usually spent for candy and other fri- volities and put these penny savings into Thrift stamps. The War Savings societies in the Schools as well as in the manufacturing plants and business concerns will be utilized on a more extensive scale to stimulate saving. There are 5700 War Savings societies in the schools of Cook county, rulinois, with a membership of 228,000. In º plants and business concerns there are 4350 Societies, with a membership of 174, 500. According to W. A. Brownlee, who has charge of the War Savings societies, there is the keenest kind of rivalry among these societies, both in the schools ana business concerns, and it is planned to throw out incentives in the form of Honor - - -- * - - ma. Or ºne, inacemeal. to competition in getting ºne ºcces. membership. Saving as the road .. success will be the keynote of the 1919 campaign, wher- ever the Community or state Food Administrations have gone out of business, their work of preaching general conservation of money, labor and material, especially as it applies to the household, will be assumed by the W. S. S. Banks, Post Offices and other public institutions will be enlisted to boom the sale of the stamps. The principal methods of reaching the people at large will be through the schools and the Post Offices. Banks and schools each month will be supplied with hanging cards showing the new monthly price of the stamps. State superintendents of Public Instruction will be linked with the general savings campaigns, carrying the big message to the schools of the entire seventh district. C. H. Schweppe, Director of Campaign in the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, is Director of the severaasa. Loan and Savings Organization for the Seventh Federal Re- serve District, . J. H. Fuelsºner, pioneer in the War Savings in Wisconsin, is Direc- tor of Sales for the district. He also retains the post of State Director. Ben F". McCutcheon is Director of Publicity of the Government Loan and Savings Organization for the district. Luman W. Goodenough succeeded Frank T. Hubbard as state Director for Michigan. The other state directors are: Illinois, Martin A. Ryerson; Indiana, J. D. Oliver, and Iowa, Homer A. Miller. - LL-92 TREASURY DEPARTMENT A BURE AU OF PUBLICITY º TO EDITORS: WAR LOAN AND º// / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAVINGS ORGANIZATION - - CHICAGO DISTRICT. º º/ º OBSERVE "FRANKLIN DAY, " JAN. 17 | | | | - | WITH W. S. S. SAVING PLAN FOR YEAR | "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose. One today is worth two tomorrows. Never leave that till tomorroſ, which you can do today. We may make these times even better if We be stir ourselves. Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting." One might think, from reading the fore going, that it had been written by some philosopher of the day, beat upon spreading the gospel of thrift and saving, and parti- cularly as it applies to the purchase of Thrift and War Savings Stamps. While the ap- plication in this respect is pertinent, it has no relation whatever to the little stamps that spell plenty and prosperity to consistent buyers, but was written nearly 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin, apost le of thrift and author of that quaint guide to clear conscience and wealth, "Poor Richard's Almanac, " from which the above paragraph is ex- cerpted. Now it so happens that January 17 is º mºnºtºna, ana, versary and that it has come to be generally celebrated throughout the United States as "Franklin Day," when the patron saint of the pºinting fraternity is variously toasted and lauded for his virtues, his sayings, his services to his country, and what he did to inculcate the habit of thrift and saving into the lives of the people of his day, a goodly portion of whom were improvident, as are the people of today . Acting upon "Poor Richard's" advice to "Never leave that till tomorrow Which you can do ... the Government Loan and Savings organization of the seventh Federal Rese, we District has issued an appeal tº every man, Woman and child in the district to observe "Franklin Day" by either beginning the purchase of ſhrift or War Savings Stamps ºr adding to those they already have , and laboring 3.11.0118 their kin and friends to do the same thing -- not tº neglect this opportunity to become wealthy by ºthinking of Sav- in. as well as getting," for, as "Poor Richard" says: "A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for Want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe mail." Benjamin Franklin, when he wrote his famous thrift maxims and business saws under * º- º - –2- the pseudy nom of "Richard Saunders," alias "Poor Richard," alias ºpe. Dick, " was speaking to an extravagant and improvident generation. They were spending their money for things--mostly knick-knacks and rich apparel from the West Indies--they really did not need, and what was worse still, running in debt for much of it and taking a long chance on being sent to jail for fa ling on time to meet these financial obligations. He implored them to live Within their i comes, to forego needless luxuries and to fol- low out a plan of systematic saving in language after this fashion: "When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or ever, patching, if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a writ on your back and no money to take if of f . " "A man may, if he knows not how tº save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last . " - "Away with your expensive follies, and you will not - then have so much cause to complain of rard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families. " "You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little enter – tainment now and then can be ºf no great matter but remember, many a little makes a mick le. Beware of little expenses. A small leak Will sink a great ship." As if "Poor Richard" actually Were making a plea to the people of this day and age to invest their savings in Thrift and War Savings Stamps, he says: "For age and want save While you may ; no morning sun lasts a Whole day." "Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold." "The use of money is all the advantages there is in having money." "He that loses f ve shillings, not only loses that sum, but all the advantage that might be made by turning it in dealing, which, by the time that young man becomes old, Will amount to a considerable sum of money." If you expect the Fates to be kind to you and to swell your bank account, you must be in readiness to grasp every opportunity that comes your way, or, ere long, or other wise, if Opportunity finds you dawdling or unprofitably engaged when she raps at your door only to receive nº answer again and again, she will cease her visits to you. Just now Opportunity is asking you, for you own good and for the love of country, to buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. "Poor Dick’s" guiding words again may be a light to your path: -3- "Friends, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we - had to pay, we might more easily discharge them, but We have many others and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something may be done for us. God helps them that helps themselves." "However, remember this, they that will not be counselled cannot be helped; and further, that if you will not hear to reason, she will surely rap your knuckles . " Benjamin Franklin was not only an apostle of thrift; he was a prophet, the forerunner of the great savings campaign the Government today is conducting. If he were - º here today, it would not be difficult to picture him as saying : "And also remember, friends, in this great savings campaign now on, that many a little makes a muckle, so to speak. Save all your jitneys and buy thrift stamps with them. You will be surprised how soon you will have enough of them to exchange for a War Savings Stamp, which soon, by consistent saving and thrift, will grow into a score of them and eithe, add to your bank account or start you on the road to wealth.” And now you know how to observe, to celebrate, Franklin Day, January 17. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL 95 / - - - º Aº Resury ºf T.ENT -- - - BURIAſ. OF PUBLICITY ºrs: LIBERTY LOAN - For immediate release, CHICAGO DISTRICT, - WHY YOU MUST BUY LIBERTY BONIS, War is a glutt on that lives on lives and riches. There is no limit to the de- Wouring greed of War. As long as there is an unconquered life, or an undevoured dollar War is hungry. when War attacks a Nation there is no chºice--every able-bodied man knows that he must fight--now or later. Selective drafts may niss a man here and there for a few months, but if the war goes on a º comes when every man who oath walk and Gerry a gun Lusº go to the colors and fight for the very life of his country, his family, himself, Then War attacks a nation there is no choice--every dollar is subject to the call Of mobilization. Some of the dollars escape for a time and stay in their safe investment places earning profits for their owners, But if the war goes on long enough, every dollar must come out and enlist under the aciers. In time of War, when the very life and death of a Nation is being decided on bloody fields, money has no choice between courage and cowardice. Every dollar * , these things, The Nation has a ºnent º take absolutely every aciliar of property in the United States for the life and death War against ſyranny, Au- tocracy, Slavery and Foreign Aggression and Vassalage. But the Nation does not intend to exercise that final and desperate right. no The Government says: "The nation is º for its life, Lena as your money. We waii give you - LIBERTY Bowls, secured by all the wealth and sovereign taxing power, bearing 4. 1/4 percent interest, and protected by a good sinking fund, with tax exemptions . . the ican better, Avoid the extreme necessity. mºst IN ALL ºne Libert posts wou ar. - * - - - ###################### ſº --- -- - --- - * - * - sº T - is - º - º * r * --- --- º U ºf Jº PUBLICITY I, IEEl TY T. G. N. CHICACO DL STR (; . . ºr º, . º. ºº - – º – 3. º NO Exº IPTION ºr ºf , º, . . . ." ſº º ºx º f { ... ºn iſ . . | Yº º †: - - - * … : * . . . * … Tº. - -- 1. Qif A in , Qi, Agilº, Gº Agin, Finnigin . - - ----------- -- I you cannot launch a ºn 1 of at the ſignd across the sº - - - ºy Q borº it will reach it lit ºle tº et Straighter than a - Buy a bond If you've boºſ hit a loº, before h 2. - Dor, it believe you ve ºne your chore-- Buy a half º do. - *. - Gjº º O & º ºf a porº - 'Tisn't often helping others helps yourself 50 all-at- once - - - Help the coºr try, help your her lºok--every Slacker is a lºce - - tº a bºld : If your country's saved, There, º yº ºr money oo & º t =ve , good ºf - Bºy a boºd If the bond should prove a flivver, all the money that ºn save - - (ºn a bond ) - Isn't worth a single penny--what is money to º slav c 2 - Buy a bond º It will keep the lºgiser & hoºd ºs - - Back, as as ºc - e º cº swords ; If your pocket boºk a ºn is, If you are a common tightwººd, loving ſlo Cºle but yourself, - Lºy a It § tº he sº re ºf aid tººl pºli - - . -- - he ºriest vºy tº Sº V6 y Ottº - - J. H.J. iſ ºf 1. - - ſº iſ iſ iſ iſ ſº jº - - y// 7 - º Aſ 3 TREASURY DEPARTILENT * ºn DAU of PUBLICITY - Editors: LIERTY LOAN For immediate release - CHICAGO DISTRICT, ARE LIBERTY BOND HOLDERS SLEEPING ON THEIR RIGHTS'. *323ing to information obtained at the government Bond Departºº ºf the Federai Reserve ºn of Chicago only about $95,000,000 ºf the 4. Fººty Bonds have to date been resºta for ºvºsion intº a bonds Of this amount ºlz,000,000 are 4% bonds of the First Liberty Loan coºl- Yºſted and B3,000,000 are second Liberty Loan 4% Bonds. There were fººd in this Federal Reserve District a total of 35,000, Soo First Converted Fours and ºš27,000,000 second Fours, It *P*a*s, therefore, that only about one-seventh of these hºldº * * *gºds, have taken ääºntage ºf the cº, º sºu º on their investment, The º conversion bonds are now available for prompt delivery * º oupon form. Deliveries of registered bonds require more time for 0.06. *** **counts, preparation of adāress plates, checking and verifying *the sº inscribing bonds, etc. - It is a roblem to reach the minions of bond holders and male the ºaderstand that they will not automatically receive 44% interest on the bonds without actiº ºn th . . Dart . Strange as it may seem to the ºve- ***, *Vester, there is hardly a doubt that minions of these bonds ºr 5 in the hands of people who may put them away for years without even cli. Ping and collecting the interés; C Olt C11G = It is said that some ºf the 9 : º, º bonds due August i, idio seen presented for payment with all the matured coupons attened. If this could go our in the case ºf . sº issue of bonds of which only tº 63,000,000 were outstanding and of the º ººt all but about $15,000, oto in the 'hands of banks, almost anything ºn be ex ected in the nature of 2 r ess ºne billions ºf a in ºr's of bonds have been gold E. many millions of subscribers , - . . . . . . It has been suggested that ban tº 11 s may save many people from lºss by calling attention to the cº, sº privilege whenever coupons clipped from 4% Liberty Bonis e presented for collection but this plan ** * * *e results only where coupons aiready due are presented for tº neirº interest Coupon date will occur after the conversion privilege has **pired, on November 9, 1918. - The conversion privilege on 4% bonds of both the First and Second Liberty Loans expires on November 9, 1918, and they cannot be converted into subsequent issues of United states bºnds which might come out at a higher rate. Therefore, holders ºf 4% iibºty Loan Sºnds should in *Yº cºse present them for conversion. By converting these bonds they º, º ºſ egeºye * pi iſ additional interest, but after the conver Sion ºriod has expired (November 9, 1918) there ºil undoubtedly be **Veral points difference in the market price of the 4% and 4.4% bonds. It is best for bond holders to arrange for the conversion of their bonds through the bank which handiga the original subscript ion, but tº whº have changed their place of residence cº, without doubt, handle the matter through any convenient bank. º it tº it iſ º all ill º # # tº if # # # j iſ ºf ºr $117 143 TREASURY DEPART, ENT BURE AU OR PUBLICITY WAR LOAN ORGANIZATION LIBERTY LOAN BRAN CH CHICAGO DISTRICT . For immediate release . E. D I T O R § VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN PROCTA}|ATION . By Albert E. Sleeper, Governor of Michigan. The campaign for the Victory Loan is about to begin. Michigan's quota is $110, 925,000; that is, the quota for the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. We ought not to fall behind our record in the earlier Loans and I don't believe we shall. Right gloriously did our soldiers and Sailors and marines. bear their part in the grim World struggle now happily ended. By their deeds of valor, they shed luster on the name of Michigan. Some of them will come back to us disabled in body. Many of them alas *** * * * * * * * * the suffered and sac, racea and area as less ºne, an ºnly subse. be ºne money the Government needs to finish the splendid work to when SO ſmåſly of these gallant lads gave their lives? I am confident of the answer - Confi- dent this grand old Commonwealth will again rise nobly to the occas- ion. Therefore, I, Albert E. Sleeper, Governor of the State of Michigan, do issue this my proclamation and I urgently appeal to all the people of the State to come forward on the three Volunteer Days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, and once again put Michi- gan "over the top." Länsing, April 18, 1919 - # # # # # # # # # # # ( 2) ON CE MORI. Alſº ICA Once more , once more, America : This is our glory-day ! And if from now the price is gold, We'll smile, and pay and pay : There's not a barge in on the books We'll stop to question when Our homes can pay for Victory With coin instead of men. Great plants that never turned a shaft, Great wings that never flew, Are better deals to settle now Than France and England knew. The guns we never fired we'll charge To profit, not to loss, And count, them all less dearly bought Than one small wooden cross , - Thank God for this America : For ship and shell and truck; Thank God, you million Mothers, for The blow we never struck! Wee for our little mounds in France, But laugh with the Spring again-- We'd rather pay for victory - With money than with men. # | | | | | | | | | | | || TREASURY DEPARTMENT Hſ UREI IT OF PUBLICITY 3 17 - AR 10 N ORGANIZATION ſº EDITORS: For immediate releºse : IIºTY LCAN BRANCH ſº ºn 3 - - - CºCº DISTRICT. Secretary of the Treasury, Class, himself news ºper mºnº hºs sent the following Victory Liberty Toºn appeal to the newspaper men of the Seventh Federal Reserve District : *You and I are newspaper men and I am inclined to think the in that vocation we now will find our greatest usefulness. It some- times seems to me that the heavy pressure of our routine lives dis- tracts our minds ºnd inclines us too slightingly to pass over the op- portunities and responsibilities that abide with those who present the written word to their fellows. it we are in a crucial era, at a turning where the unschooled or unfaithful guide can lead us far astrºy. It becomes our special province to take heed that there be no stumbling. It is our respon- sibility wisely to shape our courses, and our privilege to give to the needs of the nation and of the world that publicity without whic they will remain unknown or be misunderstood. *We can show the American nation what it has done in bring- ing low the Prussian power which so short a time ago threatened the very foundations of our liberties. We can show in its true propor- tions the magnitude of the achievement by which a nation of husband- men and earnest toilers, engrossed in their own worthy tasks, turned aside at the beckoning of the ideal called Right and forfeited their personal gains that Justice again might dwell among their imperiled brothers. The opportunity is given us to bring among all citizens o the United States a true understanding of where the tº sks of the fu- ture lie, to show what must be done to rebuild a new and finer world on the outworn basis of yesterday. "We can show them the meaning of the Victory Tiberty Toºn a –hew its purpose is to keep fair time honor of the country and enable - our Government to finish its job. We can remind them that those who sey it is impossible for the Treasury to float a great popular loan at this time are heedless of the nºtion's records; have forgotten the momentous success of the four preceding issues; and unmindful of the manner in which every obstacle presented to our army and navy was overcome, despite the craven misgivings of ubiquitous pessimists. We can tell them with the inexorable force of truth that the success of the Victory Tiberty Toºn means the quick resumption of our normal and pleasant course of life and the dissipation of the shadowy menace of Bolshevism. "It is our duty, if we can, to show that this is a time, suc as no other we have seen, in which the whole the ory of democracy is i the balance. It is a time when cross-purposes and counter-courses in a democracy invite disaster. It is a time when the special sovereign- ty of every citizen must be realized and exercised. "If, in these days, tº men says, 'I will wait for my neighbor to start his old-time industry; I will pause until I am sure what trend affairs will take : I will let others finance the Government meantime , he casts aside the responsibilities which free government has placed upon him and betrays Democracy ºs trust. This is merica day and every man who boasts American citizenship must step briskly forth and address the task before him with a high spirit, and a firm determination to press forward, ever forward to better times. "This is the remedy for any ills which may threaten the stºº for where ell are willed to progress, dismal uncertainties are beni sº Te º us do what small part we can in the completion of this task and ſº thankful that we can aid. Tet every man put his strength into finish ing this job so that when the other peoples of the world look to see how America has come out of the war they will find her shining end in people blithely marching onward to such mansions as are prepared for them. It - - - - ºil 7 ºf Huº. RºASURY tº ARTMENT BUREAU OR PUBLICITY - WAR LOAN ORGANIZATION FLITORS : For immediate release - LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH CHICAGO DISTRICT . At a meeting in the state senate chamber at Lansing, Mich. , attended by the men and women chairmen, and district organizers of the Michigan War Loan Organization, Frederick R. Fenton, director of sales for the state, a resident of Chicago, was presented with a set of reso- lutions commending his services on behalf of the people of Michigan in the five Liberty loan campaigns. He also was presented with a chest of silver inscribed with the official seal of Michigan. The presentation of the silver chest was made by Arthur Wandenberg, of Grand Rapids. Governor Sleeper and other state officials were present at the meeting. Mr. Fenton has directed all of the Liberty Loan campaigns in Mighigan, and the state has made an excellent record in each loan cam- Pºián under his direction. In the present Victory Loan campaign, the state claims the honor of being the first state in the union to make its quota, which virtually was secured the first day of the drive. - Following is the text of the war citation for distinguished §er Vice given Mr. Fenton by the loan workers of Michigan in behalf of the people of the state: - - - - "In the story of America-at-war, there is no more glorious chapter than embraces the record of Michigan's magnificent response to every national call for the moneys that have paid salvation's bills. º - - * "Each time Columbia has sounded her fiscal reveille, Michigan has leeped to the vanguard of the forward merch–pouring out her patriotic resources with prodigal devotion--equaled by few and sur - passed by none among the proud sisterhood of states. "By the hundreds of millions, Michigan has bought and paid for the bonds and notes and certificates of the Republic -- always with a swift certainty of action that has challenged the nation's admira- tion and stimulated her morale. "Such achievements reflect stupendously effective leadership as well as communal country-love . They spring from the work of good generals no less than from the faith of peoples. "Wherefore , we, the under signed County Liberty Loan Chairmen and Federal Liberty Loan Organizers--speaking for our mighty common- Wealth --subscribe this testimonial to Frederick R. Fenton, Director of War Finances for Michigan, the man who led our state to success in 1abors which led the nation in labors which led the world. "To his tireless energy, to his impressive efficiency, to his per sistent zeal, to his lofty vision, to his contagious optimism, to his genial inspiration, to his unselfish devotion, to his omnipre- sent helpfulness : to these qualities --exceptionally combined in rare measure --Michigan owes eternal debt. - - "To Frederick R. Fenton --Michigan's Citizen-at-large--we make this acknowledgment on behalf of our beloved state . " # # # # # # # # # # # # Aſ J 2 / 7 443 TREASURY DEPARTMENT - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY WAR I, OAN ORGANIZATION EDITORS: For immediate release - LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH - CHICAGO DISTRICT. MOVIES AND BANDS FOR MICHIGAN : Michigan towns and cities will be stirred to enthusiasm during the coming Victory Loan drive by a special Michigan Victory Loan Feature Train carrying a drum and bugle corps, composed of 36 boys under sixteen years of age in Jackie uniforms and civilian and soldier speakers. In addition to the drum and bugle corps, which Will give a parade at each city or town visited, there will be shown either the "Price of Peace" motion picture of actual battle scenes secured by Uncle Sam's own photographers at the greatest hazard of life, or the film of the 126th Regiment of the 32nd Division. The tour of the feature train will start Monday morning, April 21 at Bay City and will wind up at the same town the evening of April 29. Three places will be visited each day, with a parade, ad- dresses and a showing of the patriotic films at each place. The drum and bugle corps will be under the direction of Andrew Mouwe, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Several well known speakers have been secured to accom- pany the train - - - - The "Price of Peace" film has been a sensation wherever shown. and depicts, as the title indicates, the price paid for peace . In no other filming of war scenes has there been the accuracy attained as in this picture . In photographing the scenes which cover all the activi - ties of the American Expeditionary Forces, several of the official U. S. picture men lost their lives, indicating how "close up" they –Tere to the actual fighting. This picture has created the ºestest- enthusiasm wherever shown and there is no doubt it will stir the pat- riotic ardor of Michigan people. - The other film to be shown at the option of the people of the town visited will be of especial interest in Michigan as it covers the camp, marching and battle operations of one of Michigan pet regiments, the 126th. This picture was secured by Emerson W. Dickerson, War cor- respondent of the Grand Rapids News, who will accompany the feature train and give an explanatory lecture in conjunction with the showing of this picture, making it doubly interesting. Following is the itinerary. Monday, April 21st Leave Bay City, 7:30 A. M. - - Arrive Pinconning, 8:15 A. M. Leave Pinçonning, 12:30 P. M. Arrive Smith, l:30 P. M. Leave Smith, 5:00 P. M. Arrive Gladwin, 6:00 P. M. Tuesday, April 22nd Leave Gladwin, 5:00 As Mis Arrive. Standish, 7:00 A. M. Leave Standish, 12:30 P. M. Arrive Alger, l:00 P. M. Leave Alger, 4:30 P. M. Arrive West Branch, 5:00 P. M. Wednesday, April 23rd Leave West Branch, 7:30 A. M. Arrive Beaver Lake, 8:00 A. M. Leave Beaver Lake, 12:30 P. M. Arrive St. Helen, 12:45 P. M. Leave St. Helen, 4:45 P. M. Arrive Roscommon, 5:15 P. M. Thursday, April 24th Friday, April 25th Saturday, April 26th Sunday, April 27th Monday, April 28th Tuesday, April 29th ( 2) Leave Roscommon, 7:30 A. M. Arrive Grayling, 8:00 A. M. Leave Grayling, 12:30 P. II* Arrive Frederick, 12 : 50 P - Mis leave Frederick, 4: 50 P. M. Arrive Gaylord, 5:30 P. M. Leave Gaylord, 7:30 A. M. Arrive Vanderbilt, 8:00 A. M. Leave Wanderbilt , 12:30 P. M. Arrive Wolverine, 1:00 P. M. Leave Wolverine, 4:30 P. M. Arrive Cheboygan, 5:30 P. M. Leave Cheboygan, 7:30 A. M. Arrive Onaway, 8:30 A. M. Leave Onaway, 13:30 P. M. Arrive Rogers, 2:15 P. II. Leave Rogers, 5:15 P. M. Arrive Alpenal, 6:30 P. M. Leave Alpena, 7:30 A. M. Arrive Hillman, 8:30 A. M. Leave Hillman, 12:30 P. li. Arrive Alpena, l:30 P. iſ . Leave Alpena, 1:45 P. M. Arrive Black River, 2:45 P. M. Leave Black River, 5:45 P. M. Arrive Harrisville, 6:10 P. M. Leave Harrisville, ?: 30 A. M. Arrive Ausable Oscoda, 8:00 A. M. leave Aussible Oscoda, 12:30 P. M. Arrive Taiſas City, l:00 P. M. Leave Tāvās City, 4:00 P. M. Arrive Clier, 5:00 P., M. Leave Omer, 11 : 50 P. li. Arrive Bay city, 1:30 A. M. # # # # # # # # # # # # Aſ *//7 - 2/3 WAR LO M. O'RC ANIZATION Edit or S : L. E. Rºy LOAN PR NCH For immediate release . BUREAU OF PUBLICITY CHICAGO T. S I RICT . Two fine new ships of the Emergency Fleet Corporation Will soon be honoring the state of Michigan by cºrying to the commercial ports of the world the names, "City of Flint," and "City of Detroit. . " These are the names selected by the two Michigan cities awarded the prize or the greatest per contage of subscribers in the Fourth Liberty Loan, The government set aside two ships for this purpose for each of the five states in the Chicago federal reserve district, Arrangements are being now completed for the christening of the two honor ships awarded Michigan. - As recently announced Flint carried off first place among cities of more than 10,000 people in the Fourth Ioan compet ‘tion by securing bond subscriptions in that cam aign from 73 - 26 percent of her population, based on the 1910 census. Detroit was second among the large cities with a 55 percent subscription, Grand Rapids came in third with 53.99 percent of her inhabitant S on record, Lansing was fourth with 51.9 per cert, Adrian was fifth with 32, 86 percent, Bay City sixth with 32 per cent and Saginav seventh , with 29, 93 percent . Of the cities under the 10, CCC population limit, Alma and East Lansing were found to have secured the highest percentage of subscriptions. Alma had 80.8 and East Lansing 61 percent . These cities would have been awarded the honor of naming battle tanks, but as the production of tanks was stopped by the signing of the armistice it is now hoped to secure permission to have small merch at si is after the two winners. - Preparations are now being made for naming committees from among prominent loan workers of Detroit and Flint to attend the launch- ing of the ships to be named after these cities, and to help the ves- sels down the ways with the customery honors. For Flint Mrs. Marcia Dort , wife of J. Dallas Dort, general Liberty Loan chairman, has been named as spons or and will break the traditional bottle of champagne over the prow of the new Emergency Fleet liner and christen her, "City of Flint." For Detroit William Living stone, general chairman of the Detroit and Wayne county Liberty Loan committee, has been chosen as S 90ſ. So I - As under the laws governing the registration of vessels it is not allowable to have two ships with the same name, there may be a conflict over "City of Detroit". In that case the name "Wayne" has been selected as second choice. No date has yet been set fºr the launchings, - -- # * : * * * * * * * * ºr Øy 7 743 - - - Tº E SURY DEPARTIENT - n I - --- - -, ºr 3 ºr º- tº + c ºr tº c : S. AR L () ºn F.C. All I CAT ION Eli tors : lºor immediate ſºlº ºf LIETRTY L. Yºlº EP ANCH lease give wide St Jos - EUR FAU OF OUBLICITY sible publicity. º - Tº rºyº º CHICAC () D I TRICT . --- - ------ - A Tº * A tº Tº ſº Tſº on ITI wrºnº II ºf TY LO iſ Cº. ICl. - - - - ... , , , , º, ø, º Liberty Loan workers throughout the district are askiº Hº information about press reports that the "Fifth Liberty Loaſ is celle 1", etc. These reports are entirely ºr oriº - secretary Glass has officially announced that the Wº º Liberty Loan will be offered & S per pro radiº It will be a popular - ---. Tº - - - --- º - - - - * - tº º, º d opular Subscrip- loan. It will be flo ted by a popul r camp is tº a tº P2Pºº tion. The same organization which successfully handled previºus Liberty Loans is counted upon to handle this one : Every worker is expected to stay with the job and work hard - er tº an ever for the success of the Victory Liberty issue - The government is oleºning ºn the war bills and exper litures are running very he vy. To obtain fund for current payments heavy borrºſing has been a one at the bºrºs. The temporary loans against March tºes must be taken up to rive ºusiness the necessary credit facilities for spring business. To meet the situation thus sº t up, and to carry out the revenue arrangements enacted by the new lºº, it will be necessary to go to the people for very liberal support of the Victory Liberty Loan . - - - - - secretery glass urges the Liberty Loan organization every- where in the country to disregºrd all irresponsible reports and go on with their plans for the widest possible distribution of the coming - Only by generous subscribing by everybody in America can the situation be met . Therefore patriotism requires steady saving by all citizens and hearty co-operation with Liberty Loan wºrkers, so that the Loan may be heavily over Subscribed . - No Liberty Loan worker has the right to throw down his job while this Victory Liberty Loan is in sight . On the contrº r , , every worker who has done heroic things for ºne success of the previous is - sues should make it a matter of personal pride to stay with the Or - º and bring the urgent war financing to a triumphant comple- 1 C iſ . Whether the Victory Loan issue be bonds or notes makes little difference . The security will be a solemn promise of the U. S. Govern- ment to pay . The rate and terms will be favorable and the investment offered will be the bººst in the world. - - Spike all Canards. Don't resign. Keep up preliminary work . Make sure that the Vic tory Liberty Loºn shall have the widest and best possible popular distribution. National honor and American prosperity are at issue . Now get busy . # # * : * : ; ; ; ; ; º//7 24/5 rºº, ºn a ºr A ºrnº Tºrº 1 FY ºw. . . . . . . . . . - - - WAR ºn Yºº ANILATION - - - LIBºy Lºº ºl. Cº. fi i t or s : For immediate release - BUREAU OR PUBLIC II Y - ... " - - - CHICAGO II 3 TR 6T. º one of Chicago is best known financiers-- Ernest A. Hamill, president of the Corn Exchange National bank -- in a recent inter view referred to Liberty bonds as "the premier investment Security of the world," and advised everybody fortunate enough to possess war 1 Oar. securities not only to hold onto those they now possess, but to a 3- quire as many more as possible, as "they will rise in vºlue a 3 & ulº 6 as tº 6 surh . " "To sacrifice at a loss wn i S without doubt the premier in- vestmºnt Security of the wo, a could anything seem less reasonable?" asked Mr. Hamºil j . "And that is Wh ºt. some of the holders of Libert, bonº s seem to he we been oing. Owing to the fact that the sº issues have been sold in so large voluº, and in so short a time, they have appeared too rapidly to permit of their permanent and complete absorpe tion by the 'ultimate consumer, and for this reason they are now ob- tainable at a discount "We all know that no security could be more sound , and it is easy to understand that many wealthy and shrewd investors are glad to buy the se bonds at their prº sent prices, but that anyone should be willing to sº il these bonds at a loss is indeed a riddle - "In holding them one has everything to gain and not hing to lose in selling them at the present price one has nothing to gain and everything to lose . - - "As soon as our immense and immediate war firlencing is a C & Oſſip- lished and our people with their wonderful wealth - producing ability have the little time which will be necessary for the in thoroughly to digest these securities, the price of our liberty bonds will rise as surely as the sun, and it will be strange if the ir holders do not ent joy the profit which they deserve for having bought these bonds when their money was needed by the government . "The facts being so, it seems really unnecessary to appeal to patriotism in order to put ºn end to this unwise selling, and yet it would be well, perhaps, to have everyone understand how important it is, unless actually compelled by circumstances, not to part with the liberty bonds at this time, and how each sale in itself is taking just so much away from the success of the campaign in which we are all ea £- er to take part, and how it makes just that much more difficult the campaign for the victory loan . * - "It may some times be difficult to be patriotic but how can it be so he n patriotism and self-interest walk so hand-in-handº From every point the salº of liberty bonds this year is ºn equally regret - tablº m is take . " - - - # # #| | | | | | | | || ºn 7 |- ſº TREASURY DEP ARTMENT W. Aſ I CAN ORGANIZATION Editors. It is requested that LIBERTY ICAN BRANCH you give as mºch & ſace BTJREAU (). PUBLICITY as possible to the foll- CHICAGO DISTRICT . The women of Michigan in * * * **** loan Gºſſ- - paign will work under a new leader, Mrs. C. Edgar Allen of Detroit has been appointed State chairman of women by the national Woman's Liberty Loan committee . * Cºl. - Ir's Allen takes the place made vacant by the resignat. of Mrs. Delphine Dodge Ashbaugh of Detroit. Mrs. Ashbaug was state chairman in the preceding loans and was forced to resign by reason of ill health . Mrs. Allen, her successor, was city chairman of Det- roit in the Fourth loan. She will make her headquarters during the fifth campaign in her home city. Mrs. Caroline Vice chairman of women in continue in that office auring t ºr ºf 7. tº ºur ºn tº . A 93 *a- Bºº Cº. ººl, ICITY - ºtors: Liº 1.0 A1, - ºr immediate reiðase. CHICAGO DISTRICT. Fºgg your ºf WITH IIºnry Boºps, yon, put fences around your ºard, to keep your stock in and to keep marauders oute - There is a tºrrific War going on in Enrones American soldiers are fighting there. What for? Well, for ºne thing, ºney are figh Bing to keep William of Germany ºre. reaching into your barns and granaries and stealing your wealth--the product of your labor. Suppose Germany should win this War. What then? If Germany should win this War it would be just the same as breaking doºm every fence, every bar, every lock, that protects the wealth of America. ra that case, Germany could and would exact prodigious tribute from Americans. Noth. ing would be safe against that demand, No fence could keep out the Teuton tax gatherers. American Farmer, you have only one trustworthy fence for the protec- * * * * *eneries Theºs is ºnemacy of the ºmerican ma-. tion on this …, As long as that fence is intº you and your farm are safe, then it falls you are lost, - Pence your farm with LIBERTY ICAN BONES. Bring out every dollar you have and lend it to the Government, The United S gates Government is the safest borrower in the world. Your money will be secured by national wºalth in excºs o: $250,000,000,000: #twill be protected by the constitutional rights of taxation. It will be protected by the Nation is promise to repay principal and interest at 4 1/4 percent. - - invest all your spare money in LIBERTY LOAN PONTs. This is the best way to build a safe, solid fence around your farm, Remembers ºf American Liberty is lost, all you have is lost, INVEST TO THE LI IT IN LIBERTY souts, ############################## ºf º 7. - A ſº TRºasury DEPARTMENT BUREAU UF PUBLICITY - WAR LOAN ORGANIZATION EDITORS: For immediate release . LIBERTY LOAN BRANCH CHICAGO DISTRICT . WAR EXHIBIT TRAINS TO TOUR MICHIGAN. The chief feature of the first exhibition train to be sent out under the direction of the Liberty Loan committee of the Seventh Federal Reserve district in connection with the Victory Loan, is a whippet tank. These whippet or "baby" tanks are the first small tanks that were made in the United States and thousands of them were in process of construction when the armistice was signed - They 3 ºr 6 modeled after the French Renault type of cater pillar "baby" tanks with added improvements. The weight of these tanks is six tons and each is equipped with a sixty-two horse-power motor . The protective covering consists of steel armor plate five-eighths of an inch thick. In addition to the tank, the exhibition will include anti- aircraft guns, siege guns, the famous French 75's, as well as trench mortars, howitzers, grenades, torpedoes, helmets and breastplates º º - : º º Which were taken in battlº The exhibits, which are free to the pub- lie, Will be in charge of a guard of twenty returned soldiers and sailors. Well-known speakers will deliver addresses at every stop. The train consisting of three flat cars, a baggage car, in place of the box car used in former exhibition trains, and a Pullman, will leave Chicago Monday, April 7th and will make its first stop at New Buffalo at 5:30 A. M. on Monday. It will arrive at Three Oaks at 5:00 A. M. and not leave until in loo ... . - - - The tour of exhibits will extena for four ºna a half weeks ending May 6th. The Michigan itinerary is as follows: Monday, April 7th Leave Chicago, 2:30 A. M. Arrive New Buffalo, 5:30 A. M. Leave New Buffalo, 5:40 A. M. Arrive Three Oaks, 6:00 A. M. Leave Three Oaks, 11:00 A. M. Arrive Buchanan, 11:40 A. M. Leave Buchanan, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Niles, 3:20 P. M. Tuesday, April 8th Wednesday, April 9th Thursday, April 10th - Friday, April 11th Sunday, April 13th Monday, April 14th Wººlnesday, April 16th Thursday, April 17th Leave Niles, 63 30 A. M. Arrive Dowagiac, 7:00 A. M. Leave Dowagiac, 10:00 A. M. Arrive Decatur, 10:30 A. M. Leave Decatur, 11:30 A. M. Arrive Lawton, ll: 55 A. M. Leave Lawton, 5:20 P. M. Arrive Kalamazoo, 4:00 P. M. Leave Kalamazoo, 5:45 A. M. Arrive Marshall, 7:15 A . . [i. Leave Marshall, 10:30 A. M. Arrive Albion, 11:00 A. ii. Leave Albion, 2:00 P. M. Arrive Jackson, 3:00 P. II. Leave Jackson, 6:10 A. M. Arrive Chelsea, 7 : 00 A. M. Leave Chelsea, 10 : 40 A. M. Arrive Dexter, 11:00 tº . M. Leave Dexter, 2:00 P. iſ . Arrive Ann Arbor, 2:30 P. M. Leave Ann Arbor, 5:30 A. M. ºive Howell, 7:00 A., M. Lic ºve. Howell, 10: 20 A. M. Aſ ºive Durand, 11 : 20 A. M. Leave Durand, 3:00 P. M. A rive Corruna. , 3:30 P. M. Ileave Corrijºa , 6:00 P. M. Arrive Owosso, 6:10 P. M. Leave Owosso, l:00 P. M. Arrive St. Johns, 2 OO E. M. Leave St. Johns, 5:20 P. M. Arrive Owosso, 6: 20 P Leave Owosso, 5:00 A. M. An ºrive whaca, 6 30 A. M. Leave It? a ca, 3 : ºO A. M. Arr ºf 5 A* tº , 1) . CC. A , M. Leº e Aº nº. 2 Cº. P. i. Art lºſe lºſt . Pleºs art, , 3:00 P. M. Ileave Mº Picasant , 6:00 P. M. An rive Clare, 6:45 P. M. O Leave Claire , 9:30 A. Ajº ive Cºlºſſº, 10 º º - --- -- " - - - - -- In ea. ºf º Cº. - *, *.*.* ". º : - -- M. A. : We Ca ºg i 1 cave (ºr 5 , 4 : º Arrive Akºn, 4:45 P. M. Leave Akron, 6 :00 A. M. A. : : ye Sºnºvº aing, 7 : 00 A. M. leave Seº ºilº 10: £0 A. M. Arººre ºn gº tº . 11:00 A. M. Leave jig º' , l: CO P. M. Arºine E ſºon, 5 P. M. Leave Elk ºn 3 : 3.5 P. M. Arrive Bad Axe, 3:45 P. M. (3) Friday, April 18th Saturday, April 19th Sunday, April 20th Monday, April 21st Thursday, April 24th Friday, April 25th Saturday, April 26th Tuesday, April 22nd ºats Bad Axe, 6:00 A. M. Arrive Deckerville, 7:00 A. Mºs Leave. Deckerville, 9:45 A. M. Arrive Carsonville, 10:10 A. M. Leave Carsonville, 12:30 P. M. Arrive Sandusky, 1 :00 P. M. Leave Sandusky, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Croswell, 4 : 00 P. M. Leave Croswell, 6:00 P. M. Arrive Port Huron, 7:30 P. M. Leave Port Huron, 10:00 A. M. Arrive Imlay City, ll: 30 A. M. Leave Imlay City, 2:30 P. M. Arrive Lapeer, 3:00 P. M. Leave Lapeer, 5:15 P. M. Arrive Flint , 6:15 P. M. Leave Flint, 10:00 A. M. Arrive Fenton, 11:30 A. M. Leave Fenton, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Holly, 3:15 P. M. Leave Holly, 5:30 P. M. Arrive Pontiac, 6:30 P. M. Leave Pontiac, 10:00 A. M. Arrive Röchester, 10: 20 A. M. Leave Rochester, 1:00 P. M. Arrive Rajned, 1:45 P. M. Leave Romeo, 3:15 P. M. Arrive Richmond, 4:00 P. M. Leave Richmond, 5:30 P. VI. Arrive Mt. - Clemens, 6:15 P. M. Leave Mºtº Clemens, l ; 99 P. M. Arrive Detroit, 2:00 P. M. Leave Detroit, 6:00 A. M. Arrive Wyandotte, 6:30 A. M. Leave Wyandotte , 10:30 A. M. Arrive Monroe, ll: 30 A. M. Leave Monroe, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Petersburg, 4:00 P. M. Leave Petersburg, 4:45 P. M. Arrive Deerfield, 5:00 P. M. Leave Deerfield, 5:40 P. M. Arrive Adrian, 6: 20 P. M. Leave Adrian, 10:30 A. M. Arrive Hudson, ll: 15 A. M. Leave Hudson, 3:15 P. M. Arrive Hillsdale, 4:00 P. M. Leave Hillsdale, 8:30 A. M. Arrive Jonesville, 9:00 A. M. Leave Jonesville, l:00 P. M. Arrive Quincy, 1 : 30 P. M. Leave Quincy, 4:30 P. M. Arrive Coldwater , 5:00 P. M. Leave Coldwater, 6:30 A. M. Arrive Bronson, 7:00 A. M. Leave Bronson, 9:30 A. M. Arrive Sturgis, 10:00 A. M. Leave Sturgis, 1:45 P. M. Arrive Three Rivers, 3:45 P. M. Leave Three Rivers, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Cassopolis, 3:45 P. M. (4) Sunday, April 27t Leave Casso polis, 5:45 A. M. Arrive St. Joseph, 7:00 . . ii. Leave St. Joseph, ll:00 A - 11. Arrive Benton Harbor, 11:15 A. M. Leave Bent on Harbor, 3:00 P. II. Arrive Hartford, 4:00 P. li. Leave Hartford, 6:00 P. M. Arrive Bangor, 6:30 P. M. Monday, April 28th Leave Bangor , 5:30 A. M. Arrive Holland, 7:00 A. M. eave Holland, 11 : 00 A. I. Ar. ive Allegan, 12:00 P. li. Leave Allegan, 3:30 P. M. Arrive Grand Haven, 5:30 P. M. Tuesday, April 29th Leave Grand Haven, 6:30 A. M. Arrive Muskegon, 7:00 A. I. Leave fuskegon, 11:00 A. li. Arrive Whitehall, 1.3 : 30 A. M. Leave Whitehall, 12:30 P. li. Arrive Montague , 12:40 P. M. Leave Montague, 2:30 P. li. Arrive Shelby, 3:00 P. li. º - Leave Shelby, 4:00 P. M. Arrive Hart, 4:20 P. M. Leave Hart, , 6:00 P. M. Arrive Pentwater, 6:30 P. Mi. Wednesday, April 30th Leave Pentwater, 4:30 A. M. Arrive Fremont, 7:00 A. M. Leave Fremont, 1.1 : 00 A. M. - Arrive White cloud, 11:30 A. M. Leave White cloud, 2:30 P. M. Arrive Baldwin, 3:30 P. M. =*Vº Baldwide DC- T - - Arrive Ludington, M. Thursday, May 1st Leave Ludington, 5:00 A. M. Arrive Manistee, 7:00 A. M. Leave Maai stee, 10:30 A. M. Arrive Coperish, 12:00 P. M. Leave Copenish, 2:00 P. li. Arrive Thompsonville, 2:15 P. li. Leave Thompsonville, 4:15 P. II. Arrive Frankfort , 5:15 P. M. Friday, May 2nd Leave Frankfort, , 5:00 A. M. - - Arrive Thompsonville, 6:00 A. Mi- Leave Thompsonville, 6:10 A. M. Arrive Traverse City, 7:15 A. M. Leave Traverse City, ll:00 A. M. Arrive Bellaire , 12:30 P. M. Leave Bellaire, 2:30 P. M. Arrive Central Lake , 2 : 50 P. M. Leave Central Lake , 4:00 P. M. Arrive Ellsworth, 4:15 P. M. Leave Ellsworth, 6:00 P. M. Arrive Charlevoix, 6:30 P. M. Saturday, May 3rd ºeave Charlevoix, 6 : 30 A. M. Arrive Petoskey, 7:00 A. M. Leave Petoskey, 12:00 P. M. Arrive Harbor Springs, 12:30 P. M. Leave Harbor Springs, 3:00 P. M. Arrive Boyne Falls, 4:00 P. II. Leave Boyne Falls, 5:45 P. M. Arrive Boyne City, 6:00 P. M. (5) Sunday, May 4th Monday, May 5th Tuesday, May 6th Leave Boyne City, 5:30 A. M. Arrive Boyne Falls, 5:45 A. M. Leave Boyne Falls, 6:00 A. M. Arrive largelona, 1:00 A. M. Leave Mance ºria, 11:00 A. M. Arrive Kºlkaska, ll: 30 A. M. Leave Kallas & a , 2 : 30 P. M. Arrive Manton, 5:45 P. M. Leave Mandon, 5:45 P. M. Arrive Jennings, 6:15 P. M. Leave Jennings, 6:30 A. M. A* rive Lake City, 7:00 A. M. Leave Lake City, 9:30 A. M. Arrive Cadillac, 10:00 A. M. Leave Cadillac, 1:30 P. M. Arrive Reed City, 2:15 P. M. Leeve Reed City, 5:15 P. M. Arrive Big Rapids, 5:45 P. M. Leave Big Rapids, 10:00 P. M. Arrive Kaiamzado, 2:00 A. M. Leave Kalamazoo, 2:10 A. M. Arrive Chicago, 8:15 A. M. # # # # # # # # # # # A TREASURY DEPARTMENT - A. º 3. - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - Editors : LIBERTY TOAM For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICº. - (Please give the widest possible Publicity in any form you can employ). Millions of subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan are now on their met tº 19. - They are face to the face with the job of completing their payments. It will take nerve, courage, and "staying power". It will take self-denial. Subscribing for the bonds, and making the first payment of 10 percent was a sign of loyalty to the Government and to the Army and Navy. Keeping up the payments until the Liberty bonds are fully paid for-- that is ºne real test of mottle. Anybody is likely to be carried away by the fervor of a "revival meeting". It takes earnestness to live up to new principles for the rest of one's life. That is the real test. The same thing applies to the duty of "making good" our pledges for the Fourth liber- ty bonds. From now until Jan. 30, 1919 a steady, sustained, effort to save and meet Liberty bond installments will indicate 24-karat patriotism and character. - - - Every person who signed a Liberty bond application and made the initial payment assumed an obligation of honor. To neglect that pledge or to let the subscription lapse would be a shameful thing. No right minded person will fail to carry out his Liberty loan subscription pledge, unless actual disaster makes it necessary to shift the burden on someone else. What is the best way to take care of these Liberty bond subscription pledges? The best way is to make a "budget". Set down on a sheat of paper the exact amount of your weekly or monthly pay. Make a parallel column and set down the necessary items of your living Rent, $......... ; Groceries, $..…; Heat and light, 3........ºf LIBERTY BOND PAYMENTS, $........ (enough to meet the amounts when due). - - Put the Liberty bond payment money right into the bank--every week or every month--just as soon after pay day as you can. Then the money will and waiting when the installments fall due. Do nº let anybody induce you to sell any Liberty bond you have paid for. Do not let anybody induce you to turn over your Liberty bond as "first installment on a piano", or anything else. Have those Liberty bonds entered up in your savings bank book, and make an arrangement with your bank, if possible, to have the coupons clipped and added to your account. Always deposit in your savings account, the interest money received for coupons cut off your Liberty bonds. In this way you enjoy compound in- terest and get ahead faster, Every Liberty bond that is sold, throws a strain on some bank or on the Government. Every Liberty bond that is unnecessarily disposed of tends to divert money from the conduct of the war. And it deprives the owner of the benefits of his ºn self denial and thrift. Therefore: If you want to keep peace with your own conscience and maintain your own self-respect take great care on all these points: 1--Set aside out of your pay the money needed to meet Liberty bond installments under your plan of payment. Put that money in a bank. 2--Do not "lapse" on your Liberty bond subscription for any reason whatever, short of some absolute disaster. 3--Do not sell your Liberty bonds unless compelled by "dire necessity" to raise money; and then try to borrow on the bºnds instead of selling them. 4.--Do not let anybody induce you to "trade in" your Liberty bunds for merchandise. Hºng tight to all your Liberty bunds, and complete all the payments by brave and persistent saving, sacrifice and self denial. That is the way to get the utmost possible return from your financial and moral investment. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-871. TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - Editor S : LIBERTY LO AN For immediate release CHICAGO DISTIRTCT. on behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, fiscal agent of the United States Government in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, I desire to express sincere appreciat ion of the co-operation of the press of Michigan in making a great success of the Fourth Liber ty Loan campaign. The press was powerful in overcoming obstacles tºla arose in the course of the big drive for war funds, notably the peace talk, and at all times it worked effectively with the various county or ganizations in carrying the great message to the people . The handsome results obtained would not have been possible iſ | Michigan if the press had not co-ordinated the indefatigable efforts of the county chairmen and all other Liberty Loan workers. The part that the press ºf Michigan played in crowning the Fourth Liberty Loan cam- paign with success stands out as one of the brightest features of this - Il rºl lve drive . tº ens Frederick R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of Sales for Michigan. º, ſº TREASURY DEPAR, FNT */ 7 BUREAU OF PUBLICITY ºf 3 Editors : LIBERTY LO/N For immediate release - CHICAGO DISTRICT, lilº & the first lichigan city to welcome the Jackies Band from the Great Lakes Maval Training Station on its tour of the statei in the interest of the Third Liberty Loan, and will make the occasion notable in the way of a record crowd and the presentation by the layor of the sity of a wonderful silk flag, the Workmanship of the hands of the fairest and most patriotic women of that section of the state . The band arrives at Niles in the early daylight saving hour of 5:00 A., ºi, and stays until 11:18 A., M. When it leaves for Dowagiac, arriving at 11; 32. From Dowagiac the it inerary is as follows: April 16-ſeave Dowagiac--2:00 or 2:30 P. Mi. ... . Arrive Benton Harbor, 3:1" or 3:48 P. M. April 7-Leave Benton Harbor, 2:45 A., ii. Arrive Grand Rapids, 6:00 A. li. Leave Grand Rapids, 9:1% A. ii. - Arrive Allegan, 10:50 A. Mis - Leave ºbligan, 1:20 P. M. Arrive Grand Rapids, 2:45 P. M. Leave Grand Rapids, 3:12 P. ii. Arrive illuskegon, 4:45 P. i.i. Leave Muskegon, 10:30 P., 11. Arrive Holland, 11:59 P. li. 8.--Leave Holland, 4:30 P. M. - Arrive Grand Haven, 5:28 P, 11. Leave Grand Haven, 9:45 P. M. ºrrive Gººd Rapidsºlº Pº April -- April 9--Leave Grand Rapids, 7:04 A, i. Arrive Hastings, 7:59 A. li. Leave Hastings, 11:50 A* iſ a Arrive Charlotte , 12:40 P. Mie Leave Charlotte, 2:00 P. Mis Arrive Eaton Rapids, 3:00 P = 1 a Leave Eaton Rapids, 4:30 P. Mie Arrive Hillsdale, 6:20 P. Mi. April 10–Leave Hillsdale, 9:30 A* M - Arrive Coldwater, 10:12 A. M. Leave Coldwater, 12:40 P. M. Arrive Sturgis, 1:25 P. M. - - Leave Sturgis, 6:35 P. M. Arrive £alamazoo, 8:10 P. M. - April 11-teave Kalamazoo, 2:18 A. M. º. Arrive Lansing, 5: 37. As M. Leave Lansing, 5:40 P. i.i. Arrive Owosso, 6:35 P. M. April 12-Leave Owosso, 7:59 A - M. Arrive St. Johns, 8:41 A. M. Leave St. Johns, ll:Q6 A. M. Arrive Ionia, 11:59 A., ii. Leave Ionia, 3:40 P. M., - - Arrive Greenville, 4:48 P. li. Leave Greenville, 5:57 P. Miº. Arrive Alma, 7:50 P. M., April 13-ſeave Alma, 10:20 A. M. Arrive Saginaw, 12:10 P. M. . Leave Saginaw, 12:30 P. f. , Arrive Flint, 1:25 P. His Leave Flint, 6:20 P. Mi. Arrive Holly, 6:54 P. M. Leave Holly, 7:55 P. Mi, - - - Arrive Pontiac, 8:45 P. M. Leave Pontiac, via Electric Line to Detroit. (2) April 14--Leave Detroit, 11:55 Nöön. Arrive Monroe, 12:51 P - i. Leave lion roe , 3:00 P4 is Arrive Detroit, 4:30 P. E. Leave Detroit, 5 & 5 P. Miº Arrive Ann Arbor, 6:00 P. iſ a Leave Ann Arbor, 9:43 PA II, Arrive Detroit, 10:35 P. i.i. April 15--Spend Sunday at lit. Clemens, St. Clair and Port Huron. April 16--Arrive Lapeer, 7:35 A. Miº Leave Lapºor, 10:43 A. lie Arrive Wassar, 21:40 A. M. Leave Wassar, 13:55 P. li. Arrive Caro, J.; 30 P. II. Leave Caro, * : 10 P. Mis Arrive Bay City, 8:30 P. Mis April 17--Leave Bay City, 1:1 ( A. M. - Arrive Standish, 2:01 A. li. Leave Standish, 10:5* A li. Arrive West Branch, 32: 10 P. M. Leave West Branch, 3:07 P. M., Arrive Roscommon, 5:42 P. Miº Leave Roscommon, 5:55 P. ii. Arrive Grayling, 7:00 Pa Lie April 18--Leave Grayling, 4:15 As Miº Arrive Cheboygan, 6:43 A. M. - - Leave Cheboygan, 1.1% A. M., - Arrive lackinaw, 11 : 30 A. M. Leave lackinaw, 12:30 Noon Arrive Petoskey, 1:50 P. i.i. Leave Petoskey, 3:00 P. M., Stopping at wancelona and ºkaska Arrive Traverse city, 7:00 P., ii. April 19–-ſºave Traverse City, 9:00 ... li. Arrive ºraniştee, 11:45 A. li. Leave “anistee, 2:25 P. i. Arrive Ludington, 5:00 P. li. April 20--Leave Ludington, 6:35 A. M. Arrive Reed City, 8:55 A. li. Leave Reed City, 1 ; 55 P. M. Arrive Howard City, 3:14 P. Mis Leave Howard City, 4:15 P. M. Arrive Big Rapids, 5:02 P. M. April 21--Leave Big Rapids, 12:35 A. M., Arrive Cadiliac, 2:07 A., M. ############################## Aſ º, 7 º THE SURY HEP, RT. E. T. A lºº - - BUREAU ºf PUBLICITY Editors: - * LIBERTY IQ \ . For irºmediate release . . . . CHigAGC DISTRICT, is undº sº is word good? Bill Simcoe borrows ºló00, add gives his nºte and a mortgage on his place, The 563 ºrity is all right , of course, or he ºn 5 hºve been able to pry ooge the - º º º º * 1000. But behind that stands the fact, tº ºf the lºgº had faiºn in Bill Sim- Goºs word, "His word is aſ good as his bond" that is what the nºighboº's say of him, Faith in Bill Simcoe has eg much go do with lºansaction as anything else, The United States of America includes Bill Simcoe, and you, and me and º ill,000,000 others equally as good as we are, Whereas Bill 5 incoe's ability to S repay what he borrows rests entirely on his farm and his strong right arm, the ability of the United States to pay back what it borrows ref #5 on the earning power of 111,000,000 husky men and women who wear "Stars and Stripes" in their button holes . Uncle Sam has the power to tax everyone of the people to make good any promise of payment he makes, And the people have 3,000,000 square miles of territºry to earn tax money for them, when more Sam gaits § lir, William Hohenzollern know this and a has the United States, so that he will be able to levy Fifty Billion Dollar: tribute from the American people, If he can win the ºar he will be able to make up pay anything he demands. Nov. Uncle Sam comes to the people and says: "I must borrow some money to beat off the Kaiser, I will pay you back in a few years and in the meantime I will give you 4 1/4 percent iºterest and certain tax exemptions. You Won't lose a cent but on the contrary you will have the gafest, and best investment in the world, holding LIBERTY BONDS " Do you believe Uncle Sam? Is his word so as Well, you are part of Uncle Sam yourself. If you dºn't believe uncle Sam you haven't any faith in yourself loº, Li Invest. In LL THE LIBERTY BONDs you possi Bºy gºn. ############################### ºf & 7 THE ºf ºilº A tº º --- BUREAT OF PGBT, ICT TY * * * * * fººt, ors : - * Bºº i.º.º. *Cº immediate release - CHIG.G.) Diº Tixiºs Walter H. Wilson, Chicago bankºr, former city comptroller and fuember of ----- --- ºr v - the Liberty Loan trades advisory committee, will awºrd #500 divided in to ei prizes, to farm boys in a contest for Liberty Bond subscriptions it was announcººd today (Saturday). The contest is nation-wide in its scope. The farm boys are permitted to turn in subscriptions made only to farm oºmers or residents . prizes of £100, #75, 50 and $25 in War Savongs stamps are to be awarded to the four boys turning in the largest total amount of sales in dollars, and a like set of prizes to the four boys getting the largest number of individual sub- scribers. - For the prizes named subscriptions for the third Liberty loan are to be taken by farm boys over 16 and under 21 years of age. - Thºy must be residents of farms. Every boy entering the competition is requested immediately to send his name and address to the Orange Judd Farmer, Springfield, Mass, The awards are distributed as follows. FIRST PRIZES –– Largest total amount of sales in dollars, $100. Largest number of individual subscribers, 100. SECONI) PRIZES –– - Largest total amount of sales in dollars, $75. Largest number of individual subscribers, º/5. THIRE PRIZES.-- Largest to tal amount of sales in dollars, $50. Largest number of individual subscribers, $50. FOURTH PRIZEs-- Largest total amount of sales in dollars, 425. Largest number of individual subscribers, $25. The records made from April 6, the operting date of the Liberty Loan ****, until lay 4, the final day, will be counted in making the awards. #############################| *//7 . . ..., - - A. ºf 3 For irrediate release. - * , , ------ tº º, ø, º] I ºf CHICAGO Inigº Ricº, THE TEEACCN 05 Hijº GO LD, ºhere are some then in Azerica who are "cºcheinº" their gold. There are are a few peºple so timid al-ā geºisi, thet, they are hiding up the yellow Betan where they think it is safe fºod fire, robbers and from re- cuisition by the Gove: nºt - - What foºy". As if anything could be safe when our Government is in danger: As if anything could be valuable when Liberty and Independence are over- throwin? - Every dollar of Arerican gold that is hidden away where the American Government cannot find it is a traitor dollar, because it is holding up Ten poi- lars' Worth º War prºparation It is helping Hohenzollerº . Every Arerican dollar that is not brought out into the light and laid on the altar of Liberty, is in reality, a handful of German marks treasonably aid- ing in the defeat of American Democracy and in the overthrow of American Liberty and Independence. º | "Giving aid and confort to the enew is the capital crime of eii crimes, That ºs …ac. Hiding money away from the United states government in tº inces sº War is the most cowardly possibly way to give aid and comfort to the ene- mies of ºries. - Hiding American gold is the same as wishing for American defeat. It. is the Bane as sending powder and #ead.º.o.ºrmany. It is the same as stabbing our Allies in the back. It is coºrdis treason - Bºing out every dollar of gold, every dollar of silver, every unused of nament of platinum sº other precious metal and let the Government use it for the winning of the World's greatest victory. Invest every cenº you can spare from your living in tº Loan Boniº The Government is the safest borrower in the world, Uncle San's promise to repº, you is backed up with wealth by the hundred billions. The goveral ent will påy ºf 4 1/4 percent interest too. guillºul lºſing lºgº ºutlinºis ############################ TREASUR. Dºrºº ºf 7 BUHºly ºf Pºlj CITY £ºtors : Liº º A. ſº - Fºr iºnic diate release, ºilº ºffic''. " Women of the seventh federal ºf Grº. 3 district are congratulating their Liberty Loan º ºnca having secured ºn fººd of the district speakers' bureau. Mrs. John Howard lic oy a proriſſent gº tº . of Chicago. Although Mrs. McElroy has cº, bee. an gººge of this bºnº. oº the work for about ten days she has signed the following notables as volunteers Liberty Loan lecturers for the seventh district: Iſrå Mary Eileen Ahern. 2ditor Library World, former Librarian of Indiana. Llrs, George Bass . . . Mrs. Roberº J. Burdette Clubwoman and Writer. Miss Helen Bernett President Collegiate Bureau of Occupation, £rs s fartha Foote Gºoy Lecturer and Author . º Kloss Grºce Dixon sergºt, Ruth Farmum of the Serbian Army, lºss Edna Ferber Short story writer. Dean Fanny Cook Gates University of Illinois, Dean of Women ºne ºthese, University of Wisconsin, Dean of Women, tº treas Martin corne in University, Dean of Women . lºs, wº. Waughn lioody ºre, ºn Mac Clintock University of Chicago, Mrs. Maud Radford Warren Author. Mrs. Mary Ridpath Mann Historical lecturer. Mrs Pauline Palmer Noted Artist, a President Pendleton of Wellesley college, President Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College , Mrs. Grace ºilbur Trout iiis's Harriet. Witturn Duncan Clarke and Miss Edna Ferber will speak at a mass meeting it. *ilwaukee Friday. ############################## ºr *//7 is . . . . . . … º mºsuº tºº. Alſº ſºitors. BUT AJ OR PUCI ICITY º fºr imme lite º cle & sº . CHICAGO DISTRICT . By J . iſ . C. Smith, Congressman, Third District, --- - * Michigan. . ) Every true American wents our country to be successful in this war. We were right in declaring ºr . Germany designedly mºde Wº Q1 Liš a If we do not win, we will have billions of dollars of cº- indemnity to pay to Germany. An: we also lose our free government which cost so mºry lives and such great treasure . Let every citizen awake to the true situation and the import ance of winning . Don't try to see how much you can sºlve or how lº tle you co Flo - ºnjº, ºr ºf fºr gºes in ºr mºjº ºn vºy -*. give ºld how much tle you GOn ſlo; but, , ºr y to see hovº mºch you & Cº give ºld how ſºlº can help the boys who are fighting in the trenches. It to kes moie to arm, equip and support an army. Everybody can do something. Ev- erybody can give something for victory. - . . Mon; a soldier boy quit profitable employment at 100 a mont or ºl, 000 a year and joined the army to fight y J º month suppose they had said: "We won't enlis We are making loo a month. " They enlisted because they love their sountry and are willing to give their lives for it. Let us not be less patriotic . Let us subscribe to the new Liberty loan with the same liberality that we did to the former loans and help lick Germany and the Kaiser . Juliuſ ºn Juliuºlº....... iſ ºf jjº *########### ſº . º - Aº Rºy ºf ARTINT ºf 7. or ºf IT ºut ºitºrs: - fº a 7. - - - - - *-*-*. CAN ºr in is ºn tº a ºn 2 - sº -- - - ------------ ºl iſſue #iºiº. 1. ºlea Gº - H Tºº C ºf STRICT . - º … * * * * . . . - -- -- - - - ſ" ' ". . * * * arº for . . . . . * * tº * * * * * º Enlist your dollars tº or the period of the war. Secre y of the Treasºn y. Again the American people ºve the privilege of landing º their money, their sºvings -º- *** * * … . . . tº . . ----- - tº the iº G ºvernment for the ºr poss of - - º, C T & Cº - º- making the lives and liberties of ºvery rerican sece, º i. h º º º º- S O i. º ing the lives and the fºllº ºf nations which fight with us. ºn as cº º, º ºs ººzºº - * ºf -, -º- i. - *** - - - … º... -- - These bonds bear 4 interest, they are exempt from ºil - º sº tº 3 lºy ºn tº gº º- + . . . . ... . . . . . * * - - Federal, State and hocºl. tº titº, except the Federal super – income - *-- - - º "º gº º --- * ** - : º, -- -- --~~~~ * º - -- - - - - tºes and inheritance taxes They are due ten years ifter their date They are the sº fest investment in tº a world a they be r a rºte of interest ºde ºut tely and generously remuner tº ve. They money derived from thºse bor, º º S º 1. º º U. S º §. t º- S. u º º 1. V C º º º º 1. º i. º º º C. º § . T. º º § º º -º-º-º: - º º - * : . - . . . . . º . . - “… …º. the food, clothing, guns, stºrmºnition a tº essentiºns nic - - -º- º, ºr - * * * *-*. --- -- -- - . - º - º - must have if they re to win this to p the ºges of labor of 4- ºx º - --- - - * * - ** . a - - "… - - -- - - - - * - those who are eng ºed in mºnui º tur ºg tº se essential supplies; to * * * - - ---- --- º --- - consider the purchase of Government - bonds as a purely commercial or business tº ascetiºn, ºr is nº business, although the struggle for the principl. Pºsiness must be adjustes to ºg º żºłº every or iºry ºn- of business - i. º. must be modified, altered or as scar sea 3. f º 3. C. º º G º t Q º . º º t #. in º 3. U. * - - - reme need of the Nation is such a time. ſº tº ional necess ºf is the Sºreme law of war, and the first inty of every citizen is to subordi - nate himself ana ever tº ºt Supreme necessity . . - to lend one is money on ºf a security an in a tribution compared with the sacrifice ºne aving sºldier makes, ºn a rifice the wide mºs, the sacrifice the mother and rather or ero make. Patric . G º i § -- - - - -, * -- - - - - - - . . . . . . . . ºn must it all times be the ºne in spring ºf a 3 tº m every other thing the gºod i not only in the purchase of bonds, but - citizen does in the support of his gºvernment in virs of war. Let us not, therefore, bonds merely as a commercial or business transaction, investment, however safe it may considen ºne purchase of Government merely as an - º bº - Tet us consider it; a pºivriiC ge as well as a duty to perform this part of the essential service re- quired of us so long as the war It, value of the his º he saves something the Government you must not sell because you do not Covernment bond tends to depress market price of Government bonds -: 3. is not enough to merely subscribe for a bond. subscription lies in decies himself in order to buy it. help in that way. º: - º- tº § 2. The -º- - ". . £13 Cact that the purchaser keeps º º -º-º-, -º - - º - jº - : * . tha º something in order to keep it; whº When you lend you? ºr 3 y to your bond immediately on the market º -º- Tvery unnecessary sale of a the market price, and the more the is depressed, the more hurtful it is to the Government's credit and to the genuine interest of the people of 5 United States. ho If the price goes he low par, there is an immediate emand º £htless . interest, and every time the rat den of taxation is in posed on th know that we are as people sensible enou riotic enough to continue to sup it needs at a reasonable rate of interest. -- u o Stabilize the rate and let us eople for an increase in the rate of __ - i. º ºte tº e º 't H. S. increased , & 17 eV. bu I of e mass of the American people . gn and strong enough and pat- º ply the Government, with all the money Let us make a fight now prove to the world that America 's the rate of interest per aniitºm or by patriotism is not determined by any other mercenary consideration . 3. " iſe must also le entering the second and I hope the final stage of the war , the vic- torious stage for America. It constitute the real strength of supply the wnings indispensably wool saved, every pound of food is power exerted upon the battle is to the strength of the nation n that the first duty is to save. We are i. s the savings of the people that the Nation's power to riºtice and to required for the var. Evº saved, every stroke of labor saved, ere for €. e front - We , th add measurab- by practicing economy and preventing was tie - iſ tº lº #º º; - fºr ºf Fiji ºf TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU CF PUBLIC ITY Aſ |ſ I, Thºſſy LCAN - - CHICAGO DISTRICT º/7 / /3 Eği ors : **- ºf Immediate Release, The Bluejackets from grea: Lekić's did wonderful work all over the Seventh E ed eral Reserve district in the four º - Liberºy Loan drive. For this effective cooperation ***it is due the in ºutive of Capt. W. A. Moffett, Command- ant of the Great Lakes With the approval aw: Benotion of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. From the middle of September, drive, to the last minute of Cº. t. 19 Lakes band, 33 men and a bandmaster ºr Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and from three to eleven towns da the uniform everywhere, tell what endurance ars morale this aza "brasses" came back With lips in a H. : But no cºmplaints, Capt. Moffett these band activities with the executiº When the crisis of the loan º, ſººn 'ed at the start ºf the third week nine band units were sent to * * * *y and of capt, Morºccº, *** *,000 sailors of the 16th and 7th regiments at Great Lakes were decain the loop and outlying bo oths of the prevented anything like as rect sale and to arouse enthusiasm among the throngs w bureau Chief Sam P. Gerson, The records show that 11, C. sº,850 were traceable di. rectly to fays of their activity in the city. Cnly a man at Cúsº ºn Wedness By , Smanship, in the period of preparation for the ** **Vºn units of Lieut. Sousa is wonderful Great each unit, were covering the states of Michigan. These bands frequently "covered" S staff Officer Lieu º . K. S. tº a - Chicago and they pºlayed vir & º Sales Oréanization, the efforts a Not cºntent with this cooperation. and William A. instrumental in sales of ººl, sco ºf Lib Capt. Moffett's children entered With 2 2.0,000 tº the Chicago total, tºse-year-ºl" and Petty, all wearing the regul Jr., eleven and eight years of *še, and in one de Cº. t. 1 ily, a rºl played with technical excellence worthy of * † to playing a wind in strument can *** 9 cogram required, Many of the st painful condition from the constant playing, Goodman had direct command of *** is cance of Chief Yeoman Earl H. McHugh. 5, with the aſ pro vº. 1 of the Secre- * tº assist the car tº as and ..., at They were under orders which but were permitted tº use persuasion *ching the "features” provided by 3.2 liber ºy bond sales making a total of f the sailors dur ing the three Capt. Moffett sent his sons Geºrge By they were chiefly erty borº , on the last day of the loan all ºst int. Janet, aged 14, Ge º the sº * **** of the ºne ºn, To make the stºry *Cºlete ºs. gut ºf their pay of $32. ºr Liberty bords. it musº 50 a ºr tº were p the whirlwind finish and added *ěº William, Charles, the **on navy uniform adaea greatly be added that the Great Lawes sail Bºri tº a ** to pay 2, 500,00s A/J º/7 TREASURY DEPARTMENT ºf 3 BUREAT OF PUBLICITY - Editors : LIBERTY LOAN - For immediate release . CHICAGO DISTRICT, - - (Publication of this is con- sidered vital by Gov. J. B. McDougal of the Federal Re- serve Bank of Chicago). By W. G. McAdoo, . Secretary of Treasury. º ºr - º - The privilege of conversion which arose in conseque ** of the issue of 44% bonds of the Third Liberty Loan will expire * - º: - November 9th and under existing law cannot be extended or renº Holders of these 4% bonds lose nothing by exercising the privile ºf of conversion and gain ſº interest per annum. Holders of 4% bonds should not wait until the last moment to exercise the privilege of conversion but proceed to do so promptly. Delay will result tº over-burdening the banking institutions of the country and the Tºº ry Department by making it necessary to hanane all conversions at the last moment, and may result in the loss of the privilege of cº- version altogether. lases of eason bones are strongly advised to reº- issue of registered bonds in order to protect themselves against the risk of loss, theft and destruction of their bonds. official Department circular No. 114, with forms ºf ap- plication, has been distributed to Federal Reserve Banks and banks and trust companies throughout the United States, These institu- tions are asked, as a matter of patriotic service, to assist bond holders in exchanging 4% bonds for 44% bonds and in registering their bonds. # # # # # # # # # # # Tº 5 Jºy ºf PART lºſſ. A//7 tºº. - ------ - ----- - --- - B'Tººlſ ſº F P C T T. º // º - ºit Y S : - --- - - º - - - - º ºg º * > . * * * º --- -: - - -*. - ºf . | Cºl. - ºr immedia je celease. Clf "CAGO DISTRICT . - TVO KTN º Cº. LA Tiº ICT Sºft . you have bºot gºt a lot of idº e land into till- age this spring . icºn cºe gºing to rºse all the grain and forage and livestock your arm can be made to produce - That is one kind of - - ----- --- patriotism and a reſ. eges sº y il-d Every farmer who brings an acre of land into ultivation is a soldier on the firing line for Liberty and Democracy. But there is another kind of patriotism that is just as necessary. It 5 is just as ºccessary ºat the stuff you produce shall be put at the disposal of the fighting forces, as it is that you should raise it. - That negliºs money. You have to have money to pay for the labor of farming your land and producing grain aid stock. The Government must have money to buy your produce for the fightiº men in France. Money is absolutely necessary to buy food, munitions, - You are doing your duty in eas the a cºs, that i S very true. But in a war like this one, no man ages his fºil duty who does not do all that he possibly can. Bring our the grain you have stored away. Sell it at a fair price fixed by the government. - Bring out the money you have stores up in the Banks, or hidden away i (1 your iron box behind the barn. Every dollar is ur- - gently needed- - Invest every idle dollar in LIEERTY BONDS. The Governmeº Trill - - - - - - - - - º -º-, -i. /repay you in a favº years. Meanºiſe you ºil receive * terest at the - º - rate of , ; percent, with valuable tax exemptions to make tº invest - ment better. INVEST EVERY DOLLAſ. YoU CAN IN LIB RTY BONDS - Every dollar you bring out of concealment means Ter Toº tº added to the fighting capacity of the United States in the World War : in hiſ iſ ##################### ºf º ºf 7. Editºrs: * ... * º, - Aſ ºf º - For immediate rºººº- ºn a cºmrººz tº a lot ºr TRSA GTRY OF EARTIE, - -, -º-º-º-º-º- * I LEI, IC II The last day of the Liberty Icon drive found the women worº º of the seventh district keyed up and eager for ºne ºn s. They show a marvelous record of achievement by the women of the fire states in this third Liberty loan. "The women of the Gºvernºh District, said Migg (, rºce Diºn (their director) Saturday, "have arisen to their responsibilities 3 sharing in the obligation of financing this war. Who roºs in th last loan, we raised thirty-five million in the District and received the commendation of the Treasury Department, this time through the 3 ordination of effort with the men's committee we have raised one a dred millions of soners, with the prospect that this amount may be increased five to ten million more . " Ir, Illinois, not including chicago and Cook County, over $20,000,000 of this sum has been subscribed, and tº incºgen, acco Y tº . - ing to the state chairman Frederick Fenton, the women under the le ship of Mrs. H. D. ºshibaugh have raised another 20,000,000. "The it in - cent Visit of Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo to Grand Rºids has º - lated the women there for Liberty to wº, a reason they really needed no spur, having a one rena ºne or from ginning of the campaign. I feel tnet when the final figures are it will be found that they have gone over the 20,000,000 mark." Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin women also are making big report . º In Chicago, the emergetic chairman for the the women, Mrs. J . Baur has set her heart on $50,000,000 as the share for the wome of Chicago and cook county. - ºwe have raised $32, 9,000," she deciąred, "and what 's another £8,000,000 when you will do it, º "W" stands for t, nº women ana it. stands for the "will". without the mºſt Chicago noººo nºt will." Let's put the "w" back in it. $30,000,000 by Saturday night." iſ ill-l liſt ſtººl-ſºlº tººl. #################### Hiſ liſtſ ºf itſ liſt -- - - iſ iſ iſ fºr sº gº ºuſtº icº - “. a tº 3.0 ºf ºu" || || || 30, - Leº & 2 nº I - - - º - ... .º. - - ºn of ºs on Kº ; S Cliº ed suo ot, Sir Ao ‘pººl. i. º T tºod e ſºng - 9 º ºſſ Cº. º. ººod gro II - ; sº toº gº be oº, sº sº ºce: - sº gº ºu 3 - as ſº sº dº ºi T iſ , , I on 3 ſºng - - - 2, Cº LS 3 - --- - - - --~ ºf - -- * * * * - Cº. A strouſ sº * Gºiſ.” º I tº * [...] J. Q. Lºs I ( ; pººl º ºr ) - 3A2s tº etiº ºstrouſ guº II & Is A A. J. & 6. It iſ ſºo’s UC q & Cº. I - º ºr º º - - º º C. º º, ſº º - * † tº ſº gº or ſet ou ſº g Tºº A to Ae--Hoogºved ºno dº ſº I gº too gº dº - - - Gºtº - 3 3- TT o, J.Tag Tºo" sº Ted greq, c ºutſ Tºu waſ, Jo q, Us II gºod & ſºng 9.0 U 1070 p & II ºu e Áng -- exotic tºo. Gºº GA tº e.e. sº º ºſcq * * 0.5 + 0.0 L 3 dºv C. ex: no. II gºod 9 ſºng - 9 º -C. Uſ T ſº --- - *. c trºuſ, 1941:31 exºs leº. | 3 || SSO Lº Qū QTJ & Iſl. 3.2 -º . º | I º H. T º º † º º T. . ( j º Lt. º º # -- º I -- -- "… -- * * * r * ºr ºr ſº * * * * * * * rº- LI III: Tº IT iſ ºſcº º ºſ ºr ºf J. J.O., ºf ºf a 2- º - * * --- ------- * - A *. .* U. - 3 lºº - - - - ----- --- ſº IS IT 0.0° 01' HO * Gººd T & J C G p tº tº ſº KJ ſºlº II - - $3.9% º Aſ IOI. Tº ſld nº ºng - ºf T ºr ºr ſº º ºr º º y º - - - - - - - º º º - Aſ J TREASURY DEPARTMENT º Editors : This is a matter of keen interest BUREAU OF PUBLICITY º/7 to the public at the present time. LIBERTY LOAN A/ 3 - We hope that you will give it the - CHICAGO DISTRICT. - Widest possible publicity. THE FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN. Charles H. Schweppe, Federal Reserve Director of the Seventh District Liberty Loan Organization, Chicago, has issued the following statement regarding the Fifth Liberty Loan, which will be floated in the Spring. Mr. Schweppe judg- ng the matter in the light of very wide experience in the investment affairs, and as a Liberty Loan executive in previous successful campaigns, believes that the Fifth Loan will be floated without difficulty if the public can be made to under- stand that the Government must have large amounts of money to pay the Victory bills, bring the conquering American troops, and clean up the tremendous job of saving Freedom for the world. The official statement follows: "The next loan, which I think will be the last, should be called the * Fifth Liberty Loan’, as the advertising value of the term 'Liberty Loan’ is great and should not be discarded. I feel an intensive campaign in the spring will bring better results in the Seventh Federal Reserve District than selling bonds over the counter. "In the Seventh District we will probably use the same organization as before, and I thin We can count on each and every Liberty Loan worker to help out. When the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign was over it was not right for us to feel that our jobs were over. The Governor Of Our Federal Reserve bank has sent out word that he wished us to continue in office, "I doubt if the Fifth Liberty Loan will be as hard to place as some anticipate. The money will be used to finance the task of bringing our men home from France and to pay War bills, and I cannot believe that there is a single representative of the Liberty Loan organization in the Seventh District who will not be ready to do his or her full share. "As to the kind of bond that may be issued, I feel a short-term bond–– say, five years--at a high rate of interest, exempt only from the normal income tax, Would be more attractive than one With a lower rate of interest exempt from all Federal taxes. Such a bond Would have more appeal and should be more popular. "I do not advocate having the banks throughout the country underwrit the next Liberty Loan because I am confident that the method used in the previous campaigns can again be used, provided the Treasury Department puts out a bond With attractive investment features. "There is a very large army of Liberty Loan workers in the Seventh Federal District, and I hope the Treasury Department will recognize all those people by issuing to them a certificate in appreciation of their paz triotic work. Such a certificate would be highly prized by every recipient. "People should fully realize that the United States is still maintain- ing a large army of occupation in Europe, and during the period of recon- struction will have many large expenditures to make. We should all con- tinue to save what We can in anticipation of the next loan and be prepared to oversubscribe our quota. I believe the Seventh District had the largest number of subscribers of any Federal Reserve District in the Fourth Loan, numbering about 4, 300,000. To continue this very creditable record will be a distinct feather in our cap, and I believe the Seventh District can do it." # * * * * * * * * * * * * * LL-72 // Uſ º//7 A 13 Editors: It is of the utmost importance that all the people be fully in- formed of the steps taken by the TREASURY DEPARTMENT - government to provide a sure and BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - convenient medium of payment for LIBERTY LOAN - the Federal taxes falling due CHICAGO DISTRICT. March 15, 1919. This article has that purpose in view. Your aid is requested. TAX ANTICIPATION CERTIFICATES. Aside from maintaining public order and the defense of life and property the most vital function of Government is the provision of money, or an acceptable medium of payment and exchange. The financial needs of the Government, in war and after that for the restor- ation of the peace footing, are very large. Heavy taxation is necessary and the prob- lem of meeting the Federal taxes without affecting the equilibrium of money and cred- its vital to the Welfare of the nation. To meet the condition of raising Six billion dollars of taxes in 1919 the Government has decided on two policies: (1) Installment payment of the taxes on incomes and profits---the first installment falling due March 15 (2) The issuance of Tax Anticipation Certificates bearing 4% percent interest and maturing at the time the taxes must be paid. In effect the Tax Anticipation plan enables all who are liable for taxes to the Treasury to rally their cash means in the interval between Nov. 7, 1918 and March 15, 1919 and to invest that cash in a perfectly safe Government security, at a fair rate of interest, and in a form which will be accepted by the Treasury in tax payments March 15, 1919. Under this plan it will be possible to avoid any disturbance of the money market and credit conditions at the incidence of the enormous tax payments next Spring a The matter is thus summed up by R. G. Elliott, Chairman War Tax Advisory Committee National Association of Credit Men: "We have been buying Treasury certificates in anticipation of taxes ever since it became apparent that the amount of revenue produced by the 1917 Act would be very large. "War taxes are in the nature of a division of profits, with the Government in the position of a preferred stockholder who must be paid before there can be a distribution of profits to the owners; therefore provision should be made to cover this tax liability, the money withdrawn monthly or quarterly and invested in liquid form during the year in which the profit is earned. - "The Credit Men’s Association since the passage of the Excess Profits Tax Law has advocated the serial payment plan and the creation of reserves by taxpayers; in other words, anticipating the payment by investment in certificates of indebted- ness which Will relieve the demand for credit at taxpaying periods. "These Treasury certificates furnish a convenient form of income-producing reserve and by investing in them during the taxable year to the extent of the tax liability, makes each year stand on its own bottom and will tend to defer the issue of bonds and permit an earlier reduction of War taxes for Governmental expenditure, bringing us closer to home in our financing by reducing expansion, thus creating a sounder and more stable credit condition." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-34 // T ºyſ 7 /? / 3 TREASURY DEPARTAINT Bijº, II ºf pi . Tº T ºn as -º-º-º- Fºº- iº º º it ºr º: , , , -- º . -- * - Lº Jºliº º li. i. 16 3 it º, & rºle ºn Sº º C HTC & G() DTS HRH CT . FE CH, YOUR FARM WITH II Bº Y BONDS You put fences ºr ound your farm to keep your stoc in and to keep mºrºuders out. Theº i S C terrific Wºr going on in ºr ope, . A- merican soldiers ºre fishting there . What for 7 Well, for one thin they are fighting to keep Williºn of Germany from reachint into your bºrn 3 and grºundried ºnd step ling your we lith--the product of your lo- bor. Suppose Germany should win this Wºr. Whºt then? If Germºny ensula win this Wºr it would be just tº gº sºme as breaking loºm every fence, every bºr, every lock, that, protect 3 the wealth of America. In that cºse, geºns could dº. would exact proligious tribute from Americºrns. Nothing would be so against that aerºna. I ſº fence could keep out the Teuton tº: gather *** * Aſhericºn Fºrner, you have only one trustworthy fence for the protection of ºur tarº and granaries : Thºt fence is the supremacy of the American nation on this continent . As long as that fence is intact you ºn your fºr ºre sº fe . When it fºlls you. are lost , - - Fence your farm with LIBERTY Loº Bombs, Bring out your every dollar you have an a nema it to the Government. The Unite i Stºtes Government is the safest borrºwer in the worl". Your money will be secured by National wealth in excess of $250,000,000, 00, º It will be protected by the constitutional rights of tº ºn. It will be protected by the Nºtion's promise to repoy principal and in- terest at 4 1/4 percent. Invest all your spºre money in LIBF. TY ICAN Bones. This is the best way to build a sºe, sonia fence around your farm . Remember: If the American Liberty is lºst, all yºu. have is 1 ost. . - INVEST TO THE LIMIT IN ITB RTY BOND6 . - Jil iſ ill-tºº-º-º-º-º: º' ºtºlº lºſtºl ſºlº - - ######## º ###### # # ºr ºfºrº if ######## - (PAGº Tºo) or , fit for freedom. Invest in Liberty bonds nov. Subscribe until it hurts. Take what you can outright , ~nd take on the installment plan as many as you can stººger under . Remember -- it's no longer "do your bit", but do your ALT . Hold fast for Victory ! 1...fºll lifliſt - ºf iſ iſ ºf iſ lºſſ ſlº.º.º.º.º.º.º.º. Hiſ #7ſ ºf jºir ºf# # ºf 7. * : * g º BLP º 0.5 ºu LIC tº // J Éditors: "Y () N Foº immediğto releage. C .30 Di CTRICT . º//7 2. * * * * ~ * -- WOME} \º ſº I Tºy T.O. N. -º-º-º-º-º-º: American women aſ prºjected from the hardships ºf the ºr Gilches by the courage of American men. It will never be necessºry to recruit an Americ in Eat Celioz of Orath - but in the other two bian- clies of ºr service, omen can an º' must tale their places. n º Women are tº ling men's places in the workshop, the office, even in the fiº & S. Wherever Cherº is woºl to do the American woman will do it. No other nation has given its women wo much-none other - w de Sºvies so much from them. Women can invest in Liberty bonds. Women can curtail was gº Stilula tº thrift , , ºld invest in more Liberty bonds. - 3. i. When women save money to invest in Liberty bonds they serve doubly, for they release all the labor and the mºtorials that would have been used in manufacturing the thin s they didn't buy, at the --- Sºme time aiding their government in continuing America 's holy war . WOMENT IIſ Gº St. VT) AM D WORK ghting boys in spirit: ; Kºep up - --- U + i. i. - - Women, stand beside - - the morale of our army by unflinching courage and heroic devotion at home. The third Liberty Loan points your duty--the third nation- ºn as as in º universal service--the third sword sharpened for victory in the forge of freedom. - America must win it dºes not fail - ºr it is America, the uni- conquered that calls. - Women, it is said, spend nine tenths of all the money that is spent . . Let every women scrutinize her family budget. She must do the major part in taking her family's share of Liberty bonds. Upon the women of America must rest, in a large measure, the success of the third Jiberty Ioan. - - --- TO THE AM ºf CAN MO'ſº R A boy, yours or your neighbor's, perhaps, lies shivering in º the trenches "over there", wet, cold, weary, or , Worse yet, on the stretches of No Man's Land, rounded, anon, flying . You cannot bear for his one acony; you cannot give him life, he it or happiness; but in ºne sees her futy, you can give to every merican led who toes "over the top" the glory of hope--the reasonable certºirty of º tº #: victory - the exultation of knowing tº t he does not die in vai - that America has risen as one to male the world it for life, fi : for hon |J Tºº Y DEPART INT ºf 7 UHEAT OF PUBLICITY " ' ' '. Fºit or sº Lo N A iſ 3 jºor immedia to release . tº º () DT G Tº It iſ . - SERVION ON PATRIOTISI - - - A 1000 Bey () ºn tº American . - Here is a sermon on a triotism. It comes to Chicago from Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The S Gºdard of patrio ji ºn preached in this Ser- mon is So much above the pººr -- o dism of many thousºrld S of men and Women in the seventh rºserve district, that the Liberty Loan execu- give committee is send nº tie story broadcast throughout the district gº Y it in the hope of rousing a of ºmulation in the breasts of all citizens, both naturalized and native born. Were every man in the Chie e district Co a tºtain hire standard of Demos thenes of Gºurgeon Bay, Wis , it is pointed out, ºne whole ºf , 900,000,000 would be sub- scribed in this one district, alone : - Demos thenes, 1,000 per cent American, has the following ſnº Gººge for Uncle Sam º O -) "You can borrow anything and everything I have . " And this is not his mess ge alone. It is also the message of his two brothers – ºn tº one os and 5 ºr os , The ir surname is Anaºlo stopoulos, and they conduct a small candy store in Sturgeon Bay, Wis . Let Demos thenes Angºlo stopoulos do the rest of the talling: "We boys didn't have anything when we cºme to this country. My brothers and I were very poor in the old country. All we have We made here , This country has given us great opportunity. What ever we have we owe to this country. - thing beyond a fair "We don't consider that we have done any - * * * * * * * * took 1,600 of the second loa d our allotment for the third loan, figured by the appraisºl committee on the basis of assessed valuation of property, was 100 each, or 300 for the three of us. But as we had the money and we knew the tº ſingle Sam wanted to raise much money for the ºr , we died ided to let him have all our savings We know that it is a safe investment, and we don't consider that we have been particularly patriotic in lending this amount to the Governmena (; , - - "We talked it over, and we decided that we oved this country something - yes, everything - and we tº it the least we could do would be to lend money to the Government . - " ' Tony' is in the draft and probably will go to one of the cantonment S on the noxt ºll for soldi ºr s , He is glad to go and fight for his country. We – - Stavros and myself--are glad to have him go, and if we are called , we , too, will be glad to go . "We don't consider the tº we are entitled to be known as patriº ots for lending our money to the Government . The security is so good, the interest is so high, the investment is so excellent in every way, the t we would have been glad to take advantage of the opportunity even if t e best country in the world had not been at War ºld in need of money . - - "In the sixteen years we have lived here, we have prospered We know the t \in rica gives every industrious main a splendid on por tunity. We want that op, or tunity continued . The tº is the real reason we subscribed . " - fill ſºft ºut tº lºſºl iſ "...lºſt º: | fºr iſ ºf jº - - ºf ºr ºn asury pºp rººm ſº BUP iſ ºf PUBLIC TY A ſº Fólitors : I, Rºy T. O., ſº For immediº tº releasº a ſº I Gº DISTRICT, Heads of the Liberty Ioan foreign language division for the Seventh federal reserve district at a meeting in Chicago reported -º- that people of foreign birth and parentage are subscribing 80 per gent stronger in this Tiberty Loan campaign than in the second cam- paign. These figures are based ºn reports from ºne oranga language division chairmen not only in Chicº tºo, but throughout the seventh federal reserve district. - -- - - At the meeting many instances were given to show that Ameri- eans of foreign birth and ºranºse, loyal and patriotic to the core, are carrying out ºr as etions made in advance that they would surpass all previous records during this campaign. - Felix J. Streyckmans, federal rese a director of the foreign language division, praised the work of the loyal foreign language newspapers and the effects of the foreign language committee repre- Santing thirty different nationalities, as being largely responsible tº the records made. - The amount raised by the thousands of workers in the foreign language division in Chicago during tº a first week of the campaign, it was ańnounced , was º, one, ooo. This aces not mean the amount subscribed by men and women of foreign birth and parentage, but only the amount sold by committees of the foreign lensuage division. Not only ãre more of the foreign born buying than ºn the first &aign, but those who bought bonds last time are now ºuxehasing considerably larger amounts in this campaign. At one large factory, it wº 5 reported, men who invested in $50 bonds last time are buying ºzoo, 300 and 500 worth in this Campaign. Furthermore, they ºre in many cases paying cºh for the bonds instead of taking them on the installment plan. ºney had the money all the time, " said Mr. Streyckmans, "but did not realize how good use they could make of it by investing in Liberty bonds and thus nei. the country." ºf ºut iſ ºut ºn tº ſiſt jºiº | | || TI Aſ URY DEFARTINT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY 2 / 7 Editors: I, IETRTY I, OAN - - For immediate release , CHICAGO DISTRICT. Alſº FARMºs ABLE TO SUPPORT Loºn. By Clifford W. Gregory, Edit or , ºne Prairie Farmer . It takes money to fight a great War through to victory and it is up to us to furnish it . Thoro was some ºriticism at the time of the second Liberty loan to the effect that farmers were not buying bonds as liberally as they should . Most of this ºriticism was un- justified, though there is here and there a slacker in the country as well as elsewhere . We are in better shape to subscribe to this Loa: for it comes at a time when we have more of the year 's products tury. int, O Gºsh. - Let us subscribe with a willingress that will make criticism impossible, that will show Uncle Sam the farmers of America are be - hind him with their money as well as with their plows. Every dollº subscribed to the Liberty Loan helps to bring the kaiser's day of reckoning nearer. --- FARMERS BEHINE LIBERTY LOAN. - By Alson Secor, Editor . Successful Farming, Des Moines, Iowa. There are about 2,000,000 men now under arms, training to fight, and it tº kes a lot of money to ſeed, clothe, transport and equip such a force of consumers who previously were self-supporting , Uncle Sam cannot at once reach into the pockets of those who stay at home and draw out by taxation enough money to pay the bills of such an army and navy. The only possible source of ready cash is to bor rowſ from those who have i t . The farmers have shown their energy in producing the largest crops and have endured hard snips due to a shortage of helps and I-be- lieve they will loan to Uncle Sam every dollar they can spare , thus giving full support to the farmers sons who are ready to make the supreme sacrifice, that we may not be conquèred by such a foe as Germany . . - Just as your few bushells of grain and pounds of meat will, when put with the products of all the farms, save a world from star àtion, so the amount of your money, put with all the money which may be loaned to the government for Liberty bonds, will prevent this great war from ending in favor of the foe. Liberty bonds are re- ceipt for the money you lend Uncle Sam, and they bear 4 1/4 interest - FARMERS ALIVE TO SITUATION. - By Arthur C. Page, Editor, Orange Judd Farmer. The more we learn about the underhanded work which led up to this war, the more proud we are to be in it and the more determined that it must be a thorough job . It is costing a great deal of mone, but no money was ever better spent . In the middle west farming we have learned the importance of using the best machinery, the best live stock and the best seed . Now that we are engaged for awhile in another occupation, we favor having the best army and the best guns and equipment for it . The spirit of these western prairies was pretty well typified in President Wilson's remark that the cuickest way out of this war is straight through - Knowing farm folks as I do, I assume that no urging is neces. sary, when the government tells us plainly what it wants us to do. Last year it wanted a world-record crop, and we raised it. This year it wants more pork, and information which comes to us from conrbelt farmers indicates that the pork is going to be there on schedule time . Right now the government wants us to lend it a few hundred million dollars with government bonds as security. Not on will we hand over the money gladly, but if Uncle Sam will come back after harvest time probably we can let him have more . || || || || || || || || ###### ############ ºšuº ºf T * ºit, BUPEatº GF ºl, CITY º Crs : LIEEº Lº N */ Fºr immediate release . gººd visºr icº, ſº ºf 3 A heavy barrage fire of advertising artiller is accompanying the Seventh Federal Reserve District salesmen in the drive for the Third Liberty loan. Few persons who notice in the windows and the street cars the posters advertising the governments third Liberty loan or receive by mail & tickers for the windshields ºf their automobiles will unders and where this adºes ºf sing comes from or the magnitude of the machinery what has been evolved for its distribution. There are more than 15,000,000 persons in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, which comprised of parts of Illinois, ſº disma, Wisconsin, and Michigan and all of Iowa. Each and every one of these, man, wouan and child, in city, in hamlet or on the farm, must be rºinded at every turn what the government is asking for a loan, to carry the common cause to victory end to provide for the ºn who are representing America in the treaches. Everyone must know that this is his or her War and that the government at Washington is calling for financial support from ail. the people, The third Liberty loan publicity campaign has presented to small protº- lem, Every one of these 15,000,000 must be convinced that he or she should buy bonds, Months ago prominent men from all over the district were pressed into the service of the Liberty Loan Campaign. Foremost artists dºeigned, drºw and ºf paintaddºosters that Uncle Sam will use to appeal to the eye and the patriotism of the public . Such well known artists as Howard Chandler Christie, Joseph Pennel and Sidney H. Riesenberg lent their aid; others contributed ideas and designe. The Government is sending these posters and stickers by the millions to the Federal Re- serve Publicity directors in the various districts. - The distribution of all publicity matter for the seventh district is being directed by J. J. Kelly, circulation manager for liontgomery Ward & Co., and E. W. Neu, a Californian, who made the San Francisco Fair a household word through- out the United States in 1915. Wilbur D. Nesbit, well known advertising man and author of "Your Flag and ºly Flag", is Federal Reserve Director of Publicity for this district, In Chicago, at 323 West Jackson Boulevard, is a great lofty building Which serves as the distribution headquarters for the seventh District. It has two entire floors occupied by two hundred stenographers, clerks and mailers. The dis- tribution of material is the colossalºesºeing performed from this center. From this headquarter alone seven tons of mail ºe snipped out daily, Sundays included . It is estimated that 300 tons of mail will be snipped out before the work of billing the district will have been completed. More than 100,000 circular letters containing advice and instruction for the thousands of workers in the in the distri - mailed out each week and stickers for automºbile windshields -- to the owners of cars in the five states in the district, Both Mr. Neu and ºr, kei. lºyknow every city and town and hamlet in the district, have the population of every county at their toungest end, and know exactly how many posters are needed in Peoria * Kenosha or Jimtown. Mr. Kelly has secured the co-operation of the postal au- thorities who have loaned him a force of clerks that is established in the Jackson Boulevard building and handled the mail direct to the receiver without its having to go through the main office, thus eliminating a delay of sederal hours. One poster for every twenty-five persons, in this district of 15,000,000 residents, has been placed in street cars, office buildings and other public places. These posters are mostly of what is known as the one sheet and the one-half sheet, 30 by 40 inches and 20 by 30 inches, respectively. In addition to this, 10,000,000 poster stamps are being distributed to ail firms and business houses in the five states that send out at least 1,000 letters or packages a day. - The Boy Scouts, under the scout mastersoof the district, are hanging on the door knobs of the householders Liberty Bells to remind the people that their homes are inviolate because the Hun has been held back and that they must give finan. cial support to the soldiers that are holding him back. - Liore than 3,600 newspapers, magazines and trade publications in the dis- ºrict are being served by the Press Bureau of the Liberty Loan, Ten or twelve trained newspaper reporters keep in touch with all the Liberty Loan campaign activi- ties and "cover them for the press Bureau, - Sam P. Gerson, manager of the Garrick theater, in Chicago, and vice- director ºf publicity for the district, is handling the feature program to be ear- fied out through the district. Lawrence Howe, Director of the Speakers Bureau, is ***ing out well-known politicians, orators, jºurnalists, military and naval experts º ºt the financial needs of the government to the people in all parts of the #################### are being sent -º-º-º-º-º: -º-º: ** * * * * - - ºſ TREASURY DEPARTMENT ºn 7 BUREA OF PUBLICITY - - - - - Editorſ; LIBº: LOAN ſº ºf 3 Fox immediate reſºasº CHICAGO ºf STRICT . * ". . . . . WONDERFUL WORK BY WOTEN . - - By Grace Dixon; * . Director for Woham, Seventh Federal Keserve Listºrict, . " This is the last week of the third Liberty Loan drive . By Saturday this country must have subscribed not only the 3,000,000, 299 asked of us by the national government but many times that amount The honor of our people, the morale of our troops, demºn is that this great great loan be over sºbscribed tº ºch as it is lºſinarily possible to have it We must and will show to the world that we as true and lºyal Americans are behind the American government . Think for a moment of the psychological effect of the news upon our men over there if we should fail in this, our part : Think of the joy it would bring to the Beast of Berlin if he should hear - that the American people are so indifferent to the outcome of this Wºº that they must be forced to contribute their sºare to the successful - prosecution of it, and will only do what they can not get out of doing . Surely such a thing can never come to pass. Our boys are over tº: in France, offering their lives for us, suffering unicil horrors that we may be safe and the world made a decent place to live in : They are depending upon us here at home to back them up, to provide them with the best possible equipment that can be used to defeat the tº º º him quickly, so that Peace may come. Are we going to fail tº C - The men and women of the seventh district have already sº that they will not fail if they keep on increasing the effectiveness º' their organizations as they have apºle in the cast. Already ºne ºne. of this district have raised two, oooooººes against tº sº by them in the last Liberty Loan drive, and the men have also ºceeded the amount of their last Liberty Joan Subscriptions : But that is nothing . The fight grows worse and worse. We must go on fightiº harder too . Terrible things are happening over there where our tº hiº. line of soldiers stands between us and all that spells ruin for the civilization of the whole world. We must strengthen that line at on We must send more men at once and keep on sending them. To send ºil we must see to it that they are the best equipped soldiers in the World. , The time has come for sacrifice on the part of not only our soldiers and sailors and men of the air, but of every man, woman and child in America : We women must sacrifice all the little luxuries which have been dear to us. We must help the men in the little hºº economies so that more money may be withdrawn from the housekeeping budgets and invested in Liberty Bonds. There is no investment in the world so safe, for although our line may bend it can not break so long as the American people *** working together to keep it straight and firm against the foe, and tº see that the soldiers in it return to us victorious - We shall win . Of that there is no doubt; but we must win quickly. Will you help with all the strength that is in you? Let us then all dedicºts ºf . selves anew to the great cause . Let us make this week the banner Wee of the whole campaign and go over the top as gallantiy here at home * our soldiers will do in France . ######################### BUR Cº. ºOBLICITY º, ºs: Liº LOAN */ * 7 For immediate release. Cºld Go Disºr ICT. / / 3 The most intensive propaganda canºeign ever attempted in the ºte states is to be carried on during the third ºberty loan drive, which is scheduled to begin April 6, by the Speakers bureau of the Liberty loan committee throughout the seventh federal recerve district. Every state in the district has been fully organized, with a state director and a county speaking chairman in each of the counties under him. lore than ºn thousand of the best public speakers in the district have been enrolled and it is asserted that every man and woman in any part of the five states under the Chicago jurisdiction will be reached by a direct and forceful appeal. Seven hundred and fifty well known public speakers of Chicago and Cook Coun- ty have volunteered to give their time, without pay, during the entire drive. ºbi, list includes such men as Clarence 3. Darrºw, Edward ... Bancroft, Judge Harry A. Olson, Jacob I. Dickinson, Henry Rathbone, Prof. Percy H. Boynton of the Universi. ty of Chicago, congressman Edmund D. Foss, Bishop $gºuel A. Fallows, Judge 113rcus A • Kavanagh, David A. Forgan, and former governors Charles S. Deneen and Edward F. Dunne. - Resident speakers will be reinforced by the best men from other cities in the seventh reserve district and by a large number of congressmen and by mem— bers of President wanson's cºnsº - Lºrence Howe ºf Chicago is director of the speakers, bureau. Douglas Sutherland is director for: the state of £3.1 inois and Uri B. Grannis for Chicago and cook county. Jesse E. Eschbach is state director for Indiana, Keith Vawter for Iowa, ºard N. Choats for iiichigan and *artin J. Gillen for ºccasiº, Each of these men win have exclusive responsibility for the army ºf ºre in his territory. - There are 338 cºunties in the Chicago a strict. The speakers' bureau has pleased itself tº the Liberty loan executive cominiţtee to furnish 3. ºr to: ºny sort of meeting, in any sort of language, in any city or town, day or ment- whenever wanted. The bureau is avided into a recruiting service, which sº a the speakers, a speaking service, which delivers them to ºne ºne ºnes Cº. schedule. - * . - - º The Bureau will also issue bulletins sº material and suggestions for speak. ers throughout the Campaign, and act ss a clearing house of ideas. This part of the work will be under the supervision of Henry P. Chandler as Consulting Director. 2. in the last Liberty loan campaign the speakers" bureau was unable ºn several occasions to furnish men to speak to audiences that could not understaid . the language of the United States. New languages were discovered right in the Chicago loop that no one could talk or understand. But the bureau is now pre- pared, according to its director, to deliver a live speech in every tongue except Sanscrit, which is a dead language. The Foreign Language Department of the Bu- reau" is under the direction of . William K, Pflaum. In addition to the twenty- eight standard languages already listed, speakers have now been secured to appeal to the Armenians, Chaldean Assyrians, Rusniaks, Letts, and Finns, who have colo- nies in Chicago and elsewhere in the district . - he women's division has an organization that parallels that of the melº. and a large number of women speakers has been enrolled under Irs. Fletcher Dobyns, Chairman of Speakers. ############################## TREASURY CEF Riº T. ºf 7 BUREAL OF PUBLICITY 2. Eää, toºs : Lºº | Q\ * * º * Fºr immediate release. CHICAGO in Išºl Cº. The opening of the third Liberty loºn and the anniversary of America's entry into the war will , it is pººned, be observed by the burning of beacon fires throughout the Chicago federal reserve disº, riºt, and the placing of beacon lights in the windows of soroo, hºuses and othe. puºlic cºldings in every town iii tile district , Indiana hºstºlven the loºd in promoting this form of celebrating the double event. Window beacons and bonfires on hill tops are planned for the nights of April 5 and 6, the first of which completes twelve months of war. School boards in the towns, and teachers in the country districts, are being or— ganized throughout the state to insure a general observation of the anniversary and the opening of the third war loan drive. It is planned to inaugurate the third campaign in all the states of the district by the issuing of a set of local proclamations by mayors, town boards and city councils . It is felt that the national proclamations of President Wilson and Secretary lºcºdoo should be explained and given a more intimate personal appeal in each locality by being followed up by proclamations from the big men in - -- - º each community. To impress upon every man, woman and child in each township, village and sity these local official appeals will be made. It. also as probable thºt an effort will be made boarrange for local holidays in each country or township, which will bring together all the people and transform the money-raising into a local social and patriotic event that will be remembered for years. - It is piºned also to carry on local speaking schedules in addition to the bigger circuits directed from state headquarters. Local oilºtors will be asked to appear at all theaters, moving picture houses, lodge halls and other places where the people are gathered, and explain to them the need Uncle Sam has for money, and the advantages of the third loan as an investment. April 6, the opening day of the loan, is to be observed in many communi- ties in the Chicago district by parades. The particular feature of these parades, according to the plans, will be the groups of honor, the immediate relatives of men who are serving with the colors: A special appeal is to be made through the parents, wives, sweethearts or children who have been left behind by the men who - have answered the call, ############################## ºf 7 ºr TREASORY DEP, RT, ENT ºut 3 BUREAL OF PUBLICITY ºlºrs: LIBERTY LOAN - For iºnediate release, CHICAGO DISTRICT. WHY YOU I LST BUY LIBERTY BONIS, War is a glutton that lives on lives and riches. There is no limit to the de- vouring greed of War. As long as there is an unconquered life, or an undevoured dollar War is hungry. When War attacks a Nation there is no choice--every able-bodied man knows that he must fight--now or later, Selective drafts may miss a man here and there for a few months, but if the war goes on a time comes when every man who oah walk and cºrry a gun Lust go to the colors and fight for the very life of his country, his family, himself, When War attacks a nation there is no choice--every dollar is subject to the call of nobilization, 5 one of the dollars escape for a time and stay in their safe investment places earning profits for their owners, But if the war goes on long enough, every dollar must come out and enlist under the colors . In time of War, when the very life and death of a Nation is being decided on bloody fields, money has no choice between CQur'âge ana cowardice. Every dollar nºt fight or be classed as **** and put in the ºutle" list – Reese, these things. me sation has a right tº . . absolutely every dollar of property in the United States for the life and death War against Tyranny, Au- tocracy, Slavery and Foreign Aggression and Vassalage. But the Nation does not intend to exercise that ºnal and desperate right . No: The Government says: "The Nation is fighting for its life, Lend us your money. We will give you LIBERTY BOIDS, secured by all the wealth and sovereign taxing power, bearing 4. 1/4 percent interest, and protected by a good sinking fund, with tax expmptions to make the loan better, Avoid the extreme necessity, INVEST IN ALL THE LIBERTY BONES YOU CAN ,” - ############################# Aſ M//7 44 & Editors: It is of the utmost importance that all the people be fully in- formed of the steps taken by the TREASURY DEPARTMENT - government to provide a sure and BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - convenient medium of payment for LIBERTY LOAN the Federal taxes falling due CHICAGO DISTRICT. March 15, 1919. This article has that purpose in view. Your aid is requested. TAX ANTICIPATION CERTIFICATES. Aside from maintaining public order and the defense of life and property the most vital function of Government is the provision of money, or an acceptable medium of payment and exchange. The financial needs of the Government, in War and after that for the restor- ation of the peace footing, are very large. Heavy taxation is necessary and the prob- lem of meeting the Federal taxes without affecting the equilibrium of money and cred- its vital to the Welfare of the nation. To meet the condition of raising Six billion dollars of taxes in 1919 the Government has decided on two policies: (1) Installment payment of the taxes on incomes and profits---the first installment falling due March 15 (2) The issuance of Tax Anticipation Certificates bearing 4% percent interest and maturing at the time the taxes must be paid. In effect the Tax Anticipation plan enables all who are liable for taxes to the Treasury to rally their cash means in the interval between Nov. 7, 1918 and March 15, 1919 and to invest that cash in a perfectly safe Government security, at a fair rate of interest, and in a form which will be accepted by the Treasury in tax payments March 15, 1919. Under this plan it will be pºssible tº avºid any disturbance ºf the money market and credit conditions at the incidence of the enormous tax payments next spring . - The matter is thus summed up by R. G. Elliott, Chairman War Tax Advisory Committee National Association of Credit Men: "We have been buying Treasury certificates in anticipation of taxes ever since it became apparent that the amount of revenue produced by the 1917 Act would be very large. "War taxes are in the nature of a division of profits, with the Government in the position of a preferred stockholder who must be paid before there can be a distribution of profits to the owners; therefore provision should be made to cover this tax liability, the money withdrawn monthly or quarterly and invested in liquid form during the year in which the profit is earned. "The Credit Men’s Association since the passage of the Excess Profits Tax Law has advocated the serial payment plan and the creation of reserves by taxpayers; in other words, anticipating the payment by investment in certificates of indebted- ness which will relieve the demand for credit at taxpaying periods. "These Treasury certificates furnish a convenient form of incºme-producing reserve and by investing in them during the taxable year to the extent of the tax liability, makes each year stand on its own bottom and will tend to defer the issue of bonds and permit an earlier reduction of War taxes for Governmental expenditure, bringing us closer to home in our financing by reducing expansion, thus creating a Sounder and more stable credit condition." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # IL-34. H J TREASURY DEPARTMENT ſº 17 BUREAU OF PUBLICITY A tº 3 Editors : LIBERTY I OAN - H- For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. The United States Government is resolved to do its best to re store every wounded American senate. sailor to health, strength, and self-supporting activity. Every Liberty a bond is up a part of this great work of restoring to health, strength. and usefulness the men who have suffered for their country. Until his discharge from the hospital all the medical and sur - gical treatment necessary to restore him. º is under the jurisdic- tion of the military or authorities, according to the branch ºf the service he is in. The vocational training, the reeducation and rehabili- tation necessary to restore him to self-supporting activity, is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Board for vocational Education. If he needs an artificial limb or mechanical appliance the Govern- ment will supply it free, will keep it in repair, and renew it when Y. G. C. G. S = Sary . If after his as gene ge his a in treatment on account of his disability, the government will supply it free. While he is in the hospital and While in the soldier or sailor Will receive compens tº if in service and his family or Hependents Will receive their allotment. - - - - A …a...a soldier or although his disability a not pre- vent him from returning to employment without training, G 3. In as a course of vocational training free of cost and ºne by the war- risk insurance act will be paid to him and the training will be free, but no allotment will be paid to his family. * 3: * * * * - Holp your LIBERTY coups. Don't surrender your Liberty Bond conditionally or unconditionally. Hold fast to that which is good. Keep your Liberty Bonds. º # * : ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ºr º/7 TREASURY DEPARTMENT A lº BUREAU OF PUBLICITY * Editors : LIBERTY LOAN - For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. An interesting analysis of the figures in the Fourth Liberty Loan covering communities of 50,000 or more population has been made by the statistician of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, J. J. Sheehan. The figures were obtained from the agencies in charge of sales with the exception of Chicago and Cook county in which the subscribers and the amount of the subscriptions were approximated. In the percentage of quota subscribed Saginaw, Mich. , led with 157.06. Second in the percentage column was Spring field, Ill., with 128. 24. The third on the list was South Bend, Ind. , and St. Joseph county with ll'7.47, but Grand Rapids, Mich. , was a close fourth with 117.34. Des Moines, Ia, , and Polk county got fifth place, having a percentage of 115. 70. Then came Chicago and Cook county with ll3.75. Statistician Sheehan estimated that the number of subscribers in Chicago and Cook County totaled one million. The total estimated amount subscribed in Chicago and Cook County was $287,000,000 against a quota of $252, 300,000. Other communities of 50,000 or more and their percentage subscribed were as follows: Milwaukee, 110. 78; Detroit, Mich. , and Wayne County, ll). 30; Terre Haute, Ind., and Vigo County, 107.17; Peoria, Ill., 106.46; Indianapolis and Marion County, 104.57; Fort Wayne, Ind., and Allen county, 103.97. In the following table the statistics show the population, number of sub- scribers, the quota of the communities, the percentage of quota subscribed, the total amount of subscriptions and the amount per capita subscribed: SUBSCRIPTIONS. 1 9, 1 O NO OF % OF QUOTA Total Amount per CITIES POPULATION SUBSCRIBERS. QUOTA SUBSCRIBED Amount Capita Peoria, Ill. 66,950 26, 500 $ 4,917, 100 106.46 $ 5, 234,950 $78. 19 Spring field, Ill. 51, 678 H.4 OOC 3, 404, 500 Izº. 24. 4, 366, ZOO 34 - 4 ºf Grand Rapids, Mich. 112,571. 54,892 9, 137,000 117, 34. 10,720,900 95. 24. Saginaw, Mich. 50, 510 15, 119 2,700,000 157. O6 4, 240, 600 33.96 Milwaukee, Wis. 373,857 120,000 28,440,970 | 10. 78 31, 505, 500 84. 27 * Chicago, 2, 185, 283 Cook Co. Ill. 2,405, 233 1,000,000 252, 300,000 ll 3.75 287,000,000 llº. 32 * Fort Wayne, - 63,933 Allen Co. Ind. 93,386 40,000 7,600,000 | O3. 97 7,901, 600 84 - 61 * Indianapolis, 233,650 - Marion Co. Ind., 263,661 130, 135 23,400,000 104. 57 24, 468, 700 92.80 * South Bend, 53,684 St. . Joseh Co. Ind. 84, 312 39, 230 5,000,000 117. 4.7 5,873,600 69.66 *Terre Haute, 58,157 - - Vigo Co. Ind. 87,930 19,000 5,450,000 107.17 5,841,000 66.43 * Des Moines, 86,368 - Polk Co. Towa, 110,438 31, 554 7,964, 100 115. 70 9, 214, 500 83. 44 * Detroit, 465, 766 Wayne Co. Mich. 531,591 302,477 73, 313,400 I 10. 30 80, 865,000 lb 2. 12 (*) Results given for Entire County. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-60 * *J º, 7 // 3 TREASURY DEPARTMENT - Editors : For Immediate Release. Of Vital BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Importance to Government. Please LIBERTY LOAN give Widest possible circulation. CHICAGO DISTRICT. THE JOB ONLY HALF DONE. Victory Won--and the Job Half Done : Glory perched on the Stars and Stripes. Immortality set as a halo on the brows of the conquering Americans. By vote of the French Parliament this proud tribute inscribed on the walls of every school in France for the inspiration of all French children for ever: . "PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE AMERICAN NATION, TH ALLIED NATIONS AND THE MEN WHO HAVE LED THEM DESERVE WELL OF HUMANITY... " But the Job is only half done. The job will not be done until the last American on foreign soil has been borne home in triumph to his grateful countrymen. The American soldiers in France have a right to be restored promptly to the blessings and privileges of American citizenship. It is true they went overseas to fight for us, to carry the Starry Flag to glorious victories at Cantigny, Dormans, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and Sedan. -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * it by the patriot heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill. It is true they have cºſm- pleted their job--of fighting, suffering, dying for the American ideals of Right and Liberty. But how about us who stayed at home Let's Finish the Victory at home, as they finished the job over there. The Government is spending about $2,000,000,000 a month--paying the bills that had to be incurred to make the Victory possible. Most of the money raised by the first four Liberty Loans has been used up, but the boys still are in Europe. Every man of them has a right to the best of food, clothing, care and recreation. The plainest rule of gratitude and fairness dictates that We must give the best We have to men who offered their lives so gloriously for us and the nation. - The Government must raise billions more money to pay the bills and bring home all the conquering Americans and relieve the sufferings of Allied peoples. There will be a Fifth--a Victory Loan--Sometime in the Spring. To meet the just demands of the Government, to pay our bills honestly, to show gratitude to the brave men who have fought out the fight against barbarism, Every American must get ready to subscribe liberally for the next Loan. The only way to do it is to SAVE. Do not waste a cent. Put every spare nickel into the Bank. Buy Thrift Stamps with every spare quarter. Buy War Savings Stamps with every $4.23 you can save from your living expenses. Then you will be ready to subscribe for the Fifth Loan. Victory is Won: Now let’s work to pay the bills and finish the job. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-63 A/J *//7 * > TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF PUBLICITY, To ditors. It is urgently LIBERTY LOAN recommended that you make such CHICAGO DISTRICT. use as possible of the following material. By so doing you will perform a valuable service to your readers and at the same time help the Nation’s financial program. There is every indication that Liberty Loan bonds, issued during the War, will greatly rise in value with the establishment of pea C6. In 1888 a $100 United Stºes bond, bearing a per cent interest, sold in the Op. 611 market for $130. In 1901 it brought more than #139. The most con- servative will agree that Liberty bonds are sure to go above par in value, now that the Allies have brought the War to a victorious end. The Shrewd and unscrupulous, the birds of prey in finance, realize the Worth of Liberty bonds, and are using every effort to secure them from Their favorite method is to hose who are uninformed in financial matter offer stock in Wildcat companies -- - 1.1, … . – in exchange for Liberty bonds. Some of these get rich-quick schemers offer to lend their prospective victims money, tº buy the goldbrick Stock, taking bonds as security . This, of Gººse : is only a thinly dis - guised attempt to obtain Liberty bonds for worthless stock. The United States owns some 5,000,000 acres of oil lands and º,000, coo acces of coal lands, the title to which belongs to the Federal Government. Since all owners of Liberty bonds are part owners of this Government, it would be palpably foolish them to exchange their Liberty bonds for oil or coal stocks of doubtful value. - Before disposing of his ºna ºr there of Would do Well tº O a banker. Such consultation will not, prosper º fake Stock concerns, but it certainly will prosper ºne pena holder. LL 25 TREASURY DEPARTMENT //J - - - BUREAU CF ºf ICITY - *//7 Editors : Rºn SE ANY TIME AND GIVE LIBERTY LOAN / º - WIDEST POSSIBLE PUBLICITY. CHICAGO DISTRICT. - Liberty Loan subscribers who are paring down their expenses to pay installments on their pledges ought to realize that performing an important work for their own permanent benefit as well as a patriotic duty. The prosperity that everybody in America hopes for when peace comes will be made much more certain and general because of the universal distribu- tion of Libert, bonds in the hands of the people. It is possible that the government borrowings will call for annual interest payments of $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 a. . All this money will be paid to buyers of Liberty bonds. It will come in like "finding money", every six months, to gladden those who have bought the war loans. In fact, shrewd financiers in the big cities, foresee that the training in economy now being taken by milions of small subscribe. s to the Liberty loans, will have a definite and lasting ef. fect on the success of their lives • Leroy A. Goddard of Chicago put the matter in this way: "As a general proposition, experience has shown that one of the best methods of saving money to go in debt for a ea ºf able investment, such as a home, a mortgage or a ... and then gradu- ally liquidate the debt by regular payments from earnings and savings. To anticipate the payments on such an obligation is an incentive for saving, and in time the home, mortgage or the bond become an invest- ment clear of debt. - millions of ºries, alºn. have purchased and entered into a pledge to pay for Liberty Bonds on the installment plan from future earnings. The self-denial which they must practice to law. will in time make them owners of a fully paid up bond. They will then have served their country in its time of need and added to ºn and ºlº S. by a safe, income paying investment, - in fact the strongest and safest investment in the world, and one which will gradually increase in value. - "Do not sell your Liberty Bonds; keep them, and avoid putting your money into uncertain investments." ############### II. 891. TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release - CHICAGO BISTRICT . BY SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE HOUSTON: The Fourth Liberty Loan will not fail for lack of support of American Farmers. That is the answer I am giving to those who ask me what the response of the American Farmer will be . I am making this con- fident assertion in the face of the fact that the American People are now being asked to make a colossal soarination to Liberty Six Bil- lion dollars. American Farmers have demonstrated their patriotic support of the nations great war loans. One of the most striking features of the 3rd Liberty Loan was the support given you by the farming and rural populations. Not only did farmers purchase liberally of tee bonds, but the rural communities as a rule …yºut in completing their quotas than the larger cities. More than twenty thousand com - munities in the United States subscribed or oversubscribed the r quo- tas, many of them on the first day of the campaign. The majority of these were not cities but country districts . Iowa, a typical agricultural state, was the first to subscribe it 's susta. - But we now have a greater effort to make . Our largest war loan has been launched. It will tax our determination to defend our Liberty and our republic at all costs. Qur armies in the field are fighting victoriously. The forces at home are now in an offensive that must not fail. Let us buy interally bonds that we may attain our ºbjective, a righteous and lastine world peace. * , , , , , , , , , , , , º//7 A 7 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Eurº or pºorly A * 3 raisers. LIBERTY LOAN For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. (PLEASE GIVE AS WIDE CIRCULATION AS POSSIBLE.) Practically all the victories of the Allies from the first stand on the made in 1914 to the surrender of Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria may be condensed into the word "Hold " warshan Joffre's order of Sept. 5, 1914 commanded the French troops to hold every inch of ground occupied and die in their tracks rather than yield. At Chateau Thierº y last July the same prin- in governed ths American Marines and infantry. "Hold : " That is the word for Liberty bond subscribºrs. F. C. Wetmore, President of the First National Bank of Chicago sums up the case in this way: "The people responded most loyally and liberally in their subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Loan. Unless the purchasers now hold and pay for their bonds their ac- tion in buying has been of little benefit. ºvery pur- - - - - - - - - percent must save a ca, his ºne ºn has in addition that grand and glorious feel- ing of being the ºwner outright of the most choice invest- ment in the world." A. sues . . who keeps his payment pledge wins a real Marne vic tory over to "quit". A subscriber who fails, needlessly, suffers a terrible mo an area. - # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-893 Aſ ſº, 7 A *2 TREASURY DEPARTMENT * - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: Please make special effort to use LIBERTY L0AN this Educational matter on Liberty CHICAGO DISTRICT. Bond Coupon clipping and W. S. S. investment of interest money. Many thousands of Liberty Bond buyers in the 7th District turned "coupon clippers" on November 15---interest day for the 2nd 4% and converted 44% Liberty Bonds. The War has made "bond capitalists" of great numbers of workers and people whe formerly regarded "investment" as a thing beyond their reach. By subscribing to the Liberty Loans they have taken a permanent place in the finances of the government and, if they are wise, they will derive increasing benefit thereby . The great importance of saving, and not vesting, the interest money re- ceived on cºupons is clearly explained by F. R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director for Michigan of sales of Government Securities. He said: tº ſº siala tablesºiº - the coupon clipper shall add the amount of ºn. interest . the ... . . . …, day. Any man who fails to do this loses the magic of 'compound interest” and fails to get the most out of his investment. Therefore every Liberty Bond coupon ought to be immediately invested and not blown in for cigars or other foolishness. "The Government makes it easy to invest Liberty Bond coupon. U. S. Thrift Stamps at 25 cents apiece may be bought at any post office or bank. Sixteen of these stamps accompanied by an 'exchange fee' of 22 cents will amount to $4.22 cents, º which the Government will give a lar Savings Stamp redeemable for $5. in 1923. into make the matter clear: If you have a gico Liberty Bond of the Gon- verted Second Loan you will have a coupon worth $2.13. Add 12 cents, take the $2.25 to the º and buy nine Thrif a stamps. Pastº ºn sº on your Thrift card with the seven you already have, adding 22 cents for the exchange and you will receive a $5 War savings . Thus, you make 78 gents clear by the transaction. "In other words : Clip your coupons and is a ºne interest money to the United States Government by investing in Thrift Stamps." # # # # # # # ### LL-20 Aſ TREASURY DEPARTMENT 2// 7 - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY A a ºr S : RELEASE ANY TIME AND GIVE LIBERTY LOAN ºf d - WIDEST POSSIBLE PUBLICITY. CHICAGO DISTRICT. - - - Liberty Loan subscribers who are paring down their expenses to pay installments on their pledges ought bo realize that performing an important work for their own permanent benefit as well as a patriotic duty. The prosperity that everybody in America hopes for when peace comes will be made much more certain and general because of the universal distribu- - - - - - - tion of Liberty bonds in the hands of the people. I. is possible that the government borrowings will call for annual º payment. of $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 a year. All this money will be paid to buyers of Liberty bonds. I+. will come in like "finding money", every six months, to gladden those who have bough the war: loans. In fact, º financiers in the big cities, fore see that the training in economy now being taken by millions of small subscriber s to the Liberty loans , will have a definite and lasting ef- fect on the success of their lives: Leroy A. Goddard of Chicago put the matter in this way: was a general proposition, experience has shown that one of the best methods of saving money tº go in debt for º able investment, such as a º, a mortgage or a bond, and then gradu- ally liquidate the debt by regular payments from earnings and savings. To anticipate the payments on such an obligation is an i.e., iv. º. saving, and in time the home, mortgage or the bond become an invest ment clear of debt. *Millions of American citizens have purchased and entered into a pledge to pay for Liberty Bonds on the installment plan from future earnings. The self-denial which ºne. must practice to save will in time make them owners of a fully paid up bond. They will then have by a safe, income paying investment, - in fact the strongest and safest investment in the World, and one which will gradually increase in value. "Do not sell your Liberty Bonds; keep them, and avoid putting your money into uncertain investments." ########################### I.L. 891. - Aſ TREASURY DEPARTMENT º 7. sº or pºrº, ºf Editors : T.IEERTY I,0AM For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. (PLEASE GIVE AS WIDE CIRCULATION As POSSIBLE.) Practically all the victories of the Allies from the first stand on the Marne in 1914 to the surrender of Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria may be condensed into the word "Hold!" Marshall Joffre's order of Sept. 5, 1914 commanded the French troops to hold every inch of ground occupied and as a their tracks rather than yield. At Chateau. Thierry last, July the same prin- *iple governed the American Marines and infantry. "Hold' " That is the word for Liberty bond subscribers. E. O. Wetmore, President of the First National Bank of Chicago sums up the case in this way: "The people responded most loyally and liberally in ºne. subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Lean. Unless the purchasers now hold and pay for their benas their ac- tion in buying has been of little benefit. Every pur- chase herefore to make his loyalty and * una, a per cent must save and pºly for a bonds, When he or she will have in addition that ºrana and ºu. feel- ing of being the owner outright of the most choice invest- ment in the world." A subscriber who keeps his payment pledge wins a real Marne vic tory over temptation to ºn. A subscriber who fails, needlessly, suffers a terrible moral defeat. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-893 - Aſ Tºmasuny DEPARTurnt ºf BUREAU OF PUBLICITY // ? - ITORS: The purpose of this official LIBERTY - L0AM - statement is to encourage CHICAGO DISTRICT. - housewives in the rigid e- conomy that is necessary to meet payments on the Fourth Lib- erty bond pledges. - Meeting Live tº pledges often falls on the housewife, as general manager of the family income and outgo. The º may be well-paid and na. but it fails on the woman as the monitor of the home to handle the income in the way of prudence. Upon her rests the "making of the budget" which insures the most effective possible use of the "pay envelope". And, very often in her centers the keen sense of responsibility for Liberty bond ºs. - Miss Grace piºn, Federal Reserve Director for Women, has issued the following appeal to encourage all domestic "business managers" in this vital patriotic duty : "Thousands of women throughout the Seventh Federal Reserve District bought bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan. They bought in a spirit of patriotic service and sacrifice of the Fourth Liberty ... . . . ... …, it. ... a. necessity', affect the a nºne ºne and the glory of ºna. sacrifice. &nder no consideration trade in your Liberty Bond for merchandise. You knºw you lent the money yºur bond represents for those who are willing to sacrifice their lives, in turn, fºr humanity. Also, do not neglect to complete payments on bonds for which you have subscribed. The country is counting on the dollars you have pledged. Do not fail your country at the time of test." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-899 Aſ º//7 //e 1 RHASURY DEPARTMENT 3UREAU OF PUBLICITY EDITORS: Publication of these suggestions by LIBERTY L0AM practical bankers might be of bene- CHICAGO DISTRICT. fit in maintaining the "carry on." spirit of Liberty bond subscribers, who are making partial payments from wages and current savings. The new "social ideal" is community service. That an enterprise is conducted by private individuals, for profit on their invested capital, does not lessen the obligation to serve. Bankers exercise functions of the highest responsibility and importance to the people. They perform their work with great fidelity and skill and in consequence enjoy to the highest degree the confidence of the public. This sense of responsibility for wide community service is expressed in a rather novel way by President John D. Cuddihy of the First National Bank of Calumet, Mich. , with reference to the keeping of Liberty bond pledges. Mr. Cuddihy writes: "We have instructed the officers and clerks in this Bank to insist upon payments every pay-day from subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan, to continue to educate our patrons to this plan of paying up for all Liberty Loan subscriptions as soon as possible, and to HOLD THE BONDS after all payments are made. - "The writer, as Chairman of the local district for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, worked, with other members, on those lines. Our salesmen were instructed to impress the purchaser of bonds that while advances would be made by the banks to carry the bonds, it is only for a short period and that each subsºibe sºlºss tº complete payments within a given period". James Couzens, President of the Highland Park State Bank (Highland, Mich.), says: - "I he millions of individuals who subscribed to the Fourth Liberty bonds and have made initial payments either under the Government plan or under some other deferred payment plan have committed themselves to certain obligations. I am earnestly in the hope that every individual will realize this is an ear- nest obliga ion the same as though he signed a note or prºmised to pay in any other business transa ºtion. Nº one appreciates more than I do what this means to our cºuntry as a whole, be cause unless our millions of citizens who have signed this agreement tº purchase Fourth Liberty bonds realize their obli- gations, our whole country will be discredited. The word must not be pass d that our people do not mean what they say. I hope our citizens will realize that this has been the one great opportunity for them to save and to put up an as set for emer- gency and for old age which they rever had an opportunity of do- ing before. I hope that they will not exchange these bonds for merchandise or other thing , because unless they are willing to make sacrifices to preserve this wonderful security, they will find themselves loaded up with things they do not need and with unsafe and fake investments.” - # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-898 ſ//7 Aſ J a zºº TREASURY DEPARTMENT Editors: The following copy, which is issued BUREAU OF PUBLICITY for immediate release, is of import- LIBERTY LOAN ance to the Government, 's financial CHICAGO DISTRICT. - program. By publishing it you will be assisting very materially in that program. Pointing out that the monetary requirements of the Government are greater and more pressing now than ever before, the Secretary of the Treasury has issued a statement in which he calls upon every person in the Seventh Federal Reserve District to buy War Savings Stamps to the limit. Only by borrowing from the public can the Government's huge bills be paid; hence the drive for the "war savies." The Secretary’s message follows: "I most earnestly urge upon you that your organization make every possible effort to the end that pledges for the purchase of War Savings be fulfilled before the close of the year. The Government's monetary requirements were never greater nor more pressing than they are today. Expenditures for Nºvember Wºrs ºver theºsiº periºd- These expenditures growing out of the war must be met by borrowing from the people and the r magnificent response heretofore to the Government's requirements makes me confident that they will not fail to continue their support to the end that all payments resulting from War necessities Will be promptly met. "Much remains to be done. Our brave troops must be maintained and paid until their work is fully accomplished and they are ºu. tº 0 their homes. This is not a time for us to relax our efforts ... the Treasury Department is making plans for larger and even more important work during the coming year. Please make every effort to bring this statement before the people in your district and to ºrge ºn them the continued holding of their War. Savings certificates, the fulfillment of their pledges and additional purchases as their me ns permit." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-64 *** * * ******* ******* *** * * * * * * * *- ºr º/7 - A yº TREASURY DEPARTMENT - Editors: For Immediate Release. Of Vital BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - Importance to Government. Please LIBERTY LOAN give Widest possible circulation. CHICAGO DISTRICT. THE JOB ONLY HALF DONE. Victory Tom--and the Job Half Done Glory perched on the Stars and Stripes. Immortality set as a halo on the brows of the conquering Americans. By vote of the French Parliament this proud tribute inscribed on the walls of every school in France for the inspiration of all French children for ever: . "PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE AMERICAN NATION, TH ALLIED NATIONS AND THE MEN WHO HAVE LED THEM DESERVE WELL OF HUMANITY... " But the Job is only half done. The job will not be done until the last American on foreign soil has been borne home in triumph to his grateful countrymen. The American soldiers in France have a right to be restored promptly to the blessings and privileges of American citizenship. It is true they went overseas to fight for us, to carry the Starry Flag to glorious victories at Cantigny, Dormans, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and Sedan. It is true they added to American history a radiance as brilliant as that shed over pleted their job--of fighting, suffering, dying for the American ideals of Right and Liberty. But how about us who stayed at home Let’s Finish the Victory at home, as they finished the job over there. The Government is spending about $2,000,000,000 a month--paying the bills that had to be incurred to make the Victory possible. Most of the money raised by the first four Liberty Loans has been used up, but the boys still are in Europe. Every man of them has a right to the best of food, clothing, care and recreation. The plainest rule of gratitude and fairness dictates that we must give the best We have to men who offered their lives so gloriously for us and the nation. The Government must raise billions more money to pay the bills and bring home all the conquering Americans and relieve the sufferings ºf Allied peoples. There will be a Fifth--a Victory Loan--Sometime in the Spring. To meet the just demands of the Government, to pay our bills honestly, to show gratitude to the brave men who have fought out the fight against barbarism, Every American must get ready to subscribe liberally for the next Loan. The only way to do it is to SAVE. Do not waste a cent. Put every spare nickel into the Bank. Buy Thrift Stamps with every spare quarter. Buy War Savings Stamps with every $4.23 you can save from your living expenses. - Then you will be ready to subscribe for the Fifth Loan. Victory is Won: Now let’s work to pay the bills and finish the job. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-63 ºr TREASURY DEPARTMENT - ſ/? - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY A * > . Edit, or S : LIBERTY LOAN - For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. An interesting analysis of the figures in the Fourth Liberty Loan covering communities of 50,000 or more population has been made by the statistician of the Seventh Federal Reserve District, J. J. Sheehan. The figures were obtained from the agencies in charge of sales with the exception of Chicago and Cook county in which the subscribers and the amount of the subscriptions were approximated. In the percentage of quota subscribed Saginaw, Mich. , led with 157.06. Second in the percentage column was Springfield, Ill., with 128. 24. The third on the list was South Bend, Ind. , and St. Joseph county with 117.47, but Grand Rapids, Mich. , was a close fourth with 117. 34. Des Moines, Ia , , and Polk county got fifth place, having a percentage of 115. 70. Then came Chicago and Cook county with 113. 75. Statistician Sheehan estimated that the number of subscribers in Chicago and Cook County totaled one million. The total estimated amount subscribed in Chicago and Cook County was $287,000,000 against a quota of $252, 300,000. - Other communities of 50,000 or more and their percentage subscribed were as follows: Milwaukee, Llo. 78; Detroit, Mich. , and Wayne County, ll). 30; Terre Haute, Ind. , and Vigo County, 107.17; Peoria, Ill. , 106.46; Indianapolis and Marion County, 104.57; Fort Wayne, Ind., and Allen county, 103.97. In the following table the statistics show the population, number of sub- scribers, the quota of the communities, the percentage of quota subscribed, the total amount of subscriptions and the amount per capita subscribed: SUBSCRIPTIONS. L. 9, 1 O NO OF % OF QUOTA Total Amount per CITIES FOFULATION SUBSCRIBERs: Sºsº Amount Capita- ------- - - T -- **** ------ Peoria, †ll. 66,950 26, 500 $ 4,917, 100 106.46 ft 5, 234, 950 $78.19 Springfield, Ill. 51,678 24,000 3,404, 600 128. 24. 4, 366, 200 84. 49 Grand Rapids, Mich. 112, 57.1 54; 892 9, 137,000 ll 7. 34 10, 720,900 95. 24 Saginaw, Mich. 50, 510 15, 119 2,700,000 157.06 4, 240,600 33.96 Milwaukee, Wis. 373,857 120,000 28,440, 970 110. 78 31, 505, 500 84. 27 * Chicago, 2, 185, 283 - Cook Co. Ill., 2,405, 233 1,000,000 252, 300,000 ll 3.75 287,000,000 ll 9. 32 * Fort Wayne, 63,933 Allen Co. Ind. 93,386 40,000 7,600,000 103.97 7,901,600 84 - 61 * Indianapolis, - 233,650 Marion Co. Ind. 263,661 130, 135 23,400,000 104 . 57 24,468, 700 92.80 * South Bend, - 53,684 St . Joseh Co. Ind. 84, 312 39, 230 5,000,000 117. 47 5,873,600 69.66 *Terre Haute, 58,157 - Vigo Co. Ind. 87, 930 lº ,000 5,450,000 107.17 5, 841,000 66.43 * Des Moines, 86, 368 Polk Co. Iowa. 110,438 31, 554 7,964, 100 115. 70 9, 214, 500 83. 44 * Detroit, 465, 766 Wayne Co. Mich. 531, 591 302,477 73, 313,400 | 10.30 80,865,000 152, 12 (*) Results given for Entire County. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-60 Aſ J TREASURY DEPARTMENT º/7 Editors : Immediate release of this BUREAU OF PUBLICITY 64.3 matter With urgent invita- LIBERT1 LOAN - tion to circulate widely. CHICAGO DISTRICT. Your help is needed to stay the Wave of apathy which threatens to dim the glory of the American arms. American Marines and Soldiers held for three mortal days on the Marne at Chateau Thierry against the picked troops of the German army. Did they quit the mo- ment the Germans turned back and tried to find a place to dig in . No they did not. They went right on fighting the German rear guard. They drove them until the retreat turned into a desperate rout. And they kept right on chasing them, first at one point and then at another until they had cleaned them out of the valley of the Meuse and the forest of Argonne, and the town of Sedan. Then came the German Surrender —- the most abject and rushing fall in all the annals of warfare. In plain language, the American troops operated on the good American rules of the game: "Keep your eye on the ball. Follow through. Play the game right and play it to the finish." Of course, they won. They couldn’t lose playing the tragic game of War that way. - Now there is a parallel calling for the same method of play. The American Expeditionary Forces went abroad to fight, to be wounded, to be killed, if necessary--fully determined to carry out their pledge of Victory. What was the direct pledge of the American people to those men? The con- tract was not all on the shoulders of the troops. The nation had to take One side of the contract. The American people assumed the solemn obligation to back up the fight- ers with money, arms, supplies, medical, moral and social maintenance. The Army in France took a contrº ct to fight. The Army at home took a contract to pa The Fighting Americans have made good on their contract. Now it is up to the people at home to pay the bills. That is why the Treasury is selling Anticipation Certificates covering next year’s Federal Taxes and discounting the subscriptions to the coming Fifth Loan. All the money raised on the previous four Liberty Loans has been spent and the bills have not been paid. Nearly all the American soldiers are over seas and it will cost many hun- dred millions to bring them back. Meantime, they must be fed and kept up to the scratch in appearance, health, morals, spirits and every other way. There is only one way to do it. This paying business takes grit. Every American must go right on saving as hard as before the armistice. save every nickle, every dime, quarter and dollar that can be spared from living expenses. Put savings into the banks, or buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Then when the time comes to subscribe for the Fifth Loan everybody Will be ready to carry out the contracts we have on hand. The soldiers won the Peace by fighting. We have the job of Paving for the Peace. Save and prepare for the Fifth Loan. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-61 *//7 A/ſ TREASURY DEPARTMENT / / 3 - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - To Editors : LIBERTY LOAN - Please give this all possible publicity. CHICAGO DISTRICT. "Hold tight to your Liberty bonds; they are the best investment in the World. Don’t let anyone induce you to sell them or trade them in for some other so-called 'security " . Keep your Liberty bonds and your Liberty bonds will keep you." The fore going in effect sums up the Warning and request, issued to every bondholder in t e United States through a message to the head of the Seventh Fed- eral Reserve Liberty Loan Orga ization in Chicago, from Willim G. McAdoo, then Sec- retary of the Treasury, and which, it is hoped, Will accomplish its purpose through dissemination by the press. The full text of the message follows: "Hold your Liberty bonds –- first , because they are the best invest- ment in the World, backed by every resource in the United States, and al- so because you have made sacrifices in order to buy them. Why turn over to someone else the contract you have entered into With the Government 7 "Hold them because, even though the War may be over, it has not yet been paid for. The Treasury Department must soon issue more bonds, the Fifth loan being planned for next April. Every sale now made by you makes future Government issues more difficult and more expensive. This expense must be borne by the people of the United States--therefore, why º - he 4. - tº "Hold them because the time may come when such an investment may prove to be a true friend in time of need--a guarantee against the fear of debt and insurance, against real hardship. "Hold them because the need for saving is not over . GOVERNMENT EX- PENSES ARE TODAY LARGER THAN AT ANY TIME DURING THE WAR. Our brave boys in Germany and France and Russia must be paid and fed and clothed and , when their work is over, transported home--back onto American soil. THEY HAVE NOT QUIT. WHY SHOULD YOUT "Hold your Liberty bonds instead of exchanging them for some other so-called security, because you know the Security of your United States bond and often cannot know the Worth of what is offered in exchange. The 'get-rich-quick’ crook is ready to steal your bonds away from you at the first opportunity. DON'T LET HIM. Don’t be swindled out of your bonds. "Hold them because of the interest they pay, because it is good business to do so. What good Will the idle pleasure or needless lux– ury bought today with the proceeds of your bonds be to you a year from now? Your bonds work for you, drawing interest day and night, weekdays and Sundays - "By all means HOLD YOUR BONDS. DON'T BE A QUITTER. BE A PATRIOT. "WILLIAM G. McAD00, "Secretary of the Treasury." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # /J TREASURY DEPARTMENT º/7 itors: This is a matter of keen interest, BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - to the public at the present time. LIBERTY LOAN ºf 3. We hope that you will give it the CHICAGO DISTRICT. - Widest possible publicity. THE FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN. Charles H. Schweppe, Federal Reserve Director of the Seventh District Liberty Loan Organization, Chicago, has issued the following statement regarding the Fifth Liberty Loan, which will be floated in the Spring. Mr. Schweppe judg- ng the matter in the light of very wide ºrience in the investment affairs, and as a Liberty Loan executive in previous successful campaigns, believes that the Fifth Loan will be floated without difficulty if the public can be made to under- stand that the Government must have large amounts of money to pay the Victory bills, bring the conquering American troops, and clean up the tremendous job of saving Freedom for the World. The official statement follows: "The next loan, which I think Will be the last, should be called the * Fifth Liberty Loan ' , as the advertising value of the term 'Liberty Loan is great and should not be discarded. I feel an intensive campaign in the spring will bring better results in the Seventh Federal Reserve District than selling bonds over the counter. "In the Seventh District. We Will probably use the same organization as before, and I thin we can count on each and every Liberty Loan worker to help out. When the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign was over it was not right for us to feel that our jobs were over. The Governor of Our Federal Reserve bank has sent out Word that he wished us to continue in of f ice. "I doubt if the Fifth Liberty Loan will be as hard to place as some anticipate. The money will be used to finance the task of bringing our men home from France and to pay War bills, and I cannot believe that there is a single representative of the Liberty Loan organization in the Seventh District who will not be ready to do his or her full share. "As to the kind of bond that may be issued, I feel a short-term bond–– say, five years--at a high rate of interest, exempt only from the normal income tax, would be more attractive than one with a lower rate of interest exempt from all Federal taxes. Such a bond would have more appeal and should be more popular. "I do not advocate having the banks throughout the country underwrit the next Liberty Loan because I am confident that the method used in the previous campaigns can again be used , provided the Treasury Department puts out a bond with attractive investment features. "There is a very large army of Liberty Loan Workers in the Seventh Federal District, and I hope the Treasury Department will recognize all those people by issuing to them a certificate in appreciation of their par triotic work. Such a certificate would be highly prized by every recipient. "People should fully realize that the United States is still maintain- ing a large army of occupation in Europe, and during the period of recon- struction Will have many large expenditures to make. We should all con- tinue to save what we can in anticipation of the next loan and be prepared to oversubscribe our quota. I believe the Seventh District had the largest number of subscribers of any Federal Reserve District in the Fourth Loan, numbering about 4, 300,000. To continue this very creditable record will be a distinct feather in our cap, and I believe the Seventh District can do it." # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-72 A/T Z/7 º żº TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF PUBLICITY, To Editors: It is urgently LIBERTY LOAN recommended that you make such CHICAGO DISTRICT. - use as possible of the following material. By so doing you will perform a valuable service to your readers and at the same time help the Nation’s financial program. There is every indication that Liberty Loan bonds, issued auring the War, will greatly rise in value With the establishment of peace. In 1888 a $100 United Stites bond, bearing 4 per interest, sold in the open market for $130. In 1901 it brough more than $139. The most con- agree that Liberty bonds are sure to go above par in value, now that the Allies have brought the ºr a victorious end. - The shrewd and unscrupulous, as of prey in finance, realize the worth of Liberty bonds, and are using every effort to secure them from offer stock in wildcat companies . . . . ..., valueless - in exchange for Liberty bonds. Some of ºne use. Schemers Offer to end ºr prospective victims money, ºne tº buy the goldbrick stock, taking Liberty bonds as security. This, of course, is only a thinly dis - guised º to obtain Liberty bonds for worthless stock. - The United States owns some ºcco coo acres of oil lands and 53,000,000 acres of coal lands, the title to which belongs to the Federal Government, since all owners of Liberty bonds are part owners of this gºvernº, it would be palpably foolish of them to exchange their Liberty bonds for oil or coal stocks of doubtful value. Before disposing of his bonds, ºne holder there of Would do Well to consult a banker. Such consultation will not prosper the fake stock concerns, but it certainly will prosper the a holder. T.T. - 25 ºr º/, / nº - BUREAU OF PUBLICITY HDITORS - LIBERTY LOAN - - CHICAGO DISTRICT This matter of late NººS is ºne highest importance to every Federal Tax payer in the Seventh District. - Please give it as much promiº encº - as Jour space will permit - - in C. Orie iºns Act will amount to cº- The ºn 1 due and payº ble le. lºna. These a must be in were made to provide means of payment ºne and business dits of the country, might lead to - To avoid this the U. S. Treasury provided a whereby all tax payers may supply ºn in with 3. ºne March 15 in - stallment of the Federal Revenue payment, ºn tº gºod it at ºne time. This done by offering 4. 3. direct obligation of the U. S. Treasury, a - The Banks and all private investors ºne - … may employ them - - - - - - bºying these Government Tax Anticipations Series - otherwise is is . . . . W& 1 tº nig the Government. current fu as are needed to ca, on the sense a pion operations - - - ſº the armistice There is no way to obtain this ºlºlºy. a cent by "borrºwing against the taxes" to be connected in This is one by ºne issue - sºciations. - - When March 15 rolls around the holder nº at his bank to pay his Federal taxes. He has on hand naturing certificates which the Government will accept at their face. Best of all the tax payer has been receiving Treasury checks for interest during the interiº be ſeen purchase and naturity "T" The Treasury reserves the right to allot a scriptions for series or to reduce subscriptions. No fixed amount is pres. a for the issu must be made either in Chicago Exchange, or in unexpired Certificates of the issue of August 20, 1918. To avoid possible high interest ºates new Me on when taxes fall due all corporations and individuals liable for Federal tº payments should purchase these 5 i is good business Tax Anticipation certificates. It is a patriotic duty an ºr 22 º/7 A * * TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY Editors: Please make special effort to use LIBERTY LOAN - this Educational matter on Liberty CHICAGO DISTRICT. Bond Coupon clipping and W. S. S. investment of interest money. Many thousands of Liberty Bond buyers in the 7th District turned "coupon clippers" on November 15---interest day for the 2nd aſ and converted 44%. Liberty Bonds. The War has made recas capitalists" of great numbers of workers and people who formerly regarded "investment" as a thing beyond their reach. By subscribing to the Liberty Loans they have taken a permanent place in the finances of the government and, if they are wise, they will derive increasing benefit thereby. The great importance of saving, and not wasting, the later. money re - ceived on coupons is clearly explained by F. R. Fenton, rea, a Reserve Director for Michigan of sales of Government Securities. He said: t; - - - - the coupon clipper shall add the amount of the interest to the principal each Coupon 'bond values' and ". isld tables' day . Any main Whº fails to a ºn loses the magic of 'compound interest” and fails to get the most out of his investment. Therefore ºvery Libº, Bond coupon ought to be immediately invested and not 'blown in for cigars of other foolishness. "The Government makes it easy to invest Liberty Bond coupons. U. S. Thrift Stamps at 25 cents a may be bought at any post office or bank. Sixteen of these stamps accompanied by an 'exchange fee” of 22 cents will amount to tº . . . which the Government will give a mar Savings same redeemable for $5. in 1923. "To make the matter clear: If you have a $100 Liberty Bond of the Con- verted Second Loan you will have a coupon worth $2.13. Add 12 cents, take the $2.25 to the post office and buy nine Thrift stamps. Pasta thºse on your Thrift Card with the seven you already have, adding 22 cents for the exchange and you will receive a es War savings stamps. Thus , you make º … clear by the transaction. "In other words: Clip your coupons and lend the interest mºney to the United sº Government, by investing in Thrift sº # # # # # # # # # # LL-20 ºf , A yº TRºſº DEPARTIENT - - BUREAL OF PUBLICITY Eğitors : LIBERTY IO.N. For immediate release. CHIC..GO DISTRIC'ſ. - INVEST ENT S Bºy. When a farmer buys a mortgage ch a neigº ºng farm he feels prºtty safe, bocause no knows what the land will produce and he knows the farmer who is work ºng the ºilº. land with the borrowed tº tal. Bºžº there are elements of danger that nº man can foresee. Drought nº ºne ºn 3 ºn the crop, compeº ang the her cºver to miss an interest payment the bºrrowe & may fall sick and ſº to woº the land. Something may happen to cance derºeciation of the prºperty, so that the tender cannot recover all the lºney he has loaned. Sach things have happened and that is why large investors follºw ºne principle of "distributing their investments" over as wide an area as possible. - - When you buy a LIBERTY º you buy ºn investreat that has a mortgage on nearly 3,000,000 square miles of the ºnerican Cºntinent, including lacka and tie islands of the sea. No drought ever hit all ºmerica at one ºme. The corn crop may fail. - - - - º - but the American iron, gold, coal, and copper crops never faii. A farmer may be unable to meet his mortgage interest, but Uncle Sam lovies taxes big enough to pay - - - º - º - all his interest and redeer. his mortgages. He has to do it. - If hº ºn to do it he ceases to be a respectable member of the family of nations. And if that ever should happen no ºve on this continent would be worth &rything at and No property except what can be carried a ºne pºcket Woºd be no ºn anything, The Sovereign lation is all that asures the value of any property or the safety of any individual. - No matter how safe a farm. morºsage rºy look to you, it is a nº. 1] on times less safe than A LIBERTY BOND, wº. the Constitution and the Congress of the Unite. states behind it . We raise enough farm prºduce in a single seasºn to pay off alſº the authorized Government bords and revo enough money left to rebuild from the ground up a city as big as Chicagº. He for safety, Hºvist tº LIBERTY BONDº- *- -- ############################ Aſ J º// 7 A ºf 2. REASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLIC ITY - Editors: LIBERTY LO N - For immediate release . CHICAGO DTSTIRT CT. On behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, fiscal agent of the United States Government in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, I desire to express sincere appreciat ion of the co-operation of the press of Michigan in making a great success of the Fourth Liber ty Loan campaign. The press was powerful in overcoming obstacles that arose in the course of the big drive for war funds, notably the peace talk, and at all times it worked effectively with the various county or ganizations in carrying the great mess ge to the people. 3. The handsome results obtained would not have been possible in. Michigan if the press had not co-ºrdinated the indefatigable efforts of the county chairmen and all other Liberty Loan workers, The part that the press ºf Michigan played in crowning the Fourth Liberty Loan cam- paign with success stands out as one of the brightest features of this - - º intensive & rive , Frederick R. Fenton, Federal Reserve Director of Sales for Michigan. - - - - - - Tapºstºy pººr . . . . . . . Bºu CF PUBLICITY // J º Tºtº, ERTY LCAN - - º, Immediate Release- cºſtſ. AGO DISTRICT º//7 The Bluejackets frºm great Lakes did wonderful work all over the seventh Federal Reserve district in the courth Liberºy Loan drive- For this effective coºperation credit is due the in ºiative of ººº- W.A., Moffett, Commanº- art of the great Lakes with the approval and sanction of Seº of the Navy Josephus Daniels. From the middle of September, in the period of preparation for the drive, to the last minute of Cct. le, seven units of Lieut- sousa's wonderful Great Lakes band, 31 men and a bandmaster in each unit, were covering the stºtes Of Illinºis, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. These bands frequeñº "“” ed" from three to eleven towns danº, are ºased with technical excellence º of - - the uniform everywhere. Only a man ºccustomed tº playing a wind instrument ** tein what endurance and morale this arduous program required. Many of ** ++ - - - - - - - - -- - in brasses" came back with lips in a most painful condition from the constant playing: But no complaints, Capt. Moffett's staff officer Lee & K. S. Goodman had direct command of these band activities with the executive assis ºnce of Chief Yeoman Earl # McHugh. When the crisis of the loan ºr ºld at the start of the third "sº aime band units were sent to Chicago arº they played and suburbs of the city. On Wednesday, oct. 16. **** in all º " with the approval of the Secre- tary of the Navy are of capt. Moffett's suggest on 2,000 sailors of the lºº and ºth regiments at Great Lakes were decailed to assist the captains and "º at ºne loop and outlying booths of the Sales organization. They were unº orders which ºr evented anything like direct salesmanship, but were permitted tº use persuasiºn as tº arouse enthusiasm among the thrones watching the "features" provideº º ºur eat! Chief Sam P. Gerson. The records show that ll,042 liversy bond sales making a total of - 979,859 were traceable directly to the efforts of the sailors during the thrºº says ºf their activity in the city. - - Not cºntent with this cooperatica. Capt. Moffett sent his sons Geºrge and William A. Jr. . *** and eight years of age, and in one day they were chief.” instrumental in sales ºf ººlºº ºf tº bºa, ºn the last day ºf * loan all º, ºffett's º ºsº ºn tº º ºne ºne tº and added ºcco tº the Chicagº ºn Janet, age 14, George, William, Charlº. " aree–year-ºlº and Betty, all wearing the regulation navy uniform added greatly tº the ºthusiasm and spirit ºf the "vind ºp”, To make ºne stºry tºlete it mºst be added that the Great Lºes - - - - º - ºr - - . . - - - - - * * ºut ºf ºne º Pº of £32.5, a montºn were patrº tº a erºgº to pay 2, Cºº . . . . tº bloºds. _ ºr *//7 A ºf TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF PUBLICITY - - Editors 2 LIBERTY T,0AM For immediate release. CHICAGO DISTRICT. - (Please give the widest possible Publicity in any form you can employ). Millions of subscribers to the Fourth Liberty Loan are now on their metºla. - They are face to the face with the job of completing their payments. It will take nerve, courage, and "staying power". It will take self-denial. Subscribing for the bonds, and making the first payment of 10 percent was a sign of loyalty to the Government and to the Army and Navy. - Keeping up the payments until the Liberty bonds are fully paid for-- that is the real test of mettle. Anybody is likely to be carried away by the fervor of a "revival meeting". It takes earnestness to live up to new principles for the rest of one's life. That is the real test. The same thing applies tº the duty of "making good" our pledges for the Fourth liber- ty bonds. From now until Jan. 30, 1919 a steady, sustained, effort to save and meet Liberty bond installments will indicate 24-karat patriotism and character. Every person who signed a Liberty bord application and made the initial payment assumed an obligation of honor. To neglect that pledge or to let the subscription lapse would be a shameful thing. No right minded person will fail to carry out his Liberty loan subscription pledge, unless actual disaster makes it necessary to shift the burden on someone else. What is the best way to take care of these Liberty bond subscription pledges? The best way is to make a "budget". Set down on a sheet of paper the exact amount of your weekly or monthly pay. Make a parallel column and set down the necessary items of your living Rent, 3..…. ; Groceries, $.......; Heat and light, 3...; LIBERTY BOND PAYMENTS, $........ (enough to meet the amounts when due). - - - Put the Liberty bond payment money right into the bank--every week or every moºth-- just as soon after pay day as you can. Then the money will be ready and waiting when the installments fall due Do not let anybody induce you to sell any Liberty bond you have paid for. Do not let anybody induce you to turn over your Liberty bond as "first installment on a piano", or any ſhing else. Have those Liberty bonds entered up in your savings bank bºok, and make an arrangement with your bank, if possible, to have the coupons clipped and added to your account. - Always deposit in your savings account, the interest money received for coupons cut off your Liberty bonds. In this way you enjoy compound in- terest and get ahead faster. - Every Liberty bond that is sold, throws a strain on some bank or on the Government. Every Liberty bond that is unnecessarily disposed of tends to divert money from the conduct of the war. And it deprives the owner of the benefits of his own self-denial and thrift. Therefore: If you want to keep peace with your own conscience and maintain your own self-respect take great care on all these points: 1--Set aside out of your pay the money needed to meet Liberty bond installments under your plan of payment. Put that, money in a bank. 2--Do not "lapse" on your Liberty bond subscription for any reason whatever, short of some absolute disaster. 3--Do not sell your Liberty bonds unless compelled by "dire necessity" to raise money; and then try to borrow on the bonds instead of selling them. 4.--Do not let anybody induce you to "trade in" your Liberty bonds for merchandise. Hang tight to all your Liberty bonds, and complete all the payments by brave and persistent saving, sacrifice and self denial. That is the way to get the utmost possible return from your financial and moral investment. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # LL-871 To the Editor– The attached proof represents local stories for your paper. They have been prepared under the direction of Frank R. Wilson, director of publicity of the War Loan Organization of the Treasury Department; and Labert St. Clair, assistant director of publicity. Connected with each Liberty Bond sale there are many things of a purely local character that represent excel- lent news stories for the community in which they are properly covered. It is with the idea of assisting you in covering these stories, or at least a part of them, that we have prepared the following as samples. The reading of these may suggest to you similar news stories, or if you are crowded for time these have been so written that by changing the names and figures printed in blackface they can be made to fit your community. The figures you will need in making these stories fit your community can be secured from either the Liberty Loan sales director for your town or one of your local bankers, and we are sure they will be glad to supply the figures for you. - The printing of these local news sto- ries in your columns will be of interest to your readers, in that they wiłł focal- ize the Liberty Loan campaign for them, and they will at the same time be of material aid in selling the quota of Liberty bonds assigned to your town. Through this means your paper can be of tremendous assistance to the government in your community, and we know you want it to be. The people of your community will find in a list of the people purchasing Fourth Liberty Loan bonds an unusual and interesting news feature. Such a list of names printed in the form out- lined in the following announcement will be both an excellent news story and a very great help in the bond sales campaign. If you do not wish to hold the type from which these lists are printed and issue a complete list at the end of the sales campaign you can omit the last paragraph of the third story. Trusting that you will find these of value to you in presenting the subject of the Fourth Liberty loan to your readers, I am, Very truly yours, h, ºn Director of Publicity. No. 1. OUR LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA Brownsburg Will Back Our Boys With More Than the $178,000 That Has Been Assigned Us. The quota for BROWNSBURG for the fourth Liberty loan has been fixed at $178,000. That is the amount our people are to buy of the total which must be sold if the government is to successfully finance, during the next few months, our part in the ter- rible conflict the kaiser and his hordes have brought upon the world. Of course the people of BROWNS- BURG are going to buy that amount, and the only question is how much more and how quickly are we going to do it? BROWNSBURG people are going at this bond-buying proposition in just the same way that our BROWNS- BURG boys are going at the Heinies in France. We are not going to wait until the fight is over before we get into it, and we are not going to stop at the fixed objective of $178,000 any more than our boys Stop When they reach the first German trench or Ger- man machine gun nest. We are going to put BROWNS. BURG dollars back of BROWNSBURG boys and let them work together so that in the end the “World may be a decent place to live in.” (Use this as soon as quota for your town can be secured from your local chairman or Sales director. It Will be news of real value to your readers.) No. 2. LIBERTY LOAN ORGANIZATION That for Jonesville Has Been Com- pleted and Its Personnel Assures Success. The JONESVILLE organization for the fourth Liberty loan has been com- pleted, and its personnel is sufficient to insure our going “over the top” very shortly after the sale begins, and very much over in buying the $92,000 quota that the government has assigned to uS. At the head of the organization as the JONESVILLE chairman is R. J. SULLIVAN, with E. L. DONNELLY as the sales director. These two men will be assisted by a small army of workers serving on several important committees covering various campaign activities, and different sections of the community. The readers of THE TIMES will be especially interested in knowing the names of those who are to assist in the work of putting JONESVILLE “over the top” on the fourth Liberty loan. The committees that have been named are composed of the following men and women: (Get names of committees from the town chairman. Every member of these committees will appreciate seeing his or her name in your paper in this connec- tion. Use the story as soon as organi- zation is completed.) . - No. 3. BOND BUYERS’ ROLL OF HONOR The Times Will Print the Names of All Purchasers in Aiken. The TIMES expects that Liberty bonds will be sold in every home in Aiken. Uncle Sam has apportioned to us the neat little sum of $129,000, and we are going to buy that much and In Ore. Every person who buys all the bonds he or she can is doing a real “bit” to- ward defeating the kaiser, and en- titled to the credit of doing it. Their names should have a place on the Aiken roll of honor, and the TIMES proposes to put them there. While we are confident every home in this community will be represented by at least one name in this roll of honor, we are in hopes that for very many of the homes the name of each member of the family will be included in the list. We should like to see this roll of honor contain the names of every man and woman, every boy and girl in AIKEN. - This roll of honor will be printed in the TIMES, and the only way to get on it is to buy at least one bond. We - do not propose to print the amount of bonds you buy, because that would be unfair to those who can buy only a small amount, and the person who can only afford to and does buy one $50 bond is entitled to just as much credit as the person who can afford to and does buy a much larger amount. The name of every real, 100 per cent American—and the TIMES be- lieves all of the people of Al KEN are that—will be found in this Al KEN roll of honor buyers. Beginning with the first issue after the sale of bonds opens the TIMES will begin printing the names of pur- chasers, giving in that edition all names that have been reported to the sales director up to the day before the paper is issued. Each following issue will contain additional names of purchasers, and this will be continued up to the time the sale closes and the names of all purchasers have been printed. - If you buy a bond and do not find your names in the issue of the TIMES following its purchase be sure to re- port it to this office at once as it would not be fair to our town to have the name of a single bond purchaser omitted. After the close of the sale we will print the complete list on one or more sheets in a form to be preserved and prized in every home in this commu- nity. Copies of these sheets should be sent to your friends and relatives, and especially to former townspeople as they will greatly appreciate them. Leave orders for the number of these you may want at the TIMES office be- fore the sale closes. (There is no local news feature that will create so much interest among your read- ers as this proposed list of bond buyers, and at the same time it will be of great- er assistance in selling bonds than any other single feature of the campaign.) No. 4. Follow up for bond buyer roll of honor announcement. HONOR ROLL OF BOND BUYERS The First List of Those of This Com- munity Who Have Subscribed for Fourth Liberty Loan. Following the announcement in THE TIMES that we would print the names of all those in AIKEN who pur- chase bonds of the fourth Liberty loan We are now presenting the first list of those entitled to a place on this roll of honor of bond buyers. Before the Sale closes and the list has been com- pleted we expect to see every family in Al KEN represented, because we do not believe there is a single family in the community that is not 100 per cent American, and because we do not believe there is a single individual in Al KEN who does not want his dollars to be used to support AIKEN'S boys who are today fighting the Huns in France. - If you have bought a bond and your name is not in this list be sure that you report the fact to THE TIMES office at once as it would not be fair to you or the community to have the name omitted. We know that in the end it will be a complete roster of the families in AIKEN, and will in many cases include the names of every mem- ber of the family. Those who have bought bonds are as follows: - (Insert here the list of names that may be secured from the Sales director or the banks, and you can make of this the biggest news story in point of local inter- est your paper can possibly carry.) No. 5. COMPLIMENTS TO THE KAISER Keokuk Can Pay Respects in the Form of Not Less Than 240 Sixteen-inch Shells. KEOKUK has the opportunity of paying its compliments to the kaiser in the form of 240 sixteen-inch shells to be delivered by KEOKUK boys now serving in France. One sixteen-inch shell costs Uncle Sam $1,000 when it is ready for Our boys to deliver to the Huns. Uncle Sam has fixed KEO KUK’S quota in the fourth Liberty loan at not less than $240,000, and we are going to buy that much and more. When we have done Our part We will have provided the 240 sixteen-inch shells for our boys to send on their way that they may add speed to the heels of the retreating Heinies. To think of Liberty bonds as shells gives us an idea of what we can do in this War. These KEO KUK shells can create a veritable hell in the ranks of a Hun army. They can carry death and destruction to those who have been responsible for the devas- tation of the world. They can destroy the trenches that are shielding the murderers of French and Belgian chil- dren, and the ravishers of French and Belgian women. They can destroy the machine gun nests of the Huns from which they are shooting our KEO KUK boys. They will, in fact, bring the war nearer to that victorious end for which we are all Waiting. Surely KEO KUK will pay for 240 and more sixteen-inch shells by buying its quota and more of the bonds of the fourth Liberty loan. (For use first week of sales campaign. It will give people of your community an idea of what their money will buy.) No. 6. GIVE THE BOYS RIFLES KANKAKEE'S Liberty Loan Quota Will Give Soldiers 4,000 Weapons That They Know How to Use. The American soldier swears by his rifle. Machine guns are powerful Weapons, hand grenades and trench bombs may be handy at times, but when it comes right down to real sure- enough fighting in the open, where the enemy can be seen, give the doughboy a rifle every time. The ease with which he can pot a leaping Boche at a hundred yards has amazed the sol- diers of the French and British armies. Give the Yanks time and rifles enough and they will drive straight through to Berlin. The boys will do the shooting, but it is up to those who stay at home to provide the rifles. KAN KAKEE must provide its share and it will do it by subscribing its quota and more of the fourth Liberty loan. Do you know what KAN KAKEE will be doing if it subscribes only the minimum quota of $100,000 that has been allotted to this city It will be putting rifles in the hands of 4,000 of the boys who are offering their lives in the cause of their country. Each rifle- used by the American soldiers costs the government $25. Every $50 bond that you buy will put two rifles in the hands of boys at the front—and may- be they will be KANKAKEE boys who are fighting your fight 3,000 miles away from home. KAN KAKEE will buy 4,000 rifles for the boys over there if it only sub- scribes its minimum quota of the fourth Liberty loan, but it will do more than that. Remember that every $1,000 over the quota subscribed means 40 more rifles for the boys who know how to use them. No. 7. - clothes, other cities must help supply LET’S CLOTHE THE BOYS MERRILL’S Quota of Fourth Liberty Loan Will Furnish Apparel for 1,574 Soldiers. Although MERRILL has helped do its part to furnish the boys that Uncle Sam needs to win the war, those of us who have not been called upon to fight must do our Share to see that these boys are not only supplied with the necessary implements of warfare, but that they are properly clothed and fed. We can do this only by lending our money to Uncle Sam in the form of buying Liberty bonds. - Every boy we have sent across, or to one of the training camps, before he is completely equipped in the way of clothing, needs an outfit which costs the government $63.51. MERRILL'S quota of the fourth Liberty loan, which amounts to $100,000, if it were all used to purchase clothing for our soldiers would equip 1,574 men with the apparel they need. While this is some 500 more than have answered the call to arms from this city, let us raise the money need- ed to clothe at least this number. Re- member that if all our money goes intº the funds for food, ammunition, guns, ships to send them across and all of the other expenses the war entails. There is a long and hard winter coming on and you do not want to feel that any MERRILL boy now in France and very likely in the trenches is go- ing to suffer because you have not done your very best in buying bonds to help raise the money necessary. Let's oversubscribe our quota so no one will have any reason to doubt MERRILL's patriotism. --- - No. 8. HELP BRING BOYS BACK Liberty Bond Purchases Will Help Protect Watertown Youths in the Trenches. As you walk along the streets of WATERTOWN any evening you prob- ably notice the absence of many faces which a year ago were quite familiar. Many of them—bright, ambitious, smiling young chaps—have quit the pursuits of civil life to don the armor of the soldier to help fight the battle for liberty and humanity. A number of them have already crossed the At- lantic and some of them are, no doubt, at this very moment in the front-line trenches or helping drive the Teuton forces back. Their smiles, we hope, have not disappeared but grim deter- mination has steeled their hearts to do their bit to wipe the last vestige of “Kultur” and Prussian militarism from the face of the earth. You and I want to bring these boys —every one of them safely back home. We want them back again as a part Of Our daily life, even if we cannot boast of a service flag in the window, denoting a vacant chair at the table. But before we can expect to see them again we must see that they are properly fed, clothel and furnished With the guns and ammunition to ac- complish the task they have set out to do. WATERTOWN'S quota for the fourth Liberty loan is $100,000, or 1,- 000 $100 bonds. If you will buy but two of these $100 bonds the money will place 5,000 machine gun rifle cartridges in the hands of some young American gunner—very likely a WATERTOWN boy. These cartridges will not only help to lessen the total of fighting Huns, but protect him from attack and make his return more sure. Make your contribution—no, not a contribution, just a loan—at least 5,- 000 cartridges. Then buy another $100 worth of bonds to make it 5,000 more. - No. 9. KEEP THE BOYS WELL FED Brownsville Can Do Its Part Only by Buying Its Share and More of Liberty Bonds. Is there a man, woman or child in BROWNSVILLE Who Would not Will- ingly go to bed hungry every night if it should be necessary in order that the boys who are fighting our battles 3,000 miles from home might have plenty to eat? Fortunately it is not necessary for any of us to go hungry ourselves, but it is necessary for us to see that the boys in khaki do not go hungry. Uncle Sam must have money to buy food for the soldiers and that is why BROWNSVILLE is asked to buy at least $75,000 worth of bonds of the fourth Liberty loan. There is a whole lot of satisfaction in the thought that BROWNSVILLE, by subscribing only its minimum quota of the loan, will provide food for 175,000 soldiers for a whole day or, figured in another way, it will keep 477 soldiers well fed for an entire year. These figures are based upon the government estimate of 43 cents a day as the cost of feeding a soldier in the American expeditionary forces in France. - If BROWNSV L-LE should fail to Subscribe its minimum quota of $75,- 000 of this loan, Some other community would have to do more than its share or some of the boys in France might go hungry. But BROWNSVILLE will do its share and more. We cannot fail if we think for a minute every time we sit down at the dinner table in our comfortable homes of the boys—our own boys—who are fighting and dying for us and for the safety of our homes. No. 10. SMOTHER THE HUNS Help Jonesville Go over the Top in a Real Gas Attack. The time is here for JONESVILLE to launch a gas attack against the Huns. The mere fact that JONES- VILLE is 3,000 miles from the fighting line doesn’t make a bit of difference. JONESVILLE is going to hurl tens of thousands of gas grenades at the heads of the barbarians who are fight- ing the forces of civilization in France. It is going to do it by subscribing its full quota and more of the fourth Lib- erty loan. Maybe you will dig into your pocket with greater joy when you stop to think that every 45 cents that you lend to Uncle Sam will put a gas grenade in the hands of one of the boys over there. JONESVILLE'S minimum quota for the fourth Liberty loan has been placed at $75,000 and if this amount only should be subscribed, JONES- VILLE will buy 166,666 gas grenades for the boys who know what to do with them when they get them. Can't you hear the Huns cry “Kamerad” when those 166,000 gas grenades are turned loose? - No. 11. WE WILL BUY MACHINE GUNS Our Town's Fourth Liberty Loan Sub- scriptions Will Pay for Many of These Weapons. No other single weapon used in the world war has proved so efficacious as the machine gun. Equally in offense and defense it has become indispensa- ble. When our boys dash forward against the Huns, they carry with them these deadly guns, setting them up at every pause to rake the ranks of the enemy. When our aviators fly over the German lines, for combat or for observation, each airplane must Carry one or more of these weapons. Thousands upon thousands of them are in use now, and more must be pro- vided in an unending stream. It is well for the people of LITTLE FALLS to fix these facts firmly in their minds, for they are about to buy a great number of machine guns with which the boys of this place, who are in the service, will shoot the kaiser's Soldiers full of holes. One light Browning machine gun costs the government about $125. Each resident of LITTLE FALLS who will lend the United States government $250 will know that he or she is paying for two of those weapons, and may be assured that those very guns will Soon be spraying with bullets the brutal Boches who are trying to ruin the World. The way to lend this money to the government—which means to yourself —will be open to each of you when the bonds of the fourth Liberty loan are put on sale. It will take only five $50 bonds to pay for those two machine guns, and if you cannot afford to take all five of them, the members of your household can combine to purchase that number. Then, when later you read about a bunch of the LTTLE FALLS boys lying in a machine gun nest in France beating back a counter- attack of the Huns, you can say : “Maybe they are using the guns our family paid for.” LITTLE FALLS has something like 4,500 population. Our Liberty loan director is informed that we must take at least $75,000 of the bonds of the fourth loan. That means that LITTLE FALLS will buy 600 light Browning machine guns to help make the world a decent place to live in. No. 12. BUY A BOND FOR A SOLDIER Lend Uncle Sam $50 and Put the Se- curity in the Bank for One of Our Fighters. Of the millions of young men now in the armed Service of the United States 268 went from PARKVILLE. We sent them away with cheers and blessings and socks and cigarettes, and we follow their fortunes with eager- ness and pride. But what else are we doing for these brave fellows? Many of them gave up lucrative positions to serve their country, and perhaps many of those who return will be mained by the bullets and bayonets of the Boches. - THE TIMES here and now Starts a “Buy a Bond for a Soldier” campaign. In all our city there must be many times 263 persons who can afford to buy each one a $50 bond of the fourth Liberty loan, and give it away. We propose to find enough of these pros- perous citizens to provide one bond for each PARKVILLE soldier, to be placed in the bank to his credit, so that on his return from the bloody battlefields of Europe he will get this gilt-edged security and the accumulated interest. It is not intended that this gift shall be in the nature of a charity, but a small testimonial from one who cannot fight for Uncle Sam to one who can and does, and the buyer is to name the soldier for whom the bond is bought. Who will be the first man or woman in PARKVILLE to buy a bond for a Soldier? (Do not use this until after opening of sales campaign on September 28. The use of it then will give your paper credit in your community for starting a good movement.) No. 13. (Follow up story for “Buy a Bond for a Soldier.”) BONDS FOR SOLDIERS POUR IN PARKVILLE Citizens Are Coming to the Front Liberally in Support of Practical Plan. The “Buy a Bond for a Soldier” cam- paign started by THE TIMES is meet- ing with the hearty indorsement of the citizens of our town, and already many bonds of the fourth Liberty loan have been deposited in the bank to the credit of the PARKVILLE boys who have gone “over there” or who are getting ready to go. The honor of be- ing the first man to carry out the sug- gestion of THE TIMES fell to M.R. FRANK WALSH, and the bond he bought is now in the bank vaults wait- ing for SERGT. HARRY BLACK to come home and claim it. M. R. WALSH was first only by an eyelash, for the suggestion hit the fancy of many men and women who are glad to do this bit in recognition of our brave soldiers. If you didn’t get in on this excellent scheme among the first, and think that because it is so popular each of our 263 PARKVILLE Warriors Will have a bond before you can join the crowd, don’t let this deter you. There is no reason on earth why any or all of these boys should not be given two or three or more bonds. The more the merrier for them when they come home to claim them. Remember, you are to designate the particular sol- dier for whom you buy the bond. Here are the names of the citizens of PARKVILLE who already have bought bonds for soldiers: No. 14. JOIN A DROP BOMB CLUB Each One Will Have Nine Members and Will Pay for Twenty Explo- sives to Blow Up Huns. Have you heard of the new fad in HARRISTOWN ? It is a part of the Fourth Liberty loan campaign, and is spreading like wildfire. All over the town Demolition Drop Bomb clubs are being formed. That sounds destruc- tive, and it is meant to be, for the Huns. Each club is limited to nine members, and each member buys one $100 bond of the fourth Liberty loan. This $900, lent to Uncle Sam, will buy 20 demolition drop bombs, the terrible explosives which our aviators drop on the trenches, billets, railways, supply trains and other military establish- ments of the Boches. Every bomb that finds its mark is guaranteed to blow to kingdom come everything in the vi- cinity. Moreover, the club members, many of whom are women, may rest assured that not one of the bombs they help to buy will ever be dropped on a Red Cross hospital, which is the habit of the gentle Hun whose favorite mark is a nurse or a helpless wounded soldier. Since there are but nine members to - a club, many citizens who desire and are able to take more than one bond are joining several clubs. It is pro- posed that some emblem of member- ship be adopted. This probably will be in the shape of a miniature bomb to be worn on the coat lapel. (Use this story after the sale opens on September 28. It will create favorable comment for your paper in your com- munity.) No. 15. SUPPORTING OUR BOYS Why Jackson Should Subscribe Its Liberty Loan Quota Quickly. We want to tell the people of JACK- SON and vicinity why they should sub- scribe the full quota of the fourth Lib- erty loan assigned to them. JACKSON and the country immediately surround- ing and tributary has sent 267 sol- diers into the Service of the United States. They are in the army, the navy and marine corps. They are fight- ing the battles of this country; of this community. JACKSON has a vital interest in winning this war; the same vital interest that every other part of the country has in preserving the honor and integrity of America and safeguarding humanity for all time. It costs in round numbers about $1,– 000 a year to maintain a soldier. To send that soldier overseas, clothed, armed and equipped for modern War- fare costs about $1,000 more, and con- - sequently the 267 men from JACKSON in the service of the United States cost the government $534,000. Isn’t that reason enough why we should subscribe our share to this Liberty loan 2 - Of course we have already furnished the men, but just remember we are not doing the fighting. The boys are in the trenches and facing the storm of German shot and shell on that long battle line in France. We people of JACKSON have something more to do besides proudly waving our flags as our boys go to the front. We've got to help pay for keeping them at the front. They are making the Supreme sacrifice. We are only required to make a sacrifice in money. Hold on, a bit Is it a sacrifice to buy a gov- ernment bond 2 Not a bit of it. The only sacrifice is in using the money that you have or the money that you can get in the next few months to buy a bond, the best in the world, and which will pay you good interest on your investment. - JACKSON is going to subscribe her quota all right. We know that. But let's do it quick and get into the honor roll like a lot of other cities and towns did on the last loan. Let's make a record that will put JACKSON on the map.