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Show POSTERS WILL 1 WAR LOAN DRIVE Patriotic Appeals to Help in Campaign for Third Liberty Issue. WASHINGTON, March 10. Posters proclaiming the third LiU-rty loan in striking phrases and colorful designs nine million of them in more than a dozen eiyle are now being distributed to every city and hamlet or the United States. They are the silent sales amenta of the bond.-i, and their preparation has taken months of pkuminw and areful rhuosing. Hardly had tin; n.-ond Uoc-rtv loan carn-p.iln carn-p.iln Ho.d before t:ie country's foremost arLi.-.tH j.nd d-fsin;i u er; Invited to oO to work on potsi-s for the third loan. The result is a collection of striking posters. connider-d ariisi.ic.-iHy and psychologically psy-chologically hi; tier than any yet attempted In th'; two previous loan drives. Soon they will hf familiar Hilits in tore win-doivfi, win-doivfi, uii hsllhoardH atui all pubii: place?. In addition, o.'juo. window fiiifk:rs, ft.OOO.OiO poHter stamps and It3,jf0,0.l) hadnr.-s have oepn ordered and wdl be radv for the opening (lav of the campaign. Some of the dMiiersi of the Liberty loan posters are Jbward Chandler Christy, Chris-ty, Joseph Pennell, J. Leyendecker, Sydney Riesenberg, Herbert: Pa us, Henry Raltiigh and Sydney . S. Siern. All con-t con-t rlbuted their work without pay, and "-ores of other artists submitted designs which were reluctan t ly rejected. Popular appeal, waa considered carefully in the final rhoire, "We rnut reaeh all kinds and classes of persona," treasury officials reminded Lhemselves continually. They hope to grip the heart-strings a nd equally the purse strings of the youtiff and old, the city and country bred, the native American Ameri-can and the adopted alien. One of the most striking posters that of Joseph Pennell of Philadelphia, marine artist portrays a great battleship along-wide along-wide wharves bustling with war-time ac-tivity ac-tivity motor trucks, swinging cranes and smoking Htucks, with airplanes overhead, ft is executed in etching ntyle, and ihe title uhsfTlbed Is : "Provide the Sinews of War; Buy Liberty ponds." Howard Chandler Christy contributed a Ft ir ring design. A slim, young modernized modern-ized i J odd ess of Liberty waves aloft an American banner, and, with outstretched arm, points to a file of soldiers marching past. "'Fight or Buy Bonds," is the title. A poster which will arrest instant attention at-tention shows a fiteel-helmeted American soldier springing from a trench and bearing bear-ing a billowed American flag. "Over the Top for You Buy U. S. Government Bonds Third Liberty Loan," is the message mes-sage it carries. The work was done hy Sydney Riesenberg. The fact that many naturalized Americans Ameri-cans contributed largely to the success of the first and second Liberty loans has been recognized, and one of the posters was planned particularly for distribution in the foreign language sections of the cities. A sturdy immigrant, with his wife and boy, are seen in the foreground, with flag hehind. and the words of advice are: 'Remember the Flag of Libertv. Support It. Buy U. S. Government Bonds." The Lincoln poster has attracted much attention in advance of its general publication. pub-lication. It shows a bronze tablet with a baa relief of the martyre- president, the quotation from his Gettysburg address: "So that government by the people, of the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." The words, "Buy Liberty Bonds," have been added. "Halt the HunV is the watchword proclaimed pro-claimed by another poster, showing a stalwart American soldier smiting " the helmeted figure of the enemy about to seize a crouching woman with her child Henry Raleigh drew the design in eravon, with a buff background streaked with red flames.. |
