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Show Reproduction a Failure. WASHINGTON, April 22. In every American home with a talking machine, a Liberty loan speech by Secretary McAdoo was to be a feature of the present bond-selling bond-selling campaign. Weeks ago Mr. McAdoo Mc-Adoo made the speech In the privacy of his office with a virgin wax record as audience. Manufacturers of the record arranged to sell it at a nominal price as a patriotic duty and publicity managers neraiaea tne speecn. But the record did not appear, and investigation in-vestigation today showed that Mr. McAdoo Mc-Adoo had a severe cold the day the speech was made, and manufacturers declined de-clined to reproduce a record that was hoarse. |