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Show IlELS FlffiT If III IE Secretary Subscribes $5000 and Pledges Active Sup- port of Navy. By Universal Service. WASHINGTON', March 30. With the patriotic slogan, "Match the navy," and a subscription of $5000, Secretary of the Xavy Daniels has vron the distinction of having fired the first gun in the forthcoming forth-coming Victory loan campaign. Although the drive does not officially begin until April 21, Secretary Daniels, it was learned today, made his subscription subscrip-tion to the loan oa tne eve of his departure de-parture overseas. In a letter to Rear Admiral T. J. Cowle, written the day he sailed, Secretary Daniels Dan-iels said: "I will not be at home when the fifth Liberty loan, or rather the 'Victory loan' campaign, is launched. I have sent an 'alnav' message, and am certain that all in the naval service will heartily respond to your appeals to the navy in this campaign cam-paign as in the past and will do so well that the new secretary of the treasury .can say, as the former secretary said to the country, 'match the navy.' You will be sure of hearty co-operation not only from men in the service, but I know that when you call upon those in the service who are on the inactive list, they will feel just as much interested in subscribing subscrib-ing to this loan. "I wish you would subscribe five thousand thou-sand dollars ($5000) worth of bonds for me. I hope to get back to the department before the close of the loan, and if so, I will be ready to speak or do anything that you think will aid In the success of this great undertaking." "It is a splendid augury." paid Rear Admiral Cowie today, "that even before the campaign has been officially started the navy should take its place in the van of progress. There has never been any doubt In my mind that the navy will more than do its part in the victory loan as it has done in the four previous loans. I have eve iy confidence too that no American Amer-ican citizen will hold back from this victory vic-tory call to thrift and honor. There is every indication that whatever the amount of the Victory loan may be, it will be largely oversubscribed." |