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Show attractive features. ho'.:i as to n.tere-t and muMrlrv. would cause an e.ir.y '';J" sut,si:riit:o!i has been rap-'I.y dia.,:pai.ei and yjt not ulle vftli:s to M a-le to as-!! as-!! a catiso tor thin f!lif.:on. n.- in buyiM is as;ly MP a:ed m a few l.s.date.-i localities whr lrm work I us l.aekv.ar 1 or tl:.-,e lias l,--:n a s lorl-aiz- of eml-lovmei.t in certain Industries, but, ;;encra;iv" speak::. -iO one seems to l,o a.,f to ass::--n a definite cause, for the failure ol the roim'ry to keey up ti.o pace that was expected of it. ' Result by Districts. Subscriptions bv districts and percent-ttKcH percent-ttKcH of quotas were announced by the Lre-tsti ty ai follows: District Subscription. Pel. St. Louis SI.522.X'i) 73.1 Minneapolis Mrt,s:it.,auO G-i.l Ci.-aio 370,o'iu,fJ0D a',.:; Koston ia;,5ei,e,'jfj a2.b Kansas City VI.WMt Kicrmnd 9,.'2S.Wh 4..2 New York SS7.2UU.000 41.2 Atlanta a.s,570.0"0 40.1, lcv.-l.inrt 1S2,PH,0"0 -W.4 I'hiladelpbia 120. 721, C0( 34. a Sat, Francisco If J. f.3 I , Ot-0 30.0 U;.)l:i.s 27,012,000 20.2 Krom many Ktates toraiy catre reports Indicating that. Kt-crc-tary Glass's tippea for a rousinq: finish of the loan canipninr. was having effect. .Some committees reported a tendency on the part of many citizens not to snbscribe unless last Indications were that small popular subscriptions were urgently needed. need-ed. In answer to these the treasury said the time had come when "small subscriptions subscrip-tions te urgently needed." 4 LOMf TOTALS 10MPW Victory Subscriptions Now $2,060,000,000; Appeals Are Effective. New York Does Remarkable Remarka-ble Work in Boosting Total Subscriptions. MEW YORK, May 6. The New Yorlt federal reserve dlsltlct forstd ahead with a rush today In the Victory loan campaign, with .'.uiaK-rlptit.ns, officially reported, of Sl-10.3:.2,:00, 1,1'inKiiiK the total up to $.7i7,-27-, 400, 01- -11.2 per cent of the Quota. WASHINGTON, .May C The two billion-dollar mark lias been passed by the nation In itr. race toward the S l,5"0, 000,000 fc'C-aJ which mitat be reached by Saturday niflit. Subscriptions officially reported to the treasury tonight, amounted to $2,000.-742,fi(iO, $2,000.-742,fi(iO, or 4.7. 70 per cent of the quota tontrbt. 'I'ni! Increase In the total dnrlntr the lust twenty-four hours was S2;H,uOO,OuO, of which ?140,OOO,OO0 came from the New York dislriet alone. Tills Is a letter record, rec-ord, loan has been made for the past few (lays, but falls far short of the f'122, 000,000 average daily subscriptions, which must he piled up In the remainder of the week if the loans are to be subscribed fully. At the corresponding time of the fourth T-.lbertv loan ca.ntpalsn bond sales amounted to S2, 70S, 000, 000, or 40.04 pur cent, of the total. "Navy Day" Today. Tomnrrow is Navy day throughout the country, find committees everywhere hope to make it a banner, day with the slogan "M.jdeii the navy." Krull.s of tho day's work will not he reflected for two or throe days, however. Special naval dem-omiti dem-omiti aliens have been arranged at many sea mid lake port cities. "IT xpert s who have been associated with all loan campaigns are at an absolute abso-lute Inss to explain the slowness of sub-fr-o-fipMons," said t he treasury's review tonight. "The belief held by many of 1 horn at the outset of the loan that Its |