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Show "HALT! SHOW YOUR BUTTON Oft WALK IN THE STREET" THOUSANDS of Salt Lakers are thus being challenged by soldiers on the streets today. Barricades Bar-ricades of sandbags are placed across the sidewalk in the downtown district. Narrow paths are left in the center for the exclusive use of bond buyers. At each entrance soldiers are stationed sta-tioned with instructions to recognize no other passports than Liberty bond buttons or receipts. Men and women alike are challenged! And men and women alike pass either through the patriots' H gate or the "slackers' path" in the street ' ih -... .. ...-.a I- m II ' 1 CITIZENS WITHOUT NEW LOAN BADGES LUCKLESS AS CAMPAIGN PROGRESSES Aa Salt Lake City and Utah generally renewed the drive for the fourth Liberty loaa today, many firma and individuals pledged themselves for further subscription. Chief araonf them are the following: fol-lowing: W. H. Mclntyre, $100,000; Utah Power and Light company, $50,000; Z. C M L, $50,-000; $50,-000; W. F. Jensen, $50,000; Preston Nutter, $40,0Q0; Clarence Bamberger, $30,000; Em eat Bamberger, Bam-berger, $30,000; Crane company, $25,000; Utah Fuel company, $25,000; Consolidated Wagon and Machine company, $20,000; Solon Spiro, $20,000; Jacob Bamberger, $20,000; Salt Lake Iron and Steel company, $10,000; Home Fire Insurance company, $10,000; Inland Crystal Salt company, $10,000; A. Keyser, $20,000; B. Barnard, $11,000; Frank Latuda, $4000; U. S. Rubber company, com-pany, $5000; A. H. Cowie, $2750; Lester D. Fread, $2750; W. J. Halloran, $2750; James Burke, $2750; Joseph Lippman, $3000; Btavia Fashion store, $1500; Kansas City Casualty company, $500. WITH the shrieking of whistles, the clanging of bells and startling cries of "Extra!" at an- early hour this morning, the citizens of Salt Lake were brought to a sharp realization of Utah's danger dan-ger of disgrace for failing to raise her quota of the fourth Liberty loan. The "extra" was-another issue of the "Liberty Loan Call." Its headlines purported to be a message 'from the front saying that the Utah soldiers had inominously failed in an attack. Then followed a vivid picture of the shame and dismay at home if such a thing were true. Equal shame and despair, pointed out the "Call," will strike at the hearts of the boys in France if they hear that Utah has failed in, an equally important crisis the raising of her quota of Liberty bonds. The extra sounded the keynote of the new drive, which is opening today to wipe out the deficit that now stands aeainst the state of Utah. It amounts to S4.50fl,0()0 and there is but a week completed a hard campaign for tha loan, they entered Into tho new drive with apl-ndld spirit and with sn Invincible In-vincible determination to win. Knthusiasm ran high at tho meeting meet-ing when a number of thoso present started naming additions to subscriptions subscrip-tions by themaelvea or by their firm. iMedgea ranging from $lo0 to $100,000 were announced In rapid succession, j amid thunders of applause. Before tha meeting was out mora than $i00,0o0 had been pledged In additional subscriptions. sub-scriptions. Tho Boy ftcouta of Amerlrg started their drive today, swelling tha ranks of tho other .workera to a formidable extent. These boys have- made splen did showing in previous campaigns, and In view of the present crista their record this time la expected to bo a I surpassingly brilliant one. Many largo I milmrrtiitlfinn sr twin held in ahv- ance, tn order to ho given through th scouts, so that their totals will undoubtedly un-doubtedly go far toward wiping out tho balance of tho state's quota, yet to bo rained. TENT ON STREET. Tho. scouts of troop 44, Kmeroon ward, have erected a tent on Main s treat between F'lrat and Kecotid Routh and aro already well on tho road to a he nd some total. Burpristng evn thoso In charge of tho Liberty loan bank, a voluntoor Liberty loan band, under tho direction of lyorenso Sharp, suddenly appeared at tho hank yesterday and played, aeveral aev-eral aelectiona. Tho band was accompanied accom-panied by William M. Knerr of th stat Industrial commission, who delivered de-livered a forceful appeal to a crowd of listeners to buy Liberty bonds. Thia band will appear several times throughout tha remainder of tho campaign, cam-paign, providing speaker to accompany accom-pany It and playing wherever It will do th moat good for the drive. WORK ALL NIGHT. One nf th moat striking effort yet put forth In th recent drive waa that of tho employea of tho I'tati Bill Posting Post-ing company, who worked all night painting signs on tha sidewalks In front of tho banks, on tho corners of I th business district and In front of) various bualneoa houses, i . .... left to raise It. But with a splendid j determination and courage, the weary Liberty loan committeemen . have J started out on a new onslaught which , they are resolved shall speedily put I'tah In Dip honor column. The business district Is swarming with women workers armed with application ap-plication blanks and "I've bought more" ribbons. Kvery pedestrian who does not show oils' of these ribbons is Immediately besieged and strong Is his resistance if he escapes "unbonded." "un-bonded." WOMEN WORK HARD. The young women are really work Ing behind intrenchrnents, which makes their carnage all the greater. Trenches have been erected along Mhln street and Kaat Bmadway, each manned r v four soldiers from Kt. Doug Is s. under the command of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant I. .1 wards Anyone who csnnot show a Liberty button Is compelled to turn aside Jn to the street, and all who cannot show "I've bocght more" ribbons rib-bons are forcibly detsined until the energetic young women campaigners have completed an attack upon them. All the street campaigning ss well as the work In th department store and hotel booths is under the direction of the women's Libery loan comnvttee. of which Mrs Kdr.ah T. I'errjv is chairman. chair-man. The women also have equipped two large motor trucks with platforms, ! which will carry musicians, both vocwl and instrumental, four-minute speak-! speak-! eia and two women furnished 'with loan bond application blanks. I Besides th-se activities and llu se fit ' the Librtv loan bank, the women have marshnlcd all their c;m itinera Spain, und at a meeting In the Commercial Com-mercial club vcsirrdtiy 'Hfiernoon furnished fur-nished them with new s-ts nf cards end started them out on another thorough thor-ough (Hiiv)ies of the church encicties, fraternal orgHniattons, women's clubs :nd other places in tho women's field. 'The spirit manifested by tho women I in the face of this liew and arduous duty was described as magnificent by ! Mra. Kerfiy. ! BUYING MORE BONDS. Kntlrely new sets of cards were slso given to tho business men's canvass. Ing committees at a meeting In the Commercial club last night. In spite of th fact that thoso present had Just |
