Show Brokers Broke ers rs Urge urge Buy Buying lug of Bonds B Patriotic Appeals Are Made Big Liberty Lib T Tot al Is Predicted Pre ted tedA A without exception commission and trade houses A ALMoST throughout the country are are devoting a considerable portion of their weekly letters to appeals to clients and others to aid in making making mak mak- ing the Liberty loan drive r c a success Following is from the latest B Bache che Review of April 20 At this writing just at the edge of ot the first two weeks of ot campaigning for Cor the third Liberty loan oan a a. little over third one of the minimum amount asked for Cor has been subscribed This leaves two weeks for some very hard work to raise seven leven minimum needed but the If It the total amount sho should ld only ony reach 3 the whole campaign would woud be adjudged a failure In one direction returns are encouraging ing In that they show an Increasing number number number num num- ber of ot small subscribers subscriber Indicating the success of ot the campaign In the country districts It is the absence thus far Car of ot very large subscriptions in great eat numbers which Is causing the returns to be smaller small small- er r than expected New Yorks York's quota of oC has been subscribed to the extent of a little over one third but hut tho the mark set by the committee is for New York and In order to reach this an average of something over a day from now on will wilt have to be forthcoming There Is no discouragement evidenced anywhere and determined resolve to reach the highest results will w undoubtedly speed up the campaign cumulatively until until un un- un- un The til Ill great groat totals have been attained table which the Wall Walt Street Journal publishes publishes pub pub- lishes of ot subscriptions and amounts allotted allotted al allotted al- al for the second Liberty loan graduated graduated grad grad- as to amounts t shows that t nearly a rr 1 one halt t the former loan o was applied lI for forIn forIn In amounts over and applications for amounts ranging between and of ot the represented sixth one-sixth amount applied for Applications for Cor amounts exceeding represented another one The subscriptions were as follows second Liberty loan Up to and including Over lip up to and In Including Including including In- In r. r Over up to and In Including Including In- In chiding Over up to and including in in- eluding Over up to and Including in including In- In Over up to and Including in including In- In eluding Total Of this total amount of subscriptions were allotted The stupendous significance of at the great battle In France on the outcome of at which so much depends has waked waited up the whole e country to an appreciation r c of what the war means n and I d the underlying d I reserves of ot patriotism in the nation are coming to the surface This has created an atmosphere favorable to appeal for loan loan- subscriptions and and the response at public gatherings In theatre audiences j 4 etc is continuously growing The country Is rolling In wealth and all 1111 V y classes two years r have O of been the h greatest enormously r tUi Industrial u benefited t i ac activity activity ac- ac in our history As a matter of at fact it is no sacrifice to which the peo- peo pie are now called In piling up the funds required by the government for the prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution of ot the war This is set forth in part of at a a. letter which we are permitted to quote recently written by a II friend to toan toan toan an American soldier at the front We Ve are In the midst of oC the third Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty loan drive and I think all America Is worked up to the importance of oC doing every single thing to win the war and to help our soldiers in France and the soldiers sollers sol sol- sol sol- diers lers of ot our allies But how little It is that we are called upon so far to do You are of offering Cering the greatest gift gilt that human l icings can give your give your lives If It necessary What does any sacrifice that we here at home can make compare with that No life Is perfectly worked out except through sacrifice You who have offered your our lives for the good of the country are living on a much higher plane than any or most of ot otus us can ever attain to What at is It that we are asked to do I in this loan campaign m Not to give erP ISn f ii ee give I nothing Simply to lend our money and get good interest for it on the strongest safest security that is Issued Inthe in inthe inthe the world toda today This Is no sacrifice ItIs It ItIs Itis Is getting Into a protected haven with our savings where they will be taken care of positively beyond any danger until until until un un- un- un til after the war Is over and will be then worth much more than we pay now And yet et subscriptions help and it Is Isa Isa Isa a great thing to get millions and millions of our people to take this first little step towards helping as it will open the way to the great preat sacrifices which may come cometo cometo cometo to aU all of us later |