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Show FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN The United States Government asked ask-ed a loan from tne people of the country of $,000,000,000, an amount unprecedented in ail the history of the world. In three weeks' time, in spite of an epidemic of influenza which prevented public meetings and cost the people many millions of dollars dol-lars in medical bills and lost time, and in spite, too, of the peace rumors rum-ors that in some instances had a tendency ten-dency to make the success of the loan seem less vital, some 1,000,000 of the American people offered to the Government Gov-ernment $6,866,416,300. Each Federal Reserve district oversubscribed its quota. Thousands of cities, towns, and communities oversubscribed their quotas. Secretary MoAdoo says that the Fourth 'Liberty Loan is the greatest great-est single event in financial history. The Fourth Loan was called the fighting loan; it is a record of Americanism Ameri-canism comparable with the record that our soldiers on the battle fronts and our sailors on the seas are making. mak-ing. The people at home have given loyal support to our fighting men. Our sildierg are holding every acre of ground they take. (Let the people at home hold every (Liberty (Bond they have taken. A Liberty (Bond is a certificate of patriotism; keep it to show to our boys when they come back from Europe. |