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Show Loan Subscriptions Must Speed Up in 11 Working Days ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 Subscriptions Subscrip-tions to the Fourth Liberty loan must average more than $125,000,000 daily If the total six billion dollars is to be raised by the close of the campaign October 19. Total subscriptions as reported by the federal reservo banks to the treasury amount to only $1,323.71G.950. Eleven working days of the campaign yet remain. Campaign officials today reiterated tho warning against allowing the German Ger-man peace proposals to lessen tho efforts ef-forts of the workers or the ardor of the public. At no other time, it was said, should tho American people show more plainly their full-hearted sup-by sup-by order of Secretary Daniel? today to every ship and to every naval station, Vice Admiral Sims called upon the men of the navy to subscribe to the loan. This rather poor showing is attributed attrib-uted partly to the increasing interference interfer-ence of the influenza epidemic with campaign plans. In many parts of the country mass meetings and movie theaters have been closed by health authorities thus depriving the workers of one of their most effective methods of rounding up subscriptions. Tho answer of the Chicago district to peaco talk is a greatly increased subscription with a total of $98,000,-000. $98,000,-000. From San Francisco come reports that subscriptions throughout tho district dis-trict now are above $130,000,000. San I Francisco has pledged $33,000,000; Idaho $6,864,000; Oregon $1S,162,000, with 90.000 subscribers. The Laundry Owners' National association as-sociation meeting in Chicago has subscribed sub-scribed more than $100,000 "to help clean up the kaiser," according to a telegram today to headquarters. |