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Show MIN URGING PEOPLE; Calls on Country to Furnish 20,000,000 Subscribers. ! WOULD DOUBLE GOAL Many Loan Organizations Organiza-tions Already Increasing Increas-ing Their Quotas. WASHINGTON, April 9 Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo in a statement wired from Raleigh. N. 0 . and given out by the treasury here today, cnlled on the country to furnish twenty million subscribers sub-scribers to the new Liberty loan. That number of purchasers, he said, would moan a loan of fore or five billion dollars instead of the three billions announced as a goal. The statement, authorized by Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo from Raleigh, N. C, where be spoke today, said: "Let u? not stop when we have reached our quota. Let us go forward and make the quota three or four limes as great as it is possible to do it and at the same time make the number num-ber of subscribers to these bonds three times as great as it was before. There is no answer that will carry such discouragement to the enemies of America and ot the enemies of civilization civiliza-tion as that twenty million citizens have subscribed this time for Liberty bonds. Would Stay in Fight "We can get the twenty millions if we stay in the fight and make up our minds to it. If we do this it will mean ' that we shall have noi three billion but four or five billion to help our gallant men in this supreme test of all time for the liberties of the world." Telegrams to loan headquarters here today indicated tnat many loan organization or-ganization in all parts of tho country already hae raised their quotas. From I the St. Louis district came this message: mes-sage: ' .Salesmen plunged into the work of (libpo-ing of S75.00u.O00 of bonds. St. Louis' quota of a little more than S39.000.000 has been lost sight ot and nothing less than the sum aimed at 1 w ill be discussed." Honor Roll Growing. t The honor roll of communities which have already subscribed quotas continued con-tinued to grow today. San Francisco sent word that sixty-five communities communi-ties in that district claimed honor flags. New York reported the award of about twenty-five. From Chicago 1 came word that twenty-four townships in Will county. Illinois, had gone over the top," and that Joliet, 111 , raised its entire, quota in eight hours w ithout the assistance of a single cor- j poration or bank. Burlington, t., also was an early claimant for the flag. Cleveland reported that citizens of nineteen nationalities are making' a j house to house canvass in the foreign language district and are harvesting many subscriptions. |