Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-15 | Page 10 | Crippled Veterans Urge the People to Subscribe

Crippled Veterans Urge the People To Subscribe CHICAGO. Oct. 14. Vimy ridge came to Chicago today when twelvo heroic fragments of humanity In Canadian Can-adian uniforms calling themselves the "Toronto trench troubadors" played and sang in an effort to rally Liberty loan laggards to the support of their comrades "over there." The battle-scarred veterans on crutches crut-ches and in wheel chairs were greeted with cheers and tears but only $10,000,- j 000 worth of bonds were sold during j the day bringing the total for the cam -' paign to $142,000,000 and leaving a de ficit of $110,300,000 which must be raised by Saturday If the city is to meet its quota. This means subscriptions subscrip-tions at the rate of $22,060,000 a day. The situation was regarded as so desperate that representatives of the biggest banks In tho city held a meeting meet-ing at which it was decided to loan money to persons buying bonds atthc rate of 4VL per cent for the first ninety days, 5 per cent for tho second ninety days and the markot rate thereafter. oo