Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-21 | Page 1 | Liberty Loan is Success

Six Billion Dollar Goal Passed by Millions, Mill-ions, V. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Estimate of figures show the success of the fourth Liberty loan poured into the treasury today, indicating that there were about twenty-five million subscribers sub-scribers during the campaign which closed Saturday night and that the six billion dollar goal was passed by several sev-eral hundred millions. All orders for coupon bonds are being be-ing filled Immediately and plenty of registered bonds "Will be ready, as fast asre q ui si tiilsop' them, accompanied by the necessary information concerning concern-ing the individual owners, reach the treasury. Although the exact number of bonds sold will not be known for many weeks, officials estimate that it is more than thiry million. In the third loan slightly less than 25,000,000 were bought. All Records Broken, It is apparent that at least 20 per cent of the population of the . United States bought bonds, a record equalling equal-ling and probably exceeding the percentage per-centage record of the British victory loan of 1917 which had 9,000,000 subscribers. sub-scribers. The $5,000,000,000 subscribed sub-scribed to that loan is exceeded by more than a billion dollars. Thus all records, both for size and distribution of war loans, are broken by the fourth Libertj loan. The first Liberty loan had about -1,-' 500,000 subscribers, or 4 per cent of the population. The second had about 9,600,000 or 9 per cent. The third had 19,800,000 or approximately 17.2 per cent. I -