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Show WILSON DECLARES GRAVE SITUATION A People Must Promptly Sup-, Sup-, port Troops and Great War Program WASHINGTON, OcL 10. President Wilson today issued this statement on the fourth Liberty loan campaign: "Recent events have enhanced, not lessened, the importance of this loan, jand I hope that my fellow countrymen will let me say this to them very frankly. The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should only be fully subscribed, but very greatly over-subscribed. We are in tho midst of the greatest exercise of the power of this country that has ever been witnessed or forecast, and a single sin-gle day of relaxation in that effort would be of tragical damage alike to ourselves and to the rest of the world. Nothing has happened which makes it safe or possible to do anything but push our effort to the utmosL The time is critical, and the response must be complete. (Signed) t "WOODROW WILSON." MUST OVERSUBSCRIBE LOAN. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Oversubscription Oversub-scription of the six-billion-dollar Llber-Jty Llber-Jty loan was declared tonight by President Presi-dent Wilson to be a matter of -world importance at this cjitical 'time. "Recent events have enhanced, not lessened, the importance, of this loan," said the president's statement. "The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should not only be fully subscribed, but very greatly over-subscribed." Accordingly, instructions will go i forth tomorrow to Liberty loan committees com-mittees everywhere to do oven mqrc than in the last eleven days to get every eve-ry man, woman and youth in America to hold up the hands of the government govern-ment by buying bonds and more bonds than they havo already engaged. Amer- j icans in the next nine days ending Saturday, Sat-urday, October 19, must participate in the biggest outpourings of individual resources ever recorded in any nation. Two billions already have been raised one-third of the minimum now sought. To barely touch the six billion bil-lion mark, new subscriptions at the average rate of $500,000,000 a day are needed. An excess pver that will be required to fulfill President Wilson's appeal for over-subscription. In the results hereafter will be read the nation's na-tion's answer. Today's reports added $233,000,000 to the national total, which stood tonight at $2,024,037,050, or 33.7 per cent of the quota. The St. Louis district continued con-tinued to lead in the percentage race and today passed the two-thirds posL Detroit, Louisville, Hartford, Conn., Fall River, Mass., and Duluth achieved their quotas and announced their intention in-tention of going ahead without slackening speed. Detroit is the first city of more than 500,000 population to Join the 100 per cent class. Sales by districts were reported by the treasury tonight as follows: District Subscription Pet. St. Louis $174,3S9,250 67 Minneapolis 112,266,150 53 Boston 235 -172.000 47 San Francisco 170.038,450 42 Dallas : 48,680,200 3S Chicago 325,294,050 37 Cleveland 189,200,750 31 Richmond 87,176,550 31 Philadelphia 133.704.S50 26 New York 445,124,000 25 Atlanta 44,225,000 23 Kansas City 58,465,500 22 Managers of the loan campaign are counting strongly on the harvest of pledges next Saturday, Liberty day, to swell the total. Secretary McAdoo today to-day decided to go to Chicago to address ad-dress a meeting there Saturday evening eve-ning in the interest of the loan. New England continued Its desperate desper-ate fight against the influenza epidemic epidem-ic and reported a $21,000,000 gain today. to-day. Two hundred and fifty-four communities com-munities have obtained their quotas. A $15,000,000 gain was reported in the Philadelphia districL Subscriptions In Kansas City district are : ; Colorado, $S,964,950; Kansas, $20,-004,100: $20,-004,100: Missouri, $4,790,900r Nebraska, Nebras-ka, $13,896,050; New Mexico, $533,-550; $533,-550; Oklahoma, $S,565,600; Wyoming, $2,310,300 Iowa's subscriptions was reported as 55S.613.000. |