Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1917 — War Loan Drive Lagging; Nation Must Dig Deeper. [ARTICLE]

War Loan Drive Lagging; Nation Must Dig Deeper.

Washington, Oct. 11.—Less than 7- per cent of the $5,000,000,000 which the government hopes to obtain in subscriptions to the seconc _ ‘ Liberty loan haflbeen subscribed lit the close of business last night. Treasury officials made public the actual subscription figures today. The total is $325,465,000. This figure includes every dollar reported to the reserve banks from every section of the United States. In one reserve district, however, Minneapolis, no figures were reported. “The subscriptions indicate the necessity for the hardest kind of work on the part of the whole country for the balance of the campaign,” reads the treasury department announcement. The campaign is more than one-third gone. Fourteen working days remain. Subscriptions by federal reserve district were as follows: Boston $41,800,000. New York $228,527,000. - Philadelphia $13,583,000 Cleveland $1,895,000. Richmond $12,229,000. Atlanta $1,703,000. Chicago $4,816,000. St. Louis $1,729,000. Minneapolis, no report. Kansas City $1,237,000. Dallas $1,83000. San Francisco $16,047,000. “While a very large number of incorporated banks and trust companies throughout the country have not yet reported any subscriptions to the federal reserve banks,” the statement continues, “and while the Liberty loan committee have unofficially reported a number of large subscriptions which have not yet been formally filed, even making due allowance for these unreported amounts, the subscriptions thus far received indicate the necessity for the hardest kind of work on the part of the whole county for the balance of the campaign.