Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — APPEAL MADE AS LOAN LAGS [ARTICLE]

APPEAL MADE AS LOAN LAGS

LESS THAN ONE-THIRD OF NATION’S QUOTA SUBSCRIBED TO DATE. The need of the government for funds to bring the war to a successful conclusion will be carried directly to .every person in the United States who can be reached, as a result of the slowness of the public in volunteerirfg subscriptions to the Victory Loan. Latest figures compiled by the government Friday showed $1,497,347,600, less than one-third of the loan quota, subscribed. - Individual subscriptions in nearly every reserve district were said to be running far short of those in previous loans, apparently indicating that the public was not fully awake to the necessity of raising the full $4,500,000,000 asked for in order to bring the men back from overseas and care for those wounded in the service. jPlans were immediately made and telegrams sent to every, state organization in the country to make the last seven working days of the loan campaign productive of sufficient individual subscriptions to put the loan over the top, without calling on the financial institutions and tying up credit. 1

The St. Louis federal reserve district leads the country in having subscribed 59.68 per cent of its quota and two other western districts, Chicago and Minneapolis rank second and third respectively. The southwest, or Dallas district, was at the bottom when the latest tabulation of subscriptions was made. Jasper county is in 'the .Chicago district but has yet to fly the, white flag of victory. No official reports as to the progress being made have been obtainable but it is thought that the county is very close to its loan quota at the present time. $250,000 is thought to be approximately the amount of the subscriptions in the county to date. The quota for Jasper is $275,000, so it is thought that the loan workers will have but little trouble in shoving the county over the top befores the final day. _ Fear is entertained in many quarters that the loan will not go over, but the final seven days will no' doubt show a great change and the workers throughout the entire country assert that they will not fail-in their objective.