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f'' j 1 mm SECOND SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8 'i ; ! mis I':') VOLUME XXXIV. HARRY W. WEBB. He is a Baltimore theatrical man and has been appointed film chairman bv the War Loan Organization of the Fifth Federal Reserve District. He n-ill direct the movie program of the iistrict, his biggest job being the dis tribution of "The Price of Peace," a movie of actual battlefield activities, tfhich will be shown during the Vic tor? Loan campaign. Mr. Webb operates six of Balti more's leading motion picture thea ters. He has had wide business ex perience, having held executive posi tions with electric light and telephone plants in Wilmington, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. He was formerly vice pres ident of the Wilmington Telephone .& Electric Light Company, and was also engaged in the development of several sf Baltimore's suburbs. Recently he kas devoted his time to tb3 motion picture business. pirn WM ill ftosp M.fiy worMi anil fifi Ii ' Couiimtry will lk.p piPQgpirusL I till S I Li in jjj PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLYTOWN AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES ALL HOME PRINT. BIG APPETITE FOR SAFE INVESTMENTS Between Twenty and Twenty Five Million Bond Buyers Take Billions In Short Pe riods. Pessimists who shake . their heads and join the chorus of "I dunno" boys at the prospect of floating a fifth Lib erty Loan in April are administered a knock-out by figures which have re cently been compiled by officials of the Treasury Department at Wash ington. The figures give an idea of just how big an appetite for safe investment this country has attained in its war year. Some of the more striking of the figures referred to follow: A bond market which had less than 800,000 customers two years ago had at the close of 1918 between 20,000, 000 and 25,000,000-buyers. The army of buyers absorbed $11,158,565,850 worth of bonds in Liberty Bonds alone in 1918. In the two years of the war1 count ing the first and second Liberty Loans which were floated in 1917 these bond buyers digested a total of l(1! k7A 99Q 9Kt i'ti T.iKavtv Kat.s This healthy condition of theybond market is explained, perhaps, by the ifact that the entire indebtedness of ,the United States today amounts to i slightly less than 7 per cent of the estimated national wealth. The na ! tional debt amounts to only about ;$170 per capita. Some of the national debts are: f Great Britain, 44.3 per cent cent, of national wealth or $360 per capita; : Prance, 41.25 per cent of national wealth or $296.90 per capita; Austria, , 84.66 per cent of national wealth or $242.90 per capita ;and Germany, 38.7 ,per cent of national wealth or $505.90 per capita. ! These figures on Germany are ex ; elusive of Jthe ninth war loan, accu Irate returns of which never were had, i and in the cases of both Austria und Germany no account is taken of any indemnities which those nations irill lhave to pay. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, LEST WE ?0 :r:a N" s Jif ' ' v J ' . K - fr'V , - i ' V'TE '''''' ' , dtaar-'-v'. Iffl x:tl life,; , 1 (Posed by Mary Pickford) ' ' Stood by m ' fjf Liberty Loatv -. This Space Contributed by 4af W. T. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919v FORGET " 5 I KE stagnant mon ey b r e e d s Like rushing water the power of money in motion is practically irresistible. Every dollar invested in the Victory Liberty , Loan will be put to work and kept at work. Every dollar will pay interest regularly and every dollar will be returned. Mean while, the Nation will be cleansed of debt, the value of business improved and the country's prosperity insured to all. Victory Liberty YANCEY. PICTURE SHOWS ! 111 Ifj ACTION Desperate Fighting Revealed by Official Film Taken by Signal CorpsTo Be Shown All Over America. Here are some of the thrills and punches" that the spectator will find in "The Price of Peace," the new film j history of the great war just issued by (the treasury department in connec tion with the Victory Loan campaign. jThe picture is to be shown all over the Embarkation of thousands upon thousands of the two million soldiers sent to France, incuding the first pic- ftures ever released showing the great "Lieviathan," formerly the "Vaterland," 'sailing from the Port of Hoboken foi Brest, in all her war camouflage. Thrilling scenes of how the ma-1 rines - fought at Balleau Wood, with machine guns . in action, close up. , Just like a box seat at the war. The "Lost Battalion" on the scene j of the famous stand against the Ger tmans, Major Whittlesey,4 his men and I the graves of their comrades; A battle in the air and the falling 'of an enemy plane an American, ai? ; squadron in action, photographed J from a plane. ) Captured German balloons used foi front observation in the American sector and a tremendous artillery ihaWapft nut. nn to nrotect the biff eras ibags from an .attack by enemy planes. How an American-battery went into action on one of the war's very bus- (oof mnmi'nirc nniin'n cr mnsfrfl'rrt MS j shell into the enemy at the rate ol ( eight a minute per gun. American Army of Occupation marching across the Rhine into Ger many a -wonderful parade financed on Liberty bondsr- r"; President Wilson in Paris for tin peace conference, tcclai-ned by vasi thrc:i-?. A husky American soldior keevin; "Ke Wacht am Rhino." water, stagnant n o t h i n g useful. -4r'' c v NUMBER 33 A. F. MOON, JR. Unique in the annals of war loan history is the case of A. F. Moon, Jr., cashier of the Cartersville Bank, Car tersville, Va. He has already secured subscriptions for the entire allotment of his bank. This is the first bank in the Fifth Federal Reserve District which has made such a record, so far as is known. - "I am working night and day for my town, county, state and nation," de clared Mr. Moon. "At the close of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, I thought it would be a good idea to keep the .ball rolling, so instead of stopping I went straight ahead and continued getting subscriptions for the Fifth Loan. Our bank sold $35,000 of the Fourth issue, which is more than double its quota, and I , was so much encouraged, over that record that I de cided to start right to work on the Fifth Loan. " "Up to date, we have subscriptions for more than $20,000 Victory .Bonds, but we are not through yet and ex pect to go right ahead and try to double this if possible. The argument I used was simply that the Victory Loan was needed by my Government and that it was up to every man to finish the job by paying the bills for a victory which would have been cheap at double the price." Mr. Moon said he didn't know much about the terms, interest rates of other details of the Victory Loan and didn't care, going on the assumption that the loan would be a good proposi tion in any shape offered. QI3 'Mm - i 1 3 'a" i I" 4 . ;f it." "mm . I ft k 5 l ' .... )? . .Ill 1i T i ! ' in ii: I'lfj 1 , li n. S f If:?-; re f.3 m ili: .J; ; J ri !i S: fi-t E3 SJ.I- J 1 I illi i if 5: . t 2 1 wmm ' tf, : f i ! ' C.1 ' 1 !'. 'Ml ifh ' i -Mi l i,S 'in :u i-':r fit ! .lift I.. mi mm Ml '' ! 8 1 N ' I 1 5 1 ' !- ' t l a . if l in f Id mm I -III . it 'JV 'f, ; ii Hil l Ii' ..SIS I 1 r f. iS'Miii-it i .-, t ., i . 2 If hi -ml '4 ' i Hi" "M . t . I - a . 4 ; 1. 1 ' t ; ... . -t 1 : J in I -'err-. C 1 ' SI'! 4 In -li
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