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FINISH nt Jiai I'PiumwiE mBEW I CENEfjjl ITALY WENT BEYOND TREATY OF LONDON IN CLAIMING PORT OF FIUME.' Unique in the annals of war loan history is the case of A. F. Moon, Jr., icashier of the Cartersville Bank, Car- ttersville, Va. He has already secured ■aubscriptions for the entire allotment vt 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 j]Jght 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 Jnstead 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 ^o 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 pcice.” 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. SPECULATORS TRT Rep rts are wide-spread that some vners of Liberty Bonds have sold iem at prices lower than their mar- jt value. Investigations show that trewd speculators are active in try- g to induce people to part with their jvemment securities. Many of them ■e offering to take Liberty bonds in tchange for other so-called "securi- ’’ which promises a higher rate of terest than Liberty Bonds. It is pointed out by treasury offi- als that Liberty Bonds are worth rery dollar paid for them. One evi- *nce of their .value is the ? eagerness the speculator to get possession of em. He knows what they are orth. The Liberty Bond owner does >t know the value of the "stock” or ►ond’Lhe is offered^ in exchange for s government security. Liberty bonds have back of them e entire resources of the United .ates which makes them worth their ce value. The person who ex- .anges them for some other kind of tper risks losing the money invest- I jn his bond as well as the inter- t. Other people are selling their bonds >caure they feel,that "the war’s *er” and they are no longer obligat- [ to hold them. Although fighting is ceased, the war will not be over itil the peace treaty is signed and ir soldiers are home. A Liberty jnd is a certificate of service and e person who sells it at a sacrifice, cept in cases of extreme necessity, failing to “carry on.” He is re- icting on his own patriotism and ^rendering an investment that Iver will fail to pay returns. It is recognized that there are ues when investors are compelled seek relief from financial distress. !ten their first impulse is to dis- ise of their Liberty Bonds. In such iSe s the bank is the place to go. inks will lend money on Liberty >nds. The borrovAer is, helped out his difficulty and does not ’ose issessioi^ of his government bond. ’ \ | liberty Loan Levity HARRY W. WEBB. He is a Baltimore theatrical man and has been appointed film chairman by the War Loan Organization of the Fifth Federal Reserve District. He will direct the movie prograrif of the district, his biggest job being the dis tribution of "The Price of Peace,” a movie of actual battlefield activities, which will be shown during the Vic tory Loan campaign. Mr. Webb operates six of Balti more’s leading motion picture thea ters. He has had wide business ex perience, having hMd executive posi tions with electric light and telephone plants in Wilmington, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. He was formerly vice pres ident of the Wiln*ngton Telephone & meciricLighTT^dfnliany.inJvvialFr^ engaged in the development of ?everal of Baltimore’s suburbs. Reci ntly he has devoted his time to thi motion picture business. CURED BY COLLAR Surgeons Mend Lieutenant After Fall of 2,500 Feet and He Now Flies Again and is Happy. i half-wit. they called Barber Blaney. r knew, thongh, some day would be rainy, te shaved and he shaved be saveid and he saved— >ought bonds.—Now they -call Blavey Uriiiay. There is a man'in San Francisco walking around with a broken neck/ He is Lieutenant (Charles M. Cum mins, of Virginia. Cummins was an army aviator. While making a flight at Gerstnet Field, La., in February, 1918, he fell 2,500 feet, fracturing the fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and dis locating several other vertebrae par tially. After the fall be was sent to Let- terman General Hospital at the Presi dio ' in San Francisco for treatment. Army surgeons who are working al most miracles there in the reconstruc tion of the war wounded finally fitted a metal colar on the aviator to carry the weight of his head. It worked— and now Lieutenant Cummins is Walk ing about apparently normal. One of Many. Lieutenant Cummin’s case is only one of many, but it stands out be cause of the popular superstition that a man can’t live if his neck is broken. The reconstruction surgeons at Let- terman are working on hundreds of cases much more difficult than the flyer’s. They are receiving men there daily from the battlefields of France, whose legs and arms hang withered and helpless and they are turning these men out, after months of treatment and patient mechanical manipulation, able to use their arms and legs and capable of making a living. The cost, of course, is tremendous when one takes into consideration the fact that the same work is being carried on in many military hospitals. • More Money Needed. Already Congress has appropriated millions of dollars to carry m the aork and many millions more will have to be made available for the cause. For it is a cause, this regen eration of the men who gave their bodies to their country. Part of the money to "be realized from the Victory Liberty Loan will he us 3d for this job of reconstruction jf regeneration. Think of this when you are making up your mind as to how much of the loan you, personally, are going to subscribe. Lieutenant Cummins jnade a flight with his .collar on Just to convince himself that he hadn’t lost his nerve. We can’t afford to lose our nerve on a dollar and cents proposition in the face of the deeds of such men. SOME PAPERS Evening Globe, Strongly Anti-Wilson, Say* That the President Take* an Impossible Attitude. London.—All the London evening newspapers devote their leading arti cles to President Wilson’s appeal in connection with the Italian situation % at the Paris conference and to Pre mier Orlando’s decision to withdraw from the conference. The Westmin ster Gazette endorses the statement of the American executive, netting that Italy in her claims went beyond the treaty of London in claiming Fiume as well as the Trentino and other ter ritory assigned her by thd London pact. "We are obliged to.point out,” says the newspaper, "that in this very treaty Fiume was assigned to the Croatians. If, then, the appeal is to the treaty, we are as much hound not to give Fiume to Italy as we are bound to give her the other territories.” if—the tfnliarrs trlatm ^Fnime ■ under the principle of self-determination, adds The Gazette, that principle also applies to the Slav regions which were assigned to Italy under the treaty. The Evening Standard says ^ can not pretend to b* convinced by Pres ident Wilson’s arguments, while Th# Pall Mall Gazette says that Italy is . claiming the fulfillment of the treaty where she is the gainer by its terms and its abrogation where it stands in the way of her full demands. “Her statesmen,” The Pall Mall Ga zette adds, “must realize upon reflec tion that the seccmd attitude under mines whatever moral force is inher ent in the trudt.” The Evening Globe, which is strong ly anti-Wilson, says the President has taken up an impossible attitude. It refers to his appeal as an insult to the Italians and suggests that his best course would be "to retire gracefully from a discussion which concerns neither himself nor the American con tinent” REQUEST OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT GRANTED Paris.—The request of the German government that German fishermen be permitted in the Skagerrak and Oat tegat passages was granted by the su preme economic council. The council also approved the pro posal for a more extensive use of the water route through Germany by the way. of Hamburg and the River Elbe. , It abolished the existing limi tation of 8,000 tons of food and ma terial in order to supply the present needs of the Czecho-SIovaks. It is estimated that the traffic through the Elbe probably will amount to from 25.000 to 35,f00 tons at a time. TO BE LITERAL ENFORCEMENT OF WAR TIME PROHIBITION Pi TRADED HIS LEG. < > < > < ► A Canadian Baptist minister, who chose a rifle rather than a chaplaincy and lost his leg in action, was being commiserated on the “loss” of the leg. » “I did not lose my leg,’’ he re plied. ‘^I traded it fofr a clear conscience.’’ “I traded It for a clear con science.” Better trade your dollars for a clear conscience in the Vic tory Lhan. You won’t regret it and y;ni will get the dollar* back with interest. < > < ► < i < ► < ► n -4/ it i t < * Vi New York.—The government pn> poses a literal enforcement of the war time prohibition act. including a bar on production and sale of all beers and wines, whether or not they are intoxi eating, the depArthient of justice, an nounced th-rough a special repr^senta tive in the federal court here. While no steps will be taken tc prevent brewing, pending a court do termination of the law’s constitution iality raised by brewers of the New York district, manufacturers will open ate in peril of future prosecution, ac cording to the statement of William C. Fitts, special counsel, appearing foi Attorney General Palmer in the beer litigation. The law prohibited sale alter Jun« 30 of distilled beverages as well a» manufacture after April 20 and sale after June 30 of “beer, wine and other intoxicating malt or viuous liquors for beverage purposes, pending the* de mobilization of the military forces,* SAYS WILSON IS TREATING ITALY AS BARBAROUS NATION Paris.—Premier Orlando declares that President Wilson’s proclamation is an attempt to place the government in opposition to the people. ^ "He is treating the Italians,” a ids the premier, “as if they were a bar barous people.” The premier says he has never de- -nied that the pact of London did not apply to Fiume. but the Italian claim was based on the principles of Presi dent Wilson’s 14 points. MAY ORDER ALL Y. M. C. A. WORKERS OUT OF ITALY Paris.—The possibility of orderin'* all Y. M. C. A. workers out of Italy is being considered by John R. Mott, of the war work council of the Y. M. C. 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