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URGES CITIES
TO BUY BONDS
\
|)r. Jackson Points Out Ad
. vantages of Investing
in Issue
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Municipalities of Pennsylvania ere
urged to invest their funds in Lib
lerty Loan bonds which are declared
to be legal and proper investments
for such moneys by Dr. John Price
Jackson, State Commissioner of La
bor and Industry, to-day. The State
Bureau of Municipalities is a part
>f this department and there are
large funds. '
This appeal is made to mayors of
Pennsylvania cities, burgesses and
councils of boroughs throughout the
state. Communications were nent
from the bureau to-day to various
city officials throughout Pennsyl
vania asking them to stimulate such
action not only In their own cities
•hut in adjacent boroughs and towns'.
xAccording to statistics gathered by
the Bureau of Municipalities, there
are many boroughs in the state hav
ing sinking fund moneys on which
they do not even receive interest.
This idle money, it is belierved by the
Bureau of Municipalities, could be,
in many cases, readily invested \n
Liberty Bonds.
It is even suggested as a possibil
ity, by the Bureau of Municipalities,
that some outstanding bonds of
cities, boroughs and towns could be
redeemed from sinking fund tic
counts and in the redemption, Na
tional Liberty Bonds be substituted
lor the original municipal bonds.
This action, it Is pointed out
•would make a saving of four mills
etate tax on the bonded indebtedness
of boroughs and cities and at the
name time aid the National Govern
ment greatly at this vital time.
The redemption of municipal
honds, issued for a term of years,
would, of course, require the consent
of holders of such securities. This
"The Security I Offer"
"I, your Government, ask for a loan, not a gift.
"Do not hesitate.
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. "Every man must recognize the immediate need for money.
My interest rate of 4% is liberal. Nothing should deter you. The
security is the best in the world. 1
"Do you not realize that my entire resources are behind these
Liberty Bonds—every forest, every mine, every crop, every herd
of cattle, every industry, every store, every bank, every home*
stead, is their security ?
"And do not forget this ! We fight a despoiler. Men and money,
together, will beat him. If there is a lack of either, we shall lose.
If we lose, every penny you earn will be shared by the War
Lord's tax collectors, and Hun bayonets will still your protests !
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
process of liquidating outstanding
municipal bonds so far as is possi
ble through sinking fund moneys ac
cumulated would prove beneficial by
saving not only four mills state tax
but also the future interest on such
outstanding bonds which would of
necessity be paid l'rom current rev
enues of the municipalities. It is
also pointed out that the present
Liberty Bonds pay four per cent In
terest which, in most cases is equiva
lent to the interest yielded by muni
cipal securities.
Commissioner Jackson declared
to-day that there is no safer invest
ment for municipal sinking funds
than In the Liberty Loan. He said
that such investment is a patriotic
duty and that it also marks the in
dividual support of the separate
municipalities as governmental units;
to the National Government as a
whole.
The letter sent from the Depart
ment to mayors and burgesses of
Pennsylvania municipalities was
signed by J. Knisely, chief
of bureau and is as follows:
"At the direction of Commissioner
John Price Jackson, the Department
of Labor and Industry, through this
bureau, is herewith making an ap
peal to your municipality to buy Lib
erty Bonds.
"This appeal Is being made to all
the cities and boroughs of the Com
monwealth, asking them to co-oper
ate with the National Government in
the sale of these bonds.
"The appeal is that, If you have
any mbney in your sinking fund for
the redemption of your municipal
bonds, you invest it in National Lib
erty Bonds; or that you redeem your
bonds, provided that the parties
from whom you redeem bonds will
agree to purchase Liberty Bonds
with the money thus received.
"From statistics that we have, we
find a large number of boroughs
which do not receive interest on
their sinking funds and where they
do. it averages two to three per cent,
while the National Liberty Bonds
pay four per cent. Therefore, this
action will not only be patriotic, but
also profitable in the case of many
municipalities.
"Further, if you redeem your own
bonds it will save you the four mill
state tax, which you now have to
pay. Such action will also reduce
your bonded Indebtedness and give
you the opportunity of redeeming
bonds that are not yet due or that
the borough has no option to redeem
at this time. This will further give
many owners of municipal bonds
the opportunity of Investing their
money in Liberty Bonds which they
cannot now do on account of having
their money invested in such munici
pal bonds:
"Believing thait the people are
very anxious to invest in Liberty
Bonds, we feel that, if this subject
is brought to the immediate atten
tion of the holders of municipal
bonds, they will receive the idea
T/lth pleasure. It will also mean a
big saving to the municipalities, be
cause in several instances some of
the municipalities have large sinking
funds to be used to redeem bondsi
which are not yet due, and they
have no option to redeem them.
"We would respectfully suggest
that you get in immediate touch with
the officials of other municipalities
near you, by telephone where you
can, or in person, and request that
they take this matter up at once.
It is realized that the time is very
short and that immediate action is
required where a municipality has
mqney to so invest. If your muni
cipality cannot get its officials to
gether in time to take such imme
diate action by a council meeting, we
suggest that you and your available
colleagues take this up with your
banks and have a reservation made
of the amount of bonds that you will
later officially subscribe for. The
banks will be very glad to co-oper
ate with the municipalities along
those lines as all banks are subscrib
ing very heavily to the Liberty Loan.
In this way a lot of money will be
released that would otherwise be tied
up until such time as the municipal
ities can redeem their bonds by na
tural course.
"We trust, both for the sake of
your city and the nation, you will at
once Rive this your hearty, co-opera
tion as well as your personal atten
tion, and interest the other munici
palities near you."
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH!
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The Diary of a U-Boat Commander
(Copyright, 1917, by the New York Herald Co.—All Rights Reserved)
(Copyright Canada by New York Herald Company)
(Translated from the Original German by Irving R. Bacon)
1916—e April
Dear little book, I have killed the
dearest on earth. I .am Minna's mur
derer. Forgive meC God. Oh
1916—10 October
A long gap from that tragic day
to this! I did not believe it pos
sible that I should live so long.
Fritz says he found me lying on thu
floor, the sentence in my diary un.
finished, and that for three days I
was in a high fever, a raving maniac.
I have not been sufficiently master
of my feelings until tkis day to
make any record of that frightful
day's events.
In the afternoon of the sixth of
April I saw a Swedish schooner,
heavily laden, beating before the
wind in the 'direction of the Eng
lish coast. A shot fired by Halbert
carried away her miczen mast, which
crashed and splintered to the deck
and thence overboard. The fall of
the mast caused such havoc that It
quickly became apparent that th
vessel was sinking. A boat put off
in time to avoid being caught by
the suction of the pool 'as the
schooner went down. When the
lifeboat drew alongside our subma
rine I was amazed to see In it Mr.
Larsen, my Minna's father, and her
brother Sven. Although I felt
grieved to think that this meeting
had to be brought about at so heavy
a cost to Mr. Larsen, for I jumped
at the conclusion that the schooner
must have belonged to him, never
theless there was an element of
happiness, because I felt that now
at last I should obtain news about
my Minna.
"Where Is Minna?" I shouted
over when the boat was still more
than two hundred yards away.
"There," said Captain Larsen,
pointing to the spot where the Bal
dar. his schooner, had gone down.
'I did not fully realize the awful
import of his word and believed that
it was meant in a figurative sense,
such as that the girl had loved the
vessel and feel heart-sore
over the loss. But when the life
boat came alongside and the real
magnitude of the catastrophe be
came clear to me I felt my knees
give way under me, and would have
fallen had not Halbert and another
of the crew supported me. A large
splinter from the falling mast had
struck Minna just as she was com
ing to the deck from her cabin. It
killed her outright and her body was
pinned beneath some of the wreck
age. Both Captain Larsen and Sven
were certain that nothing could be
done for her; and as the vessel was
sinking rapidly and there was not a
moment to spare, the lifeboat was
lowered and my Minna's mortal re
mains were relinquished, to be car
ried down to the bottom of the sea.
I got myself together as well as
I could, and In my cabin Sven and
his father told me what had oc
curreu from the time I left Stock
holm.
"If you had only written!" said
Sven. "We received but one letter
from you, and after that —silence."
"Heavens, man!" I exclaimed, "I
wrote i! score of letters begging: for
some token from any of you."
"Hans has been doing nothing but
writing to Minna, or of Minna, or
been painting her portrait," broke
in Fritz, who had also been a fam
iliar friend of the family," and whose
Red blood and
Together they'll smash a path to Berlin! But if the whole-hearted,
whole-pursed support of the people at home is lacking, our next
problem is whether Philadelphia or New York will be the first
slaughter pen of the invading Hun.
Don't laugh at the possibility! You'd have laughed in 1913 had
someohe said that Germany, matched against four, Great Powers of
Europe, could overrun Belgium, Servia, Roumania and Poland, drive
the Russians back to their capital and swarm the northern
provinces of France!
A million men —yes, five million —may spring to arms, but they
must have arms to spring to: rifles, clothing, food, blankets, cannon,
munitions. Our war program calls for $3,000,000,000 at once;
but that program isn't worth a whoop if you and I and the rest of
us don't get together, now , and back it up!
Remember — it's a loan your Government asks, not a gift! Your
response to the First Liberty Loan was magnificent! Show by
your response to the Second that you want these soldier sons of
ours to have a fair chance—that you still want to win this war for
Democracy !
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respect and admiration for Minna
were second only to my own.
'•Well, we never received any let
ter after the one in which you an
nounced that although you were ga
ing into the U-boat service you ex
pected to be back in Stockholm be
fore long." said Captain Larsen.
"Who could ever have thought
that this cursed war would drag
along to such a Godforsaken length,"
I said.
"Well," said Captain Larsen,
"Minna tried to bear the separation
from you bravely, but pined away
gradually. She did not complain,
and after a while she even ceased
to talk much about you, because she
knew that we believed you had
simply dismissed her from your
mind, and she could not bear the
thought of having anybody say an
111 word about you.
"Last Pecembor my wife died: And
this, added to the other heart an
guish, threatened to break flown my
poor girl altogether. With hollow
eyes and sunken cheeks she looked
like one who had undergone a long
siege of severe illness. I had pur
chased the controlling interest In a
schooner, the Baldar—the one you
ha ve just sunk—and decided to take
Minna along on my cruises. Sven
acted as my mate.
v "We were coming from the West
Coast of Africa, laden with a gen
eral cargo for England. Three
months of lifo at sea had brought
the roses back to Minna's cheeks
and she was beginning to look again
like her own beautiful self, just as
when you first saw her. Joy seemed
to be getting ready to return to u>
when—such are the uncertainties
of life!—you crossed our path and
blasted my happiness forever."
When Larsen said that his wife
had died it recalled to my mind the
peculiar part she had played in my
dreams. I told him about my see
ing her standing afar off and beck
oning to Minna to join her, and that,
arter an explosion I saw Minna by
her mother's side, wafting kisses at
us.
"It was undoubtedly a dream of
the prophetic kind," said Fritz, "and
although we were not skilful in in-
OCTOBER 24, 19T7.
it at the time it is very
plain nor whet relevancy the various
phases of the dream bore to the
roallty which was to come."
After hours of conversation in
which we tried to console one an
other for the loss which meant so
much to us all, we filled the life
boat with all needed supplies, and
Captain I.arsei, Sven and the rest of
th hapless Baldar's crew pulled
away from the submarine, bound
toward the English coast.
I went back to my cabin to enter
into the diary the agonizing events
of the day, but had written only a
few lines when u mist came before
my eyes and then oblivion. Fritz
and Kaempfcr were at my bedside
when I opened my eyes again. Three
days had passed, and if I had not
recovered consciousness, when I did,
Fritz said, they had arranged that
he was to take the boat bock to
the bas<* to afford me an Opportunity
for more adequate nursing than
"two such helpless male bears as
Kaompfer and I could bestow upon
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hearts!
1917—12 April
Would to God my vocabulary con
tained nothing but curses! What if
the world become to me but a helU
First Minna, and now her brother
my poor good friend Sven, and ten
of his crew! I have come to hate
the name of the Kaiser, and of Tlr
pitz and that whole damned banc
of war hellions. Duty, duty, noth
ing but duty! Not a word aboui
humanity! Killing, torpedoing, blow,
ing up with shells and bombs—mur
dering, day in and day out, all th<
year around! God, how tired I air
of it all? And for what? Just be
cause on 6 ruler doesn't want to giv<
in to another ruler.
I say, God's curse rest upon all o
them! If I must kill I'll kIU like i
tiger. I'll torpedo everything tha
comes my way. Tliey are all bowl
for liell, anyway. So I'll do my dut;
with a vengeance and with tru
Prussian thoroughness.
(To Be Continued)
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