The Harvester World: Volume 9, number 5, May 1918

              The IHC Third Liberty Loan Drive

By Geo. A, Ranney, Treasurer

IN HIS recent message to the organization through The Harvester World, President, Cyrus H. McCormick said:    "Above all else we take pride in our service flag, which  shows that more than 1,500 Harvester men have already joined the colors of the Allied Armies."    The number has grown since then; it is now more than 2,200!
This appraisement will hold good to the end.    No matter what the Harvester; Company is able to do toward winning the war, it must continue to put in first place the contribution made by its soldier employes who have gone into military service, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice if that be necessary. 
Next in valuation must come the war contributions made by our citizen employes in their subscriptions to the Liberty Loans. In this respect the Harvester organization has good reason to be proud of the record it has established. This record shows that employes subscribed for $2,250,000 of the first and second Liberty Loans of 1917, and they have done even better in the third loan, subscribing to a total of more than $2,000,000.
The available figures for the entire U. S. organization on the latest loan show that 33,065 employes out of a total of approximately 35,000 subscribed for $2,187,400, Considering that in any such number there must be a few whose personal circumstances make it entirely impossible. for them to subscribe, this is a record that enables Harvester employes to say that their Ameri¬ canism is practically 100 per cent perfect. Both the Company and the emplo5'es concerned are especially proud of the fact that this percentage was achieved without any aid or solicitation from outside the organization, the "drive" being entirely conducted by the men of the various works and branches themselves.

There is more than a mere business transaction in buying a Liberty Bond. The spirit counts quite as much as the money. Our Government wants all the people to have a specific and personal interest in the war and that is why it is quite as much concerned about the number of subscriptions as about raising the total amounts needed.
The manner and extent of subscriptions by the Harvester organization indicates a clear: understanding of the real meaning and purpose of these loans. They were made with the) right spirit and they will be—they must be—carried out in the same spirit. 
Regarding his subscription to a Liberty Loan as a pledge of practical loyalty, no truly:, patriotic subscriber will hesitate at any sacrifice of comfort or of self in order to meet his' obligation in full and on the exact date when it becomes due.