If you've been following the old newspapers that are posted here, you've seen that there was a 1919 loan campaign even though the war was over.
Perhaps for that reason, at least locally, the Government was having a hard time getting people to subscribe to the loan. In the state, they did pull over the top on it and even exceeded the state's target goal, but it took awhile.
People were likely pretty tired of loan campaigns by this point. Indeed, a little noted item about World War Two is that by late 1944 people were tired of them and the Government was having a hard time getting people to take them out. The famous Bond drive featuring what was thought to be, at that time, the men who had raised the flag at Iwo Jima was actually engaged in for that reason, to boost interest in the loan drive.
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