Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-18
PLANNING STATEWIDE
 LIBERTY DAY MEETINGS
State Defense Council Is Complying
 With Presient's Proclaim ation.

lSSuSd ITO1i Cno w HUG | House on Sunday, the Connecticut State Council of Defense, through its committee on publicity, has already begun making arrangements for the
 observation of October A as Liberty Day, day on which the president ! urges the people of the nation to semble and Pledge to one another | and to the government the fullest
 measure of financial support such support as will "hearten the men who are to face the fire of battle for us" The mass meetings and rallies of that date will in Connecticut, mark the
 conclusion of the Rally Week" that began "Wednesday with a Statewide War Rally" in Foot Guard hall, Hart ford.
 | Complete details of arrangements for ! the Hartford rally on October A have not yet been perfected, but it is ex- pected that Former President William Howard Taft will be present to make | the chief address.
 The rally in Hartford, to which men and women interested in war work ! were invited from all parts of the state, includes addresses by three speakers of national and international 1, prominence, Countess Laura de Coz dawa Turczynowicz of Poland: Fred erick c. Walcott. first assistant to Herbert c. Hoover in the federal food administration and one, of his former associates in the administration of re- lief in Belgium: and Rabbi Stephen S. " 1Se or New Y Ork.
 Countess Turczynowicz tells first hand tales of the barbaric way in which the German hordes recently overran her native country, what she saw and heard of atrocities committed in the name Of Gott and kaiser by sol dielrs who se:Sad her chateau as a headquarters for Von Hindenburg made her act as their servant and com- nlitted inumerable indignities upon Polish people who we're even less fDv
 lived as non- -combatant amid the worst horrors of what the Germans call war.
 Another story of war as 1t Is wased
 and children is to he told by Mr Wal colt, who has had opportunities for first hand observat tion in Belgium that
 have come to very few men of any country. MT. Walcott has also ac- i.ouired wide knowledge of the com
 pleX food problems that face the peo- pie of the United States a knowledge that enables him to fill very high place in the federal food adn1inistra-
 tlon, and to tell his audience some of
 the means and methods of food econ
 omy that have been evolved by Hoov-
 CTS bureau. Rabbi Wise is an orator
 Of established reputation who is in de-
 mand for notable gatherings in all
 parts of the country.
 Although, in accordance with the
 presidents proclamation, the main
 purpose of the rallies to be held
 throughout the state on October 24
 will be to arouse a deep interest in the
 second Liberty Loan the rallies of
 the week, generally, will, in addition.
 lay stress on the drive being made by |
 the federal food administration to se- |
 cule large number of householders' |
 signatures for the administration | pledge to conserve food. Besides |
 these two objects, the rallies are in i
 tended to arouse the people of Con nd -Sfo what the war means to them what | It's success will mean to their children what part the humblest of them can | play Ill helping to make it a success | and now important it is that each man and woman in Connecticut come to | realization that the crisis of today | needs their most enthusiastic coop- eration today and tomorrow and every i victory rise from the ashes of war.
 Rallies are being arranged for in every part of Connecticut during
 Rally Week." at which all three of | be emphasized by prominent men of this and other states. Several of the rallies will have as features vocal mu- sic by the Liberty Choruses of Con nectlcut; At the statewide rally in Hartford recently, the first of the Lib erty Choruses, 400 voices strong, are singing a number of patriotic selec- tions. 2 including national songs of @AAiACA iSe1 dlllSS. Arrangements for the various ral- lies are being made by a joint com mfttee of the state defence council and the Connecticut Chamber of Com merce with headquarters established in the office of the publicity commit tee or the defense council in the state capitol. The speakers bureau of the special committee, which has an office at the capitol in charge of Arthur E. Bowers for the state Chamber of defense council. has been busy for several days past engaging speakers for the rallies. Already many men of prominence have promised to speak on problems. among them the following:
 Dr. Stockton Axson, brother-in-law of President Wilson and professor of English literature of Rice university Texas; Arthur J. Westermatr, lawyer, of New York city; O. C. Bestor. di- rector of the speakers committee of the Bureau of Public Information, D. C., and president of Ihe Ghautauqua Institute; Chester D. Pugsley. lawyer, of New York city; and president of the Peekskill Board of Commerce; Former United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, : :iona1 bank Of New York city; Con sressnan James P. Glynn: Herbert S. ( Esou ston, first vice president of Double $ lay Page & Co.,, and former president ( ,f the Associated Advertising Clubs of ( he World.
 The schedule of Rally Week" $ allies throughout the state, additions I o which will be announced later. fol- t ows:
 October IT, Statewide rally in Hart C ord: IS, Ansonia: speaker, D-. Stock V on AXton. Willimantic; speaker, Ar i hur J. Westermayr. 19. Milford. speak 9 r, O. c. Bestor Putnam, speaker, Ar | hur J. Westermayr. ThomaSton f peaker, Chester D. Pugsley. Water i 'ury. Dr. Stockton Axton 20, Shomp V onvilie. speaker, O. c. Bestor. 21 r Vinsted. speaker Ex Senator Theo-