The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-22
DR.. Craighead's Appeal at
Liberty Loan Mass Meeting
Has Ready Response.
DIR. SISSON DENOUNCES
METHODS or PRUSSIA
Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Moore and
Mrs. Thompson Ad-
dress People.

That hundreds Of the people of this
city are behind the Liberty Loan cam
paign was indicated yesterday after
noon, when the audience at the Mis-
soula theater rose to their feet when
DR.. r. 3. Craighead. former president
Of the university. concluded his ad-
dress by asking how many in the
audience were going to buy bonds.
The meeting held yesterday after
noon in the Missoula theater was fea-
tnred by the patriotism Of the speakers
and citizens who attended. Attorney
Charles II. Hall presided at the meet
ing and DeLoss Smith of the nniver-
sity faculty led the singing of the
Star Spangled Banner and Amer
ca."
Following the opening address by
Mrs. j. Wilson Moore. chairman of
the Woman's Liberty Loan commit
tee, in which she outlined the work
that is being planned by the women,
Mrs. rylar B. Thompson chairman of
the National Defense committee for
Missonla, made a stirring address.
I'VE have sent away our boys into
the trenches OF Europe" said Mrs.
Thompson, "and today we are here TO
encourage you people TO loan the gov
ernment money 10 take care Of our
boys"
Mrs Thompson declared it time that
the people of Missoula think of using
the old car for another season and
making last winters suit de again and
take the money to invest in Liberty
bonds.
Mrs. Hall Speaks Effectively.
Mrs. Charles Hall was the next
speaker. She opened her address by
declaring that the Missoula women
are ready to help out in any way they
can TO make the Liberty Loan cam
paign a success.
1.-THE women OF Missoula want some
thing tangible to work WITH" said Mrs.
Hall. I'VE are tired of the abstract
and we want to get into this thing and
be of some material aid. There is an
other thing that the American woman
wants and that is to have those Amer
lean boys brought home again.
I'VE have often heard it said that
knighthood is dead. but let me tell YOU
that it is more alive today than ever
before. Those young men who are
giving up their vocations are real cru
saders and are on the quest of that
great principle known as democracy.
"lt is the common weed by the road
side that is blossoming into the flower
and it Is the youth from the farm,
from the grocery store, from the work
bench, who is making this great army
for democracy.
1T Is up to you to pay the debt that
YOU owe to the country, that you owe
to the soldiers who are fighting ir
France for you and the debt that you
owe to God who made you n man. AnG
by paying this debt in the form OF
buying Liberty bond YOU will bt
bringing those soldiers from the mouth
of hell back to the arms of theil
mothers, wives and sweethearts."
For fun five minutes the applause
resounded through the theater whel
Mrs. Hall stopped speaking. Then
when it had almost subsidized, the tru'
significance of her words seemed t
broke ont again.
What Manner Of World?
What manner of world are we t
live on?" was the subject of the ad
dress delivered by DR.. SisSon. Dl
Ssson's talk follows. in part:
Let us face the issue: let us refus
10 be blinded by loose talk and evasion
or by the deliberate frauds of hostil
propaganda. This war is to decid
what kind of a world we and our chill
dren shall have to live in--whether
is to be Prussian world or an Amer
lean world. whether it is to be an au
tocratic and militaristic or n demo
cratic and human world. whether it
10 be patterned after the Declaratio
Of Independence or after the com
mands of the kaiser and his Gott. Al
we and our children to live in u worl
such as Washington and jefferson an
Lincoln dreamed Of and labored for, {
in a Hohenzollern world? This is tt
very heart OF the present world agony
shall We do our part"
DR.. Ssson pointed out that the mo
illustrious gifts that Germany h:
made to the world were nothing
modern Prussianism and that Il
great writer's. composers and artis
sprung from small states where g.,
Prussianism was felt.
The speaker then went into a revie
Of the history Of Prussianism and no
it dated hack to the small communi
of Brandenburg and how it gre
through clever intrigue and polite