Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-12
MUST BACK MEN
WHODO FIGHTING
WITH OUR GOLD
Idle Money Is Placed in the
Stacker Class, Frank Van
derlip Tells Illustrators

New York. Nov 12.-Frank A. Van
derlip, chairman of the committee
which will conduct the campaign by
which the Government expects to
raise $4,000. 0OO, 600 through the sale
of war savings certificates, says the
time has come in the United States
when the man who spends a dollar
uselessly is guilty of an unpatriotic
act.
This country, he SAID, will have "a
whole lot of men in France by spring,
with more following all the time, and
it is the duty of all the people to get
ready to back those men to the lin
it," Eventually, no matter what the
timid and doubters say, the war. Mr..
Nanderlip added, will be won by the
allies.
Mr.. Vanderlp. in the course of his
speech, said:
This nation, as President Wilson
has well said, must be organized
Every man, woman and child in the
country must be part of the great
American organization. for only an
organized nation can whip those
Germans. and whipped they will be.
Dollars are, in their way, all right,
but unless those dollars are trans
lated into guns and workshops and
all kinds of munitions they Will be
of little service.
Dollars are important, and that is
why the campaign which is about to
start to raise $4,000 00O.0 through
the sale of savings certificates is i'm
portant, and this savings scheme
which has been devised by our Gov
ell e1nment is, in my opinion, the great
est savings proposition ever put be-
fore a people in the history of tho
world. The scheme is a lesson IN
economy and thrift to a nation in
clined to be spendthrift.
Congress has appropriated S2,OOO,-
600, 900 to carry on this war, but that
won't win the war Only manpowcr
can do that. We must get the idea
over to our people that the idle dol
lar is a Stacker, and that uselessly
spent dollar is an ally of the Ger
mans. We cannot continue spend
thrift nation and continue doing the
things we have been doing, and stun
have the manpower we Will need IN
this struggle.
I'VE have a great lesson to teach
the reople and we want you TO help
to do IT. we want pOSltlS anu We
want them now. We don't want in
spiration, we want the concrete thlng
to place in the windows of America.
When we wanted a great engine they
did not wait for inspiration but
locked the engineers in hotel room
and told them to get that engine ana
they gave us the Liberty engine, an
engine that is going to deal terri
lie blow TO the Germans
Captain David Fallon, of Australia'
began with a reference to his service
at GalIipolI against the Turks. The
Turks he characterized as generous
and sportsmanlike foe in contrast TO
the kind of a soldier the German mas
proved to be.
Il have seen in Belgium" said Cap
tain Fallon, "a Mother superior VINO
had been crucified in her convert !
saw the body or a poor blacksmith
with his hands pinioned to the stock
on which rested his anvil and bay
onet driven through them. | nave
seen the bodies of women VINO had
been cut to pieces, and we had not
been in Flanders many days when
following an attack in which we lost
some of our brave fellows, we saw
their heads displayed from German
bayonets.'