The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
LIBERTY FIRE
WILL BURN HERE:
A BIG BONFIRE CELEBRATION
AT MUNICIPAL FLAG POLE
TUESDAY EVENING AT
SIX O'CLOCK

In accordance with the plans and
direction of the Moman's National
Liberty Loan Committee at Washing
ton, Liberty Fires" will be lighted
Tuesday evening all over the Nation
On the eve of Liberty Day." October
24th set aside by proclamation of the
President. Cordele will be in line
with this beautiful observance. Prof.
Nicholson will assemble tho school
children for the occasion and Miss
Fakes will lead them in several pa
triotic songs.
Every organization in the city,
whether patriotic, fraternal or rolig-
ious is asked to be present and take
part in this Liberty Bond Fire Cele.
braticn. Every man, woman and child
in the community is urged to leave
everything off at siz o'clock Tuesday
evening and go to Liberty Bond Cele-
bration, and thereby show loyalty to
the President, Government, and to
"our cause"
In every city, town and village, and
at every crossroad and country school
house of the United States boi1fires
will be lighted on the night of Tues
day, October %, by direction Of the
local officers of the Womans LIB
erty Loan Committee, for the double
purpose of calling attention to the
fact that the Second Liberty Loan of
1917 will close on Saturday, October
27, and of symbolizing the truth that
America is keeping alight the fires
of liberty.
Miss Mary Synon, executive secre-
tary of the Woman's Liberty Loan
Committee, and the originator of the
Liberty Fires" idea, has instructed
the federal reserve districts, the state
! and county local chairmen OF the
Committee to make the bonfire cele-
bration on the eve of Liberty Day,
October "a, an occasion of vital pa
triotic significance as we'll as a high
point in the Liberty Loan campaign.
"The fires of St. John, to those bea-
cons of faith which have burned on
the hills of Europe for twenty centpr,
les, have been trampled to ashes by
the tread of the armies Of invasion
and devastation. For the first time
in the history of Christianity the EN-
bers from which on st. Johns Eve
the peasant women Of the world took
living Goals to their own hearthstoneS
failed to glow lest they bring down
the shells from the enemy's aircraft.
For the women overseas the fires may
not be kindled till the war In done.
But the women of America hold the
duty of blazoning to the, world the
truth of Liberty, of keeping alght
the fires of freedom. That we may
not forget that duty and that we may
the better understand that the Liber-
ty Loan is not merely good invest
ment but sacred obligation of patriot
ism and promise to those who fight
for us and with us in the struggle
OF right against might, we women of
The United States will set upon the
hills of our country on the eve of
Liberty Day beacons which will flame
out our belief in the righteousness of
our cause; and from the embers we
will take to our homes the Goals of
courage and of determination to
make sacrifices for that liberty which
our land is keeping alight for the.
guidance of a darkened world"
Mrs. E. M. Espy who is chairman
of the Womans Liberty Loan Com
mittee here, has asked Dr. A. L. Nc
Arthur to act as chairman of the
Bond Fire Celebration and he has ac-
ISOLATED with him Col NJ M. Fakes
and Mr.. F. L. Bartholomew.
The following interesting program
will be carried out:
Assembly call $50 p. m.
Music by band.
"The occasion" A. L. Macarthur
America" sung by school children,
lead by Miss Fakes.
minute Liberty Loan men:
First Speaker, Hon. w. H. Doris.
Star Spangled Banner" sung by
school children.
Second speaker Jas. H. Brown.
Columbia" sung by school children.
Third speaker, Judge E. F. Strozier{
Music by band. 81
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