Connecticut western news., 1917-10-25


 create state wide interest and patriot ism. not only in the war and Liberty Bonds, but in the conservation of food, as we'll.
 Monday morning several ladies nder the leadership of Mrs. John G. Adam, chairman of the Women's Liber- ty Loan Committee, canvassed the town for subscriptions to the Liberty Bonds. The success with which this committee has met is very gratifying and speaks we'll for the patriotism of the people of this town, but we are still far short of the amount allotted to this town.
 Mrs. Adam, reports that the ladies who are canvassing, have distributed many application blanks, but how many will buy bonds, she is unable to state. The sale of bonds is still far short of the required amount. and everyone is urged to do their share.
 In the evening, the North Canaan Home Guard led by the Canaan band, paraded through the principal streets of the town, rendering patriotic selec. tions. and incidentally eliciting much applause from the people who had gathered on the line of march. March. ing to the town hall, they were seated in body in the center, where seats had been reserved, and were again heartily applauded.
 The hall was fille1 to the doors, and after the singing of SC, eral patriotic songs in which all present took part, the speaker of the evening, Hon. Ones. ter Dewitt Pugsley, of Peekskill, N. Y., was introduced by J. Henry Roraback.
 In his Introduction MT. Roraback stated that when the war started in 1914, there were many optimists in the country, ard that some of them had explained tie meaning of the word "optimist" as a person who could not see the other fellows. troubles. The time for this eh1and of optimism is past, and we must one and all make the problems of our allies, ou1 prob lems also. He stated that Canaan has nothing to apologize for and that he was not there to apologize for her.
 Continuing his review of events in connection with the war, in which Canaan has taken a very important part, MT. Roraback was given thun- derous applause, when he remarked that Canaan had given dollar to the Red Cross for every man, woman and child in the town, record not equaled by any other town in the state; that in the recent campaign for books the town had given 300 per cent more than it was asked for, and when the draft came, the town has given the flower of it's manhood, good, stalwart boys. "The town of North Canaan has nothing to apologize for, but @ must have more money", continued MT. Roraback. "The boys in the trenches must have food and clothing, and the government is asking you to lend it money to buy these necessities".
 Hon. Chester Dewitt Pugsley then gave an address, which was interest ing, and showed thorough knowledge of the subjects on which he spoke, but was more of political speech than an address to arouse the. patriotism of the audience. His address in part, was as follows:
 ''It is very vital that the Liberty Loan should be as widely absorbed and distributed as possible in order that the least possible derangement may take place in the present investments of the country. People should save and buy bonds and, if necessary, anti. cipate their income in so doing on the instalment plan provided by the Treas ury Department for subscription, or in the cases where the local banks have an arrangement to carry the bonds on a dollar or two dollar weekly install ment basis, rather than withdraw funds from savings banks and commer- cial banks which, in turn, causes these banks to iquidate their investments and depresses the price of securities in the market. It is also desirable, if a person has a small number of the bonds, to sell these through their local bank, as they are now quoted only a fraction of one per cent under par, and reinvest in the new issue, thus taking a larger amount of it than they other. wise would, if they did not adopt th1s method, and merely invested whatever they could save in the new issue. Com. mittees in each community to secure the interest of professional men and merchants and labor unions is also very desirable. We must have capital to successfully carry on the war, and it is the duty and obligation of every person who possibly can to take part in this natter.
 "At the same time it is we'll for us to look beyond the period of the war -s
 ton of the world after the end. which must some day be reached. One of the proposals along this line is that of world federation such as the world parliament of which the Hague con-