Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
SOUSA'S BAND HERE
T0PLAY FOR LOAN
$50 Naval Musicians Come
From the Great Lakes
Training Station.
SEVERAL CONCERTS TODAY

Lieut.. John Philip Sousa, with his
famous Naval Band of $50 pieces, from
| the Great Lakes training station, IS
awakening Washington today to inter
est in the liberty loan, by giving four
/ concerts, at each of which men proml-
/ nent in the national life have made or
| will make addresses calling the atten-
| ton of the citizens to their patriotic
duty to support the recommendation
govcrnment-in this war.
| One of the most important OF these
meetings was at the Washington navy
ward. where Secretary of the Navy
Daniels addressed "a mass meeting OF
more than 5000 employees. He urged
the purchase of liberty bonds as the
greatest war measure than can be
taken by those who cannot go to the
fighting line.
Expects Navy to Win War.
THE Importance of the United States
Navy to the nation is as the sun 10 the
earth" said Mr.. Daniels. we who
stay at home must realize how small
thing the spending of few dollars 1or
a liberty bond is compared with those
men and boys who have undertaken the
great adventure. When l think OF the
million men who have enlisted since
the declaration of war, who VII! nsht
in the mud of the trenches and man
the guns of our Navy. by own small
substitution seems fnfinitesimal.
But it is by these small contributions
that the war will be won. 1t is the
money of the people invested IN the
bonds backed by the nation which we
rely on to wipe the curse Of Prussian-
ism from the face of. the earth, and our
Navy is the unanswerable argument. AS
I stand here with not only sailors OF
the United States. but men who rank
lust as high in my opinion. the men
who make the guns and torpedoes for
the protection of the country. feeling
comes over me that this war will be
won by our Navy. and you are the peo-
pie who must get behind 1t. Twenty
United States sailors, including Joseph
Eopolucci of Washington. already have
given their lives to the cause of de-
mocracy, and they have not shed their
blood in vain. We should and do stand
behind the President with our last dol
righteousness.
Thrift and Patriotism.
Advocating thrift. Secretary Daniels
said
II hope we shall never return to the
period of low wages and cheap agri-
cultural products, but we ought to re-
turn to the days of high thinking and
plain living, putting aside every week
for a rainy day some portion OF our
earnings. If the war should convert
this republic from it's 1avishness in ex-
penditure and it's wanton extravaganza.
that would at least palliate some OF its
ills.
Patriotism is an incentive to saving
today. A million boys have been with
drawn from gainful occupations and
have needed the call to the colors. We
who remain at home should increase
production to make up the loss caused
by their response, We are under the
compulsion of good citizenship to see
that they are supplied with food and
clothes.
Men cannot escape the draft or
dodge the taS-gatherers, but there Is
no compulsion to buy liberty bonds.
Therefore, purchase OF liberty bonds is
the measure of voluntary patriotism on
the part of all wage-earners and cap
italists. There are enough men Of
wealth to subscribe to all the bonds is
sued. In former times bond issues were
taken almost exclusively by men of
wealth. 1t was happy thought. in
spired by faith in the people, that
caused Secretary McAdoo to make an
appeal to all the people to become
ifdlLclal partners IN the great enter
prise OF this war for enduring peace by
investing a portion of their earnings in
liberty bonds.
"A government per cent bond Is the
best security in the world. as sound as
any gold of Ophir, and the man who
makes sacrifice to buy a bond is helping
his country and at the same time is
helping himself"
Others on the Program.
On the platform with the Secretary
Of the Navy were members of the Dis
trict liberty loan committee. Admirals
Palmer and Earle, Colonel Gulick, u s.
NJ. c.. Commander Marquart and Com
mander Tomb and Captain Willard,
commandant of the Washington navy
yard.