The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-10-18
LIBERTY SPEAE
ERS ELOQ sENT
SMALL CROWD BUT INTEREST KEEN
Samuel White and X. X. Kubli, Of Port.
land, Arrive by Gasoline Speeder
to Address People Monday

While the audience that greeted
Samuel White and X. X. Kubli, Of
Portland, here Monday night to deliver
addresses on the Liberty Loan cam
paign in celebration of Oregon's Patri-
otic Week, was small, the enthusiasm
of the listeners more than made up for
the limited number present.
Because the Hood River apple har-
vest is at its height, no country people
attended the meeting. Members Of
the local Liberty Loan committee,
however, stated that the nonappearance
of rural residents could not be taken
as a criterion of a lack of Interest,
since orchardists are dailyssubscribing
to the great loan.
The appeals sof the Portland speak,
ers. eloquent and earnest, were greeted
with frequent applause. Calling at
tention to J. X. Carson, Jr., and Sid
ney Carnine, members of 18th Co., o.
c. A., home for brief furloughs, who
occupied seats on the stage at Library
hall, Mr.. White said:
81 am told that 80 men out of your
company of boys have subscribed for
SIS, 900 of the bond issue, plegding
themselves to pay for their bonds out
of their monthly salaries of $50 each.
Those boys are true heroes, their names
should be engraved on marble and
bronze.
G. A. Miller, manager of the Oregon
Liberty drive, arrived at the close of
the meeting for conference with 10
cal bankers.
Because of the impossibility of Sc
cunning audiences at meetings in the
Hood River valley, Mr.. Miller sug-
gested change in the plan of conduct
ing the drive locally. Comforting with
members of the committee, he sug-
gested that flying squadrons, composed
of men of the city, 60 out each even
ing by automobile and call at the
homes of orchardists, pointing out to
them the necessity of participating in
the loan.
BY this means he expressed the be-
lief that material gain could be
shown in subscriptions.
1.-The people in this section" de-
clared Mr.. Miller, ''have as yet not re-
allied the seriousness of the great
war. The government must have the
funds. The people of England and
France have come to the realization
that their nations must be financed
during the progress of the war, and
the people of Oregon should come to
see that they must face a new bond
issue every six months for the continu-
alton of the war. 1t is necessity and
must be met, and every family should
make an appropriation to be devoted
to the purchase of bonds" M
For a time Monday local men in
charge of the Monday evening meeting
feared that it would have to proceed
without Mr.. Kubli and Mr.. White.
First having made preparations for a
luncheon at the Hotel Oregon, a party
of local men assembled at the O.-W.
X. & N. station to await the arrival of
the eastbound Oregon-W ashington lin
tied. The train bowled in as usual,
but Mr.. Kubli and Mr.. White failed to
alight from any of the opened vesti-
bules. The local men knew that the
Highway was closed, so local orators
were set to work preparing thunder
for the mass meeting.
About two o'clock the following tel
ergam was received at the Glacier
office: Missed morning train. Will
be there on special about four
O'Clock. Kubli and White"
The men came as far as Cascade
Locks by automobile. At that point
they were met by a gasoline speed mo-
tor of the O.-W. r. & N. Co. and hur.
rie here, arriving at 4.45 O'Clock.