The Washington herald., 1918-04-17
BIG PUSH FOR LIBERTY
LOAN IS REQUIRED,
TREASURY DECLARES
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which is to be exhibited in Washing
ton in connection with liberty loan
meetings. was shipped from Buffalo.
NY, last night, the committee vas
advised. and IL expected to reach
Washington Friday.
The committee held a conference
yesterday afternoon with Capt. Ross.
Of the Royal Flying Corps. and Sergt
Blunt, both OF the Canadian army,
who are accompanying the tp * in it's
tour OF the country, and discussed
plans for exhibitions here. The tank
has seen service against the "boches"
and it is planned to give demonstra-
tions in Washington Of some of its
stunts"
A big rally OF the Hebrew pop
ulation of Washington is to be held
tonight in the Eighth Street Tenn
pie, when addresses are to be made
by Senator Pomerene, Representa-
tive C. D. Miller and Adolph ].
SABBATH. and DR.. Abram Simon. r.
B. H. Lyon Is chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements.
George Johannes and T. d. Gan
noway are to address a meeting in
the Christ Lutheran Church this
| evening.
Members of the Columbus Coun-
try Club are to be addressed today
by W. c. Sullivan, and c. W. Darr
is to make an appeal at a meeting
of Washington Lodge of Elks.
Frank s. Bright is to address a
meeting at the Petworth Baptist
Church.
speaksx who Saw Service.
Employees of the Washington
Steel and Ordnance Company are to
be addressed in two groups. one at
s and another at $40 this after
noon. by william Mather Lewis,
Colvin Brown and Sergt. Verne
Marshall, the eloquent young news
paper man from Iowa. who has
moved Washington audiences to
tears during the past several days
with his descriptions of the life in
the trenches and the German atrocl-
ties. Sergt. Marshall went to France
in 1915. and served as an ambu-
lance driver. coming back to Amer
lea shortly before this country en-
tered the war, and enlisting as a
private.
Workers Greed.
Eugene E. Thompson, secretary of
the liberty Loan Committee. and
chairman of the speakers commit
tee. is issuing a daily bulletin to the
more than 800 volunteer speakers. In
bulletin No. 4. Just sent out, he pub
fishes the Liberty Loan Workers
Greed. 1t is as follows:
I believe in America and the lib
erty symbolized in the folds of the
Stars and Stripes. I believe in only
one victory and that Is a complete
victory over the treacherous Hun. 1
believe 1t is to be my great privilege
mot duty-to buy liberty bonds with
all the resources at my command.
and further to see to 1t that every
other person is wearing a button of
the third liberty loan. I believe that
Washington will do its best In sub
scribing to the Third Liberty Loan.
but not without my help. believe
that shortly after May 4, Washington
will have enrolled more than 1OO,O0U
bond buyers in the Third Liberty
Loan. believe that am bound by
a solemn duty to devote my entire
time and all that / have to a sue.
cessful liberty loan campaign.
Uncle Sam, take me as am until
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Petworth Rally Planned.
One Of the largest liberty loan rail-
lies to be held in Washington will be
held in the Wallace Memorials Pres
byterian Church. on Friday. April &c.
by the Petworth Citizens Associa-
ton, it was decided at their meeting
held last night. District men, asso-
ciated with the publicity campaign
Of the liberty loan drive and young
Washingtonians who have recently re-
turned from France will address the
meeting.
The high-water mark of 100000
liberty bond sale was passed at Keith's
Theater yesterday. To date the ex-
act amount of bonds subscribed for
at the matching bees" Is sl,026,5OO.
At last nights bee" the largest
amount offered for takers was $4,000
by E. w. Pridley, who pledged the
Dupont National Bank to buy that
amount Of the bonds. Other matchers
were Sidney Bieber and Samuel Book.