New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Mobiles War Spirit Revealed
In Its Greeting to McAdoo
Historic Southern Town Blends the Old With the New
in Answering the Cali of the Secretary
on Tour

',isi put upon the various commu-
mites tie by the Treasury Department.
r. ne stops the Secretary Of the
reasury IS making at wayside sta
IONS grow more frequent and more
eNac''hg. Schools are demobiliZcd and
stores closed to allow village popula-
s.o'iS 20 receive as much Liberty Loan
message as the already fatigued Sec
r. rS'ary can put over in five minutes.
The magic phrase, Were going to
hh'sh the Kaiser, grows more magic
III us power to bring response The
people are IN the fight. and there is
NOT any mistake about 1t.
ny nobody thought of going to the
people in this manner to relieve the
sorely harassed Federal Treasury dur
ing the Civil War even MIR. McAdoo
himself IS unable to tell
tnifying Opinion
tic has commented on it several
times; on the ease with which Chase
might have found the funds for push
ing the wa, with the great advantage
OF unlfylng the fighting morale of the
people IN doing it. ii he had gone out
to Dig up. The stimulating effect of
the Treasury Departments Liberty
Loan tour is fairly obvious. 1t appears
10 unity opinion, to destroy distractinc
doubts and to focus attention on the
common cause
1T you are not more than 25-cent
patriot. when you ought to be a $4,000
patriot declared the Secretary of
the Treasury. then get off the free
SOIL of America and go and live with
tne Kaiser Every patriot should go
to the limit of his means in lending
to the government"
PENSACOLA, a city of some thirty
thousand people, with three broken
banks five years ago, had oversub-
scribed its quota Of 1923 900 five min
utes after 8 o'clock on the morning of
the first day Of the loan campai gn.
South Likes to Parade
The South likes to parade. They
paraded in Jacksonville, and in Pen
sacola they marched the Secretary
through dozen blocks to large ware
house, where several thousand persons
were waiting to hear him.
After the warehouse talk rather
strain upon the voice of the chief act
or. the Pensacola committee took Mr..
McAdoo and his party for yacht ride
in Pensacola Bay.
After the yacht had found it's way
out from the wharves there was
buzzlng overhead and flying boat ap-
peared. First there was one and then
half dozen and then ten flying in
formation. until everywhere in the sky
were airplanes. Over the city how
cred surprisingly wieldy dirgible, a
"blimp" as they've already learned to
call it in Pensacola
america must not By division
chloroform its unity of action" Mr.
McAdoo told his Jacksonville audience.
I'm these times all Republicans and
Democrats. all citizens of all kinds,
look alike to me, provided they are for
America"
Mobile gave Secretary McAdoo the
greatest response he has received in
the six days in the Liberty Loan tour.
! Eighteen thousand persons, represent
ing every interest and section of the
community. marched before the Secre-
tarys party reviewing the parade
from the steps Of the Mobile County
Court House. Before the parade Mr..
McAdoo was taken on tour Of Mobile
Bay and was shown numbers of steel
and wooden ships under construction
on the ways and ready for launching.