The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-10
BRITISH SOLDIERS WILL SPEAK AT THE SPEED-UP MEETING Mass Meeting at Jefferson Tomorrow in Interest of
 Increased Production EVERYONE INVITED
 TO HEAR MESSAGE Forney Johnston to Preside ana Introduce Speakers-Lieutenant
 Choyce Presented With
 Loving Cup

q have heard many patriotic speeches since the war began, said | B. A. Monaghan, who has charge of arrangements for speakers sent here by | the national service section of the United States shipping board "but l have never heard any that took hold | of an audience like the speeches Of Lieut. H. G. Milsom and Lieut. A. Newberry Choyce. I have been With them at their appointments yesterday and today and I have seen men, hard ened, unsympathetic, with nerve ot steel, with tears streaming down their cheeks as they listened to the terrible stories told by these two wonderful British soldiers. They are moving the people, manufacturers and working | men, as nothing else has ever moved them before. What they tell you strikes into the very soul.'
 This is the verdict passed on the two young soldiers sent here to aid in speeding up production, by busi- ness man who is not easily moved by perfervid oratory.
 PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS | Lieutenants Milsom and Choyce will l be the principal speakers at the Jeff l ferson theatre tomorrow night at tine mass meeting called by the Birming- | ham Metal Manufacturers association. Lieutenant Choyce is an Englishman who joined the army at the beginning 1 of the war and was wounded and inca l pacitated for further active service | while fighting in France.
 Lieutenant Milsom was born in Ire land, jointed the First Canadians in Saskatchewan. was gassed in the first l drive on Calais in 1915, and during the | battle of the Somme and while a pri- 1 vate, was called up by the general com manding and commissioned a lieuten-
 ant for gallantry. was subsequently | wounded and invalided home. And be- ! cause of all this and the further fact 1 that he is now in the United States
 doing his bit" towards speeding up protection, Howard l. Beal, the pep 1 dispenser" of the squad, dubs him the cosmopolitan.
 i Lieutenant Milsom, who made his | first speech from any platform in Jan uary, was then sent on a speaking tour 1 of Canada from the east coast to tie l Pacific. thence back to Ottawa and to | l to over 100000 people, according to of ficial estimates, 1S.Oo0 being in one l of his audiences. In the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives he teamed with such notables as former President Taft Enrico Caruso. John Mccormack, Mary Pickford, Sidney Drew and Gyp- sy Smith. and is now on tour of the United States under the direction of the United States shipping board. He will go to Atlanta tomorrow from there to New York, thence across the continent to Oregon, down the Pacific coast through California, and thence eastward by the southern route to New Orleans and probably back to Birming- ham. PRESIDENT WILSON When leaving France for Canada his general expressed the hope that he would be able to see that great man, Presi- dent Wilson," and said Lieutenant Nilsson last night at the Tutwiler, "a few months ago I wired from Washing ton to my general, I was with President Wilson 20 minutes today"
 Forney Johnston will preside at the Jeff ferson theatre meeting tomorrow night
 engagements, invites everybody to be on
 hand promptly at S:3O o'clock, when the speaking will begin.
 This speaking trip of ours is not di- rected at the working people alone'' said MT. Zeal last night, but it is intended for the manufacturer, the merchant. the professional man, the skilled and the un- skilled workman, the women, and, in fact, for everybody. We have all got to do our duty. We want everybody to hear the message these two able young | officers bring to you.''
 ADDRESS EMPLOYEES | Tiautenant Choyco and unrrar.a Do,, addressed the employees at the Cruse-
 Crawford and Birmingham Machine and l Foundry plants yesterday, while Lieu
 tenant Milsom and Sidney Story. district service manager of this district of the
 national service sections of the United
 States shipping board, addressed the em- poyes at the Hardie-Tynes and Joubert-
 Goslin Machine and Foundry plants. | Mr. Story. MT. Beal and Lieutenants Choyce and Milsom were guests of the | Kiwanis club at luncheon at the Soutn- ern club, and at 8 o'clock in the after noon MT. Beal and Lieutenant Choyce delivered addresses before the women's l committee of the council of defense in
 the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel. | Today at Il 80 a. m. MT. Story and 1 Lieutenant Milsom will speak at the United States Cast Iron Pipe companys | plant and MT. Beal and Lieutenant | Choyce at the American Cast Iron Pipe company's plant. At o'clock this after
 noon they will all be at the American l Forging company, the Johnson-Barry | Steel company and the Southern Pipe and Foundry company plants.
 1 While at the Hardie-Tynes company's s plant yesterday Lieutenant Choyce was I the recipient of silver loving cup. the gift of the officers and employees of the company.
 MT Beal is service director of the na- ] ton service section of the United States | shipping board as they say, in the army
 without command. but subject to duty wherever he may be ordered. Since com ling to Birmingham he has acquired the title of Pep Dispenser" given him by
 MT. Monaghan because of the pep dis played in his work.
 |DESERTER, TIRED OF
 HIDING, GIVES UP