Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-21
NO RIGHT TO PEACE
WITHOUT VICTORY
DR.. Freeman Delivers Ringing
Patriotic Address Before
Virginia Bankers.
YEARS WORK IS REVIEWED
Record Made in Three Liberty
Loans Is Cause for Con-
graduation.
YEARS WORK IS REVIEWED

For the winning OF the war and the
ultimate triumph or right over might.
America is going to fight until the last
man is gone, and is going TO give until
the last silkcn thread in the last gold
certificate in the las, Federal reserve
bank in tho country is stretched taut.
declared Or. Douglas s. Freeman. of
Richmond. addressing the twenty-iifth
annual convention of the Virginia
Bankers Association. which began its
,hree-day session in the Chamberlin
Hotel this morning.
He asserted that this country had
no right to mention peace without
victory, and iha: Americans had no
right 10 think Of victory unless every
one was willing and ready to give
his ALI for the purchase of that VIC
tory. But it is coming: can see il 4"
he said. one OF these days the trans
ports that are now gong eastward
;iilcd with the flower OF the country's
manhood. who are sacrificing their
lives to the cause of the nation, vii!
DC sailing east empty. Then they will
return. bringing back 10 America
those who have bought with their blood
:hc right of our freedom.
OLD CLOTHES SERVICE STRIPES
oF THE CIVILIAN ARMY
Until that time comes We must help
fight; we must fight for those boys
who are lighting for us. We must
cconomize, help the government on
this side and in thousand ways con-
tribute TO the successful prosecution of
the war. Old clothes are the service
stripes of the civilian army. Why. we
could defeat the Kaiser by economy.
and every ono must contribute some
thing. and he should start now. The
sooner VIC change our ways the better.
and may we go back home determined
not less in work than in thought TO
serve the cause. for there never was
n time in the history of the nation
when service meant so much. We
should thank God that IL the war had
to come it came in our generation.
when we could give all that was with
in our power"
DIR. Freeman told the bankers in the
coming Liberty loans they must force
a greater distribution among the peo-
pie OF the bonds, and scathlngiy con-
demned those persons who would not
buy bonds TO help finance the war. He
proposed to print each day in forth
coming loans the names OF American
boys who had giv,n their lives TO the
cause. and by the side OF this roll Of
honor would be published the dis
honor roll" OF those who refused ID
buy bonds. After declaring that every
one should lcngthen their working
days in order to give part of their
tine to The winning of the war, he
sl,o \
TO have the living. not the dead
salute you when The poys came home
again"
GONE OVER THE TOPIN
THREE LIBERTY LOANS
Twelve months ago to-day the Vir-
ginia Bankers Association consecrated
itself to help the government in cvcry,
possible way in the prosecution of the
war. This country's entrance into the
struggle was new then. In the fol-
lowing months bankers have foatcd
three Liberty loans. in which Virginia
has far exceeded it's allotments. and
has done wonderful work in the Red
Cross campaign and all other war en-
war and what could be done to help
all matters discussed.
Captain Arthur Hunt Chute Of the
First Canadian Regiment. described the
warfare waSed By the Germans and
the many atrocities committed by them
and told how the allied armies were
not fighting an army of soldiers but a
horde OF beasts. He described the war
as a titanic struggle between all that
and civilization and between all that
was vile. contemplate and detesta bic
in the beast.
In an impassioned appeal for con-
ccrted effort, which was sent home
with such n clear-cut description of
lighting conditions in the trenches and
the principles for which America is
lighting for alongside England AMI
France, Captain Chute brought pro-
longed applause.
PREPARING FOR I'OpEIGS
TRADE AFTER THE WAR
Warning that this country must not
he forgctful of conditions which will
present themselves in the expansion
Of foreign trade after the war was
sounded by s. II. Voorhees,. vice-pres
dent of the National City Bank, OF New
York He made n short talk OH The
War and It's Effect on World Trade
and. after telling of events leading mp
to the war and the foreign trade as It
existed at that time. he told OF this
country'3 preparations for war. lie
mentioned the great shipping program
now being carried out, and reminded
the banks of the reasons why Americas 8
merchant marine was so small before
the outbreak OF tho war. The great
tonnage now being constructed might
be operated by the government. he said.
or else the purchase Of ships made easy.
Mr. Voorhees, discussed many of tho
problems which make foreign trade ex-
tension difficult. and told how these
obstacles must he overcome.
The convention was presided over to-
day by President w. Meade Addison. Of
Richmond. vicc-president Of tho First
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