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laSPIR|NGLY PATRIOTIC
Widely Educational In Scope, And Un-
like Any Other Exhibit.
Focuses country's Attention.

Focuses country's Attention.
Famous speakers, demonstrations OF
various phases Of war work, by the
Young Mems Christian Association,
American Red Cross, Food and Fuel
Administrations, Young Women's
Christian Association, Vocational
Training experts, Army and Navy,
Munitions Manufacturers, and other,
thrilling motion pictures depicting war
scenes, plenty Of excellent music by
noted bands, and soloists, distinguish
"a visitors-these are just few OF the
numerous striking features of Over
There" the great Liberty Loan Canton
ment which opened at the Fifth Resi-
ment Armory in Baltimore on Satur-
day for a run of several weeks.
Nothing quite equal to the Canton
mont has ever been put across" IN
any other part Of the country. So
stupendous and spectacular is this war
exposition that the attention OF the
entire country has been attracted. In
auiries from other States have been
made regarding 1t and plans for the
show have been sent by the Treasury
Department to every Federal Reserve
Bank in the country.
It is felt that Baltimore has achieved
something that will give impetus to the
third Liberty Loan drive, which is to
be launched on April 6, something, in
fact, that will undoubtedly push Uncle
Sans third financial effort far along
the road to success.
The tremendous crowds which flock
Cd to the Armory on Saturday, its
opening day, witnessed spectacle that
thrilled them through and through.
The INSTALLATION of the war was not
IN easy task, but so excelently and
realistically has this been done that
many visitors to the great show upon
entering the Armory stood spell bound
ct the marvellous reproduction of
sOver There" where stretched before
than The minute person leaves the
16-cent stub Of his 40-cent ticket in the
hands of the door-keeper, it is just like
actually being transported overseas.
To the right lies the battlefield with
It's front line trenches. Through the
trenches Canadian soldiers, but recent
u returned from France, guide visi-
tors who otherwise would be lost in
them. AS visitors are taken through
tho trenches, the Canadians explain
the various guns which are placed in
the same positions they occupy in the
ohac In and chnyU
how they are fired into the enemy's
Hines which sometimes are but few
yards distant. They also show the
communicating trenches, the dug
outs" banked with sand bags, into
which the boys" crawl when the BON.
bardment is particularly heavy, the
gun pits, sentry boxes, listening posts,
parapets, fire step, all phases Of
trench warfare, in fact, are realistical.
" depicted and made all the more real
by the explanations Of the battle-scar.
red Canadian soldiers who talk with
knowledge gained at first hand. Dr.
rsctly in back OF the battlefield is
huge painting of No Mans Land which
the Canadians declare to be so actual
In its likeness to that blood-stained
place that they instinctively shuddered
when they first saw it. The trenches
ut the Armory measure 127 by 81 feet.
To the left Of the entrance lies the
base section. Here one finds the Red
Cross field dressing station, where the
wounded soldiers receive their first
aid treatments before they are taken
- ho-nftoJ Ncor +hic irata-.
esting section there is the Young Mems
Christian Association ''dug-out" where
the "boys" cover There" find their
only recreation and periods of rest. IN
this part of the cantonment also one
ands the Navy Panorama, which at
tracted worldwide attention when it
was exhibited at the Panama-Pacifo
Exposition at San Francisco. This
panorama shows the Navy from the
time Of its inception TO the present
types OF battIeships and golfers. The
panorama is 80 feet in diameter and is
kept in motion on turn tables, operated
by an electric motor Models Of ships
are seen in action on a cleverly paint
cd ocean which with the aid of certain
United States fleet passing in review.
Even the cloud effects are noted and
these add much to the general arts
&tcness and interest of this exhibit.
At the Young Woman's Christian AS
ISOLATION Hostess House, which Is an
exact replica of those now established
ut the Regular Army Cantonnents,
even to the dainty curtains in the win
dows and the blooming window boxes,
hundreds of soldiers from Camp
Meade, through previous arrangement,
met their wives, mothers, sisters and
sweethearts and with them they en-,
3oyed the numerous exhibits and fea-
lures of the cantonment.
The idea Of having some place to
meet ones friends or relatives at the
eantonment has also been very care
fully and thoughtfully worked out by
the Publicity Committee of the Liberty
Loan Committee for Maryland in the
establishment at the Armory of a
county headquarters where visitors
from the county can go upon their ar
rival at the cantonment and meet their
friends or relatives. A sign over the
entrance of the Armory viii direct
county visitors to their headquarters
which will be in charge of repTeseG-
eatives from each county. All one
will have to Go will be to tell which
county he halls" from and nine
chances out of ten he will find some
one thee whom he knows wei enough
to call BY first name