The Ordway new era., 1918-04-12
Liberty Loan Drive


ty was inagurated by a big Liberty
parade and an address Saturday
night. The parade formed at the
school house and marched through
Main street to the speakers stand in
front of the Princess theater. 1t was
lead by the drum corps and boy
scouts with a British tank as guard.
The business men and the Liberty
Bond committee followed: M. T. Nell
son, chairman in charge of the Bond
drive for the Ordway district pre-
sided as chairman of the meeting and
introduced the speakers following a
short talk outlining the Bond cam
paign. Mr.. Tinney of the American
Red Cross gave short talk and was
followed by Prof j. F. Keating of
Pueblo. the speaker of the evening
who gave a stirring and eloquent
patriotic address. Prof. Heating has
three sons in the service and his talk
was sincere and earnest.
Sergeant-Major Lowry, of the Ca
madam Army, spoke in Ordway last
Saturday afternoon and was greeted
by large audience who patriotically
cheered his loyal remarks. He arose
in an automobile before his audi
ence, clad in full uniform of the rank
a heart to heart talk. Major Lowry
had seen service in the trenches and
went cover the top" and into the
death-dealing gas fumes early in the
war before gas helmets were used
He told of some of his experiences,
and his address was as follows:
II don't feel that l am a stranger
when speaking to an American audi
nee; this country and mine are weld
ed together with the ties that can
never be broken. We are engaged
| jointly and inseparably in a struggle
for democracy; for decency, for civ
ilization.
Naturally feel proud of the quick
and enthusiastic response Canada
made to the call of our great Kichen-
er following the declaration of war
by our mother country against the
degenerate Hun on August 4, 1914
Lord Kitchener called upon Canada
for $4,000 armed and equipped men
to cross the Atlantic and join in the
war. Before the time of the mob
ilization of the $4,000 one hundred
thousand of our young men had vol
unteered. After the curtailing pro-
cesses had cut the number to the last
possibility with elimination examina-
tions, there were still remaining 3d.
900. I shall always be grateful that
1t was my lot to be one OF that 3d.
900, all but 5000 of whom are Sleep
ing the everlasting sleep on the 9TH
er side of the sea.
occasionally you hear people ask
what Great Britain has done in this
war with her great fleet. / answer
she has done more with her sea fore
es than perhaps any other single ag-
ency to hold back the Hun from
on MI 1ISl -,
he has. Our original $4,000 men
were conveyed by eight battleships
which so protected us that not man
lost his life enroute. Later Canada
sent 100000 without the loss of one
on the ocean. so perfect was the pro-
lection. Great Britian gathered from
the first up to the present time 1000,
900 men from the four corners of
the earth to fight in this war, with a
loss of less than five thousand in
transit. Beside this Great Britian's
fleet has forced the horrible Hun.
after his half century of preparation,
face of the water. and dive like the
villainous shark that he is"
The speaker urged his hearers to
endeavor to realize the awful possi-
bilitfes of this war, and in so doing
painted word pictures of. the climatic
and other conditions under which our
soldiers and those of our allies are
fighting the battle for all Liberty
loving peoples now and hereafter.
He recounted many instances
where under the most adverse physi-
cal conditions. the soldiers of democ-
racy have performed feats of bravery
and self-sacriffce such as the world
has never known before.
II have no compuncation in asking
you II necessary, to sell your prop
erty in order to buy Liberty Bonds"
was one of his striking appeals for
the third national loan.
You need not worry about your
boys coming home demoralized Men
who are loyal enough and brave
enough to face the poisonous gas,
the murderous schrapnel, the watery
and verminN infested trench, the cur
tain fire. the trench motar, the over
head bombs and all the other tor
turous and death-dealing devices of
the terrible Hun; men who can and
do without flinching endure such
things for humanity, are not the
sort of men that can be spoiled"
Great praise was given by the
speaker for the Red Cross and other
organizations that are administer
ing to the fighting men. and told of
many incidents of marvellous sacri-
flee and wonderous bravery of those
SO engaged.
Though but "a years of age. Serg-
eant-Major Lowry went thru the bat
tie of Yypres and many others. and
during one of the Ypres fights he
was so seriously gassed that he says
he thereby lost two-fSths of his ply
steal self; also he stated that prac-
tically two-fifths of>his life so far
has been devoted to his country in
various capacities. He has met the
German face to face, and bayonet to
bayonet; he knows the nature and
the characteristics of the foe full