The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-07

her Talk ny leadlng the au0lence III
the singing of national airs, and she
was recalled time and again.
The Loyalty Drive.
The On to Victory" loyalty drive
which the North Dakota Council OF
Defense has undertaken was Secre
tary F. %. Hellstrom's topic.
"The blood of North Dakota's sons
already has been shed on the fields
of France, consecrating them to the
cause Of Liberty. Minot, Wilton, eros
by and Bismarck<each have lost boy
on the field, of honor. If our army OF
soldiers has as much fortitude, as
much faith and as much self.sacrific
ing loyalty as the mother of that Bis
marck boy who said: I don't know OF
any better way for my boy to have
died. not all the Huns and the van
dals in christendom could make a
single blotch on our escutcheon.
1--WE must awake, Unless We do
there will be a barbarian brute knock
ing at your door, and he will not only
wrest from you your property and
your family's honor, but he will load
you with chains which you must hand
down to your children and your chill
drer's children to, the end of time
Bread is the weapon which can now
be used with most telling effect
against the enemy, and we can raise
the bread ~. -,
Arguments as to the profits in rails
ing rye or barley or oats or corn or
fax in preference to wheat, which Sec
rotary Helstrom declared had appear
ed in certain newspapers and other
publications he branded as rank pro-
German propaganda. One way for us
to show our patriotism is to show the
world now much wheat we can raise
said the speaker. "Our people can well
afford to raise wheat at the price fixed
by the government-we can afford to
rAlse wheat and take chances of never
getting dollar out of it." H."
or the loyalty drive, Mr.. Hellstronl
declared lis purpose is to ask every
male resident of North Dakota over
the age of 16 to sign reaffirmation
of the oath Of allegiance, pledging in
addition his life and everything he
possesses in support of the govern.
ment I'VE are gong to prove that
every mar is with us, or we are 20.
ing to give him an opportunity to
prove that he is against us. II he is
against us, # he cannot sympathize
with lis in this struggle, we will see
that he gets his wish, and has an op,
portnlnity to 60 over there to Berlin
among those Re worships."
The Liberty Loan.
i J. l.. Bell, Bismarck district chair
man for the third Liberty Loan cam
paign, sroke Of wars as won with sill
YER tu:]ets, al 0rding to Lloyd George,
or, to Al1ericanize it, that victory
goes to the nation. with the longest
politics This war will be won," he de-
clared, not by Bryan's zone million
en.battleu farmers of the northwest
Swinging to their muskets, but by
these same farmers springing to their
ploN-handles."
re tcld of the spring campaign of
1917, when, for lack OF organization,
North l'akota' subscribed only $780,
600; and he told of the glorious cam
paigr Ct the fall of 1917, when North
Eakota, organized and ready, exceeded
hy = per cent, its $6,70O,000 quota.
Contagious enthusiasm helped; men
savel who had never saved before, not
through a sorlid spirit of accumula-
ton, but through high patriotic mo.
tives They took their bonls home
the first government bonds many of
them had ever Owned-anl they car
ried home with these bonds a feeling
that they were part Of the govern
ment-co-operators, or partners with
the government In the next campaign
we intende to ask people to buy bonds
who can buy bonds. People who last
fall could not or would not buy bonds
will be given the opportunity to show
where they stand"
Our Boys Over There
H. p. Goddard's Red Cross talk OPEN
ed with prayer for Our Boys, Over
There"
There's million and a half of
them gone away from home. We're
here tonight, with bright lights, and
good cheer; we will 60 home to COM
Portable bed and peaceful nights.
sleep: we will rise tomorrow morning
and 90 about our business. Tonight,