The Coconino sun., 1918-09-27
OCTOBER l2TH WILL
 BE LIBERTY DAY

The President has decided that Sat urday, October 18th, the anniversary of the discovery of our country, shall be known as Liberty Day." This af- lords splendid opportunity for each community to arouse the enthusiasm of its citizens, and to stimulate an in- tense interest in the Liberty Loan campaign.
 Each county will carry out its own program, and the county chairmen will make arrangements to get in touch with the people suggested by Wash lngton. Workers should correspond with the county chairman in their respective counties. The chairman for Coconino county is T. E. Pollock.
 The letter from Washington fol- lows:
 Tt has been our custom, as you know, to select the second Friday of our Liberty Loan drives as Liberty Day.
 For the Fourth Liberty Loan we have adopted the plan suggested by the United States Bureau of Educa- tion to designate Saturday, October 18th, the anniversary of the discovery of our country, as Liberty Day.
 "The Treasury Department, in coop eration with the United States Bu- reau of Education, will request every school district in the United States city, town and country-side-to ar range for the celebration of the dis covery of America with appropriate harvest home festival.
 There is logical unity between both of these ideas and the Liberty Loan. When the people of a com munity recount the fruits of their summers labor they will naturally ask themselves what share of them they ought to invest in Liberty Bonds. When they come to realize what the discovery of America has meant to them personally, what it has meant for the cause of freedom and democ- racy, what it will mean for the sal vation of the world in the present world tragedy, when they begin to feel all this, they must of necessity say, this is worth investing in, worth 1 fighting for; worth making any sac rifice for.
 iO SiCdlt tillc SIdlG VI iIllffu JIlt purpose of celebrating the discovery of America. It is our hope that the nationwide celebration will stir such enthusiasm over Americas mission in the world as to enable each community to reach at least its quota by that day. Let every local community make this its goal and on Liberty Day announce the achievement and rejoice over it.
 "The Bureau of Education, at the request of the Treasury Department, is preparing suggestions for harvest home festival celebration and has the facilities for mailing them to almost every one of the 100000 schools in the United States. The harvest home festival is our earliest form of Ameri- can celebration, before cities were built, and it would be a distinct gain to carry the idea over into city life. | The characteristic harvest of the city | is not fruit or grain, but the products of social life, like commerce, arts, music, architecture. City and county communities will of course celebrate the day each after its own fashion, but the harvest home idea applies equally to both. Whatever commun- ity's particular type of product may be, on Liberty Day it's aim should be to reap harvest of dollars for democ- racy. On this day we meet not as city or country people but as citizens, all united for the single purpose of serving the nation by devoting part four products to its needs.
 "There is something vastly inspiring | in the thought of all the local neigh borhoods in the United States meet ing the same day on the basis of citi- zenship with united devotion to the l ideals for which America stands. "Mo- rale is to force as three is to one," said Napoleon. To mobilize the spirit of America is of paramount impor- tance. October 18th furnishes the oc- casion for expressing the nations spirit in definite terms of service to meet the nations present need.
 "The idea is big, the opportunity is great, the time is short. Will you please use every effort to make this the most successful national celebra- tion since the war began?"
 Stop This.
 In contrast to our ideas of liberty and fair dealing in all things:
 It was Germany that torpedoed neu- tral ships.
 It was Germany that torpedoed hos pital ships and field hospitals.
 It was Germany that shot hostages.
 It was Germany that used explosive bullets.
 It was Germany that dropped the first bombs on noncombatants.
 Such outrageous war practices by Germany have allied 28 countries against her.
 The Liberty Loans will provide a way to stop Germany.
 H. j. M'CLUNG,
 Cfata Chairman