Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-06
MOST INTENSIVE PROPAGANDA DRIVE
EVER ATTEMPTED STARTS TODAY WITH
BEGINNING OF THIRD LOAN CAMPAIGN

The most intensive propaganda
campaign ever attempted In the
United States is to be carried on
during the third Liberty loan drive,
which officially opened today, by the
speakers bureau of the Ltverty loan
committee throughout the seventh
federal reserve district.
Every state in the district has
been fully organized, with a state
director and county speaking
chairman in each of the counties
under him. More than two thou
sanr Of the best public speakers in
the district have been enrolled and
it is asserted that every man and
woman in any part of the five states
under the Chicago jurisdiction Will
be reached by a direct and forceful
appeal.
Seven hundred and fifty well
known public speakers of Chicago
and Cook county have volunteered to
give their time, without pay, during
the entire drive. This list includes
such men as Clarence S. Darrow,
Edward A Bancroft, Judge Harry
A. Olson, Jacob L. Dickinson, Henry
Rathbone, Professor Percy H. Boyn-
ton of the University of Chicago,
Congressman Edmund d. Foss,
Bishop Samuel A Fallows, Judge
Marcus A. Kavanagh, David A. For
gan and former governors Charles
5. Deneen and Edward F. Dunno.
Resident speakers will be rein
forced by the best men from other
cities in the seventh reserve dis
trio and by a large number of con-
gressmen and by members of Presi-
dent Wilson's cabinet?
Lawrence Howe of Chicago is d.
rector of the speakers bureau.
Douglas Sutherland is director for
the state of Illinois and Uri B.
Grannis for Chicago and Cook
county. Jesse E. Eschbach is state
director for Indiana, Keith Vawter
for Iowa, Ward n. Choate for Mich
igan and Martin J. Gillen for Wis
consin. Each of these men will
have exclusive possibility for
the army of speakers in his terri
tory.
There are 33S counties in the Chi
cago district. The speakers bureau
loan executive committee to fur
nish a speaker for any sort of meet
ing, in any sort of language, in
any city or town, day or night
whenever wanted. The bureau is
divided into a recruiting service
which signs up the speakers, a
speaking service, which delivers
them to the public meetings on
schedule.
The bureau will also issue bulle-
tins of material and suggestions for
speakers throughout the campaign,
and act as a clearing house Of
ideas. This part of the work will
be under the supervision of Henry
?. Chandler as consulting director.
In the last Liberty loan campaign
the speakers bureau was unable
on several occasions to furnish
men to speak to audiences that
could not understand the language
of the United States. New Ian
| guages were discovered right in the
/ Chicago loop that no one could talk
or understand. But the bureau is
now prepared, according to its
/ director, to deliver live speech in
/ every tongue except Sanscrit
which is a dead language. The for
eign language department Of the
/ bureau is under the direction OF
/ William K. Pfaum. In addition to
/ the % standard languages already
/ listed, speakers have not been Sc
| cured to appeal to the Armenians
/ Chaldean Assyrians. Rusnikas
| Let's and Films, who have colonies
/ in Chicago and elsewhere in the
! district.