The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-04-25
SERCT. BILLY MOORE
Describes His Experiences on the Bat
tie Front to an Enthusiastic
Audience at Armory.
Assisted by Royal Welsh Singers, Who
Render Several Selections in
an Admirable Manner.

A packed house greeted Sergeant
Billy" Moore and his Royal Welsh
Singers at the armory on Tuesday
night and they proved to be fully de-
serving of the reception accorded
them. AS a graphic speaker and
speaker whose discourse was imbued
with true patriotism, Billy is entitled
to a front rank among men who talk
from the rostrum. The story of his
experiences were told in simple way,
but it came from the very soul of the
speaker-realistic, yet full Of kind
ness and love for the comrades whom
he left "over there" He is not lee
turing for the little money he receives,
but because he considers it his duty to
tell us of conditions as he saw them
at the battlefront, and to so impress
US with those conditions that we will
put forth every possible effort to as
sist in destroying the Hunnish hordes
through the instrumentality. of Liber-
ty bonds and contributions to the Red
Cross.
The Royal Welsh Singers, who are
accompanying Sergeant Moore on his
lecture tour, are excellent vocalists.
They opened Tuesday nights program
with song and rendered five selections
which were deservingly applauded and
encored. $50.
Attorney E. L. Mcmillan, in short
address introducing Sergeant Moore,
said in part that we have been at war
for a year and are just beginning to
realize the situation and what it means
to us as well as to the rest of the
world. In touching upon the Liberty
loan drives he said that in the first
and second campaigns only portion
of Mile Laos county allotments were
realized, but that in the third drive
more than 100000 had been SUBJ
scribed, and estimated that the total
would go to $225,O0O. Mile Laos
quota was fixed at $150,00O in the third
ca nspaign. We are now beginning to
know what our duties are, said the
speaker, and it will not be long before
the facts of the conflict are brought
nearer home. He spoke of the work
Of our friends, the Canadian soldiers,
and said he was pleased to introduce
Sergeant "Billy" Moore, a wounded
soldier from our sister country, who
would deliver an address.
Sergeant Moore said he felt honored
to be here and was glad to have the
privilege to speak for those who are
on the other side fighting to free the
world from despotism. He declared
that he was no commercializer and
did not want to even be considered as
a noncommissioned officer, but merely
as one who, with thousands Of others,
had been fighting the Huns. He mere
ly wanted to give an idea of the mod
ern warfare which has been forced up
on us and our necessity for retaliation
with similar weapons.
He told of his travels and frightful
experiences, saying that the battle
front can be likened, as comrade of
his remarked, to "hell with the lid off
and the bottom dropped out" Chilly"
said he was working with thresh-
ing crew in Canada when he joined the
colors. 49,.
Democracy in America, he empha-
sized, is stimulus to all our efforts.
We were being chloroformed by the
dope Of German kultur and were
caught mapping. But we have paid for
that nap Of forty years. Now, how
ever, we are in the war and, by God
swear, we will clean up Germany,
it's kultur and it's militarism. Damn
the kaiser and all kaiserism.
He spoke of the Canadian first
divisions departure from Montreal,
saying it consisted Of one Of the finest
bodies Of men that ever left for Eu-
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