The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-12-26
Vast Army
Is Mustered
Out Tuesday


try. 'aggregating 755,000 in number,
will be automatically mustered out of
the service at midnight tonight, De-
cember "a.
The activities of the organization
extended over a period of is months.
during which time 46 speakers bull
letins were sent out and IS distinct
campaigns of information. inspiration
and direct appeal were made. More
than 100000 four-minute speeches
were made to audiences totaling 400.-
000.0 900 persons. The average num-
Der of speeches made during each
campaign was $4,000 and the average
audience for each campaign aggre-
gated 100000.
The Four-Minute Men were the very
best type of citizens in their respec-
tive communitees-man of the great
est men of the nation having been en-
rolled in the service.
Those who rendered a certain de-
gree of service will be honorably dis
charged and presented with a hand
some certificate of service, combined
iwth facsimile OF a letter received
from President Wilson just before he
sailed.
The Canon City branch of the Four
Minute Men was the first to begin op.
Grafton in Colorado. The late Gov.
James II. Peabody was the original
chairman. William E. Spencer sue.
ceeded to the craftsmanship at the
death of Gov. Peabody and has di-
rected the local branch since that
time. Until few weeks ago Florence
was also under Mr.. Spencer's direc-
ton, when he recommended an inde-
pendent organization for Florence,
with Daniel Isaacs as its chairman.
According to Chairman Spencers
record the following-named Four-Min-
ute Men of Canon City are entitled TO
receive certificates OF service in token
of their honorable discharge: Dr. j.
Homer Dickson. Prof Willard E.
Graves. Judge Augustus Pease, A. H.
McLain, L. w. Felter. Frank L. Smith,
Rev. Don Frank Fem. T. Lee witcher
Edwin H. Stinemeyer and Charles W.
Van Patten.
Jesse E. Jonees, proprietor and man
ager of the Jones Theater. will also be
q dhuto a NCAtAhN6tt Vi oCiNiCt iOa
the patriotic and unselfish manner in
which he has CO operated with the
chairman and the speakers.
Practically every executive officer
in the United States government has
acknowledged the efficiency of the
work of the Four-Minute Men in the
conduct of the war. The organiza-
ton has proved of wonderful force in
the loan and stamp campaigns. The
campaign of February IL to Is. en-
titled. Eyes For the Navy" was such
that a fairly accurate estimate OF act
ual results could be arrived at. 1t
Will be remembered that our navy was
short OF binoculars, chronometers and
sextants. We had been getting our
lenses from an enemy country and
there was no time to manufacture
to meet the urgent needs. SO the
navy appealed to the people to loan
glasses to the government. In this
campaign Canon City supplied nearly
40 glasses. some of them exceptionally
valuable ones. In the nation there
were 1882 glasses loaned the navy
directly through the appeal OF the
Four-Minute Men. This campaign
alone would justify the work OF the
organization. II one of those glasses
sighted a submarine and prevented
the sinking of transport with thou
sands of soldiers II accomplished
enough good to warrant all the time
and effort put forward by the $4,000
Four Minute Men OF the country. And
OF the more than 200 enemy subma-
rines sunk by the Allied navies, who
can doubt that several of them were
sighted through glasses loaned the
government through the FourMinute
Men?
On November 20, just before sailing
for Europe. President Wilson ad
dressed a letter to the Four-Minute
Men of the country, in which, among
other things, he said: Personally,
/ have always taken the deepest in
terest in your work, and have noted.
from time to time. the excellent re-
suits you have procured for the vari-
GUS departments OF the government.
Now that this work has come to its
conclusion. and the name of the Four
Minute Men has become a part of the
history of the great war, would not
willingly omit my heartfelt testimony
to its great value to the country, and
indeed to civilization as a whole, dur
ing our period Of national trial and
triumph. shall always keep in mem
Dry the patriotic cooperation and as
sistance accorded me throughout this
period, and shall remain deeply and
sincerely grateful to all who, like