The Cook County news-herald., 1919-05-07
NINTH Dis 1FaC7II
Will ! |. |. ! not I ! . FAIL
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People Must % Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan cover
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1N|IllD0 It:
Officials Of War Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con-
fident Of Successful Outcome-.To
Uphold Past Record. y

Uphold Past Record. -.
The people of the Ninth Federal :
Reserve District will do their full
share In finishing the job"
A. R. Rogers, Chairman of the War
Loan Organization, unhesitatingly
made this promise to Carter Glass,
Secretary of the Treasury, when he
visited District Headquarters recently.
We know the temper, the patrio-
tism and the record of the people Of
the Northwest too we'll to have any
fear of their response to the loan of
thanksgiving" was the secretary's re-
sponse
Therefore, 1t is up to us to con-
tinue to lead the United States over
the top" said Theodore Wold, Gov
ernor of the Ninth District Federal
Reserve Bank. Because of past. per-
formances the whole country is ex-
pecting great things of US in the test
of peace time patriotism; and, judg-
ing from the ambition, enthusiasm and
optimism already in evidence among
our workers, we will not fail"
Speakers Get Busy.
Were off to a flying start" said
Joseph Chapman, district director of
speakers. "Our campaign of platform
education and instruction opened
March "a. Every county is or will
shortly be organized with speakers
chairman. From now until the big
buying day, April 21, there shouldn't
be meeting, large or small, in the
whole district without a Victory Loan
speaker on the program. Anyone
who finds his county unorganized
should take 1t up at once with his
county chairman or with U.S. It is
up to every man, woman and child
to get busy and keep busy until the
job is finished
The Opening Gun.
Americas duty to her soldiers who
suffered and bled and died for liberty
on the fields of France was empha-
sized in stirring speech by Carter
Glass, Secretary of the Treasury, in
the Minneapolis Auditorium the night
of March 20. -.
In his talk he pointed out the need
of raising money the government must
have ito finish the job" that the wear
ers of the khaki started so we'll on
the other side of the Atlantic.
The speech was the opening gun in
the Victory Loan campaign that opens
April 81 and was followed closely by
capacity house, made up of county
cha1rmen from the Ninth District and
delegates to the Better Business con-
vention. He spoke in part as follows:
when l am told of the difficulties
which will beset the Victory Loan I
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
patriotism of the American people; l
decline to believe that the fathers and
mothers who gave four million sons
to die, if need be, that liberty might
survive, will now haggle over the ma
tertal cost of saving the very soul of
civilization from the perdition of Prus-
sian tyranny.
"But I am told that we must ap-
proach the problem of future loans in
distinctly cold-blooded mood. Some
men tell me it will be impossible again
to appeal to the patriotism of the
American people. Frankly, gentlemen,
l should despair of my country If these
things were exactly true. I should
doubt our ability to cope with the
problems of. peace it so quickly we
should forget the obligations of war.
I wonder if those who talk in this
fashion speak considerably? They
tell about the sacrifices" the Ameri-
can people have made, and in their
voices there is a. metallic tone and in
their mien unconscious austerity.
What is meant by the sacrifices of
war for. America? Where are our
devastated fields and ruined cities?
Where our cathedrals destroyed and
homes profaned? Where our defiled
women and starved children and
wrecked men? Where on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad or
pestilential disease claim it's thousands
of victims? Is it, then, a serious sac
rifice to invest ones money in the
interest bearing obligations of ones
government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
as well as the nations property? :
"Our allies. fought for. us nearly
three years before we began to fight
with them. For nearly that period of
time the United States sprofted tre-
mendously, lin a commercial, and in.
sdustrial sense, by the European war.
Immense fortunes were made; pros
perity pervaded our land. France and.
Britain lost millions of men killed. and
millions Of others wounded. Less than
sixty thousand American heroes sleep5
beneath the sod Of France Thoseemen
made the supreme sacrifice. Should
we dishonor their memories or dtnfn.s