Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-04-14
NEMSPA APP :RMEN
!. TALK ON loan
Conference of Newspaper
Men in Seventh Federal
Reserve District
Was Held.
LOYALTY IS PLEDGED

IIO1llAAl0lAV OPAAAC ID AAtA0As
The Job. = Pe0ple
]. Il Are Loyal.
If the spirit manifested at the con-
ference of Seventh Federal Reserve
district newspaper men, held last week
in Chicago, is any criterion, the Victory
Liberty loan is going over in this dis
trict In fine shape especially in Iowa.
In the Seventh district are Iowa, Min
nesota, Illinois, Michigan and parts of
Wisconsin and Indiana. More than six
hundred newspaper men from Iowa
were at the. conference. The dominant
feature Of the meeting, as seen by a
Freeman-J journal man who attended,
was spirit everywhere to finish the
job"
McNider Talks.
The Iowa section met Friday morning
in an assembly room in the Congress
hotel, presided over by Lafayette
Young, Jr, C.. n. McNider of Mason
City, Iowa loan chairman, was present
and gave a short talk. He made it
plain that no money is being paid
speakers for their services during the
loan campaign. He believed that 0S
per. cent of the people Of this state are
loyal), The line of demarkation is
plain and the actions Of people in the
next loan will,more truly than in other
loans, Indicate whether they are patri-
attic or not. THE question just now,
said Mr.. Member, lis not how soon
Liberty bonds will be worth par. The
question now is, Are you a good enough
citizen to pay Uncle Sam par value,
even though the market is little
low?' y He expressed the belief that
within twelve to eighteen months, all
government bonds will be worth par
and more.
Pledge Loyalty.
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A resolution was unanimously passed
pledging the answering loyalty OF the
Iowa press to the geyernment and ey-
cry possible aid in making the forth,
coming loan success. Another reso-
luton was also unanimously passed
that n was the sense of the convention
that any burden for loan advertising he
placed upon the local Liberty loan COM
mittees and not upon the newspaper
Iii other words the newspapers will give
the loan all necessary publicity. but
would not ask local merchants to con-
tribute toward any advertising.
Mayor Gives Welcome.
Friday noon, the newspaper men
were entertained at luncheon in the
gold room of the Congress hotel.
In the afternoon a meeting OF the en-
tire district was held in the auditor
forum, where Mayor Thompson vel
coined the newspaper men and women,
told of Chicago's part in preceding
loans, and her ambitions for the coming
one.
y 1T is a notable fact i'm the history OF
our republic he said, that the Ameri-
can people, although insisting upon
constitutional rights to discuss the wis
dom of making war, the proper conduct
of war by constituted authorities, the
objects of war, and the proper basis for
the restorat ion of peace. have never
failed in any emergency to respond gen.
erollsly to all appeals for funds to|
maintain our armies in the field and
our navy ON the sea-
appeal to Calm Judgment
ut was in such spirit of lofty pa
triotism that the city of Chicago in pre-.
yious calls from the government exceed
ed the quota assigned 1t was natter
of satisfaction to me, as mayor Of Chi
cago, to observe that the employees, of
the city of Chicago in every department
contributed more than their full share
to the success of the campaign.
THE war is over. The great patri-
otto impulse of the people is not as
easily aroused in times of peace as it Is
in times of war. This is the time to
appeal to the calm judgment rather
than to the passions and prejudices.
"The approaching campaign should
be organized around the great central
fact that the United States bond is the
best security in the world, that it has
behind it the combined resources of
the greatest nation, that God has smiled
on: that in addition to this security it
is backed by the might and majesty of
the greatest people of all time. Let us
realize in our own hearts and con-
sciences that If we can induce friend
or neighbor to buy bond that we have
encouraged him to perform real seq
vice to his nation and to himself in
making sound and safe investment"
Ovation for Gen. Wood.
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