Arizona republican., 1919-05-05

audience listened to Lieut.. Robert Finch, one of our own Tempe boys at home wearing the decoration for valor in battle. Captain Harding of the original American expeditionary forces who paid high tribute to the Buck Private" and the two million men who we're in training in the home camps, when the armistice was signed. Cap ? tain Harding also spoke of his own knowledge. for nine months he was in the trenches, and four months in the hospital from wounds received, when out of his company of 221 men only 42 answered the roll call follow ing an attack in which five times tine Americans were beaten back only to rally on the sixth and go through what is declared to be the most strongly defended front on the whole German line
 Congressman Carl Hayden spoke briefly, answering some objections to subscribing to the victory loan- Major Hayden plainly showed that he was in little sympathy with the man who was making unnecessary excuses. At one time he forcibly exclaimed, Waste suppose there was waste-is there an American who figures the free spend ing of money as waste when we saved the lives of our boys thereby?"
 After the auction, Sol. Power Con way, declaring he had never seen just such a meeting. spoke most feelingly of the men with whom he had shared the strife in France, and commended the patriotic spirit Of American men and women at home. who had neyeF fallen down when the needs of their boys made necessary any sacrifice. Paying a high tribute to the men fai- len in France and buried in that dis tant land, Col. Conway brought the meeting to a close.
 That German Helmet
 What do you think of an auction sale that would keep an audience standing on a cement pavement, until midnight w. R. Stewart brought out the dress helmet of the German soldier. one of those that the Germans were to wear into Paris. Bidding was slow, even though the money paid for it would buy Liberty bond and the helmet go to the buyer of the most bonds during the evening $50 S100, and finally s45O was reached, when a disgusted soldier on the platform cried out, Why, Ash Fork paid fifteen hundred" Then came Mir. Winters from Chandler, and fauntingly exclaimed, Chandler bought one for $500. Whats the mat ter with Mesa?" Well what that crowd did to Mir. Winters was a plenty, for
 in five minutes the bidding had reached S2,0o0, which pleased the Chandlerite immensely. for that was exactly what he was after.
 Saiolr Brown had possessed him self of q megaphone and he figurativeiy speaking, waved a red flag in front oe the throng by calling out in tones used to the roar of the oceans gale, "Phoe- nix paid $2.650--Whats the matter
 with Phoenix?" And in a little while [ s3.000 had been reached. Double 1 Phoenix" yelled Stewart, and the | crowd gave him the laugh. Out stepped Major Heard, the reserve aviation l fleet of the evening. and he opened 1 on the crowd with his rapid fire gun. ! taunted them with a S43,000 subscrip- ! tion of a Phoenix man, laughed at ! them, plead with them, and with Stew art interrupting, and Sailor Brown calling to the bass drummer to Beat
 that drum, beat it boy" they got two 1 sides to bidding against each other. | Into the fray came a Mesa rancher. l with a German sounding name and as l true an American heart as ever beat ] Carl Knobbe took hand and up went | the figures. Knobbe wanted that hel-
 met almost as much as he wanted the
 kaiser's scalp. and his good wife was
 urging him all the time to not let it
 get away from him. It didn't, and at 12:30 o'clock a. m-, Sunday, he climbed
 into his car. with that German hel-
 met on his head and drove home
 The campaign will be continued. Mesa
 district, which be it ever remembered 1 includes Alma, Jordan and Lehi, will | not stop until the last hour of the last
 day of the Victory loan campaign.
 There are scores who have not yet
 subscribed and Chairman Reinman
 and Mrs. Webb. the leader of the
 women, say it will go on until Mesa's final message to the Hun will be The
 last dollar and the last man into the
 fight. if you want to try it again"