The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-10
III. S. MUST WORK in
MAKING OVER THE
WORLD, SAYS GLASS
The Secretary Earnestly
Pleads for Victory
Loan
THANKSGIVING LOAN
Loan Will Help Bring Home the
100000 American Boys Now in
France and Germany
THANKSGIVING LOAN

BOSTON, May 9-"Uncle Sam is
in the biggest international game The
world has ever seen. 1t is up to us
to furnish him with big stack of red
white and blue chips" exclaimed Real
Admiral Herbert o. Dunn at the big
Liberty Loan rally in Symphony Hal
Wednesday evening, to the great am
usement Of 5000 men and women who
appreciated the ward room favor OF
the figure applied to the Liberty
Loan.
Admiral Dunn, who spoke as a sub
stitute for Rear Admiral William S
| Sims, who was confined to his hotel
with cold, but sent a humorous lit
tie note of regret in rhyme, shared
the honors of the evening with Garter
Glass, Secretary of the Treasury.
Gov Coolidge presided, the Pop con-
cert orchestra furnished splendid
music, and Herbert Smith of the mus:
ical service of the Army led the great
audience in patriotic singing that was
full of spirit and feeling.
Sec. Glass aimed throughout his adj
dress in behalf of the fifth loan to
make it clear that he has no sympa-
thy with the proposition heard in
some quarters, that this should be a
bankers loan. On the contrary, he
maintained that the money of the
banks is needed for the developing Of
industry and commerce and the people
at large are under as much obligation
to invest generally this time as they
We're during the war.
He expressed confidence that not u
man OF woman who had son at the
front will refuse to help this last
loan, which is to pay the cost of the
great victory won by their sons for
civilization.
He asserted that popular subscrip-
ton in the present loan is desirable
among other reasons, to make the
mass of Americans appreciate that
they are all stockholders in their gov
eminent, to inculcate the saving
habit among the people "who hitherto
nave been sadly lacking in that re-
gard" and finally to enable US to
shoot to pieces this abomlnable Boil
shevism, which will be easy when the
generality Of the people have stake
in the government" He declared that
the people should have impressed
upon them the Importance of good
order in government.
"a world is to be rebuilt" said he;
SHOULD we timidly pause and debate
who should rebuild it? Who is there
ours? This great enterprise should
to rebuild it but this great Nation of
be started right here in Boston by the
blare of furnaces, the whirr of mills
and the din of 1000 industries.
"Men of steady judgment have said
that we must approach this and fut-
ure loans in distinctly cold-blooded,
commercial mood, from an investment
point of view. Some say it will be
impossible to appeal again to the pat
riotism of the American people. l
should despair of my country if it
were true. If we SO quickly forgot the
obligations of war l should doubt our
ability to cope with the problems of
peace.
After comparing the war sacrifices
of some of the Allied countries with
those of this country, where trade i'm
mensely increased and gold continu-
ally piled up, and referring to the APP
proimately 10000 American soldiers
who gave their lives in the war, the
speaker said: 1--WE should not dis
honor the memory of those soldiers,
OF diminish their glory, by haggling
over the cost of war and talking of
our sacrifices"
"This is more than Victory Loan"
said he; at is loan of thanksgiving
to God for sustaining the spirit and
stirring the valor of the soldiers who
defeated the Hun. If we are to sup
press all patriotic sentiment and re-
gard this loan as simply commercial
proposition, then somebody else may
have my job. | wish that men who
counsel that policy could have seen
the evidence of the valor and suffer-
ing of the soldiers that l saw in
France"
In reference to the traditional Ger
man charge that the United States is
ruled by the commercial spirit, Sec.
Glass related that when he arrived
with a Congressional delegation at
Lille, France, after the evacuation by
the Germans, he found the city be-
decked with Allied and American col
ols and learned that so Commercial"
had been the spirit of the Germans
that they had made the fagc themsel-
YES and sold them to the French that
they might celebrate the. German de-
feat.
In concluding, he said:
"There are 100000 American boys
in France and Germany who must be
maintained in comfort and brought
home in safety and provided with en-
ployment on their return. While Con-
gress has written off the books $751;
000,000,000 of authorizations, for