The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-04-17
NINTH DISTRICT :"
WILL NOT FAIL
People Must Do Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan cover
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL % IT
Officials Of War Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con-
f1dent Of Successful Outcome To
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, unhesitatlngly
made this promise to Carter Glass,
Secretary of the Treasury, when he
visited District Headquarters recently.
1--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-
Spouse.
Therefore, it is up to US to con-
tinue to lead the United States :over
the top" said Theodore Void, 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 fall"
Speakers Get Busy.
"We're 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 a speakers
chairman. From now until the big
buying day, April Fl, there shouldn't
be a 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 US. 1t 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 mus:
have Ito finish the job" that the wear.
ers of the khaki started 80 well 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
q capacity house, made up of county
chairmen 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
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
patriotism Of the American people;
decline to believe that the fathers and
mothers who gave four million sons
Ito die, If need be, that liberty might
survive, will now haggle over the ma.
3terial cost of saving the very soul OF
j civilization from the perdition of Prus.
sian tyranny.
j. But l am told that we must ap
| proach the problem Of future loans in
"a 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. l should
. doubt our ability to cope with the
problems of peace II SO quickly we
should forget the obligations of war
I wonder II those who talk in this
2 fashion speak considerably? They
tell about the sacrifices" the Ameri
can people have made, and in theil
; voices there is a metallic tone and il
their mien unconscious austerity.
What Is meant by the sacrifices o1
war for America? Where are oul
devastated fields and ruined cities
Where our cathedrals destroyed anG
homes profaned? Where our defileG
women and starved children ani
wrecked men,? Whero on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad OF
pestilential disease claim its thousand
of victims? Is it, then, a serious sac
rifice to invest ones money In thu
Understanding obligations Of ones
government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
as well as the nations property?
"Our allies fought for DIS nearly
three years before we began to fght
with them. For nearly that period o.
time the United States profited tire
mendously, In a commercial and in
dustrial sense, by the European war
Immense fortunes were made; pros
perity pervaded our land. France ant
Britain lost millions Of men killed ant
millions of others wounded. Less thar
sixty thousand American heroes sleel
beneath the sod of France. Those mel
made the supreme sacrifice Should
we dishonor their memories or dimin
ish the glory of their service by paus
Ing in the cheerful performance of al
imperative duty?
When men undertake to comput,
the sacrifices of war for freedom II
terms Of commerce would like then
TO get vision Of some things saw
not long go on the far-nung battle
fronts Of Ypres, which will live b