Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-02
People Must Do Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan "Over
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL DO IT
Officials of War Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con-
fidsnt of Successful Outcome To
Uphold Past Record.


Reserve District will do their full
share in finishing the job"
A. R. Rogers, Chairman of the War
Loan Organization, unhes1tatingly
made this promise to Carter Glass,
Secretary of the Treasury, when he
visited District Headquarters recently.
I'VE know the temper, the patrio-
tism and the record of the people OF
the Northwest too well 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 fail"
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 speakers
chairman. From now until the big
buying day, April 81, there shouldn't
be a meeting, large or small, in the
whole district without Victory Loan
speaker on the program. Anyone
who finds his county unorganized
should take it 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 a 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 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
a 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; 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
| terial cost of saving the very soul eS
civilization from the perdition Of Prus.
sian tyranny.
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,
| / should despair of my country If these
| things were exactly true. l should
doubt our ability to cope with the
problems of peace if so quickly we
| should forget the obligations of war.
| / 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 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 profaned2 Where our defiled
women and starved children and
wrecked men? Where on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad or
pestilential disease claim its thousands
of victims? Is it, then, serious sac
| rifice to invest ones money in the
Understanding obligations of ones
| government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
as we'll 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 profited tre-
| mendously, in commercial and in
| dustrial 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 sleep
beneath the sod of France. Those men
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 an
| imperative duty?