Douglas Island news., 1919-04-25
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN


 paw thc war debts of Uncle Sam-dcbts that are am obligation to the whole nation
 The money raised by this loan is the money that will bring the soldiers back from France. From this money the eN- peusrS incurred in treating the wounded u thc hospitals and the rccducatmg of uamcd and blinded fighting men will be taken This loan is ,hc price of Liberty uuj O. Victory.
 It has been said that it will be mpos- ,.lIe to raise thc amount needed by this great loan and that the American people would mot put up their money for such a purpose after the fighting iS over
 Carter Glass. secretary of the treasury, has thc following Co say along those lines;
 .Whcu the mtoIcrablc maritime atroci- #., or a barbarous autoc1cy drove this Na.iou into wal. for the preservation of civilization. it was said Co be impossible to organize am American army that would be effective m the struggle then dcluging Flu raue in blood Yet we know, and the fugi- rir. William Uohcuzolcm knows, that we d,I organize am army which speedily hclp- cI ro drive the mad monarch into exile and tomSuc the peace of the world. And when tna army was organized it was said to be impossible to transport it across the seas i'm time to be a deciding factor OF helpful factor sat in the Halls of Congress and heard a distinguished and discerning statesman. with cruel bitterness, dcridc the American Minister of War for a SuggcS- ttou that within am appointed time we would transport to France am army of 1uUUI men, It was asking uS to live m a fools paradise. it was giving play to wild and unstable imagination. it was misleading the American people into a belief in mpossibilitics' Yet within the designated time 75o,O00 American soldiers were landed at thc ports of our Allies.
 "Thcu ir was said that these mtcstcd troops could mot bc trained in time for cf- G.rivc combat. Yet it was a unit of Amer iruu army engineers. brigadcd with the British before Cumbrui, who threw down their implements and picked up the cast away rifles or their British comrades with which they mpcdcd the desperate attempt O. veteran Prussiau divisions to retrieve thr fortune of battle. It was the 'mpoS ,.h. American army that arrested the German drive at Chateau Thicry. first M.tme -hc Huns and then driving them back The sorcIy pressed, but brave and h.roj. French. shaken by four years of fIeuu struggle were in desperate r~ treat. They told American officers that ro goo forward was impossible and bcSought them to turn back. X few weeks ago in France | wa, personally told of the lacouic answer of thc American commander to this appeal 'Go back' he exclaimed, why. hcI' we've just got here; and my orders arc to eo fordwardr And they went for ward; and, as President Wilson in his ad- dress to Congress SD poiutcdy said, from that moment it was back, back, ever back Gor Germany She never thereafter wrest- ed single foot of soil from the allied ar mics
 For four fateful years, nearly. the dan gcrous salient at St Mihicl projected its threatening head into France, menacing Ncrdm from the flank The Germans could mot bc driven back, it was said, without rrjghtuI slaughter of the allied force. Those familiar with the topography said it was impossible. Yet that mtried Amer icau army made the assault and drove the Pru~siaus hcItcr-Skelter under the defen- sivc guns of Metz. The operation was over in l4 hours, with 15OOO German prisoners in the American prison pens.
 "So mposSibiitics are constantly made