The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-04-10
NINTH DISTRICT
WILL NOT FAIL
People Must Do Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan "0ver
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL DO IT
Officials Of MAJ Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con.
t7dent Of Successful Outcome To
Uphold Past Record.

ss0SslS " SOS~0oou0S SOSSOltb0~- y
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, unhesitatingly
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 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
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our workers. we will not fail"
Speakers Get Busy.
Were 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 81. 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 lie
up to every Man; woman and child
to get busy aid 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 we'll 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 l
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 owe the ma
terial cost of saving the very soul of
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. 1 should
doubt u 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 a metallic tone and in
their mien unconscious a~usterity.
What ia meant by the sacrifices of
war for America? Where are our
devastated fields and ruined cities ?
Where U cathedrals destroyed and
homes %profaned? Where our defled
women and starved children and
wrecked men? Where on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad or
p%estilential disease claim its thousands
Of Victims? Is 1t, then, a serious sac
rifce to invest ones money in the
Understanding obligations of ones
government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
as we'll Is 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 proflted ire.
m%endously, in q 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