The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-04-04
ninth DISTRICT
WILL NOT FAIL
People Must Do Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan "0yer
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL 90 IT
OficIais Of war -oan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con-
hdent OF Successful Outcome To
uphoid' Past Record.

"The people OF the Ninth Fedora
Reserve District will do their full
share In finishing the job
A. r. Rogers Chairman OF the Wal
Loan Organization, unLesitatingly
made this promise to Carter Glass
Secretary of the Treasury, when he
visited District Headquarters recently
We know the temper, the patrio
tizm and the record of the people o!
the Northwest too well to have any
fear Of their response to the loan of
thanks @thsnsssiving'Iwas the socretary's re-
Therefore, II Is up to US to con-
tfnue 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.
Were of to q 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
Do a meeting. largo or small. in the
whole district without a Victory Loan
speaker on the program. Anyone
who finds his county unorganized
should take II up at once with his
county chairman or with us. II is
sp to every man, woman and child
b get busy and keep busy until the
lob Is finished"
The Opening Gun.
Americas duty to her soldiers who
suffered and bled and died for liberty
IN 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 tala he pointed out the need
of raising money the government must
have ito finish the job" that the wear
srs Of the khaki started SO well on
the other side OF the Atlantic.
Tho speech was the opening gun In
che Victory Loan campaign that opens
April II 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 ! am told of the difficulties
which will beset the Victory Loan !
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
pntriotism OF the American people;
decline to believe that the fathers and
to die. IL need be. that liberty might
survive, will now haggle over the ma.
tcrial cost OF saving the very soul of
civilization from the perdition OF Prus.
sfan tyranny.
But | am told that we must ap.
proach the problem OF future loans in
a distinctly cold-blooded mood. Some
nien tell me It will be impossible again
to appeal to the patriotism Of the
American people. Frankly, gentlemen,
4 should despair OF my country If these
things were exactly true should
doubt our ability to cope with thc1
problems OF peace IL so quickly we
should forget the obligations of war.
II wonder IL those who talk in this
fashion speak considerably? They
cell about the sacrifices" the Ameri.
n a.ls. hnx IA .I tn hot
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 profaned? Where our defiled i
women and starved children and |
wrecked men? Where on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad or
postilential disease claim It's thousands
Of victims? Is 1t, then. serious sac
nnce to invest ones money In the
fnterest-bearing obligations OF ones
government In order to make ever.
laztinsly secure the nations freedom
as. well as, the nations property?
rour allies fought for us nearly
three years before we began to fight
With them. For nearly that period OF
time the United States proflted tre
nondously. In commercial and In.
dustrial sense. by the European war.
Immense fortunes we're made: pros.
perity pervaded our land. France and
Britain lost millions OF men killed and
millions Of others wounded. Loss than
sixty thousand American heroes sleer
beneath the sod of France. Those men
made the supreme sacrifice. Should
we dishonor their memories or diminri
ish the glory of their service by paus. i
ing in the cheerful performance OF an
imperative duty7
when men undertake to compute
the sacrifices OF war for freedom r.
!t4rms OF commerce would like them
TO get vision Of some things saw
met long ago on the far-nung. batti,
fronts Of Ypres, which win live IN
lsong and story, through time and etc.