Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-04-25
Big Crowd Sees
Trophy Train

people of Mt. Vernon and Rock
castle county to new deeds of
patriotism last Monday when the
train bearing Yankee trophies of
battle came here under escort of
veteran overseas soldiers aud
! sailors.
Hundreds of country folks
poured into town on horseback,
on foot and in autom obiles and
together with the crowds of town
people made the occasion gala
day for Mt. Vernon. 1t was
the opening day Of the Fifth Lib
erty Loan drive.
Speakers of ma tional renown
accompanied the train, which
was brought here under the d.
rection of the district Liberty
Loan Committee of Cleveland,
Ohio, and addressed the people
along patriotic lines at the Opera
house.
Following the speakers motion
pictures of allied preparation for
war and of seen es in devastated
areas of France and = Belgium
sH5&S Miis were We're
taken under the direction of
American army commanders for
the purpose of bringing to the
people of America a broader
knowledge of conditions in the
war area The pictures. which
we're declared by local persons
to be by far the most interesting
ever viewed, were received with
much applause by the audience
that crowded the opera house to
overlooking.
The principal speaker, accom-
paining the trophy train, was
Judge T. B. Galloway. of Colum-
bus, Ohio. who was for thirteen
months in France attending
American soldiers Under the au-
spices of the Y. NJ. e. A Stories
of Incidents on the battle field
we're told by the Judge who ad
dressed the people concerning
practical as well as patriotic rea.
sons for the last loan.
"The great expenditure OF
American treasury" he said Gin
completing the vast organization
for winning the war brough t
Germany to her knees two years
before the time set by the m ost
optimistic officials. We have
paid for in gold what lesser
program of expenditure would
have caused us to pay for with
lives, therefore this loan should
be loan of Thanksgiving and
faith.
The train was said to have
been carrying the most complete
line of American trophies ever
assembled in the United States.
Every device. from the smallest
hand granada to the famous
"Big Bertha" field howitzer that
the German army used In its vain
attempt to stop the onslaughts of
the Yankees were shown. Fiel /
artillery that had been hit by the
ever increasing accuracy of the
American gunners and hand
granades that had been thrown
into trenches occupied by Ameri-
can troops were shown together
with great bombs that had been
dropped on defenseless hospitals
Barbed wire, fercely fought
over at Verdun, machine guns
to which peasant men and women
of Belgium had been chained,
sea mines and great naval guns,
shells, the size of which astound
ed the oulooker were viewed by
local people and caused them to
renew their pledges to finish
the job.
Wilbur -. Bscon,a first SER
geant Of artillery, who saw more
than two months of battle in
France declared if the American
people had complete knowledge
of the conditions under which
the American soldiers fought
and lived in France no pleading
or pickering would be necessary
to raise the loan. He was re.
turned to America to speak in
behalf of the loan and he said
his message from the thousands
of boys still lover there" was
that the time when they could
form a bulwark with their bodies
against The enamv had oa,saa