New-York tribune., 1919-05-07
Carnegie Hall Is Thronged;
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield Pays Tribute to
Men of the Beaten Race
$15.O0O,OOO Subscribed
Presiding Officer Asserts
Duty of Americans Now
Is ''to Work and Buv''

Americans of German origin crowd
ed Carnegie Hall last night at Vic
tory note rally and put themselves in
the red feather class of bond buyers
under the stimulus of a platform
crowded with uniformed Americans Of
German origin who wore golden wound
and overseas service chevrons.
Fifteen million dollars in bonds was
subscribed during the meeting. At it's
close the presiding officer announced
that the New York district total for
the Victory Loan had passed S5OOOO,-
600. Among the largest buyers Of
bonds were:
The Russian Savings Bank Of Brook
lyn, through Charles Froeb, it's presi-
dent, $1,5O0,000; German-American So
cieties, SS50,000; the Central Savings
Bank, formerly the German Savings
Bank, s2,oo0,o0o; the Guardian Life
Insurance Company, formerly the Ger
mania, 100000, and L. T. Dommerich
& Co, 100000.
Ludwig Nissen, who presided, evoked
cheers and started tremendous sale
of Victory notes when he said:
Behold this group of heroes on
the platform-every one of them of
German blood, and some of German
birth. Theirs was TO do or die
Ours is to work and buy
''If we tackle our job in accordance
with that spirit we may safely dis
regard the calumnies heaped upon
everything of German origin-whether
art, music, science, literature, Ian
guage, or members of the human fam
lily, for we will force respect for our
true standard Of Americanism."
Redfield Chief Speaker
William s. Redheld, Secretary of
commerce. the principal speaker at the
rally, said nationa! honor and credit
were inextricahly combined "If we
fHii In that sense OF honor which
leads us to sustain our credit" he
SslTs 1--WE must not look for honor
sss go world at large, for we shall
E$ve fallen short OF it at home"
Discussing the good that has come
>ut of Germany he said:
The contribution that German sci
ence, German literature, German music
and other forms of German thought
and activity have made to the world
are so real and vital part of the
best life of the world as to emphasize
the fact, which seems to me fully clear
tnat serious as were the offences
against mankind on the part of those
who Until recently were the ruling
power in Germany, their offence has
been even greater against the spirit of
Germany itself.
1t is we'll to remember that Beetho-
ven and Goethe, Mendelssohn and
Schiller belong to the world and it is
surely safe to hope that out of the
present sufferings of their people NAV
come a return to the spirit of con-
structive service with which such men
wrote and sang.
Special Debt to Germans
But America has a special debt to
the men of German race, FOR raanv of
her choicest arc of those who strup
gled for freedom IN advance of their
tlmes and left their homes to seek and
md 1t here. Their names are written
high IN the records of our war-,nen
OF that descent have commanded armies
and fleets, have been and are leaders
OF finance and business and have not
1alled TO hold their course steady along
the path of freedom, even amid his,
toric and family and traditional temp
tadons In the recent strife.
II is, therefore, with the greater
confidence that we appeal to and
through them FOR the final effort IN
the closing week of the last financial
campaign The war Is nearly. but not
quite over. This weeks work remains
still TO be done. A1'
4nere IS certain sacred ohl7oa-
,lon upon Us to make this a memorial
loan for those who have offered The
great sacrifice, who have invested
tnelr lives at nothing per cent for the
freedom We now enjoy.
Terms Are Attractive
IT needs hardly to be said n +b;,
h9clsnce that the terms and conditions
OF the pending loan are sncb 1913 ~ 70
maxe 1t peculiarly attractive az an IN
Sestmenf, either to tho large or small