Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01
People Must Do Their Full Share
Putting Victory Loan cover
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL DO It
Officials Of War Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Are Con-
fident of Successful Outcome To
Uphold Past Record.

pNoPiS 1 IuS 4NluIu TcucIdA
Reserve District will do their full
share in finishing the job"
A. R. Rogers, Chairman of the Wal
Loan Organization, un~hesitatingly
made this promise to Carter Glass,
Secretary of the Treasury, when he
visited District Headquarters recently.
We know the temper, the patrio-
tlsm q the record of the people OF
the Northwest too we'll to have any
rear 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
b 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 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 Fl. 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 it up at once with his
county chairman or with US. 1t is
up to every man, oma and child
to get busy and keep busy until the
job is finished"
The Opening Gum
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-
ventfon. He spoke in part as follows:
when I am told Of the difficulties
which will beset the Victory Loan l
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
patriotism of the American people; I
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 over 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 old-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. l should
doubt u ability to cope with the
problems of peace if so quickly we
should forget the obligations of war.
I 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 austerity.
What is meant by the sacrifices of
wal 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 it's thousands
Of victims? Is it, then, a serious sac
rihce to invest ones money in the
Understanding obligations Of ones
government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
Is we'll as 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 profted ire.
mendously, in a 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
we dishonor their memories or dimin-
ish the glory of their service by paus-
ing in the cheerful performance OF an
imperative duty?
when men undertake to compute
the sacrifices of a war for freedom In
terms Of commerce I would like them