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


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 and
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. It 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 Com mittee 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
were shown The films were
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
were 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 Column
bus, Ohio, who was for thirteen
months in France attending
American soldiers under the au-
spices of the Y. NJ. {. A Stories
of incidents on the battle field
were told by the Judge who ad
dressed the people concerning
practical as we'll as patriotic rea-
sons for the last loan.
"The great expenditure of
American treasury" he said Sin
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 a 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
mbled 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 stops-the onslaughts OF
the Yankees we're shown. FELL
ARTILLERY that had been hit by the
ever increasing accuracy of the
American gunners and hand
lgranades that had been thrown
into trenches occupied by Amer
can troops were shown together
with great bombs that had beer
dropped on defenseless hospitals
Barbed wire, tiercely Tough
over at Verdun, machine guns
to which peasant men and womer
tof Belgium had been chained
Sea mines and great naval guns
shells, the Size of which astound
ed the onlooker were viewed b,
Elocal people aud caused them t,
renew their pledges to ''6nisf
the job.
Wilbur y. Bacon, a first ser
geant of artillery, who saw more
than two months of battle i,
France declared if the American
people had q complete knowledge
of the conditions under which
the American soldiers Tough
and lived in France no pleading
or pickering would be necessar,
to raise the loan. He was re
turned to America to speak i,
behalf of the loan and he sai'
4
! his message from the thousand
of boys still "over there wa
that the time when they coul,
J form a bulwark with their bodie