New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-04-24
FAIVVILLE NEWS
VICTORY LOAN CLAN
FOLLOWS BIG RALLY
About $4,000 Added to Sub
scriptions Last Night
DANGEROUS FORREST FIRE


The Victory loan rally held in the
| Congregational church last evening
| Was the expected. success the COM
! mittee had hoped fer. The film '.The
| Price of Peace was the first feature
| of the program. 1t was shown twice
| once in the afternoon at O'Clock
! and later in the evening at 7:3O Fol
| lowing the two shOWings there wore
speeches by Captain Charles E, Lock-
| hart of New Haven and Sergeant
Clark formerly Il member of CAPTAIN
| Lockhart's company.
The local committee should bc
| congratulated upon securing the film
| for showing in this town 1t boosted
tho local campaign and added about
! $40, 900 toward the local quota.
Captain Lockhart Speaks.
during inc evening, Sergeant Clark
who was in Capt. Loc1hart's company
"'d who was one of the eight men of
INC original company who arc alive
CouaN, gave a brief and interesting ac-
count OF some of the fighting through
| NHlch he had gone.
III the various enGa gcmcnts in
NHlcll sergeant Clark's company was
olIA one man escaped being wounded
h'lo ne IS dlspleased because he cam
not wear Il wound stripe.
| Sergeant Clark was shot through
the throat and in the leg. The bull
let which pierced his throat just es-
capped his jugular Vein
He spoke with great enthusiasm of
the way Capt. Locllhart took care Of
his men.
In Capt, Lockhart's speech itself, he
idcNotedr & large part to, an expression
n 20
l1llc of American soldiers to whom is
due the credit Of winning our Ameri
can victory.
in riding back to New Haven Ser
Scant Clark told several things con-
lcern1ng his captain which were not
mentioned at the rally, one of which
IShOWS the type Of man Captain Lock
hart is. This is shown in the follow
ing illustration
:, On the long hikes through snow and
mud, Capt. Lockha,rt always insisted
on close inspection Of the feet and,
on several occasions, when the feet of
his men needed attention he took the
proper medicine from his kit and
treated the feet himself Such little
signs of solicitation and care easily
lllkcd among his men.
!cross and with the other eight men
living in the company, will receive tho
American distinguished service cross.
Capt, Locllhart did not mention that
| he had been recommended for an
American d. $. G.. but his friends did
capt. Lockhart spoke for nearly an
hour and held the audience in close
Iattention
He spoke principally of what we
call tho minor details of the soldiers
life. He took the audience with him
into the daily srind>in the mud in the
haymoWs in the long hikes, under
shell fire, in discomfort and in pain,
ibut without complainins.
In speaking of the thing that most
put the fire and the dash and the
hatred of the Hun into the American
soldier, he explained that it was due
ITO seeing what France had suffered
and the determination to retrieve and
to punish the brutcs that had caused
lit all.
He spoke of one soldier who was
talking with II French soldier who
shad been wounded and camc back
again and had fought for four years
lin the war. The American soldier had
expected to do his fighting and had a
homo back in America to so to when
| it was all over.
| - The French soldier had boon
, Through it all but had nothing left.
The town in which he lived had been
, destroyed, his wife taken prisoners
into slavery, and his two daughters
were lost. He knew not where they
were and no account of their abiding
place could be obtained
| The american asked him what he
| had to live for, what there was in life
| to keep him going after all the tor
lures which he had experienced. The
lFrcnChman replied that it was be-
cause Of the JOY that he would have
| in tho victory of his beloved France
| over the hated Hun His whole life
| seemed to center around the day of
| rctribution when the fends who had
| caused all the misery to him and his
| would get their just punshm ents.
| It was seeing the old mon and the
| broken-do down cripples. the old women
and the suffering that France had
! gone through which put the final fire
into the hearts of our American SOL
ders that threw such terror into tho
hearts of the Hun.
Capt. Loci thart paid high tribute to
! the Am crican soldier: at is the rank
and lie Of the men that won the war,
| The officers had their part, they had
their responsibilities. but it was the
response initiative, the uncomplainine
daring OF the rank and file of army
which was the factor that saved our
| country he said.
1T is a man like Sergeant Clark
! who knew no fear, who had no con,
plant under pain and suffering that
: is the hero.
at is men like these who ara
amused and disguised when they sec
any people at nome complaining be-
cause they did not happen to have
enough sugar or had to use sIlhsti
tutes or gfumblcd because they had ,
! t ache.
"The soldier is tremendously proud
| of what the people have done al
hn1nn I'll nA. have hnnn To ~