Arizona republican., 1919-04-28
VICTORY JOAN
 APPEAL IN TWO
 B|G ADDRESSES
California Orator Reviews Our War Achievements And Urges That The Task So We'll Done Be Finished In This Last Big Loan

Two Victory loan addresses. of 8 type that did much to stir a feeling of the highest patriotism and to bring forth resolutions of sacrifice, were de- livered in Phoenix yesterday by Arthur NJ. Free of San Jose, California one of the best known speakers for Liberty loans in the west
 The first address was delivered at the capitol to an immense throng of people. and the second from the Vie tory loan bandstand on First avenue, the big massed Liberty Loan band fur nishing music for both occasions and attracting more crowds.
 Among the points made by the 1 speaker were that we went into the war largely dependent for our success upon our own efforts, the Allies being almost exhausted, and all their facili- 1 ties and equipment overworked.
 We had to build our own ships, de- 1 clared Mir Free, erect our own wharves, construct our own warehous- es and cold storage plants. our rail- 1 roads, lumber mills, shipyards, can ! tonments and factories.
 We built 1,475 miles of railroad, sent over 1,475 locomotives and 21,S00 cars for them; constructed 452 miles of buildings and had 117,0o0 men getting out lumber for further construction when the armistice was signed.
 We built up a fleet of ships of D. | 235 GOO tons,and they carried for us 9,979,000 tons of war materials and provisions. We carried over S9S,449 out of the 2.04S.000 men we sent across We built S1,000 miles of barb wire, 125,000 miles of telegraph and tele- phone lines.
 Every soldier we trained cost us s345, the speaker pointed out, delivered in France and it cost sS77.77 per year per man to keep them there. Reams of equally startling facts were pro- duced to show the enormous rapidity and responsiveness of our preparations Our Effort Ended War , Then the speaker brought out the , fact that if was this speed and expense in preparation that ended the war witt , victory q full year before anyone ex- pected it to end, and thus saved tho lives of hundreds of thousands of ou, soldiers.
 There soon came to be no question as to our preparations. or our willing ness to spend money to gain time anC
 save lives" said Mir. Free" so tn, only question remaining was whether we could fight. Preparations were be- ing made to evacuate Paris, to remove the capital to Versailles. Genera
 Pershing was at the conference, anC l asked for a chance. When he said h.
 had only 5000 men he was laughet
 at. But he got his chance. Our mel
 were thrown in. In 9 minutes the,
 took the St. Mihael salient that tn French had hammered for weeks
 When that battle was won, and tn : battle of Chatau Thierry and of tn
 Argonne forest was won, by our mer
 the Germans were stopped, Paris va : safe, and the war was won" Our Cost Was Light
 He then detailed the suffering of al e countries in the war as contrasted wit
 our light load, pointed out that W
 have no ruins, that we have not los
 most of our population as did mos
 of the Allies, that we have only to pa! The guns have ceased to fire he saiC
 but the bills incurred in keeping ther 1 firing until victory was won have nc . been paid. We have spent two billio { dollars month since the armistic
 and we still have a million soldiers l. France to bring home"
 l. There are three purposes to tf