GREAT PATRIOTIC IfTl ' TO BOOST LIBERTY BONDS Great Liberty Loan Campaign Was Formally Launched at Big Mass Meeting in Canyon Hall Monday Night Meeting Presided Pre-sided Over By Mayor Kelly Sergeant Wilson and Parson Simpkins Chief Speakers Fine Musical Selections Large Attendance. I The big Liberty Loan drive was set I in motion last Monday night when a large crowd assembled at Canyon hall j to hear well known speakers discuss the situation. The hall was well crowded crowd-ed and those present manifested a spirit of unusual enthusiasm. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Q. B. Kelly, who announcad the purpose for which the crowd had assembled, made an appropriate talk for the occasion and presented the speakers and entertainers. The first Fpeakor was Sergeant Jos. j (L. Wilson of Salt 'Lake. Sergeant Wilson Wil-son has been in Bingham before and a ' great many people had already heard him talk and were anxious to hear him again. He is intensely interested in the winning of the war, and he is putting put-ting his whole nole into the work. His chief work has been in securing enlistments enlist-ments from men under 21 and over 30 years of age, and in this work he Is meeting with success. In his speech he said that ingham was one of the . , most patriotic spots on earth. Tills statement brought rounds of applatipe. With reference to the practice of making mak-ing disloyal persons kiss the flag he recorded his disapproval of this plan as , he said such persons were unworthy of touching the national emblem. He thought that spies in this countrv should be dealt with more severely and he saw no reason why their should not ...be an arrangement for lining thorn n- 4. against a wall In front of a firing 1 f , squad. Jle said thnt In this great war . there was work for all and that those . who enuld r"f eo to the front could buy Liberty bonds, thrift stamps md , In other ways lend their assistance to the men who are fightinsr the hnttles of the country. Throtihont his d1?"ourse he was occasionally interrupted with ' rounds of anplause At the clone of this Bpch Mavor ; Kelly arose and gave a few pointed illustrations showine why wp are in j war. Jle then announced the next . piece on the prosram wiich wax a I " ri'!"i t"loetlin "Dream of a Soldier Bov " bv Miss Lola Rov;e. , ; Following this Rev. P. A. ?lnvikins. the silver-tongued orator was fittingly ,. introduced by iMovor Kelly, snd the ' ppeeeh he delivered is one thrt will ' long be ren?nh'r',1 In 'naftm Parson Simnklns hinsred his address primarily on the nnnlversarv of the date Anril 6, 1917, which he sn'dw-onld In all times be a red letter dav In Am. erioan history. !He poke corvlnein?lv of the preat work America has done and is doing to win the war. He recounted re-counted the many thine- that have already al-ready been accomplished In a comparatively compara-tively short time. He snoke of the efficiency ef-ficiency of the men at the Vnd of nir military affairs. He said we were not supposed to elve out lust how many American soldiers were on the battle line In Eurore. but stated that he was ready to inform those present that If we had 22.1.000 more soldiers over there our total number at present would be 1.000.000. With reference to Josephus IDanlPls. secretary of the navy, he said that after all the Insane criticism of this official It was now acknowledged even by his enemies that he was perhaps the most efficient man . that had ever filled this position. By his careful work out of the great num ber of American soldiers spnt to Europe only cne of the ships carrvlng soldiers had been sunk. (He considers that the naval affairs have been handled han-dled with exceptional ability. He Fpoke of the Liberty Ixan and he said that the peoole, were expected to buy, but-to the limit and then buy. The bonds are a good investment, and the irrAnt rAannrr-pfl nf tha nHr rnnntrv Is back of them. He also spoke of I drafting money even as people to subscribe. sub-scribe. The man who gives his money is not making a sacrifice to be com- pared with the man who gives his life. Before concluding his address he called for a hand primary to see who in the audience were going to buy one or more bonds and almost every one In the house held up his hand. Next was a song. "A Flag Without a Stain," by .Miss Josephine Berry and MBaby's Prayor at Twilight," by Miss Tregaskls. The meeting was concluded con-cluded by singing of the "Star Spangled Span-gled Banner" by Mrs. L. L. White and iMiss Vera Chiara. The people who attended were highly high-ly pleased with the meeting and It has since been a subject of much com-v com-v ment on the streets. The people were thoroughly aroused on the subject of buying (Liberty bonds, and the feeling was general thnt. this community would subscribe its quota long before the time alloted empires. Sergeant Wilson announced that he would re-ropin re-ropin ever in 'Bingham a few days In tfp Interest of securing additional en-llntments en-llntments from this community.