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Show GREAT LIBERTY LOAN GHIPMGH II FULL SWING Citizens Have Second Opportunity Op-portunity to Contribute to Maintenance of World Freedom. NATION PLEDGED TO ABOLISH AUTOCRACY Uryted States Will Secure Homes and Families From Spoliation and Rapine by Tyrants. There will be a meeting of all Liberty loan committees at the Commercial Com-mercial club for luncheon today at 12:30 p. m. The work of all committees com-mittees will ho outlined and detailed instructions for the carrying on of the campaign giran. No subscriptions will be solicited in any form. This will he merely a business meeting. Utah's great drive in the second Liberty Lib-erty loan Is on. Twelve million dollars' worth of the borids of America's second war loan must be subscribed by the men, women and children of Utah before midnight Saturday, Sat-urday, October "J7. That means subscriptions totaling $444,-444.44 $444,-444.44 4-9 every day for the next twenty-seven twenty-seven days of this month. The task is great but Utah is greater, declare the ' men who bead the committees commit-tees that are to direct the work of raising rais-ing the state's quota of the second Liberty Lib-erty loan. The state-wide campaign in a-11 the fullness of its scores of committees and hundreds of willing volunteer workers In every city and county in the state, drawn from the ranks of business and professional profes-sional men In each community, swings Into activity this morning throughout the length and breadth of Utah. Effective Organization. Never has so 'complete and effective an organization been perfected In the state for a similar purpose; never have so many men volunteered to give- practically prac-tically an entire month of their time to the work of stimulating subscriptions to so worthy a cause; and never before have the rank and file of TJtahns seem to enter so thoroughly into the spirit that must govern subscriptions to the country's call for a second war loan as at present. Kvery home in the state will be visited vis-ited by a committee convassing subscriptions subscrip-tions to the second Liberty loan bonds; everv business house will be called upon, and if the first subscriptions which have already been recorded in Utah's quota may be taken as a criterion of the magnitude mag-nitude and promptness with which the state will respond to the call, Utah's 2.000,000 will come rolling in from every nook and corner of the commonwealth in a golden stream that long before midnight mid-night of October 27, the closing date of the campaign, will place the state in the front ranks of those states of t lie union which will be first to answer Uncle Sam's second appeal for war funds to "stand behind the boys behind the guns." May Subscribe More. Following closo on the heels of Colonel K, A. Wall's definite subscription of j:oii,oC0 worth of the bonds of the second Liberty loan, in a-ddition to his original subscription of $. 00,000 worth of the bonds of the first Liberty loan, came the report Sunday that Colonel Wall has intimated inti-mated he will probably bring his subscription sub-scription to the bonds of the second Lib-: Lib-: erty loan up to $600,000 alone, by sub-! sub-! scribing for $250,000 more of these bonds. So great and so patriotic a move by one of the best known financiers of the west has stirred the Liberty loan committees and Utabns In. general as nothing else could possibly have done on tho threshold of. the opening of the state-wldj: campaign. Colonel Wall's heavy subscription to the bonds of tho second Liberty loan has (rented a tremendous amount of interest throughout the entire state, and congratulations congrat-ulations are being poured in on the executive execu-tive committee for the state by telegraph and telephone. The time- and activity of the many men who coqi prise the Iiberty loan committees commit-tees throughout Fa.lt ,ake. Ocden and thi other cities and counties of the state, will be given over today and Tuesday to perfecting the final details of committee orsn nijint Ions preparatory to the immense canvass to be started later in the week. In Salt Like Clarence Bamberger, chairman of the Liberty loan committee, has called a meeting of all Liberty loan commit tees at t he Commercial club at luncheon at 12:"0 p. m. today, at which t Imp the work of all committees will be outlined and detailed Instructions for currying on the campaign given.. Chairman Bamborcer -calls particular a Mention to the fact that no subscriptions subscrip-tions will be solicited in anv form at today's to-day's meeting. This wilt ba merelv a business meeting, and it is most essential essen-tial that all committeemen be present. "There Is nothing to bring: you to this meeting but patriotism, and we therefore feel certain you will pur everything else aside a ni be present.'' rims t be official notice sent out to all committeemen asking ask-ing them to lv present at the Commercial Commer-cial club at 12::;o today. The most Important feature of this meeting is the fact that .limes H. Movie of Salt Like, the new assistant secretary of the ti-caury of the United States, will begin his official duties in that capacity at today's meeting at the Commercial club. It is a s: aniiica nt and interesting fact that Mr. Moyie enters upon bis worn for the treasury department in bis home city, and for that reason a complete at- (Contlnued on Page Five.) -T Lien LOAN CAMPAIGN . IFI FULL III Citizens Have Second Opportunity Op-portunity to Contribute to Maintenance of World !"' Freedom. (Continued from Page One.) Tendance is ured by Chairman Bamberger Bam-berger and the members of "the executive committee. ' The Great Parade. Meanwhile the chairmen of the various com mitt ce-s in charge of publicity, stunts and features, tiiree-minute speakers and the big military parade for Friday evening eve-ning of this w.eek are busily working out the last details of these arrangements. Key ond any question the parade that 4 'is being gotten up will bo the most remarkable re-markable pageant o any description ever sTn the streets of Salt bake. The r ViTs thai a-e beinic worked out by Chalr-man Chalr-man B. 1 Redman for the para de will literally startle Salt Lakers to their feet when they are announced. The promise Is made that it will be different, more inspiring in-spiring and more memorable tiian any city In the west has ever known. Colonel Haabrouck, commandant of Fort Douglas, has promised that between 7(h0 and 8000 men will be in line, and while the details of the plans for the parade are beins kept secret for the present, pres-ent, the very nnusualness of these plan3, as they have been divulged to a favored few, are sure of a spectacle that will never be forgotten in the history of Utah. fc 0' The state auxiliary committee, with headquarters at Ogden, and of which James Pingreo is chairman, has made great progress in organizing Liberty loan s-'uhscriptlon work in the northern counties coun-ties of the state, over which Ogden has supervision. That subscriptions from these counties will bo very heavy scema a foregone conclusion. In view of the great activity of Chairman . Pingree and -he members of his committee. ; From every county in the state came reports yesterday of t he perfection of county organization and only the finish-insc finish-insc touches are now necessary to send every committee from north to south and east to west off on the great drive. Where the Money Goes. And with Uncle Sam calling on his loy- al citizens to contribute' a second fund 1 cf ?3.0lKi,Oi'O.fi00 to the nation's war chest, no tiling could be of more vital Interest than for citizens to know now and where Uncle Sam has been spending the funds of the country during the past six monl hs. Never before in the history of the world ha s a nation built up new organizations w(t h such astounding -rapidity as th-a - OTnited Slates of America this year since war was declared. In six months the country has shown that the ability to crystallize and develop co-operation can be a pphel, to military needs by men trained in 'the art of peace as quickly as, "perhaps, x in the hour of need, by nation whoso study has been war. IK In 1 hat sense, therefore, the period of six months just past at Washington is nntjtrierely historical it is epochal. , To realize what really has been al- i " 4. I ready accomplished would need a scope of vision superhuman. No one mtnd couid basin to grasp it all. An army of l.SOO.OOO already mobilizing mobiliz-ing for active service, a navy fullly manned, completing the first line of defense de-fense ; the. most gigantic, merchant ship building- in the world's history now un-I un-I der way: aviation plans on a scale that makes Germany Rasp; preparation for supplies aggregating billions, and work on ordnance for billions more: food conservation. con-servation. Red Cross', sweeping rearrangement rearrange-ment of railroad management, a plan for insuring soldiers and their families all these and many more projects have been and are being perfected. Uncle Sam asks Americans to realize that on April 6 of this year there were in the United States navy 64.6S0 enlisted men. Now there are 200,00'). The marine ma-rine corps numbers 30.00, more than double. There are nineteen large training train-ing camps. Already there are in service nearly three times as many vessels of all types as six months ago. Hundreds of yachts, fishinz vessels, fast motor boats have been transformed into patrol boats, submarine sub-marine chasers and so on. The Atlantic fleet is doubled. The navy is seven times as great as in the Spanish war. The naval construction programme is the largest in his too-. 647 vessels, ranging from 32,0O0-ton superdreadnoughts to submarine sub-marine chasers. Feats Accomplished. Two wonderful feats have already been accomplished in the national army. First, teaching and training 27,000 officers in the first officers' camp; second, the building build-ing of large cities as cantonments. There are sixteen such cities, rising out of the soil. Towns of 40,000 require generations to grow. These cantonments have sprung up In a few weeks, at one fort a standard barraeks 34x140 feet, two stories high, being erected in one and one-half hours. These are but a few of the government's govern-ment's tremendous activities, but the members of the executive committee of the Liberty loan committee of Utah point to them as indicative of Uncle Sam's need for money and the government's expectation expecta-tion that everv man and woman in the stat will be willing, to the full extent of his or her ability, to carry on their shoulders some of the burden of this war for humanity. Go up to Fort Douglas, or to any other training camp, and look at the long lines of boys who are being brought to the top vigor of their young manhood that they may be Tit to fare the most highly trained fighting fight-ing men in the world. Ts any Utn hn willing that, in a world made free by the blood the suffering the tears of millions of his fellow men, he should not suffer at all? To the full extent of your ability abil-ity and your opportunity you mur.t carry on your shoulders some of the burden of this war for humanity. Tn that spirit make your subscription. subscrip-tion. Make it to include money you need. Make it to Include money you cannot can-not possibly snare. And the feeling that will spring up In your heart will be patriotism and more. It will be your part in the universal sacrifice "that the world may be made safe for democracy." Don't wait. Go to your bank or any bank and buy the bonds that will send your dollars over there to give a fair chance to the bovs who are offering their lives for the world's liberty. Such is the appeal of the Liberty loan committee of Utah. |