Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — LIBERTY DAY OF THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN [ARTICLE]

LIBERTY DAY OF THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

Anniversary of Discovery of America Designated as Liberty Day of the Big Freedom Drive. Saturday, October 12, the anniversary of the discovery of America, has been designated as the Liberty day of the fourth Liberty loan drive. It has been the custom in previous Liberty loan campaigns to select the second Friday of the drive as Liberty day. For the fourth loan the plan suggested by the United States bureau of education to designate October 12 as Liberty day has been adopted. The day will be celebrated throughout the country, and it is proposed to have a Harvest Home festival in every school district in the United States. The treasury department of the'United States, in co-operation with the United States bureau of education, will request every school district from the Atlantic to the Pacific to arrange for the celebration of the discovery of America with an appropriate festival. The plans made for tire observance of the anniversary of the discovery of America by the Liberty loan organization as Liberty day are contained in a letter from L. B. Franklin, director of war loan organization. outlining the plans this letter states: “There is a logical unity between both these ideas and the Liberty loan. When the people of a community recount the fruits of their summer’s labor. they will naturally ask themselves what share of them they ought to Invest in Liberty bonds. When they come to realize what the discovery of America has meant to them personally, what is has meant for the cause of freedom an 4 democracy, what it will mean for the salvation of the world in the present world tragedy, when they begin to feel all this, they must of necessity say, this is worth investing in, worth fighting for, worth making any sacrifice for. “To create this state of mind is the purpose of celebrating the discovery of America. It is our hope that the nation-wide, jcelebration will stir such enthusiasm over America’s mission in the world as to enable each community to reach its quota by that day. Let every local community make this its goal and on Liberty day announce the achievement and rejoice over it.” The 300,000 schools In the United States will receive suggestions for a Harvest Home festival from the bureau of education. This form of festival is thq/earliest form of American celebrations, and it is thought desirable to carry the idea over into city life as well as of the country. City and country communities will celebrate the day each after its own fashion, hpt the Harvest Home idea will dominate both.

“Whatever a community’s particular type of product may be, on Liberty day its alm should be to reap a harvest of dollars for democracy,” said Mr, Franklin. “On this day we meet, not as city people or country people, but as citizens, all united for the single purpose.of serving the nation by devoting a part of our products to its needs. “There is something vastly inspiring in the thought of all the local neighborhoods in the United States meeting the same day on the basis of citizenship with united devotion to the ideals for which America stands. ‘Morale is to force as three to one,’ said Napoleon. To mobilize the spirit of America is of paramount importance. October 12 furnishes the occasion for expressing the nation’s spirit in definite terms of service to meet the nation’s present need. “The idea is big, the opportunity is great. The time is short. This should be made the most successful national celebration since the war started.”