Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — EUROPE TO SEND GREAT MEN HERE TO HELP [ARTICLE]

EUROPE TO SEND GREAT MEN HERE TO HELP

Many Prominent Military Leaders and Statesmen of Allied Countries Will Come Over to Speak for Victory Loan. Fresh interest is contributed to the taming Victory Liberty loan campaign by the announcement that many eminent military leaders and statesmen will come here from Europe to speak for the loan. It is reported that the great interest and support evinced by the alien population in previous loan drives is responsible for the decision resulting in the speakers being brought here. Felix J. Streyckmans, federal reserve director for the Liberty loan foreign language division in the Seventh district, on his return to the district headquarters in Chicago, after conferences in Washington, issued the following statement: “Many prominent Europeans will visit this country during the coming loan drive and bring the message of victory to their Americanized countrymen. I regret that I cannot announce names at this time, but they will come through Washington after acceptances have been received. The invitations are being sent through the state department. working in conjunction with the diplomatic representatives. ' “We want these foreign men of affairs to visit us not only as an expression of thanks to our own foreign-born for their support during the war, but so that they get first-hand information from their own countrymen as to the changes that have been occasioned in, their qative lands by the world war.” While Mr. Streyckmans was noncommital regarding the identity of expected visitors, it was learned from an authentic source that some of them have achieved world-wide recognition in affairs of state, while others have leaped into prominence by their spectacular participation in the great war. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”Our boys fought hardest in the last few hours of the war and won the great battle for humanity. They did not quit us in the final test of their bravery, and we cannot quit them now In the supreme test of American patriotism —the patriotism of peace—the Victory Liberty loan.