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ii j D r p r n 0 , 1 , " , n ,i .t !l a 1 j e " 1 D u u •I 1 m GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The most intensive propaganda campaign ever attempted in the Inited States is to be carried on during the third Liberty Loan drive, which is .scheduled to begin Anril «, bv the Sneakers Bureau of the Liberty Loan Committee throughout the seventh Federal Reserve district. Every state in the district lias l eeu iully organized, with a state director and a county speaking chairman in each of the counties under him. More than two thou- sand of the lust public speakers in the district have been enrolled and it is asserted that every man and woman in any nart of the five states . under the Chicago jurisdiction will !*• reached by a direct ami forceful appeal. Seven hundred and fifty well-known public speakers of Chicago and Cook County have volunteered to give their time. without iiiiT, during the entire drive. This list includes such men as Clarence S. Barrow. Edward A. Bancroft. Judge Harry A. Olson. Jaeob M. Dick- inson, Henry Ratht one. Prof. Percy H. Boynton ; of the Iuiversitv of Chicago; Congressman Edmund D. Foss. Bishop Samuel A. Fallows. Judge Marcus , A. Kavanagh. David A. Forgan and former governors Charles S. Deneen and Edward F. Dunne. Conferees of the Senate and House yesterday at Washington agreed on I bill providing severe penalties for destruction of war material and for salM,tage. Penalties of thirty years imprisonment and 0,000 fine are provided in the bill, which was greatly broadened in scope, both by the House and the conferees, for acts which actually, or are intended, or which "there is reason to believe are intended to injure or destrov war material and utilities." The latter include arms, munitions, live stock, clothing, food supplies, railroads, electric lines, canals, engines, machines, vehicles, vessels. dams., reservoirs, aqueducts, water and gas pipes, structures, electric, wireless, telegraph and tele phone plants and "all other articles intended to be used by the Inited Slates or any associate nation in couneetion with the conduct of the war." The legislation also |Mnalizes willful manufacture of defective war materials, including ; their ingredients. The OHll Idikes Naval Training Station band. whieh will aid in inspiring patriotism and stirring up enthusiasm for the Third Liberty Loan, what Ircsiilent Wilson calls "the greatest baud in the world." originated by Captain William A. Mof felt, eonimaudant al Croat Lakes, and directed by the famous band leader Lieut. John Philip Sousa, , J t * 1 t ■ 1 ■ J J _ j [ ! ! ] ! • , a ] ; , | 1 1 1 the Bluejackets Band of Youth has grown to an organization of over 70O pieces. Detachments of this band have toured the middle western ami eastern states during the previous Liberty Loan drives. where Liberty Loan exi»erts have credited their collective work with selling S7.VI.nnO.O0n worth of Liberty bonds. Overflow meetings were the usual thing. Schools were closed as were stores and other places of business in order that everyone might see and hear the Bluejacket band. Why you must buy Lil erty Bonds — Remember these things: The nation has a right to take absolutely every dollar of property in the Cnited States for the life and deatli war against tyranny, auto-a cracy. slavery and foreign aggression and vassalage. But the nation does not intend to exercise that final desperate right. No! The government says: "The nation is fighting for its life. Lend lis your money. We will give you Liberty Bonds, secured by all the wealth and sovereign taxing power, bearing four and one-quarter per cent interest and protected by a good sinking fund, with tax exemptions to make the loan better. Avoid the extreme necessity. INVEST IN ALL THE LIBERTY BONDS YOU CAN." The departure of Field Marshal Von Mackenscn for the western front, reported in Paris newspat ers. is tacit admission by Germany of the failure of her Picardy drive, allied diplomats at Washington said yesterdav. Von Mackensen is considered as the ablest of the kaisers generals but for some time has l ecn in bad favor at court. His presence on the western front would indicate, diplomats say. that Germany is about to play her last card in France. The German press is warning its readers not to expect too much of the offensive in the west, says ■ Renter dispatch yesterday from London. The Cologne Gazette says extraordinary rumors are prevalent in Germany regarding the extent of the tier-man "victory." and are inspired by the enemy who is exaggerating the Teutonic successes for the pur-|tose of depressing the masses through disappointment. The Inited States has requisitioned for use in the entente service a number of Russian steamships formerly engaged in transacting supplies between America and Russia, according to authoritative information received in shipping circles at New York yesterday. The third issue of Liberty Loan bonds will mature in ten years — on September 1.1. 192.X — the Treasury Department at Washington yesterday announced, and will bear interest from May 9. next, payable semi-annually 011 September 1.1 and March 1.1. General Pershing has been awarded the Belgian Order, the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. according to a dispatch to the Belgian legation at Washington from Havre. American aviators have given invaluable assistance at the front in the last two weeks, said Field Marshal Haig in a report from British headquarters in France. Latest news from Moscow is to the effect that Russia will raise an army of 1.300.000 men. a the first step in arming the whole Russian nation. The Germans are reported to have landed a force of 40.000 men in Finland, with artillery equipment of 300 guns and 2.000 machine guns.
