The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1918, Page 4

' STAR-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918, PAGE 4 Arnold Joerns, former secretary of the National Security League, now in France as a Lieutenant in the Aviation Corps, was on the Tascania when it was. torpedoed and wrote the following letter from the coast of dreland just after being rescued: “My Dear Homer and the Rest of My Friends: “I am drying my clothes in Ire- land, and I guess you know what that means. Some day I will tell ; you a story —some story. “But words were never written that can describe the generosity of these good Irish people. Boys, I never knew men could be so gen- erous and wonderful. Verily, Ireland is heaven, and the Irish people are saints. And now about those German who got us: “If you had seen death work as I have seen it—if you had seen how bravely, cool-headedly and he-manly our enlisted men and officers conducted themselves— and then if you had experienced the blessed privilege of being pulled out of the water by a British de- stroyer, as 1 was, God! you would hate the German swine with a deeper hatred than I ever knew man could harbor. “The time is past for us to con- dema their brutality. We must be more brutal than they in order te whip them. “And, my dearest friends, do not permit a man in America, be he of German extraction or just a dirty politician, to draw breath in America unless he is loyal, and utmostly so, to the best of his ability. It is time for you to act instead of agitate. “I am coatiess and hatless, but I still have my gun. Best of all; we got theenemy. They perished, every d—— one of them. It hap- pened at 5:55 in the evening. I was picked up at 7, and reached wonderful Ireland at ¢ in the morning. “Those who perished ‘will not have died in vain if this will kindle you, my friends, and all America to fighting action. There’s room over here for a lot of my friends, and most of the officers I have “Now I can say with a pecufier meaning, ‘Come on in; the water's fine.’” This Liberty Loan Advertise: ment has been donsted by The Clow Milling Company es a patriotic contributiog towards winning the war. LIBERTY DAY FRIDAY President Wilson calls America to action Liberty Day, Friday, April 26, to drive forward to large success the Third Liberty Loan. Seattle and King County are al] ready to respond and to give a cheering Godspeed to the men who that day go forward to join the colors in Liberty’s war. Let - not that day pass without seeing you do your part in the cause of freedom; your part to put city and county in the front rank of the nation in the Third Liberty Loan, WASHINGTON LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE J. A. SWALWELL, Rk. R. FOX, A. L. HAWLEY, sh State Chairman. Chairman Seattle Auxiliary Dist. King County Chairman oS, ee Owe. Fe” oe ST ° a Fe oe ave 7 Igo og; 2 co oar ee ° Caen te -