Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-01-29


Go" The need is great; the reward
is bountiful. Let us resolve to be bet
terChristians by being missionaries
for our Lord and our brother men, if
rot IN person on the foreign field, at
least at home in spirit, in prayer, IN
gifts, in sympathy with the work, in
announcement to the workers The
Missionary Voice.
Young Man. How Much do You Earn?
The question is not How Much do
You Earn?" but What do You Saver
Young man working steadily each
day. each week, each month: Can you
add $50 every 80 days to a fund for
your mother or father, your sisters or
yourself? $40 monthly in the strong
est and safest bank. in the world, bring
ing in per cent: interest and practic-
ally invested in government bonds,
safe, sure, and earning money always.
Are t. Sc you would wish to leave
cared for in the event of your death
gwen six months of your pay as in
surance?
Can you travel at the expens of
some one else and be educated by that
travel and sill save money?
Can you whose time is taken up by
hard, hRnin-racking labor for small
NOV an unthinking employer.
h time to study, to improve,
to ned
An &caking down your health
by Cot in some Office or shop
or fact0 x& the certainty that If
taken 81 nose your position and
with it y0ur pay-that which keeps
the wolf from the door?
If sick is your medicine given free? |
is a doctor paid to tend you? Is a
trained nurse supplied by your pres
ent employer?
If cripple, are you pensioned and
cared for--for life?
If your best years have been spent
giving your efforts to ano- her--will he
care for you and yours in the declin-
ing years of your life?
Are your clothes furnished free? Is
your board and lodging furnished with
your pay. or do you have the unending,
unceasing struggle month after month
to try to meet your bills?
You ask: Where is this all done,
where board and clothes and every
thing necessary for comfort is given
In addition to pay, whore promotion
may be had for the ambitious and de-
serving, and in fact. where every
question asked above may be answer
ed for your betterment, II you are not
already getting these necessities with
your pay?"
Where you may lead an open air
life and be physically trained to almost
athletic perfection, if you wish"
Where you may circle the globe or
.ravel the wide world without cent
If cost and with your pay going on
lust the same all the time, sick or
we'll, and where that same pay may be
,ut under the protection of the United
States Government"
Where man may advance from
he lowest rung of the ladder to the
highest"
Where education may be had from
rec books in free school rooms, by
competent teachers, also free, in sub
ects from reading and writing to
wireless telegraphy, electricity and
mechanics, engineering and aeronau-
ics-and the time so taken in study
Ind, betterment- daylight time
or which you are being paid by your
Employer, where the knowledge may
'e had that with added education
omes added pay"
The answer to all the above and
nore, young man. is:-"The United
'tates army"
Come to the station below and have
t proven to you that the poorest paid
older in the army today can save $40
+ his, pay every month.
How his food is improved under the
lew ration order how his clothing is
he best Of any soldier on earthhow
le may be educated and advanced
rom the ranks" to head of the army
how the pay has been increased, and
# numberless other benefits of which
1ou and other civilians do not know.
Come. and let us explain it to you
Gibson Building, CookevilIe, Tenn.