The Press., 1917-10-25
LOAN WILL HELP WIN
 OR SHORTEN THE WAR.
Millions Who Cannot Fight Can Provide Food, Guns and
 Planes for Fighters .

The response of New England, city by city, and town by town, to the Sec ond Liberty Loan of 1917, is bound to be positive and reaching farther into different sections and homes than even on the First Loan. -
 The first week of the campaign for the Second Loan proves how thor oughly ready New England is to do its share to carry on the work. The sense that both duty and interest re- quire of every citizen the greatest effort to make certain the success of the Loan has spread throughout the community. The fact which will be presented, and must be pressed in, in the effort to secure the $3,O00,O00, 900 of the Second Loan is that its failure would be a national calamity. It would not only check the war for liberty, and deal blow to the Nation and the national credit, but 1t would affect every individual in the Nation.
 The success of the Loan will mean that the Nation Is united and firmly resolved to win the war, and to sue ceed the Second Loan should be greater in volume and in number of subscriptions than the First, more than half of the First Loan (57%o) be- ing from persons who subscribed to bonds of $1O,OO0 or less. The bonds offer in themselves a direct appeal to such buyers.
 AS an investment yielding 4%, without taxes, the bond Is the most valuable and safest security on earth. Were 1t not for this emergency of war. no such investment could possibly be offered to buyers. The fact that the bonds are not subject to the normal Income Tax, and not taxable for ly to their value.
 As these bonds are issued by the Government to provide money to carry on the war, the success of the Loan must have a direct tendency to cut short the war. The money that will be loaned by the people at 4HS to our Government will enable the United States and her Allies to press the battle against Germany with greater effectiveness.
 1t will also be Q convincing demon stration to Germany that we are de- termined to fight to the end, to the last man, and the last dollar, to make the world safe for Democracy. Such showing must convince Germ that while she is growing wea1eFd dn. resources, tho Allies are steadily gaining through the enormous strength thrown on their side by the United States.
 Every Liberty Bond bought helps to shorten the time of service TO. Quired of our soldiers, and brings nearer the day on which they will come back from the battleAeIds of Europe. Only . few million Am0ri- cans in all will ever take active part in the fighting, but those who cannot carry a riAe, or man . gun, drive . motor ambulance, or 90 alOft in an aiFplane, must provide funds which shall furnish food, clothing and weap- Ons for those in the Held. Thfs is . sacred duty. and a duty to be done in . most patriotic spirit, and iR gener- ous rivalry with one another.
 The Loan Is barely Q week old, and as the subscription period ends OctO- Der 27th. hO who acts promptly at this time does even more than his share by rousing others to join in the contribution.
 New England is out to raise 35OO,. 100000 as her share to prove that her people are not more tender of their dollars than with the lives of her sons.
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