The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-11-15
Letter From Frank Sanger.
n Rrown Tey Nov Z I

days ago, giving you thunder be-
cause | had not received that mon
ley; well | got it a day or 50 later,
but haven't had time to write before
now. So | guess l will have to take
s, it back about, the cussing. s.
How's that? Bill ! guess will
have to quite claiming Decatur coun-
! ty as my home, it is Stacker ac-
cording to the last paper had from
! there.
Ny home from pow on until the
end of the war will be wherever Co.
after the war I'll either have to find
a new home or stay with the one l
have now. A county with about TO-
900 people in it, with at least SO per
cent of them earning more than the
u. S. soldiers bought $4,000 worth
Of Liberty bonds, while little old GO.
bought nearly $4,000 worth of
bonds. Do the people there expect
the soldiers to fight and finance the
war? The soldiers are not profit
I ing any by this, war. With the ex-
ceptions of maybe one of two every
man in this company was making at
he is getting. here, one fellow that
l think of right now being "a foreman
in big steel mill of some kind in
Pennsylvania, making somewhere
between $3.50 and $500 per month,
at present he is drawing. $44 per-,
and next month he will only get one
half Of that, the rest will be held in
till he is discharged. The farmers
OF Decatur county. as we'll as other
and rs il s' getting ns'e high Price for
everything he produces, and the
farmers there did not respond, to
Uncle Sans call for what they nave
(money). The men there who are
haye plenty of work.-to do and can
get a good price for his product Ga
bor). | know of one case in that
county where a farmer could not get
a hand at any price and his wife mad
to go out in the field and do man
work. Why is it that people there 4
cannot at least loan Uncle sam their
the Liberty bonds are a good safe
investment, safer that Decatur coun-
ty real estate for security. Decatur
did not even respond as she
should have with men, until the
draft. I believe it had twenty eight
volunteers, ! did not enlist s. a. as soon Sn
cause did not realize what this war
was or hardly that we were at war.
The people there should be Weakened
up to the fact that we are at war
with an enemy that started in to
conquer the world and is not. going
to quit until he accomnlish res his MS enc fha
present time he is not whipped by |
a whole lot. 1t takes more than
or 3 miles of gain on the Western
front to whip him. Although the
allies have been making gains all
the time they are small gains ana at
the rate they are going it will take
long time to win and every day adds |
don't wake ,lup and furnish the f.
nance for this war, they will wake
up some fine morning and learn we
are at war with Boche Zeppellns fly
ing over dropping bombs down on
them. Every person who does not IN
Kaiser BHI. So if they are going to
be German, the place for them is
ovsr in Germany, if they were over
there while they would be willing
10 come back and sacrifice a little
for the sake of liberty.
You can let everyone there know
haven't done something to help win
he war. Many there could have
bought Liberty bonds who didn't:
Did YOU buy any? Fsur mother sent
one son to the army, maybe never to
see him again, that IS a sacrlIlce Io1
fou wouldn't necessarily have, to
sacrifice anything, you could have
bought bonds through one >Qf the
banks there at "a small insta9lment
each week.
Well, Bill,I didn't know | was go
ng to get so rough about this when
started but my pen got away with
ne. hope you think it over and
ct others find out about it. ] feel
hat there is little, sound sense in
t. would like to see Decatur ceun-
y "snap out of it. When some one
SKIS me where-I-LTeI don't like to
lave to mention Stacker county for
ny home. Here's my congratula-
ions to the ones who did-buy some
onds.
VIII close for now. Write -and tell Z
ne how you like me for this, right .
way.
Your brother,
Frank e. Sanger,
Co. u, 9th Eng.