Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

Let us not be appalled,, therefore by the
immensity of this loan. II is offered to
more than 100 100000 Americans and will
finally be owned by the great masses of
our people when they realize their duty. 1t
is less than three weeks national income
it is less than l per cent of our national
wealth. 1t averages less than $50 per
capita Of population. The point is not
whether it will be placed, but how are you
going to help place it? What is your share
of the country's work In this emergency?
Let US not say that the loan will be placed
and that others will take it. 1t is as much
your right your privilege and your duty TO
buy the bonds in proportion to your means
as the right of the richest citizen Of Cleve-
land, o. to take S25, 900, 900.
United in a Common Service
This war will create a better understand
ing than ever before between all classes of
our people How can any one appeal to
the envy and class hatred of the masses
against men of larger means who in this
crisis are not only bearing more than their
share of the cost Of the war, but are send
ing their sons into the army, the navy and
the aviation corps, while their daughters
are training as nurses and learning to per-
form other tasks of which they never before
dreamed themselves capable? This common
service will unite us and help US to under
stand each others problems and teach us at
the same time a broader economy and a
higher efficiency. 1t will diffuse more gen.
orally the true spirit of democracy and
teach us the real values in men and in life.
Subscribers should not be urged to pay
for Liberty Bonds by the sale of other
securities. but should pay preferably out
of earnings from income, even II it involves
borrowing. Savings will result from cut
ting out waste and eliminating unnecessary
luxuries in everyday life America will
gain greatly by the creation Of new sources
of labor, recruited from those who were
hitherto people Of leisure, and by the in
creasing intensity and energy of labor. But
or course immense supplies of labor will
be Withdrawn from productive pursuits into
the camps and activities incident to war
The simple things of life should become
more popular We have been living ex-
travagantly and many luXurles have come
to be regarded as necessities This war
VIII bring us to our senses in many
respects.
No people ever engaged in a holier or
more worthy cause nor endured a sorer
trial OF their patience before being dragged
unwillingly into the conflict Now the
die Is cast and we are at war Many of
our engineers, surgeons and nurses are on
their way to the front Our young men
are crowding TO battleships and training
camps, many of them the finest flower Of
the hock, preparing to cross the ocean and
70 night our battles on the soil OF fair
france. Some of the brightest brains in
aIheIlcan business are organizing for relief
work and reconstruction. Are we asked N
do much compared with what thev are
ooingT This is the hour for self.sacri6ce,
ior selr-dedlcation; for the subordination
OF selnsh interests to the needs of our
common country In such cause an,
conndent the bankers Of Pennsylvania will
respond unanimously and whole-heartedly.