The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-14
By EDWARD s. CLARK.

6I EOWAhO Q. NLAhNs
 on.-Government officials have been looking for a slogan to rouse interest in the buying of Liberty Loan bonds and also to impress on Ameri- cans that they should do whatever they can to help their country.
 Do your bit" is an English express sion, but it has been used to great ex- tent in this country. H. P. Stevenson of River Forest. Ill.,. has suggested Hold up your end" as good Ameri- can expression and one with sufh- cient amount of pepper in it.
 By whatever slogan or by whatever sther means the government directs at fention to the Liberty loan, it may be said that the campaign in behalf of this bond issue of the country is one Of the most strenuous ever engaged in by the official representatives of the peo- ple.
 Washington holds that it is the pa Iriotic duty of every man who is able 10 do so to buy a Liberty bond. They are issued in various denominations, beginning with bonds as low as $50. and the means of their purchase is made easy. The government hopes that this bond. issue will be overSub- scribed.
 Funds Should Come Frc+n All.
 The government holds that the funds to prosecute the war should come from men and women of the nation at large and not from certain classes. The of ficials ask that all the newspapers of the country from the smallest to the greatest shall work together in cam paign giving the common cause "the impetus and force of nationwide con- certed action and correlated effort"
 Robert w. Wooliey, at one time di- rector of the mint and newspaper man of years standing, is the director of the publicity bureau of the Liberty Loan of 1917. It is the belief of NIT. Woolley and of ali the officials of the treasury that the advantages of the loan need only to be made clear to the people to secure a prompt response in the form of purchase.
 What are the terms of the Liberty loan bonds?' asks NIT. WooIley, and then he gives this answer:
 Liberty Loan bonds of the first is sue of s2.0300O0,O00 are to bear date of June 15. 1917. and to run for 30 years except that the government re- serves the right to buy them five years after date. If this right is not exer- cised by the government 15 years from date, the bonds will run the full 30 years.
 These bonds bear interest at 311a per cent per annum and the interest is payable semiannually on the fifteenth day of December and of June in each year"
 They Are Nontaxable.
 These Liberty bonds are nontaxable. If city, county or state tax on a mans property amounts to three cents on the dollar. which is said not to be an unusual tax, the bonds are said to be equivalent to ordinary corporate bonds or other investments bearing 6ia per cent The reason for this is that no federal tax which war conditions later may make necessary will affect the bonds. The only tax to which they are Subject is an inheritance tax, which ap- plies to all property of all kinds what eoever
 . "Of the billions loaned to our allies" an official statement declares. none of it is going out of the United States to be expended. Every cent of it is to be used in this country for the purchase of things needed for their armies and navies. Much of the money which is to be loaned to the allies will be spent for cotton for clothing, and for explo- ssives. and much of 1t will be used in pthe purchase of wool for clothing and hater for shoes"
 The president of the United States, and with him other high officials of government, has said that every Ameri- can who subscribes to the belief that Americans should stand by their coun- try should subscribe to the Liberty hoan bond issue.
 Do your bit.'
 Hold up your end.'
 British Missions Farewell.
 The members of the British mission to the United States have left Washington. It was keen disap- pointment to them that late-day duties in connection with their work with the officials of the state depart ment of this country prevented them from visiting the middle West and other sections of the country, with the people of which they were anxious to come in personal contact.
 It was possible for your correspond ent to secure from the members of the British commission. of which MT. A. J. Balfour, Great Britain's foreign secre- tary. is the chief, a message to the people of the sections of the country which they were unable to visit. This 1s the message from the visitors to this country: