Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
Uneasy lies the head of German chancellor.
Hop Liberty Bond Buyers
Will Beat the Kaiser.

Soldiers win battles but wealth. WINS wars
says the Cobb County Times in urging the peo-
pie of its district to buy Liberty bonds; and it
adds with equal truth that 1.-The success of Gov
ernment loan during war times means more than
q victory twenty-mile front.
The people of Georgia as of the country at
large should get this idea wildly in their minds
and in their consciences. Those who remain at
home, on the farms. in the mills and shops and
offices and stores, have Just definite a duty to
perform for their country those in the training
camps at the battle front and on the distant
watches OF the The fact that they are spared
the hardshps perils of the soldiers life in no
wise absOIves them from war service; on the con-
trary it makes their particular obligation the more
imperative When a million Americans, the flower
Of the nations young manhood stand ready to
give their lives that the country may continue Sc
cure and honored and free. who that is not dead
of soul will refuse to support them by every means
he can muster?
We must support them with our money, whether
it be the surplus of ample income or the savings
of hard-earned wage IL their sacrifices are to be
awaiting We must raise the second Liberty loan II
we are to win the We must buy Liberty
bonds to the full extent of ability if we are
TO prove LOYAL Americans and loyal Georgians
This service is less definite and no less impor-
tant than that Of the men under arms. While eco
nomic forces always have played large part and
frequently a decisive part in the worlds great
wars in this conflict they Of unprecedented in
auence In fact this is not much a war of armies
as IL Is a Of peoples. The outcome depends
not simply on how many troops and how much
ammunition the belligerent camps can hurl' eacn
against the other. but on how much endurance
power how much heart and faith and moral sinew
are massed behind the battle fronts. II this were
not true. the Kaiser would have won with the first
huge roaring food of steel which he loosed upon
NJ - The farff
baked his vandal hordes Keeling back toward the
Rhine his brutal ambition at bay. is due to the
s steadfast and sacrihciaI loyalty with which the
PEOPLE OF the Allied nations have stood behind
their men in the trenches. So will 1t be the PEG
PIE of the United States who Will deal the death
blow OF Raiserism By stanchly supporting their
army and unstintsdly pouring their resources, ma
teriaI and moral Into this the wars decisive stage
An oversubscrfptton Of the second Liberty loan
would be indeed greater victory than II our
troops swept forward q twentymile front, for it
would signify . wholehearted American purpose
TO see the war through TO victory no matter the
cost or time. And In that tnvincibe purpose, Ger
rany would read defeat The Kaiser would under
stand at last that he had not only an American
army 70 cope with, but also the American people,
one hundred million strong. However bold a front
he and his Junkers might put on. they would know
IN their hearts that they were beaten And the
German people would know Il
II prosperous States IKE Georgia do their full
duty, the Liberty loan win be oversubscribed to
twice or three times the sum which the Government
asks The agricultural products Of the South alone
amount this autumn to upwards OF six billion dol
Iar,-enough to absorb two loans like the one now
offered. Georgia farms together with the cities
and towns are bIest with unexampIed prosperity
BountifuI crops selling at record prices. Fac
tories are running to the limit OF their capacity.
Trade is at a golden food tide. Patriotism and
selfinterest alike demand that goodly portion OF
this war-bred wealth be invested in the nations
cause Let every Georgian buy Liberty bonds to the
extent Of his capacity to save and this good Com
.monweaIth will have struck telling blow for
America for victory and for peace.