French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-12-20
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1917.
HEARTEN TIL BOYS.
LET the lower-lights be burning,

Cast a CLEAN across the way.
There are today approximately $780,
600 American soldiers on French soil
ready to give their lives for country,
home and friends. These boys are
subject to all the hardships that cruel
war can bring. They are the flower
of. American manhood and American
citizenship, the select of the land.
Strangers in a strange land, they have
turned their faces from the scenes of
home and the faces of loved ones to
tread a fearful and bloody trail that
civil liberty and human rights may be
maintained at home and abroad. Moth
ing will hearten them more than the
consciousness of united and loyal sup
port of loved ones left behind.
1t is a condition and not a theory
that now confronts the people of the
United States. They are coming to
see that if the ~unspeakable Hun is to
be subdued American energy, in men
and money. must be exerted in giving
every possible assistance to the Allies.
They must have men, provisions and
equipment and this has rendered nee
essary the perfection of plans that
have called into action the best
thought of the land. Every resource
will be taxed to the utmost later on,
in the event the people shall fail to re-
spond in a liberal and patriotic spirit
while there is hope of success. Con-
gress ha sopened the way by which
every patriotic citizen may assist in
bringing the war to a conclusion,
through the purchase of thrift
stamps and "war saving certificates"
The plan was outlined fully in these
columns last week and the attention
Of our readers is respectfully directed
to the urgent need for action. The
soul of the nation should be awakened
to the need for self forgetfulnes in this
crucial moment of the country's his
tory. Our chief business now is to
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may be free. The Allies are sorely
pressed on the western front and
America must send sufficient forces to
counterbaIance the achievements
Germany has received by the collapse
of Russia, The situation must be met
and met quickly.
The wealth of the country has
shown remarkable patriotism in its
support of the government since the
outbreak of the a More than five
billions of dollars in Liberty bonds
have been taken, largely by banks,
business men, manufacturers and the
wealthy classes generally. AS a
class, men of small means have invest
ed comparatively little in LiberfV
bonds, for the simple reason that thev
were not in a position to share wE+h
the government an amount sufficient
to purchase a bond. Blu this barrier
is removed in the plans for the distri-
button of thrift stamps" and war
saving certificates" which are availa-
BILE in denominations as small as
twenty-five cents. Sixteen c. these
stamps entities the purchased to q
Wal Savings Certificate for five dol
lars redeemable by the government
five years hence. 1t must be readil!
seen, therefore, that this is neither :
poor mans war, nor a rich man war
but a conflict for right and justice il
which every citizen OF the country i:
seriously and earnestly engaged.
Let us hearten the brave soldie
ho~~ Nv nn1isting earnestly in the sal
of Thrift Stamps and War Saving
Certificates. "Send a CLEAN acros
the way" by placing a certificate i
every home. The boys will then as
certain that sacrifices we're made q
home, whilethey were fighting our bal
ties abroad.