The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-01
Second Liberty Loan
Drive On Let Us
Make 1t Glory Month

paign.
II should not be necessary 10 go out
into the highways and byways. thru
Offices, mills factories. stores and homes
TO get the money YOUR government
needs to wage YOUR war for democracy,
but because so many Of US are busily
engaged in doing the worlds work. earn
ing our living and supporting families, 1t
is needful that few patriotic persons
give Of their time and energy to call
home to EACH OF Us this duty of citi-
zenship-TO PROVIDE THE SINEWS
OF WAR.
The United States needs $3,000.000.
900.
Keep that in your mind constantly
from today until the second Liberty
Loan is over-subscribed. Tell it to your
friends and neighbors, the man who
works near you in the shop, the man on
the next farm-EVERYONE you meet!
1t is true that the first loan Of $4,000,
100000 was oversubscribed, but il was
not until the closing minutes of the sell
ing campaign that this was done Let
us over-subscribe this second loan dur
ing the early part of the month. Let
us buckle right down 10 the Job of show
ing the Prussian war lord and his junk
ers that we are back of the president
with our last dollar as we'll as our last
man.
No German defeat on European battle
field will be half as disheartening to the
kaiser as the over-subscription of this
second Liberty Loan within compare
lively few days.
That will mean to him that America
is in the war tn win Regardless o. eX-
pense in life or gold
All the glory of victory is not to be
found in camp and trench. Much Of it
comes to those who stay behind and
work and pay.
But, really, it is not paying, for you
merely loan the money to your govern
ment. Your loan brings you 4 per cent
interest and its payment is guaranteed
by the strongest and best government on
earth-YOUR GOVERNMENT!
The owner of a Liberty Loan bond
holds written tangible evidence of being
a preferred stakeholder in the United
States, the greatest, the most glorious,
the most honorable and the most success
full corporation in the world. He holds
the certificate of being citizen willing
to support his government and to lend
money to his country when it needs It
and calls for it.
There is honor in being the owner of
a Liberty Loan bond as well as profit.
Not only honor and profit, but as Sec
rotary of the Treasury McAdoo puts it:
'In protecting the credit of the United
States government you are proecting your
own credit, you are protecting your own
business, you are protecting every inter
est you have in life and property"
A safe investment is particularly suit
ed to farmer because he is in most in
stances at distance from bond markets
and not in position either to know OF or
Immediately act upon information Of mat
tiers affecting the sale of bonds. The Lib
erty Loan bonds are invincibly safe, back
ed as they are by the resources of the
richest nation in the world and the faith
and credit of a people who have always
respected their obligations. and they are
of stable value and liable to little or no
fluctuations in market value.
When the first Liberty Loan bond was
fioated American farmers were busy
with their crops and many of hem had
all their surplns money invested IL seed
and labor Now they have harvested
their crops, and these crops have paid
them $4,000, 900. 900 more than any other
years crops ever paid the farmers Of
America.
Other workers have done we'll finan-
cially this summer. The habit of thrift
started when the first Liberty Loan bonds
were sold has accumulated millions of dol
lars in the pockets of those who were
not accustomed to saving for the proverb-
ial rainy day.
Whether you subscribed TO the first
Liberty Loan matters not when consider
ing your subscription to the second loan.