New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-24
The Liberty Bond AS
A Token of Sacrifice
By Garet Garrett


Liberty Bonds, but he meant literally the very
things which Liberty Bonds in this day represent
After six months at war we are still fat, COM
Portable and untouched. The stomach is jealous
and we complain of prices Our skins are spared.
Our cong glomerate Imagination IS heavy and slow.
Nothing has happened to make our blood run
cold.
To sell s3,OOO,OOO,OOO 4 per cent war bonds
it is necessary to waste the time and the energy
of thousands Of efficient social units who might
otherwise be doing some useful thing 1t is nee
essary to have a Liberty Day, apart from other
DAYS. and to devise unique means Of appealing
to the emotions Of the people-such, for instance.
as freaking the front page of The tribune this
morning.
Since the second Liberty Loan campaign
opened news has been received of the successful
closing Of the seventh German war loan. lhe
amount subscribed was more than three billion
dollars From the beginning Of the war to date
100000 German people have loaned their
government more than twenty-five billion dollars.
Their blood has run cold.
In the same time, 100000 English people
have loaned their government nineteen and half
billions.
In the same time 100000 French people
have loaned their government fifteen billions.
But l00,000,000 people in the United States,
with nearly three times the wealth OF Great Brlt-
ain, four times the wealth Of France and three
times the wealth of Germany, make great to do
about lending three billions to their government!
Why2
Partly, as we have said because they have not
felt the war; but it is owing partly to the fact,
besides, that the Liberty Loan has been treated
as problem in finance. 1t is not that at all. 1t
must be an achievement in sacrifice. That or
nothing.
One ought not to buy Liberty Bond as good
investment
One ought not to buy Liberty Bond because
il is attractive way to save money.
One ought not to buy Liberty Bond through
sense Of duty, which gives afterward the feel
ing of merit acquired
One ought not to be proud Of having bought
Liberty Bond, though every Stacker will live to be
ashamed of not having done So
For none Of these reasons ought one to buy
Liberty Bond
The only good reason is that one believes in
ones country as in ones self and is willing to
make any sacrifice for it,
A Liberty Bond should be the token and meas
ure of what one has done without in order that
there should be more for the army the navy, the
munitions workers and the Allies One whose
Liberty Bond does not definitely represent some
personal sacrihce-something that one has not
had to eat or to which otherwise might
have had-then it is not Liberty Bond really,
but an investment The name engraved upon it
will not save it. 1t is what one puts into ones
bond that determines its character.
In primitive of society Liberty bonds unknown
When the the fighters forth fight and the
lived short and worked all the harder feed
cohe and the fighting who while at unpro
ducive
That is still what it
But whereas the tribal required only few simple
thsse spear shield food and warmhmodern warfare
qures million things made million ways all the earth
It's wants supplied by industries wonderfully ntegrated
but more wonderful than that the Liberty Bond token
OF the things the combatan without order
TO support the fighter
you say Il will only half much sugar usual
VIII use gasoline Sunday will do with this old suit of
clothes and all of the saved in this will put into
Liberty Bond and do you help directly There sugar
ho gasoene and cloth for the of much
you do without-to the ounce, the gelon and yard