The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-26
TIE THREE.oUARTsR posT.

lS4S OF the DIG assignment OF one
million dollars of Liberty bonds for
Macon and Bibb County, subscribed
by thousands of citizens up to and in
GLIDING the big Liberty Day drive of
yesterday we cannot rest on our oars
for congratulations, say The Macon
Telegraph. We are still about $780,
GOO short and IL will take the best
work, the closest application and the
most unfagging community enthusi.
assn to get this money in the three
daoys that are left. We have given
SOC boys to the service WHOM i'll offer
their lives; we cannot let any amount
of moned daunt us.
We are not section of big capital,
Of great idle deposits in cid and
mighty banks, money that in richer
sections might well be conscripted in
toto. Our big money is fluid and ac-
tive with a place in useful and press
ing commerce and industry for every
dollar of it. we mus take up our al,
lotment manly by every individual
getting i'll OF the loan in some sort
of fashion, mostly by eapitalizing
credit and realizing ahead of time on
our thrift for the succeeding twelve
months. Fer it is thrift, the ability
of people whose incomes are only av-
GRACE and often insufficient to their
needs as they naturally would like to
interpret hose needs to LAY by"
little at regular intervals. that repre-,
SCENTS and supplies the wealth of a
nation. And it is the ability. of the
man making from seventy-ffve dollars
a month on up to squeeze out of a lit.
tie money now and then that makes
up the great almost unlimited credit
of nation.
But after all, the issue is to the
rich and the poor, to the strong and
the weak, the difference between per-
sonal service and personal money.
The man in the uniform has dedicated
everything There isn't enough mon
ey in the world to pay for the life of
the kumblest soldier in uniform, for
the breath of the Iowliest citizen, if
the holder of that life is to be the sell
Ter. When these meh get into the I'M
forll they have already offered more
-haa all the combined wealth of the
resi- Of us. Our comforts, our needs |
and necessities are nothing. no de- |
privQtiOn save that of honor and The !
eIose kin can equal their supreme gift |
It is the old issue of being tender with ,
,ut dollars and generous with the !
ives Of our boys.
That's why Macon must raise the |
balance of the million in the next |!
hree days. 1t means that whole |
ot of people who haven't bought as |
much as they really could have must |
come forward and buy some more |
hat those who went in for one hun
ired and fifty dollars at three dollars
1 week must take on two hundred at !
four dollars. 1t is just that sort of /
hing we must do TO do our bit
The taxable values in this county /
amount to about forty million dollars. !
The real wealth. that is the earning /
n3Wer the annual peoduming Turnover /
in wages, profits. salaries and diyi- !
lends, will run into many times that |
but taking the taxable val !
Ies as bases, surely yhen five hundred !
Of our best have placed their lives at |
the disposal OF the country's cause we !
stay-at-homes can lend the Govern
ment One-fOrtie@h of our wealth
How any man can look in the eye |
Of the mother Of a boy at Mineola and |
quibble about his Liberty bond bur
don is beyond the conception of the
right thinking American in this big
hour,