The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14


asked my wife the other morning.
She shook her head. Twelve sub
seribed for the Red Cross, and / don It
see how we can spare any more money.
What with the way the war has hit
your business and the high cost of ev-
erything, it just It be done. Be-
sides, Joe, that's the rich man S job.
Let them do their bit for change,
we we got all we can do to live. This
is wealthy country, and there's plen-
ty of millionaires who II never miss
it, and she shut her lips down tight
in way she has that means the sub
ject is over and ended.
The next few days were pretty siren
uous ones for me, and I had no time to
give to the matter at all, so that /
eouldn t imagine what was up when I
went home last night and found her sit
ting at the table, with paper before
her and pencil in her hand.
"Why, what IS the matter9'' I asked
in surprise.
cit only makes $500 and I can t
figure the other sixty cents, was the
astonishing answer.
looked at her in alarm. care you
siek9" | queried anxiously.
"Sick? MOI 1t IS this Liberty Bond
It's $500 week, and can only figure
out $780,
"LibertS Bond7 What do you meana
Have you bought Liberty Bond?"
=" Why, of course. -
"But I thought you said that was
the rich man IS job.
ct know" she answered slowly, then
with rush of words, "but I didn It
understand. was down at the bank
today, and Mr., Garden explained it to
me, and do you know, Joe, I had it all
wrong" Her tone grew earnest. cit
ism It the rich man s job any more than
ours. It's everybody's rich man s.,
poor man s. women and children s.,
and it ism t question of whether we
can, it IS q case of got to. IT, a per-
sonal business, Joe, not only to pro-
tect our neighbor, or the man across
the street, but to protect ourselves.
It's little bit of the interest due on
the big debt we owe our country for
all the years of peace and plenty we we
had, as well as pledge for the future
We can t fight, but our money can, and
just think what an awful thing it
would be if our country lost out be-
cause you and / thought we couldn It
help. oh! I know! Our particular
hundred dollars ism t much, but sup
posing half of US felt that same way.
it would make the difference, wouldn It
it? No, it s all our business; it s lust
as necessary that we buy Liberty
Bond as that we buy -four and meat;
there IS nothing abstract about it, it s
our own safety we're securing, and
that Of the generations to come. -
"But where is the money comir g
fromg"
"That's what I was figuring! I
bought two $50 bonds, one for you and
one for me, and pay $500 down and
$500 a week till they re paid up. So
there IL be no cases of beer this sum
mer-and that II help the government
too-and I'll get Annie Smith to help
me make over my last years clothes
instead of buying new, and I'll make
my old net do, and
And what am I to give up?o 7
broke in.
THAT'S for you to decide" she an
swered, "but it like this with wom-
an, Joe. The love of liberty and free
dom is planted deep within her. She
may not always show it ON the surface.
but let danger threaten her home and
country, and there is nothing too hard
OF too much trouble, if only she can
help safeguard them. !"
And the thought came to me, that
II every woman felt as my wife does.
just how long would it take to sub
scribe the Liberty Loan of 1917?
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