The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-05-01
)|lHY NOT YOUR DOLLARS ALSO??
Bv ROLAND G.. USHER.

perfectly sure TO como back # you lend
them to the government. The govern
men, guarantees that. Why should
Won therefore br 40 afraid 10 loose your
clutch on them. The great risk you
have already taken and took 1t because
il was Il worthy and a noble thing 10
do. Tho thing which Is no r1SK ri al
and yc; which is just aS necessary |"
the war IA the other. you hesitate
about.
I.et me SuppoSr for q moment that you
have not yet sent your boy. VIII
wager you have n sneaking feeling
that he ought to do. He has. too. In
this case. won't hav" to make any
wager about it--you hav" not sent your
dollars If you hesitate to send the
boy because you are afrlid he may not
come back. you have q perfectly eS-
plainablc reason. hut you have not got
Il good reason why you should not send
your dollars. They will como back.
You may be sure If it. Not only will
they Come back. the government will
pay you interest on them in the mean
time. You will lend the government
your capital and will get n return on Il.
Far from losing anything. you will
MAKE something. why hesitate.
Look ut it from another point OF view.
IT your boy has not gone or il you
have no son. your neighhors who have
sons have sent them. Those boys are
going into danger. They are going to
need guns. food. artillery. ships. ana
arroplanes. not only 10 enable them to
do what they went over there To do
beat tho Germans ont IF Sight--but 10
oil fhau hor
those things. they certainly won't come
back at all. You know perfectly well.
however tight-hsted you may hc. or
however mean you may think yourself
and you are not half as mean as that
YOU would not hurt your ncighhor's
son Just because n few dollars stood in
the way. You would feel SO ashamed
or yourself for the rest OF your life.
you would not he able to shave in tho
morning Tour n"ighhors' SONS and
your friends sons. tina, you have
known all your life. need things your
money can buy for them and IL is 60
ing 70 go mighty hard with them II
they don't get them.
Now put II 10 yourself straight. II
tho thing was little nearer 20 you. Sd
that you really saw your neighbours son
actually without food because you had
declined 70 give II 10 MIN. you Woutc
not hesitate for 4 moment what 10 do,
The difficulty is hers that IN" thing
is on so large A seal" that YOU do mt
realize that your failure TO lend your
money 20 IN" government Is going "a
result very probably in dcpriving tina:
particular boy of things no needs You
can say. If you Ike. there are so many
millions nf them that it will be soma
other fellows son that will go with
out. / hope you w1nn't get much com
fort out of them. cause II Is III" Same
old thing Yor NQld not hur: him
either If you $: ". and knew he
was in want .uuSp you don't
GO. him. because somewhere in
France. You forge about him and
don't stop 10 think that he wants Il thing
which you would not hesitate to give
him. il you saw him with your eyes
why hesitate. then. TO lend your dol
lars to the government" They are the
only Things that can really do this bus
, mess. They are tho only things thar
can put tools into Tho boys hands over
them 70 kill the Germans with. Don't
hesitate any longer now: get II straight
and 10 down and put everything you can
spare into bonds and feel hotter aHnt
it for the rest of your life