The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-10-02
DEPTH OF OUR FORCES De.
scRieED BY AMERICAN OFF,
GER TO BRITISH cOMRApE.
BACKING LINE WITH BONDS
Support Of Battle Forces Extends
From France to Your Own
Doorway.

fall. An English officer was talking
with an American captain who had
just come back from q tour of duty in
the trenches. They we're talking mill
tary problems and the Englishman
askad:
'-what is the depth of the Ameri-
can front"
''Trom the German barbed wire in
NJ Mans Land to the Pacific Coast"
was the American officers answer
OF course, the Englishman referred
to military technicality when he
asl~d his question, and yet the Ameri-
cal captain was right. He told the
whole story of American participation
I'm the war when he made it plain that
all OF America is, in the battle front.
America had not been in this war
six months till we all understood it
was a different sort Of a war from
what we had expected Years ago We
all pictured war as struggle in which
q few from each community went
away, while the great majority of the
people gtayet Un III home and went
about their business and life went
along undisturbed. We know better
now. We realize we are all in the
struggle.
All Are Enlisted.
Those who cannot fight, who can
not work in war plants, who cannot
help IN Y. NJ. c. A. huts or Red Cross
hospitals can help nevertheless. The
Liberty Loans offer an opportunity
sor every man and woman in America,
for every American under the pro-
tecting shadow of the Stars and
Stripes to help support the battle front
of America far across the seas in
Europe.
The front reaches all the way back
TO our pay envelopes, to the money
that was brought in for load Of
wheat, to the returns from a corn
crop, for building a house, for a days
work at the mill or in the fields.
Every bond that is bought strength
ems the American front by just that
much. 1t makes it just that much
easier for the Americans to drive the
Huns back 1t stiffens the American
line by just so much against those
grim massed attacks of field gray
shock troops that Won Ludendorff
loves to send against the Allied lines.
Every Liberty Bond is helping the
Americans, it is helping the French
and the English and Italians, who are
fighting as they have never fought
h. Il hA1 oil ha
sOIidly that deep American front that
stretches back of No Mans Land and
reaches e.. .-e way across the At
lantic, across the Alleshenies, across
the wide stretches Of the Middle West.
across the Great Plains and wall Of
the Rockies and ends at last at the
Pacific beaches.
That Is what the American front is
like ior depth, and it is as wide as the
county that stands back of us and as
sold as the credit Of American insti-
tuiiuLs.
Must Keep front Solid. ~
1t csa be kept as solid and enduring
as the Rockies by every American lin
ing up 10 take his snare of the Liberty
Lean Lid, Is at hand 1t cannot be
kept -'I and safe in any other way.
IL t"'oe money to fight wars and sup
p0rt armies. Ii takes more money 10
buLl I4e. oAant ships and destroyers
and submarine chasers.
f. PlFery one Of us will have to think
this out honestly and carefully. 1t
won't do TO just buy as small bond
as we can afford to buy. The Ameri-
can front is weakened by that kind Of
ratriotism. When the time comes TO
sign up for the Fourth Liberty Loan
take every dollar you can spare and
Sef into it for all you can possibly
afford. u is a good investment, none
better in tie history of the world, and
III Is helping 20 bolster up that Arneri-
can front that is going to smash into
tine Kaiser's domain one of these days
and send the whole German nation
crashing down to defeat.
when you buy a bond you are max
ing IL certain that the American front
Is being supported all the way from
France 20 your own doorway. 1t makes
Won a part of that magnificent body OF
fighters who are massing over in
France TO put an end TO the kaisers
dream of levying tribute from a once
free America.