The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
RIGHT NOW!
BY
Edith Barnard DeIanO
of the VigiIantes.
By

and the sparks are falling on your
shingled roof, are you interested in the
fire?
If the boy next door has sore
throat, and there's lot Of scarlet
fever about, and you have four chill
dren of your own, does it mean any
thing to you?
II the man who owns the farm just
across the road from your orchard
won't spray his apple trees, what do
you care?
If folks in the house back Of yours
persist in leaving the lid off their gar
bage pail the nasty pestilent flies bred
there never come over to your house.
do they?
NOW-fire and fever, famine, pes
tiSsnce, and that which is worse than
murder are YOUR NEIGHBOR. Oh
yes they are! You can't say that they
are across the water, in Europe, where
they are too far off to harm you Or
yours. They are here, right here il
your country. Your neighbor's fire
smoked before it blazed, the boy next
door had scarlet fever for days before
1t "broke out" on him; the unspr2yed
apple trees and the uncovered garbage
pail were getting in their deadly work
for days before you knew anything
about them. The danger that this war
Is spreading throughout every corner
of the world is not over there, but
here, HERE and NOW. Much Of the
danger you know; much you do not
know. There are enemies, germ car
fiers, where you think it is impossible
for them to be. You may rub your
elbows with them on your way to
work. You may sit next to them in
street cars. They may be your GUS
toners, your tradespeople, your very
,neighbors; but they are spreading by
ways that are open and that kill quick
t1y and by ways that are secret and
that stab in the dark the most dread
full disease that las ever been on this
learth-WAR. \ ~ know what war
does; there is not man, nor woman,
Inor child in all this broad land who
will not be hurt by this war if it is
permitted to repeat itself. War has
.got to be ended, ended soon, and ended
forever; and there is only one way to
do 1t. One way, that is, for you and
for me, who cannot place our bodies
where they will stand between our
!, loved ones and the shot and steel of
war. You and I have got to do our
part by providing the means with
which war can be stopped and shall
lbe stopped You and l, who cannot
tight, have got to provide money, just
money, SO that others can do our fight
ing for US. And the fighting of this
war Is the one big final housekeeping
OF the world; even the germ carriers
have got to be routed out and cleaned
up.
housekeeping costs money. So does
sickness. But cleanliness and health
are worth paying for. They are good
investments. You do not hesitate to
pay for fire insurance, to call in the
doctor, to keep your home premises
clean and to do what you can to see
ithat the people around you do the
same. It's worth it.
Right now, you have got to insure
your children's children against disas,
tier worse than fire. Buy Liberty
Bond ia let our soldiers be your
properly equipped fremen.
Right now you have got to call in
doctor. Buy q Liberty Bond and let
Uncle Sam choke OF the germ carrying
,spies and seditionists here at home,
land clean them up wherever they are
working throughout the world
Right now you have got to force
your neighbor-and remember that he
doesn't live only in the Germany
which produced his poison-to clean
his premises of something that is more
dangerous than scale or dry rot or
norers or moths or anything else that
We world has ever had to deal with
lay o. Liberty Bond and help rid the