Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-09-19
RAY BROWN JOINS
C0L0RS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR PLoW, DoNs
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
VIII invest in Fourth Liberty Bonds
to the Uttermost in Order to
Help Win the War
Quickly.

One sundown last June Raymond
Brown stopped his team at the end OF
The corn lows. He swung his cult.
vator around, lifted the shovels so the
wet earth would not rust their glitter.
ing ssrfac-s and unhitched his team.
The mkt Gay~he was on his way to
Camp Taylor and the next day he was
IN khaki. His younger brother was in
the field carrying on his work.
1t was shutdown a few days later
when Raymond Browns father spoke
OF the war, war gifts and government
loans as he saw them. There was
maybe a dozen men In front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Yes, Raymond's gone" he said. at
makes things look a lot different. Last
winter | gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and | helped out a little a while
back when the Y. NJ. C. A. wanted help,
and that money was a gift. l bought
some war stamps-mind you. bought
them-and was glad l could.
"But let me tell you that when the
next Liberty Loan comes around I'll
buy two dollars worth where | bought
n before. That boys going to be In
France one of these days and 1t is a
far country. l am not going to fail
him when he gets over there. And
every dollar | put In bonds is Just that
much protection for him. 1t backs
him up and makes his fight easier.
The man who goes deserves all we can
do for him and for the country that is
sending him across. And, after all, We
are buying something that is as good
and better than the money we pay for
1t when we buy a bond. But you have
to feel this war come close to know
just why you ought to buy a bond"
There are more Raymond Browns in
the army now than there were last
June, and more fathers and kinfolks
are thinking about the lad who stepped
away from the home fires to the hell
fires that never die down on the west
front.
There will be a vim and a determi-
nation in the Fourth Liberty Loan sub
scriptions that will be greater than be-.
fore. Then, too, the man who has no
relatives in the army, who is just a
plain ~God-fearing American citizen, is
feeling the thing a little harder. His
love OF country may not be a thing
that he talks about very much, but he
feels 1t. He may not be able to drive
q bayonet through a Hun, but he can
make his weight felt when it comes to
a "a loan and he proposes to do it.
The man who thinks sees veFy clear
ly that when he puts his money into a
Liberty Loan he Is putting 1t into
that will come back as sure
/! as his government lives. Only the
fool or the proGerman a y that the
Liberty Loans are a poor investment.
The American knows that his govern
ment will do Just what it says it will.
He gives his money for a bond that
is a solemn promise TO pay his money
back at the end Of IA certain number of
years. He knows that the interest will
be paid just as surely as anything can
be in the world. mo l.. W. W., no
Bolshevik with a foreign
and a foreign twist to his tongue.
g going to shatter the Americans con- |
idence in the government he is help, |
ing to maintain.
We simply lend. and the money
comes back with interest. The bond
Is as good as American gold and is
by every acre Of land, every
piece Of property and by the blood OF
every man in America.
The more money we raise the sooner
we finish the job of smashing the Kai.
ser. That Is about "the sum and the
substance" Of the whole matter. Amer
ca Is In the war with every man and
and dollar, and proposes 10 make
clean and quick Job of 1t.
1t is e~verybody's war. 1t is no rich
mans war, no poor mans war, but It
s everybody's fight. The rich man is
his bonds and fighting in the
army and the poor man is buying what
can and fighting in the same army.
We are giving our men but we are
ending u money.
You can give money to the Ameri-
IAN Red Cross. and you ought to be
proud Of the privilege.
When the Y. NJ. G. A. asks for
money it asks 1t as a gift. The Y. M.
). A. has no bonds to sell.
You can give money to the Knights
" Columbus, to the Salvation Army
Var Fund and to other war.working
'odies, but you cannot give money to
he United States of America.
But you can lend it, and the interest
s at the fair and reasonable rate Of
~ per cent for the Fourth Liberty
Loan that opens Sept. 2S.
You have the best Of reasons for
1t. Out from your doorway, or
rom that Of the house next door, II
Dung man in khaki has gone with
the colors." He is 1ghting In France
oday or is training to go overseas. 1t
$ the job of the stay-at-home to back
lin up. The man back home must put
rifle in his hands, cartridges In his
,elt, a uniform on his back and bread
n his mouth. While the lad In khaki
$ Offering and giving his life, the man
Who buys a Liberty Bond is no Civ