The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-09-13
RAY BROWN JOINS
COL0RS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR PLCW, DONs
KHAKI AND GOES FEONT.
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 Raymon,
Brown stopped his team at the end O
the corn rows. He swung his cult
Vator around, lifted the shovels so tn,
wet earth would not rust their glitter
Ing surfaces and unhitched his team
The next day he was on his way t.
camp Taylor and the next day he wa.
IN khaki. His younger brother was il
the field carrying on his work.
1t was sundown a few days later
Wnen Raymond Browns father smoke
OF the war. war gifts and government
loans as he saw them. There was
maybe dozen men in front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Yes, Raymond's gone" he said I'll
makes things look lot different. Las
winter | gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and l helped out little a while
back when the Y NJ c. A. wanted help
and that money was a gift. | bought
some war stamps-mind you. bought
them-and was glad | could.
But let me tell you that when the
next Liberty Loan comes around III
buy two dollars worth where bought
one before. That boys going to be In
France ne.-of these days and It is q
Tar country. ] 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 a. GOOD
and better than the money We pay for
II when We buy bond. But you have
to feel this war come ciose to know
just why you ought to buy q 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 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 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
a bayonet through a Hun, but he can
make his weight felt when it comes to
a war loan and he proposes to do it.
The man who thinks sees very clear
ly that when he puts his money into a
Liberty Loan he is putting 1t into
something that will come back as sure
J.! as his government lives. Only the
fool or the pro-German says that the
Liberty Loans are a poor investment.
The American knows that his govern
ment will do Just what 1t says It will
He gives his money for bond that
is solemn promise to pay his money
back at the end Of certain number OF
years. He knows that the interest will
be paid just as surely as anything can
be in the world. No I. w. w. NO
American Bolshevik with a foreign
name and foreign twist to his tongue
is going to shatter the Americans con
fdence In the government he is help
ing TO maintain.
We simply lend. and the money
comes back with interest The. bonI
is as good as American gold and js
backed by every acre OF land. every
piece of property and by the blood OF
every man in America.
The more morey we raise the sooner
We finish the job OF smashing the Kali
ser. That IS about "the sum and tie
substance" of the whole matter. Amer
lea is in the war with every man and
gun and dollar, and proposes TO make
a clean and quick job OF IT.
Ii Is everybody's war. IL Is no ,Ich
mans war, no poor mans war. but II
Ia everybody's fight. The rich man is
buying his bonds and fighting In the
army and the poor man Ia buying wl,at
be can and lighting In the same army.
We are giving our men but we are
lending our money.
You can give money 10 the Ameri-
can Red Cross. and you ought 10 be
proud OF the privilege
When the Y. VI c. A. asks for
money IL asks 1t rs GIT. The Y. NJ
Z. A has no bonds TO sell
You can g.vo rg~0-7- = re X. rh,s
u Columbus. 10 -, s,eiv ~ ANY
WSS yuAl and 70 other w.. re liink
oodiAS hut You cannot give money 20.