The Adair County news., 1918-09-11
RAY BROWN JOINS
COL0RSA AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR PLOW, DoNs
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
Will Invest in Fourth Liberty Bonds
to the Uttermost in Order to
Help Win the War
Quickly.

One shutdown last June Raymond
Brown stopped his team at the end of
the corn rows. He swung his cult
vator around, lifted the shovels so the
wet earth would not rust their glitter
ing surfaces and unhitched his team.
The next day 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 lot different. Last
winter l gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and I helped out a little while
back when the Y. M. C. A. wanted help,
and that money was a gift. I 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 I'll
buy two dollars worth where bought
one before. That boys going to be In
France one of these days and it is a
far 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 as good
and better than the money we pay for
it when we buy a bond. But you have
to feel this war come close to know
just why you ought to buy bond"
There are more Raymond Browns In
the army now than there were last
June, and more fathers and knfolks
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 little harder. His
love of country may not be thing
that he talks about very much, but he
feels it. He may not be able to drive
a bayonet through a Hun, but he can
make his weight felt when it comes to
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
~ as his government lives. Only the
fool or the pro-German says that the
Liberty Loans are poor investment.
The American knows that his govern
ment will do Just what it says it will.
He gives his money for bond that
is solemn promise to pay his money
back at the end of a 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.
hdence 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
backed 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
lea is In the war with every man and
| gun and dollar, and proposes to make
clean and quick job of It.
1t is everybody's war. 1t is no rich
mans war, no poor mans war, but II
is everybody's fight. The rich man il
buying his bonds and fighting in the
army and the poor man is buying what
he can and fighting in the same army
We are giving our men but we arr
lending our money.
You can give money to the Ameri
can Red Cross, and you ought to be
proud OF the privilege.
When the Y. M. @. A. asks fol-
money it asks 1t as a gift. The Y. M
@. A. has no bonds to SELL
You can give money to the knight.
of Columbus, to the Salvation Army
War Fund and to other war-workinl
bodies, but you cannot give money tt
the United States of America.
But you can lend It, and the interes
Is at the fair and reasonable rate o
~ per cent for the Fourth Libert,
Loan that opens Sept. "a
You have the best Of reasons fo
lending It Out from your doorway. o
from that of the house next door,
young man In khaki has gone viii
"the oolors.s He Is lighting In Franc
today or II training to 60 overseas. !
Is the Job Of the stsy-at-home to bacl
him up. The man back home must pu
q rife In his hands. cartridges In hi
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