Cleveland County herald., 1918-04-18
Help Properly Equip Your Own Son and Other Soldier Boys
 Over There.
DUTY OF ALL TO BUY BONDS
Liberty Loans to Uncle Sam Is Best Guarantee of Our Fighters Safe Return Home-Do Not
 Hesitate.
(By ROLAND G. USHER of the Wig.
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 Put 1t to yourself straight now. You know perfectly well that you would feel ashamed to keep your boy out of the ranks if he wanted to go. You know perfectly well that you would probably feel ashamed before your neighbors If they knew that the boy was sticking at home. But have you ever asked yourself whether you felt ashamed that you were keeping your dollars tight in your jeans instead of lending your dollars to the war as well as your boy? If you have not got a boy you probably would feel that he ought to go if you had one. You have got some dollars, why don't you send them?
 Think again If you have sent a boy over there, don't you know for cer- tain whether that boy will come back, God grant that he may. But he went, just the same, knowing fully just as you did that he might not come back. You gave the dearest thing you had in the world to the government freely, for the cause of democracy. You were glad to do It; you felt fine about 1t. You still feel that if you had 1t to do over again you would not do anything else. But I will wager anything you like that you have lot of money that you can lend to the government with out hurting yourself at all, and which you are hanging on to until 1t screams. Think of 1t. Those dollars will be per fectly sure to come back if you lend them to the government. The govern ment guarantees that. Why should you therefore be so afraid to loose your clutch on them. The great risk you have already taken and did 1t be- cause it was a worthy and noble thing to do. The thing which is no risk at all and yet which is just as nee essary to the war as the other, you hesitate about.
 Dollars Will Come Back.
 Let me suppose for a moment that { you have not yet sent Your boy. l will er--.- ,-e tsFtzSFng feeling, that he ought to go. He has too. In this case, I won't have to make wa ger about it-you have not sent your dollars. If you hesitate to send the boy because you are afraid he may not come back, you have perfectly ex- plainable reason, but you have not got a good reason why you should not send your dollars. They will come back, you may be sure of it. Not only will they come back, the government will pay you interest on them in the mean time. You will lend the government your capital and will get a return on it. Far from losing anything, you will make something. Why hesitate?
 Look at it from another point of view. If your boy has not gone, or if you have no son, your neighbors who have sons have sent them. Those boys are going into danger. They are go- ing to need guns, food, artillery, ships, and airplanes, not only to enable them to do what they went over there to do beat the Germans out of sight-but to keep them safe. If they don't have those things they certainly won't come back at all. You know perfectly well, however tight-fsted you may be, or however mean you may think yourself and you are not half as mean as that-you would not hurt your neigh bor's son just because a few dollars stood in the way You would feel so ashamed of yourself for the rest Of your life you would not be able to shave in the morning. Your neighbors' sons and your friends sons that you have known all your life need the things your money can buy for them, and it is going to go mighty hard with them if they don't get them.
 Make Your Money Help.
 Now put it to yourself straight. If the thing was a little nearer to you so that you really saw your neigh bor's son actually without food be- cause you had declined to give it to him, you would not hesitate for a mo- ment what to do. The difficulty Is here that the thing is on so large a