Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1918-09-06
BROWN JOINS |
C0L0RS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMGAt
BOY CARES FOR Pillow, DONs +,
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT. E.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
viii Invest in Fourth Liberty 8ondsl
to the Uttermost In Order %
Help Win the War .
Quickly. i.

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 wal 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 q few days later
when Raymond Browns father spoke
Of the war. war gifts and government
loans as he saw them. There was,
maybe q dozen men In front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Eyes. Raymond's gone" he said. 1T
makes things look q lot different. Last
winter | gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and | helped out q little a while
back when the Y. M. c. A. wanted help.
and that money was a gift. l 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 l bought
one before. That boys going to be In
France one of these days and II Ia q
far country. l am not going to fall
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 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 mar who has no
relatives in the army, who is just q
plain God-fearing American citizen, is
feeling the thing a little harder. His
love Of country may not be q thing
that he talks about very much. but he
feels it. He may not be able to drive
bayonet through a Hun. but he can
make his weight felt when II m TO
a war loan and he proposes to do 1t.
The man who thinks sees very clear
ly that when he puts his money into a
Liberty Loan he Is putting it into
something that will come back as sure
lly 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 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 q certain number OF,
years He knows that the interest will,
be paid just as surely as anything can
be in the world. No |. w. w. no
! AiltilCdu Dbi0lltNi Will a 'iSH
lame and "A foreign twist TO his tongue,
Is going to SKATER the Americans con-
6dence in the government he is help
ing 10 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 0 m
we finish The job of smashing the Kai-
ser. That is about the sum and tho
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,
1t is eYeryhody's war. Ii is no RICH
mans war, no poor mans war, but IL
Is ~everybody's fight. The rich man Is
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 are
lending our money.
You can give money to the Amsri-,
can Red Cross, and you ought to be.
proud Of the privilege.
When the Y. M, c. A. asks for,
money it asks it as a gift. The Y. M.
c, A. has no bonds to sell.
You can give money to the Knightsi
of Columbus, to the Salvation Army
War Fund and to other war-workfnE,,
bodies, but you cannot give money to
the United States of America. /
But you can lend it, and the interest
is at the fair and reasonable rate OF
AZ per cent for the Fourth Liberty.
Loan that opens Sept. 70.
You have the best Of reasons forl
lending it. Out from your doorway, or
from that of the house next door, a.
young man in khaki has gone with
"the %colors.'' He is fighting in France,
today or is training to go overseas. 1T.
is the job of the stay-at-horne to back
him up. The man back home must put
a rife in his hands. cartridges In his
belt. a uniform on his back n bread
in his mouth. While the lad In khaki
\, ,Saripu apd giving his life. the man