Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-12
Americans! Answer
With All That God
Has Given You
(From Liternry Dieestl

AmcricanSl What does il mean to
youths anniversary of our enter
ing the Great War?
| What does it mean to you-the
Presidents call to the nation to fight
for its honor, for it's rights, and FOR
the rights and freedom of humanity?
When he said, "therc may be many
months of fiery trial and sacrifice
| ahead of us,"-when he said, ito such
q task we dedicate our lives and our
fortunes, everything we are and ev-
erything We have" how did his words
cdne home to you? Now. after IL
year. at this serious crisis of the war,
| do they burn their way to the henrt
with meaning more real, with
more imperative challenges.
Stern, terrible facts are driving us
to action. The fury and cruel cum
ning of the enemy are unquenchcd.
| Russia is under his heel bedevilled and
plundered. Roumania has been crusht
and forced to surrender. Fresh hordes
OF Huns are being hurled against the
! Western fronts. The greatest battle
of the war is raging. The lust of
conquest and world-dominion is now
growing. as it feeds itself with first
one helpless victim and then another.
New plost are ready, and new agents
of develish propaganda IRE being
sent into France, and Britain and in
Italy, and America to destroy them
from within MS Russia was destroyed.
We MUST win, or our fate will be as
Russia's. We MUST win, or our high
professions of service to humanity
will be mockery to the name of
America through the ages to come.
America is awakening; its heart is
on fire; 1t has revealed its soul to n
world that did not know it before
and now is dazzled by the sight. A
denthless purpose to win this war is
gripping the American people. The
Third liberty Loan will test this pur-
pose,.-will give it exprcssion-this
month.
Already the young men of Ameri-
ca have dedicated thier lives" and
have gone to meet their "fery trial
and sacrifice" on the battle line in
France. Hundreds of thousands of
our own boys are now facing the
cruel foe. Into the trenches, filled
with mud and blood; into the clouds
of poison gas and the streams of
liquid fire, into the iron hail, and the
whirlwind of destruction, they have
gone with shining eyes and shouts of
defiance, to fight for us, and for n
world of brothers. They'll drive the
enemy back-WITH OUR HELP.
Now the sterncst summons of du
ty, the hottest call of patriotism.
comes to us for Immediate answer.
we must not, we can not, evade it.
what are we Mt hnme going to do this
year, this month, to match the hero
ism and sacrifice of our boys in
France? How are we, safe and snug
at home, going to dedicate our for
tunes-everything that we have" to
this supreme task, rs we are called
now to subscribe to the Third Liberty
Loan! We are expecting to road Of
American heroism in battle, of the
invincible strength and courage of
our armies MS they meet the foe. But
heroism and strength and sacrifice in
battle are not enough. They, alone,
can never win the war. While we
are looking eagerly to our armies.
they are looking eagerly TO us. They
are expecting us to do our part with n
complete devotion and sacrifice MS
they are doing theirs. If we Mt home
fall our armies on the battle-line, thew
wlll--THEY MUST-fail us, and be
swept away in defeat and disaster.
This Third Liberty Loan means not
The mere preparations of our armies,
but their prepservation on the battle
inc, their very lives, and the VIC
tory they MUST HAVE if America
and tho whole cause of freedom arc
to escape unspaaknble ruin.
Day by day we shall scan with the
tfrobbing hearts the casualty lists
cabled from the American Army i'm
the field. The length of that cas-
ualty list depends on 49, Every one
of us is responsible. This Third Lib
erty Loan is to keep that casualty list
down. Every Liberty Bonds you buy
this month is lifc-saver sent by YOU
to the boys in FRANCE.
This loan must not fnilj it must
not even drag. Quick, eager over
subscription is our only possible ac-
tion. Buying few Liberty Bonds
with money which can easily be spar
ed will not now be enough. We must
go deeper and lend until it hurts.
We must square the shoulders, brace
the back, grit the teeth, and lift un-
til it strains every nerve and muscle.
Every mans money must burn as hot
ly with love of country as does the
fire in some mems blood. The Ma
than Hale's of today will go into the
banks and the safety-deposit rooms
and count their money and securities
| '.'s'i N"6S'b JSoiOdo tHOuBHb VI WIluL
they can do Of heroic service and then
will exclaim, ~ only regret that I
have but one fortune to give for my
country" Then, "this nation, under
God, will have new birth of free
DOM" Then will our armies be in
vincible and victorious. Then will
this war end with the triumph Of JUS
tice and human liberty, and peace will
come to stay forever.
Now, we must buy Liberty Bonds.
Now, with our own boys fighting in
the trenches, we must support them
to the utmost with our cash and our
credit. What good will our money be
to us if we allow them to lose? What
shall our bank account, or our in
come, or our borrowing ability profit
us if the Huns set their heels on our
shores and fasten their clutches in
our Threats, as they have boasted they
will do?
The best time to protect our free