Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-03
A FOUR-M|NUTE
TALK ON BUSINESS
Dollars Invested In Liberty Bonds
Come Back With Interest And
Return Spells Victory
BEST WAR INVESTMENT

Samuel Hopkins Adams, one of
Americas best known writer's, has
written four minute speech based on
the material furnished in the bulletin
provided to 10000 speakers by the
Four Minute Men of the Committee on
Pubuic Information for use during
the campaign on the Fourth Liberty
Loan The style of the noted novelist
will be readily recognized in his Four
Minute effort which follows:
"This is going to be little Amin
ute talk on business. I'm going to talk
TO you as business men and women.
For we're all in business together
now; the business of war; the bust
ness of licking the Kaiser. We're in
business as the o-partnership of
Uncle Sam & Company. 1t ought to
give us feeling of satisfaction to be
partners in the biggest and most i'm
portant business enterprise in the
world today.
Like all going and successful
businesses it takes money to run it.
We've got to finance it by putting our
money into Liberty Bonds. I'm here
to give you some details about what
becomes of the money that Uncle Sam
expects us all to put into this new
Liberty Loan-a1l us partners in the
business.
When a business man or woman,
such as you are, is asked to to put
money into an enterprise, he naturally
wants to know what that money is go
ing to be used for He wants to know
where it's going. He wants to know
what he gets for it.
"All right. I'm here to report on
that. We all know how magnificently
our Toys have been going ahead over
there, with the Huns just couple of
jumps in front of their bayonets. Now
let's see what all this is costing in dol
lars. These figures that I'm going TO
give you have been specially worked
out for the 4-Minute Men by an officer
of the French High Commission and a
corps of American experts. So, they're
right Take, for instance, drive for
ward on a ten-mile front. What do
you suppose that costs? Well; the
first twenty-four hours of it costs just
that doesn't count the loss of our boys
lives, too precious to be reckoned in
dollars
Say there are five divisions, total
ling one hundred thousand men in the
drive. They would have more than
twothousand artillery pieces, light and
heavy, and these would shoot away in
the first twenty-four hours action
close TO eighteen million dollars worth
of shells some of them costing as high
as hundred dollars apiece. Then,
the rifles and machine guns will use
more han half million dollars worth
of the lighter and cheaper ammuni-
ton. The least you can estimate the
wear and tear on the guns at is five
and half million dollars more. Total,
twenty-four millions for the days
work A million an hour
1T comes high. But sc what it does
to the Huns. And see what it means
to our boys. For one well-placed
heavy shell viii Iput an enemy ma
chine gun emplacement completely
out of business. and save hundreds of
lives to the advancing infantry. (And
you'll notice. our infantry has been
doing lot Of advancing lately.) An
artillery barrage will cut through and
blow up miles Of barbed wire entan-
clement and save not hundreds but
thousands of lives of our men who
would be moved down like grass if
they had to stop and cut their own
way through. 1t comes high, all that
ammunition. But you see it's worth
it.
And you see, now, don't you where
your dollars are going? These well