The Nevada County picayune., 1918-08-29
If We Fail in Our Duty Boys in France Cannot Achieve
 Victory.
LOAN MONEY TO UNCLE SAM
Buying Liberty Bonds an Investment in Lives of Americans lover There" and an Insurance for
 Safety of Our Country.
By COBRA HARRIS, (Author of "A Circuit Riders Wife," "EVe's Second Husband" Etc.)

"Eve's Second Husband" Etc.)
 During the Thrift Stamp campaign in July. 1918, a prominent citizen was munity to arouse the people, and if possible sell Thrift Stamps. He was not expected to have much success with the sale of stamps because the people were very poor and illiterate. The effort was to be chiefly educa- tional.
 The speaker found a dingy company of farmers and their wives waiting for him in an old field schoolhouse.
 He began his address with argu- ments for the support of the govern ment reduced to the simplest forms. No one seemed to listen. The men stared straight ahead as if they had something else on their minds. The women famed themselves and looked out of the windows. He changed his manner of speech to an impassioned appeal; no one was moved. He paused perspiring before making last despairing effort. But before he could 
 the back of the house and waved his hand beseechingly:
 Mister be said, If you are done talking, give us chance at them Thrift Stamps so we kin sign up and get back to the field"
 He gave them the chance" They bought nineteen hundred and fifty dollars worth of stamps, although there was not man among them who owned property to the amount of two thousand dollars.
 I've own this lane," the farmer said. addressing the prominent citizen grim ly as he passed up the last pledge card, i've own all this country. The govern ment at Washington belongs to us; we made 1t and 1t is ours. The army in France is ours, too; they are our sons. We sent siXty-two boys there from this district. and I reckon we know it Is our duty to work for them and take care of them while they are busy whipping them Germans"
 This is the best, most serviceable and intelligent definition of patriotism have heard since this war began.
 Victory al Any Cost.
 This is the most expensive war ever known, stSll beyond our imagination to conceive of. The enormous destruc- ton wrought by the submarines, the terrific sums spent for war materials. the loans to our allies, none of these things account for the incredible ex- pense. The real explanation is that civilization demands that 1t shall cost everything. Never before has any na- ton spent so much to insure the health of its soldiers, never before have such provisions been made to safeguard n great army morally. More is being spent to equip hospitals, provide ann balances, nurses and doctors to care for the wounded than whole campaigns cost in former wars. Never in the his tory of man has such provision been made to insure widows and orphans and soldiers from the after effects of wounds and poverty. Formerly when n man entered the aeny to fight for his country, his country took his life, and that was the end of 1t if he was killed. Now the government pays, and pays enormously. for every man who lives or dies in this struggle. All this is so because as nation we have developed a sense of justice and honor that re- sards any and every expense as sec ondary 10 the one tremendous obliga- ton to its citizens.
 Our allies were compelled to fight Germany to preserve their very exls- tenee, hut we chose to fight her when We might have made a shameful treaty with her that would have insured Il shameful peace, because we are not a craven grasping nation, but nation built upon ideals, and it costs more to preserve an ideal than it ever costs to preserve peace, because you cannot buy them-yOu must achieve them.
 Nothing stands between the world and this catastrophe but the American people, their honor, their energy, their fidelity and their wealth. Our troops in France are only the sword arE of the nation. We, the people at home. are the body and life of that army. If we fail at all, they must fail en- irely.
 We are about to make another loan of six billion dollars for war expenses. Ii is not gift, but an investment we make in the lives of American soldiers and an insurance we take out for the safety of our country.
 s'an;ec.~-a Postmaster.
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