The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-10
Mr.. OBJECTOR!
HERE'S SOME
NEW THOUGHTS

when the wars costing Uncle sam
$1,000. 100000 a month. what's the good
Of my little old $50 bond2 Fizz, bang
Its gone What's the user 4
might as well buy myself a cheese
sandwich and give the change to the
waiter"
But you are wrong. Mr.. Conscientious
Objector-to- being Separated from-your-
Coin. when you say that Listen!
Down comes a German shell crash,
upon an American trench. a dozen OF
the boys fall. bleeding. into the mud.
The stretcher bearers rush forward.
Thank heaven" save the lieutenant. for
that negro barber-shop porter back
home who bought that $50 bond7 Te-
tanus killed thousands Of poor fellows
back in 1915. but We don't have 70
worry His little bond will keep 139 OF
Us safe from lockjsw.
At the first aid dressing station the
nurses were busy. That's the l60th
first aid packet I've applied this morn
they save? It's wonderful to think they
all came from one $50 Liberty bond.
understand little waitress back in the
States paid for it
At the neld hospital the surgeons had
their hands full "Got enough ether2"
asked the major. Sure" replied tho
captain. "A day laborer back in Cod s
country did that Tor US with his $50
bond Means enough aaesthetic 70 make
400 operations painless. And for
| bsndages. Mary O'Grady's $50 has sup
piled enough 70 tie up 555 wounded
hands"
Out in No Mans Land the soldiers,
I lying in the hot sun. began 70 drink the
/ dirty water ia the she'll holes. We
should worry said the corporal, THAT
$50 Liberty bond purchased by little
1 lame George Browne who can't be a
| soldier himself. Will keep 66S OF US big
/ huskies safe from typhoid here on the
| firing line And as for small pox. one
/ baby bond means immunity for 1000
/ soldiers"
But. Mr.. Conscientious-Objec to-
/ beings epera ted-frorn- your-Coin. II you
} really want TO help win the war buy
more than one $50 bond Their power
grows faster than their denominations.
Three $50 bonds. for instance. viii
/ fully equip an infantry soldier for serv-
! ice overseas. or It will feed him on
I Uncle Sans rations for twelve months.
/ Four Of the little S50s-any small office
can contribute that many-win buy a
| calvary horse or mule for the am
munition train. or to haul water cart
! OF a combat wagon
Six OF the baby bonds viii not only
: equip q soldier in full. but will feed him
/ for year Ia France. or they VIII buy
! a motorcycle for machine gun COM
/ pauy. Eight $50 bonds viii buy an X
ray OUTFIT Ten Of them combined con-
! tribution Of ten stenographers or clerks
! viii supply the quota Of bicycles for a
headquarters company OF an infantry
! regiment. Sixteen Of the little bonds
would mean four big strong mules 10
pull an ambulance
Bonds TO the amount OF one thousand
dollars Will send 70 the front an N-ray
! OUTFIT complete. or SIX cases Of operat-
ing instruments for a base hospital o.
furnish automatic pistols for the men
ia a rife company or q motor-power
rolling kitchen or eight rations carts.
If the employees in some small shor
want 10 send to the front he fine bis
horses that are required 70 draw a CUR
Of the ammunition train. Ell have
TO do is to get together and sIoscrib.
| for twentyfour 90 the $50. They vii
do the work Fifteen hundred dollar:
worth OF bonds will provide a motor
ambulance or q hve-passenger motei
car for a machine-gun battalion. Forty
of the little contributions-they are
! within the reach Of every wage Garner
| will buy a motor truck or supply ration
carts for whole infantry regiment o.
more than 5000 men Or $4,000 worth
will furnish rifles for q field ARTILLERY
battery or supply horses for a field sig
nal battalion. If eighty OF the $50 bonds
arc put together the result T. . big trac
tor to haul supplies and guns hun
bred Of these small bonds, $4,000 worth
VIII send to the front q Liberty truck
or seven Lewis guns or equip with rifles
whole company Of infantrymen.
Seven Thousand dollars worth of bond
means q new training aeropIane anc
$4,000 worth-1S0 of tho $50 bonds pu
together-meen a new observation bal
loon to watch Fritz's movements auc
prevent surprise. or viii provide enough
rolling kitchens TO feed 3 whole felc
artillery brigade.