The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-04-11

Bond should buy war savings stamps,
which may be purchased in any
amounts from twenty-five cents up-
ward. On both of these securities
the government pays interest. The
security is the best in the world,
nothing excepted.
The cause in which the money
will be used is for your own pro-
lection. The ship which your money
will help to buy will carry food and
clothing to that boy of yours, or to
that brother, over in France. Your
money will secure trench boots made
of rubber, so that your nelghbor S
boy will not have to stand guard
and perhaps give battle in the dead
of winter, as he stands in water, coat
ed with ice, up to his waist. The
enemy aviator as he scars over our
trenches unmolested at present, Sc
curing information for the use of
German batteries, will presently be
driven from this profitable (to the
enemy employment, if you supply
the money to help build airships for
our men. That boy who lives in our
county, who many of you know and
love, why don't you let the govern
ment use some of your money with
which to buy for him steel helmit,
so that when the shells burst near
him his poor brains Will not be scat
tered over the mud of the battle
field? That crowd of Boys from Bam-
berg county who will soon sail for
France to take their places near the
battle lines for further training
why don't you gladly give the gov
ernment the money with which to buy
them gas masks, so that when the
shells, filled with deadly gasses,
burst near where they are quarterd,
they will not suffer agony and a slow
death, which you may have helped
to prevent
Your duty is plain. Will you do
it? ANY bank in the county will sell
you a Liberty Bond; if YOU cannot
purchase bond, any bank or post
master, and many of the stores, will
supply you with saving stamps. You
do not pay down the entire amount
you subscribe for Liberty Bonds, un-
less you so desire. You may pay
for your bonds in installments. You
make payments through your own
bank. The first payment will be
made when you subscribe. Five per
cent. of the amount you take. Only
! $3.50 to be paid down on a $4,000
bond. The balance would be paid as
follows: Twenty per cent. May 23tn,
thirty-five per cent. July 18th, and
forty per cent. August 18th. These
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| that you did not have the funds with
which to make the deferred payments
your bank will lend you the money,
take your bond as security, and as
sist you to carry the bond until your
money was received in the fall. We
do not know yet exactly the amount
! that Bamberg county is expected to
take in bonds. But we do know that
the county fell short over one hum
dred thousand dollars of subscribing
I her quota in the previous bond issue.
Only one per cent. of the people sub
scribed. Where was the other ninety
nine per cent? The day is fast
approaching, if it has not already
arrived, when the family whose head
does not make known his patriotism
by word or deed will be called a
Stacker Your neighbors will won
der what is wrong that you are un-
willing to put your money at the
disposal of the government, while
they have put their sons in the
hands of their government; and it
will be only question of time when
those who do not actively support
! the government, will be looked upon
with suspicion and they may be ask
ed to move out, to make way for cut
spoken, patriotic, honest American
citizens.
When old clothes are a badge of
honor, when Indifference is shaken
off, when we realize our individual
and personal responsibility, when
we make the war our first and prin-
cipal business as patriotic men, then
and not until then will our armies
win the victory and our sons and
brothers come home, and the mantle
of peace descend upon the world.
Signed: J. A. Wyman, county chair
man; A. NJ. Brabham, J. D. Copelnad,
Jr., John H. Cope, J. C. Guilds, A.
NJ. Denbow, A. Rice, C. w. Rentz, H.
M. Graham, DR.. Robert Black, G. E..
Bamberg, E. G: Hays, G. Frank Bam-
berg, DR.. F. F. Johnson, w. E. Free,
w. D. Rhoad, D. A. Gardner, ]. F..
Hicks, Rev. A. Sassard, DR.. L. A.
Hartzog, G. NJ. Neeley, H. A. Kearse,
H. w. Chitty, G. E. Kearse, w. P.
Mcmillan, G. w. Beard, P. NJ. Warn,
G. w. Kearse, G. A. Mcmillan, w. G..
Kearse, Joseph Gunnels, j. B. Zorn,
B. P. Hartzog, D. P. Smith,
A. F. Henderson, J. E. Nc
MILAN, J. G. Rhoad, A. w. Hunter,
n: H. Fender, F. V. James, M. K.
Zorn, A. p. Guess, J. D. Turner.
Town chairmen: A. w. Knight, Bam-
berg; J. A. Virgins, Denmark; G. F..
Rizer, Olar; w. NJ. Walker, Ehr-
hardt.