The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-22

wheat. and last spring made up hts
mind to devote not less than one third
of the proceeds to the war. This one
family is planning to subscribe 81, coo
for the fourth Liberty loan, and l.
all goes well, will be able TO pay
down nearly half the amount.
A Horde OF Huns at Your Door.
You know what they would do to
you and your women-a fate far worse
than death. You know how Huns have
laid bare the countryside they have
cOnquered-no animal or plant al
lowed to survive, even trees and vines
cut. off close to the ground. Rural
homes demolished, barns burned.
You know how the BOches enslaye
the farmers of Belgium, Poland, the
Ukraine. Words cannot depict the
horror of It
To prevent the same thing happen
ing right here to you and your fam
lily. to your own community, state
and natiOn-that is what our boys are
fighting for "over there"
It is a question of right over might!
Shall liberty be destroyed by slavery?
This is the question the war is to an
swer for you and me and for genera
lions yet unborn.
This final struggle for the survival
of the f1ttest among humans demands
every ounce of our energy, every cent
of our money. Noble men and wOm-
en- are periodically devOting some or
all of their time, without money and
without price, to help Uncle Sam win
a victory. Others are giving produce
or money to the good cause. Millions
of our healthiest young men, the very
seed of the race, are sacrificing their
lives that you and I and others may
| live in peace.
The very least that each of us can
do now is to lend our money to Uncle
| Sam so that he will have the funds
with which to fight. The war is cost
| ing billions. The only way the gov
eminent can get the money is to Dor
row it from the people or tax it out
of them. The more the public lends
| to the government, the less taxes it
will have to pay.
You can help in this crisis by sub
| scribing to the fourth Liberty loan.
| These government bonds are the safest
| investment on earth. They are absO-
lutely good. They yield good interest.
| You can get your interest money twice
year. If you have to use your prin-
cipai, you can sell your bond any min
| ute, or you can use it as security at
the bank to borrow for temporary
wants The latter is the better way,
because it doesn't help the government
for
somebody else to buy your bond. Get
your bond direct from the government
| then your money goes direct to the
| government and will be used by it to
pay the wages of soldiers and sailors
and to furnish the ships and munitions
| with which they shall win the vic
tory.
Must Do Our Best.
It is I'D to each of US to do not our
| bit but our best. It's a question of
life or death. Simplify. economic, go
without things. so that the effort, time,
| thought and money thus saved may be
| transmitted into the things that shall
enable the American flag to fly over
Bertha symbol of the new civilian
ton which is to insure peace through
| victory
In our rural homes, on our farms, in
the trenches, in other branches Of serv-
| ice, in subscriptions to the Liberty
bonds and War stamps, our American
farmers have repeatedly gone over the
top. Their efforts, their patriotism
their loyalty, have been universally
recognized Now in this fourth Lib
er$y loan our rural folks will show
the same generous confidence in the
eternal principles of human liberty an6
of self government that were cham
piOned by those AIiddlesex farmers
''Their flags to April breeze unfurled
Who fired the shot heard round the
world"