The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-16

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can lend. Is as great q patriot, q greater
patriot IN many respects than the man
who could lend $4,000 and only lends
ten.
ana gentlemen. 81 the simple ser service n
which you take no chances except to
benefit yourselves test Of patriotism
Ii not the amount. but 10 whether YOU
have done all you can. tApplauss).
Don't Sell Your Bond.
Now when you buy government
1t right away. oh. j want you to know
how YOU hurt the credit OF your govern
ment when you buy your bond and get
the reputation In our community of hav-
ing done something and then sneak off
and sell It the next day. and get from
under That is not helping the govern
ment. want to beg you all who buy a
government bond and don't intend to
keep 1t to please not buy II. l don't want
that money. (Applause.) And It l.
necessary for you to know why I don't
want IT. l don't want 1t for your sake.
| This isn't McAdoo; this is you: i only
|! represent you. My business is to protect
the credit Of Uncle Sam: and can't
protect your credit and keep these bonds
at par ii you offer them In the stock
market or sell them below par. Don't
you see you weaken your credit when you
do that? Don't you know what Joy 1t
gives the German Kaiser when lie has
been told that we haven't confidence in
our government. He has been told that
we have the greatest resources in the
Liberty Loan bonds-the citizens Of
America begin to sell their own obliga-
tons below par-why, the German Kali
ser says to himself: "Of course they
eminent: they don't want their own obi
cations at par
The only satisfaction want to give the
German emperor Is the jab Of American
bayonets. (Applause).
Every one Must Help.
We must keep the credit OF our gov
+, eminent. my fellow countrymen, and
there Is no way to do 1t unless every
one who possesses an obligation looks
upon It, not as commercial or business
transaction: but looks upon 1t as an in
vestment In the very life Of the nation,
patriotic duty OF superlative impor-
lance. and that the first duty is to hold
! 1t to the limit. just as we are telling our
men in the trenches In Europe: Hold
that trench to the limit II you give your
life while doing it." (Applause.)
Now. / don't mean to say that I OBJ
ject to the sale Of government bond
in case OF necessity. / know there are
times when you have misfortune in the
family. You may buy a bond and think
you intend to keep it, then sickness or
death may. oyertake the family, or obliga-
tons may mature and it is necessary to
realize on something, and you haven't
dnyCnlNS else you can realize on Dul q
government bond. why, of course. in
such cases. If you have gone the limit
in holding it, and you can't hold it be-
cause imperative necessity forces you to
sell 1t. nobody objects to that.
Must Not Waste.
You must hold your Government bond
because the Government wants you to
save and to sacrifice and to economize in
order that you may do so. 1t is only by
" nd ar hot
we can win this war. Now / want to ex-
plain why 1t is necessary. FOOD IS one
OF the scarcest things in the world today.
We are eating strange bread these days.
which has constituents and names /
never heard Of before. To help our SOL
diers In the field now we must eat this
strange bread, because we want to save
wheat and save wheat because 1t is the
most concentrated form OF food that adj
mits OF shipment in our vessels. and yes
sells are scarce. Therefore, we must do
without wheat until our armies can be
fed and the civilian populations over
there can be kept strong in turn 50 that
they may manufacture the things the
soldiers must have.
Now ii you are going to economic in
food. don't waste things-that is the
pOint--and the less you waste the more
you save. and the more you save. the
better off you are. because you have
added that much to your wealth, and you
are getting an income besides from the
and. above all. YOU are helping the coun-
try in IFS hour Of peril. lApplausel.
Il Now. wool is scarce IN the world. We
reed wool for the soldiers In the trenches.
They need socks. sweaters, undercloth.
ing. blankets--God knows how much
those Door fellows do need when you
think Of the suffering they endure IN all
kinds Of weather, day in and day out,
standing upon those frontiers of ciyiliza
ton. bleeding and dying for you. Cap
plause.) Is it asking any man OF woman
in this great audience to make too great
q sacrifice If you wear clothing until it
you to do too much. to dispense with tho
things that merely satisfy the vanity.
self indulgencieS. these Gays when those
things are needed by our glorious sons
buy. clothing made OF wool today. il they
can possibly avoid 1t. Why the more
wool you leave free to be made up into
blankets, in order to keep a boy warm,
the more you enable us to carry on this
fight.
NV friends. there is also scarcity OF
leather in the world. Hides are scarce:
we are scraping the race of the earth
today in order to make the shoes which
the boys need in the trenches. Why.
do you know what 1T means standing IN
a trench out on that western front-and
a. trench isn't Darlor; trenches are
deep in mud, running in water. and. in
cold weather. are filled with snow and
ice-lout ON the frontiers. the outposts OF
freedom. with the strained eye ana the
tense nerves of some grand American
son. probably of some noble Jackson.
Mississippi, mother or father, (applause,,
or looking out over No Mans Land; look
ing out over No Mans Land watching for
the first sight OF hostile approach of
the barbarians. standing there perhaps
with insufficient clothing, and, above all.
perhaps. without the necessary shoes
Why. II you take leather here and put.
into shoes you don't need. you may de-
prive that splendid son OF an American
mother OF the necessary shoes to keep his
feet warm. I tell you, my friends, we
must take care Of our leather supply In
order that not only may our soldiers
never get cold feet. but that the civilian
population never get cold feet too. GAP.
Dlause).
Time to Wear Patches.
Why. IL I were q man in an office. Il
would wear half -soled breeches and half
Soled shoes these days. (Laughter). Il
recommend that they are badges of
honor. All. my friends, IL you do that
and you release a pair OF breeches for ami
American soldier. or pair of shoes to-
keen his health and strength, isn't that
reward enough? (Applause1.
II / were girl and man came to
see me with new suit Of clothes ON,
would put him out of the house.
Iaughter). And If he proposed to me-.
I would make him cross his legs. and
II he did not have on half-soled shoes.
would reject him. (Laughter). Now.
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