The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13

meaned by buying Liberty Bonds pn the installment plan. He knows the importance of doing it. and he knows that this war cannot be financed un- less the people use their credit as well as their savings. The President is going to pay for his Liberty Bonds out of his salary. as it comes to him monthly, and every man and woman and every corporation in the United States should buy all the Liberty Bonds they can just as the President has done and pay for them out of their salaries or their incomes on the ill., stallment plan.
 Counties, cities and school districts throughout the country must realize that it is in the highest degree a duty of patriotism as well as a matter of intelligent self-interest, to invest their funds in Liberty Bonds. Great sums of money are accumulated in this country for sinking fund purposes. All such sinking funds should be invested in Liberty Bonds. As long as they are idle or invested in other classes of securities than in government bonds, they have no vital fighting power. The minute they are invested in Lip erty. Bonds they are a contribution to the strength of our armies at the front.
 "The same thing may be said of es-
 
 every trustee of such funds awaken to his duty and promptly invest the funds under his control in the bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
 DENT IN HUN FRONT When the Third Liberty Loan was offered. the Germans had pushed their lines in a great circle westward, so that they were in smelling distance of the city of Paris. Never were the lib- critics of the world in such peril as at that time. But as soon as we trans formed those Liberty Bonds into fight ing Americans on the front and into the munitions and supplies those fight ing men needed, we began to make dents in the German circle, and now we are pushing it eastward towards Berlin in- stead of the Germans pushing it west ward toward Paris. I said in the Third Liberty Loan that we would push that circle eastward as soon as America could set her strength upon the battle front until it's perimeter included Berlin. We are doing it. America's soldiers have answered the Kaiser. With American bayonets they have already written upon the soil of Germany this notice to the Kaiser: The jig's up' If our home army fails to put the Fourth Liberty Loan over, it will be notice to the Kaiser that the jig is not up.
 DEEDS NECESSARY "AIl America recognizes the patriotic duty of supporting our soldiers in the | field and of helping them fight untfl a conclusive victory is won; but patriotism l is of little value if it is professed only with the lips and is not backed up l by actual deeds. We must do the nec- essary things at home just as our sol diers must do the necessary things on | the battle field. They cannot fight, they | cannot win unless the great home army provides the means forNvictory. The ques- l tions before us is intensely practical. We must be performers as well as patriots. The $e.0o0. .oO0,0oo the government now re- auires must be subscribed by the peo- | pie. It is the practical evidence of our patriotism to do it and it is notice to l the Kaiser of our unshaken determina- ton to do the job thoroughly and con clusively."
 l Mr. McAdoo closed his address with a strong appeal. for the substitution of Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps this year for the usual Christmas gifts. He departed for Washington immediately after the conclusion of his speech. I