The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-09-20
"GIVE UNTIL 1T HELPS"

Buy until it hurts" Give until it
hurts" are two expressions that are
often used, the one referring to the
purchase of Liberty Bonds and the
other to contributions to the Red
Cross or the Y. NJ. c. A. or kindred
work.
Both are fundamentally false in
meaning. They should be sent to the
scrap heap of rubbish and supple
mented by Buy until it helps and
Give until it helps"
Do not for one moment vainglori-
ously think that this means it helps
the country or Red Cross or the Y.
M. c. A. organizations. 1t means buy
or give until it helps you and gives
you a clearer understanding of your
responsibility.
Buy until it helps" you by broad
ening your vision of the war and the
struggle to save civilization.
Buy Liberty bonds not out of the
surplus which you can spare without
feeling.
Buy not merely because the pur-
chase of Liberty Bonds is strengthen
ing the nations power to fight.
But buy because your soul needs
the quickening influence of wider
conception of liberty and humanity
and civilization. And the more free
ly you buy the greater will be the
ennobling of your own soul. You will
be helping yourself and in that way
you will at the same time be helping
the nation and civilization.
1t is no act of charity to buy Liberty
Bonds. 1t is merely contributing a
moiety out of your ability, great or
small as it may be, for the purchase
of the engines to stop the confiagra-
ton which, having swept over much
of the world, is sweeping directly to-
ward your house, and you must save
your house by your own work, or else
recreantly throw upon your neighbors
the responsibility of saving you, while
YOU stand off and shrink your duty.
Buying Liberty Bonds is to save
your wife, your mother, your daugh-
| ter. from the last degradation which
women can suffer, as in Belgium and
France. and to save your property and
YOUR nation from destruction.
Frank Reeder, who left here a few
months ago for the coast called by
| the draft, had an opportunity to en-
| list as a sailor, and he is now station
ed at Seattle He was home on q
lfurlough this week, and the effect ol
Training and the natty uniform has
made a marked improvement in his
appearance.
Gene Taylor has the thanks of this
office for a quantity of fine, juicy
Handsome toothsome strawberrie:
grown on his place on the hill in thu
west part of town. These berries are
as perfect in appearance and as de
licious to the taste as the berry mar
keted in the spring time, and shows
what can be done with the right kim
of stock under the West Okanogal
Valley Irrigation system. If Mr.. Tay
lor can raise such berries at this sea
son on a small scale they can b.
raised on a large scaIe and shoul'
be a profitable crop.
w. H. Finsen, who has been con
ducting a garage in Oroville for sew
leral years, sold out his business thi
Iweek to Geo w. Bartell. He lef
Wednesday morning with his famil
for ST. Johns, where he will TAX
charge of a flock of trucks owned b
Mr.. Bartell and are in use on a roa
contract. Mr.. Finsen is skilled me
chanic and knows as much about a
automobile as the man who invente
the machine. Mr. Bartell has faith
full and reliable representative /
charge of his property, down in tn
Palouse country while Red has tn
managing thereof. 1t Is to be hope
that eventually MIR. Finsen will retur
to Oroville to make his home.