The Adair County news., 1918-09-04
RAY BROWN Joins
COL0RS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR PLoW, DoNs
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
Will Invest in Fourth Liberty Bonds
to the Uttermost in Order to
Help Win the War
Quickly.

Brown stopped his team at the end Of
the corn rows. He swung his cult
vator around, lifted the shovels so the
wet earth would not rust their glitter
ing surfaces and unhitched his team.
The next day he was on his way to
Camp Taylor and the next day he was
IN khaki. His younger brother was in
the field carrying on his work.
1t was shutdown a few days later
when Raymond Browns father spoke
of the war, war gifts and government
loans as he saw them. There was
maybe a dozen men in front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Yes, Raymond's gone," he said. at
makes things look lot different. Last
winter | gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and l helped out little a while
back when the Y. M. c. A. wanted help,
and that money was a gift. 1 bought
some war stamps-mind you, bought
them-and was glad could.
"But let me tell you that when the
next Liberty Loan comes around I'll
buy two dollars worth where l bought
one before. That boys going to be in
France one of these days and it is
far country. / am not going to fail
him when he gets over there. And
every dollar put in bonds is just that
much protection for him. 1t backs
him up and makes his fight easier
The man who goes deserves all we can
do for him and for the country that is
sending him across. And, after all, We
are buying something that is as good
and better than the money we pay for
it when we buy bond. But you have
to feel this war come close to know
just why you ought to buy a bond"
There are more Raymond Browns in
the army now than there were last
June, and more fathers and kinfolks
are thinking about the lad who stepped
away from the home fires to the hell
fires that never die down on the west
front
There will be vim and q determi-
nation in the Fourth Liberty Loan sub
scriptions that will be greater than be-
4Ol 4hCIt wv, lAC AdA VIM las III
relatives in the army, who is just a
plain God-fearing American citizen, is
feeling the thing little harder. His
love of country may not be a thing
that he talks about very much, but he
feels it. He may not be able to drive
a bayonet through a Hun, but he can
make his weight felt when it comes to
a war loan and he proposes to do it.
The man who thinks sees very clear
ly that when he puts his money into a
Liberty Loan he is putting it into
something that will come back as sure
| ~ as his government lives. Only the
fool or the pro-German says that the
Liberty Loans are a poor investment.
| The American knows that his govern
ment will do just what It says it will.
He gives his money for bond that
is solemn promise to pay his money
back at the end of a certain number OF
years. He knows that the interest will
be paid just as surely as anything can
be in the world. No /. w. W., no
American Bolshevik with a foreign
name and foreign twist to his tongue
is going to shatter the Americans con
fidence in the government he Is help
ing to maintain.
We simply lend, and the money
comes back with interest. The bono
| is as good as American gold and Is
backed by every acre of land, every
piece of property and by the blood Of
every man in America.
TIE more money We False the sooner
we finish the job of smashing the Kai
ser. That is about "the sum and thu
substance" of the whole matter. Amer
lea is in the war with every man AMI
gun and dollar, and proposes to make
a clean and quick Job of it.
1t is everybody's war. 1t is no ricl
mans war, no poor mans war, but !
is everybody's fight. The. rich man Il
buying his bonds and fighting in TIL
army and the poor man is buying wha
he can and fighting in the same army
We are giving our men but we ar
lending our money.
You can give money to the Ameri
can Red Cross, and you ought to b,
proud of the privilege.
When the Y. M. G. A. asks 70
money it asks it as gift. The Y. N
G. A. has no bonds to sell.
You can give money to the Knight
of Columbus, to the Salvation Arm
War Fund and to other war.workin
bodies, but you cannot give money t
the United States of America.
But you can lend it, and the interee
is at the fair and reasonable rate &
~ per cent for the Fourth Libert
Loan that opens Sept. 26
You have the best Of reasons fo
lending it. Out from your doorway, G
from that of the house next door,
young man In khaki has gone wit
''the colors." He Is lighting In Franc
today or is training to go overseas.
! is the Job of the stay-at-home to bac
, him up. The man back home must pl
rifle in his hands, cartridges In b
belt, uniform on his back and bres
in his mouth. While the lad In khal
. ID offering and giving his life, the ma
who buys a Liberty Bond is not 81
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