The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-15
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

ton Of the number of ways in winch future or uncertain event may happen or fail-but in the old days have taken chance.
 l I have read of the many different ways in which dice may roll and of the va rious combinations which may be played with a pack of cards, but man does not have to be a gambler to take chance, for each one of us every day is 1 trying to make the right guess. Chance is an element of life and plays part even in the simplest everyday matters A man goes out in the morn | ing and the question comes up as to whether it's wise to take his umbrella or not, and if he makes a wrong prog nostication and leaves it at home he will | get a wetting.
 Every fellow who travels these balmy days before starting on journey wonders 1 if he ought to take his overcoat or leave i it at home. It makes no difference what he decides the chance is in the 24 hours
 
 the middle of the day it will be a bur- den, while if he has to catch an early morning train or drive through the coun- try at night it will come in handy.
 
 | Among the betting fraternity the man who is willing to take g. chance on any I game where money is staked is consid- cred a good sport, but at present there | is much higher form of true sports manshp, and praised be the Lord many of our young men have volunteered ana are taking chances of leaving their bodies on the fields of France, rather | than see the Hun make a winning. l Now, instead of gambling with your | money in any of the ordinary forms of games of chance, and you have a desire to use it out of the ordinary forms of 1 investment, why not buy Liberty Bonds. \ It is true that they are the safest form of investment in the world today and yet it gives your money chance of a great adventure, and therefore offers you the opportunity to be fighting on this side while your brothers are gambling with death over there;
 | The Kaiser took a chance. His was the biggest gamble in history. The l stake for which he played was world 1 domination. As long as he sat in the European game the cards ran his way, but not satisfied, he made it necessary 1 for Uncle sam to sit in the game-and now that he is in, let's give him all the money he needs to call the bluffing hand of the Hun The way for us to do it IS for all to buy a stack of chips and run him out of the game with Liberty Bonds and cop the pot by oversubscribing the six billions asked. Emperor William can
 he does and that's one reason he wants the play called.
 Now. I am no blood thirsty man.
 was a peace apostle for many years, bu
 when German nsolence turned into cold booded murder and helpless AmericAl men, women and children were sent t'
 watery graves, I was glad that our pa td tient President at last saw chance t
 get back at the inhuman monster who's creed of ruthlessness was making tn world an unfit place to live in, for i was democracy's last chance to mak , good in the fight with autocracy.
 am not disposed to take a chance il
 offering so great man as is our Wood
 row Wilson any advice as to how h shall answer the German note, for tn chances are go out of 100 that he VII hand the Kaiser something to worr. : about and at the same time give tn Americans something to be proud of 1 for he knows the diplomatic game jus 7 as well as he does the war game, ant not even a twentieth century lying Hui
 can run in cold deck on him withou being exposed before the world as cheat and q hypocrite.
 g l. for one, hope that after diplomac
 has had a chance at settlement, tha
 before it is made final, our boys a
 the front will have a chance to expres : their wishes as to whether a surrende isn't more to their liking than an armis !. tiee. do not believe that the time ha , come when the cards should be laid o . the table. It would mess the play t . stop it just as the allies are holding tn
 trump card both in men and money an {, munitions and morale.
 The man who takes chance an misses the opportunity to put what Il z can in Liberty Bonds is gambling wit q his own liberty and that of American | and the world--for it's sure thing tha '' if the United States buys and buys unt Y the issue is oversubscribed, the imperis Y government of Germany will realize tha ' it will be foolish to keep on pyramidin
 the nations finances in order to furthe
 back lost cause.
 d Every civilian over here has the chanc e of a lifetime to show his colors by buy
 ing and letting the boys over there se
 that their country is behind them whole
 heartedly while they fight. The time
 buy is short, and it's up to each an
 all to Buy, buy Liberty Bonds, or Bye :. bye Liberty"
 : c3muIlUM4@01,etH SC COAL MINER BECOMES GENERAL f From the Pittshnrg Dispatch.