The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-04-05
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Bonds.

The campaign for the floating
Of the Third Liberty Loan Bonds
begins Saturday. April s. and
everybody who has the money or
can borrow h will be expected to
invest in bonds. You are not ex-
pected to give anything away.
The bonds will bear ~ per cent
interest payable semi-annually,
and are the safest investment that
II is possible for you to make.
A committee has been appointed
to solicit every person in Dolores
and vicinity. You will be solicited
and your subscription taken for one
or more bonds or if you refuse to
subscribe q note will he made of
your reasons for not subscribing.
If you are not financially able to
buy a bond and you are unable to
put up security upon which to buy
q bond with. this need not detract
from your patriotism. You can
encourage your neighbor to buy
bond and you can certainly save a
quarter or two week to invest in
Thrift Stamps. The person who
solicits you will have no trouble
to learn whether or not you are
able to buy bond.
Don't wait to be solicited. Go
to your banker and talk it over
with him. Even if you do not
feel able to buy bond. he will be
able to present to you plan that.
will make il easy for you to become
q bond holder.
This is no time for argument, it
is time for action. Do you suppose
that any of the boys who have
gone to France and who. the past
two weeks have been facing in
bloody conflict the hordes of Huns,
stop to consider whether or not the
man who is fighting by his side
fires as many shots at the enemy
as he is firing, and if he thought
he wasn't. would FIRE little slower
Not on your life. every boy was
pumping lead just as fast as he
could regardless of what his COM
rade was doing. That is the spirit
you will adopt if you are loyal
American. 1t will make no differ.
ence to you what others are doing
so far as your duty is concerned
Others may have more money than
you and not buy bond, but never
worry, they will be looked after
sooner or later by the proper
authorities. The only thing you
have to do is to do your duty. .
Young men have left our COM
munity and gone to the training
camps and some of them are now
in the thick of the fight in France,
who have given up farms. flocks,
all they possessed to fight your
fight and mine. They have done
more than leave their property,
they have left their sweethearts
and one man, called by the draft :
left his young wife and two small
children, who were just as dear to
him as your wife and children are
to you. What are you going to
dor Grasp your money tight in
your hand and see these boys and
men murdered by Kaiser Bills
savages simply because they have
not the proper equipment of guns
and ammunition to defend them
selves, OF because they are not
supplied with sufficient provisions
to keep them in fighting trim.
Have you ever thought in read
ing the newspaper accounts of the
recent great Hun drive, that the
fear that the German hordes would
overcome the one hundred thou
sand Americans that are upon
French soil. never entered your
mind. You have feared that they
might break through and capture
the four million English troops
and the two million French and
Belgian troops, but in your minds
eye that one hundred thousand