The Dermott news., 1918-04-18
WOMEN MUST HELP
RAISE WAR FUNDS
Lovers of Home and Country
Called to the CoIorS.
ALL CAN BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Wives, Sisters, Mothers, sweethearts
Never Before Called Upon to Play
Such a Vastly important Part
Lend Your Money
(By DOROTHY DIX

buy Liberty bond, ladies'. No mat
ter how many you have bought before,
stretch Il point and buy another
You can't shoulder Il gun and go off
and fight for your ountry, Us the men
are doing. You can't put on Il nurses
uniform and go and nurse wounded
soldiers or drive an ambulance or work
III munition factory. as many other
women are doing, but you can do your
bit by backing up these other men and
women, who are risking their lives to
defend you with your money.
Without guns and munitions with
out food and clothes, without hospital
supplies, the army in France is just
so many sheep led to the slaughter If
we let them die for the lack of the
things that money buys, their blood
is on our heads, and our crime against
them will be blacker than the BocheS,
because they trusted us.
1t takes money. money, money and
yet more money to carry on war, and
this war is TO be the war of the long
est pocketbook. 1t is the last ton OF
bombs, the last load of shrapnel, and
the last big gun that will thunder out
victory. Therefore, If we want to win
this war, we must find more money.
and ii is particularly up to us women,
who can fight with our hands, to
fight with our dollars, and pour them
like water at Uncle Sans feet.
Women's Greatest Sacrifices.
In no war In all history have WON
en- been called upon To play such Il ire
nendous part as in this war. Never
before have women had to give SO
many of their husbands and sons and
brothers to be cannon fodder. Never
have women before gone into the
trenches and fought side by side with
men. Never have they gone into fac
tories to make munitions of war with
their own hands. Never have they
had To take upon their shoulders the
heavy burdens of hard physical labor
that men laid down when they went
forth to battle. And never before did
their country call on women 10 make
such sacrifices as they are called on
to make now.
Ii is because this war touches wom-
en- more nearly in every way than any
other war has ever done, because more
women's hearts have been broken by
It, more women impoverished and
made homeless, more mothers have
seen their babes slain before their eyes
more mothers have beheld their young
daughters ravished, that women must
use their utmost effort To put an end
to war.
Women must see to II that there is
never another war to lay waste To the
world and drench II with womeus
tears, and this can only be accomplish
ed by our winning this war
And to do that we must have money.
So, let every woman who has some
loved one al the front buy Liberty
bond. Let every woman who has n
hearthstone that she would keep safe
buy Liberty bond Let every wom-
an who has n babe that she loves, or
a young daughter whose purity she
would guard. buy II Liberty bond.
Reasons Are Numerous.
Let every woman who has particle
of sympathy in her soul for the far
lorn women and children of Belgium
and France buy Liberty bond. Let
every woman who believes in justice,
and freedom, and right buy Liberty
bond. Let every woman who hates
war and Graves for peace buy a Lib
erty bond.
The trip that you had planned the
new frock you We're going 70 get. how
pitifully small is the sacrifice Of these
for the sake of those who are SaCri-
ticins their lives to protect you and
yours.
Buy all the Liberty bonds you can.
and then 20 in debt for some more, So
shall you prove yourself worthy
daughter of Uncle Sam.
This Is time when money talks
and tells the kind of patriot you are.
The woman who hasn't Il bunch OF
Liberty bonds If she's rich, or who
isn't paying on Liberty bond If she's