The Benson signal., 1918-08-10

wheat, and last spring made up his
mind to devote not less than one third
of the proceeds to the war. This one
family Is planning to subscribe $1,000
for the fourth Liberty loan, and If
all goes well, will be able to pay
down nearly half the amount.
A Horde of Huns at Your Door.
You know what they would do to
you and your wOmen-a fate far worse
than death. You know how Huns have
laid bare the countryside they have
conquered-nO animal or plant al
lowed to survive, even trees and vines
cut off close to the ground. RuraI
homes demolished, barns burned.
You know how the Boches enslave
the farmers of Belgium, Poland, the
Ukraine. Words cannot depict this
horror of it,
TO prevent the same thing happen
ing right here to you and your fam
lily, to your own community state
and natiOn-that is what our boys are
fighting for "Over there"
1t is a question of right over might
Shall liberty be destroyed by slavery?
This is the question the war is to an
swer for you and me and for genera
tions yet unborn.
This final struggle for the survival
of the fittest among humans demands
every ounce of our energy, every cent
Of our money Noble men and wom-
en- are patriotically devOting some or
all of their time, without money and
without price. to help Uncle Sam win
a victory. Others are giving produce
or money to the good cause. .dilliOns
Of our healthiest young men, the very
seed of the race, are sacrificing their
lives that you and I and others may
live in peace.
The very least that each of us can
do now is to lend our money II Uncle
Sam so that he will have the funds
with which to fight. The war is cost
ing billions. The only way the gov
ernment can get the money is to bor-
row it from the people or tax it out
Of them. The more the public lends
to the government, the less taxes it
will have to pay.
You can help in this crisis by sub
scribing to the fourth Liberty loan.
These government bonds are the safest
investment on earth. They are absO-
lutely good. They yield good interest.
You can get your interest money twice
a year. If you have to use your prin-
cipal, you can sell your bond any min
ute, or you can use it as security at
the bank to borrow for temporary
wants. The latter is the better way,
because 1t doesn't help the government
any for you to sell your bond or for
somebody else to buy your bond. Get
YOUR bond direct from the government;
then your money goes direct to the
government and will be used by 1t to
pay the wages of soldiers and sailors
and to furnish the ships and munitions
with which they shall win the VIC
tory.
Must Do Our Best.
It is up to each Of us to do not our
bit but our best. It's question Of
life or death. = Simplify, economize, go
without things, so that the effort, time,
thought and money thus saved may be
transmitted into the things that shall
enable the American flag to fly over
Berlin-a symbol Of the new civiliza-
tion which is to insure peace through
victory
In our rural homes, on our farms, in
the trenches. in other branches of serv-
Ice. in subscriptions to the Liberty
bonds and War stamps, our American
farmers have repeatedly gone over the
top. Their efforts, their patriotism,
their loyalty, have been universally
recognized Now in this fourth Lib
erty loan our rural folks will show
the same generous confidence in the
eternal principles of human liberty and
of self government that were cham
pioned by those Middlesex farmers:
"Their flags to April breeze unfurled.
Who fred the shot heard round the
world"