The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-12
TWO ARMY REASONS FOR SUPPORTING THE
 4TH LIBERTY LOAN
By GRANTLAND RICE, Noted Sporting Writer, Now q
 Lieutenant in France.

American EXpeditionary Forces Tn France, sporting writer of national reputation, poet of the James Whit .omb Riley stamp and American fight ng man, sends to the Liberty Loan Committee of the Second Federal Re serve District two humanly vital req sons why the 'home forces" should | ay down a barrage of Liberty Bonds l that will keep the Hun going Berlin ward. Mir Rice. who has been from he Somlne to Alsace along various parts of the front since he went across several months ago, writes:
 The sergeant sat at the edge of l hicket just this side of the River | tesle
 His dejection was so complete that he failed to pay any attention to scattering drift of German shells, still dropping here and there through the woods.
 of they had ony cussed or raised hell, he said, it wouldn't have been so bad I wouldn't have minded it so much
 N UulUH UnNt lHllluCd Nndt HO much?' we asked.
 "It was this way he continued. Our bunch had been wiping out ma chine gun nests and chasing Germans for six days. They were mailing us here and there, but the bunch still went forward In fact, they went for ward so fast that the field kitchens couldn't keep up.
 "'For six days they had practically nothing to eat and less than little to drink. But they kept going, killing and chasing Germans with the bayo- net. We tried to catch up, but we never could.
 "'When we finally did we expected | to hear em raising hell because they hadn't been fed. But there wasn't a kick. not a word of complaint. Never mind. Bill" they said. tits all part of the game. You couldn't help it.
 Think of it! Six days with rife and bayonet into Wachine guns and shell fire without food or water-and yet not kick, If they had only cussed or raised some hell I wouldn't 1 have cared so much
 This is just one sample of how the A. F. F. tackled the job in France-of l what it has been up against.
 "The folk back home had no doubt that the men at the front would make good for them. tIhe men at the front haven't any dout that the folk back home will make good for them also.
 If one delegation can storm ma chine gun nests for six days without food and water in the midst of death, 1 desolation and destruction without a complaint, the others are pretty sure to raise SG,000. .O00,0G0, or twice $6,000 GOO, ,000. SO quickly there'n be no fur ther debate as to how strong the coun try stands back of the fighting ma chine it has sent $500 miles from l home to suffer and die for the greatest ideal the world has ever known" The Second Reason. Here is the second reason
 "I saw him lying by the roadside, in 1 the wake of the American advance | just beyond Fere-en -Tardenois.
 He was lying face downward, the ; rim of his steel helmet buried in the ! mud. heavy rain was still falling but 1t had not yet completely erased the writing on a letter he had car ried
 "The letter was from his mother It expressed the wish and the hope that he was well and dry and safe that he was happy and would soon bt back, as they were thinking of nothing else but his return. Your daddy, sht wrote. sits by the fire at night anc refuses to talk Of anything but you and of the day you'll be back with us again
 "Well-and dry-and safe--with the rain beating on him, face downward 1T the mud-and a bullet hole througl the top of his steel helmet. But ht had fallen toward Germany.
 "He was only one of the many who had made the great sacrifice. His father and mother were only a smal part of the many who had made the greater sacrifice.
 |. "The question left if a simple one How many of these have died and art going 10 die in vain because the peo ple back home couldn't raise tho money 10 crush the military powel -tat ma'c e""H t'ilgs n0ssible."
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