Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-01
RAY BROWN JOINS C0L0RS AND SHOWS
 FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER BOY CARES FOR FLOW, DoNs
 KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
VIII Invest In Fourth Liberty Bonds to the Uttermost In Order to Help Win the War
 Quickly.

One sundown last June Raymond Brown stopped his team at the end of the corn rows. He swung his culti- vator around, lifted the shovels so the wet earth would not rust their glitter. ing surfaces and unhitched his team. The next day he was on his way to Camp Taylor and the next day he was Tn khaki. His younger brother was in the field carrying on his work
 It was sundown a few days later when Raymond Browns father spoke of the war, war gifts and government loans as he saw them. There was maybe dozen men in front of the blacksmith shop as he talked.
 Yes, Raymond's gone," he said Tt makes things look lot different. Last winter 1 gave a dollar to the Red Cross and helped out little while back when the Y. M. c. A. wanted help, and that money was a gift. bought some war stamps-mind you, bought them-and was glad Iecould.
 But let me tell you that when the next Liberty Loan comes around I'll buy two dollars worth where bought one before. That boys going to be in France one of these days and 1t Is far country. l am not going to fail him when he gets over there. And every dollar put in bonds is just that much protection for him. It backs him up and makes his fight easier. The man who goes deserves all we can do for him and for the country that is sending him across. And, after all, we are buying something that is as good and better than the money we pay for 1t when we buy bond. But you have to feel this war come close to know just why you ought to buy a bond.'
 There are more Raymond Browns in the army now than there were last June, and more fathers and kinfolks are thinking about the lad who stepped away from the home fires to the hell fires that never die down on the west front.
 There will be vim and a determi-. nation in the Fourth Liberty Loan sub- scriptions that will be greater than be- fore. Then. too. the man who has no relatives in the army, who is just plain God-fearing American citizen. is feeling the thing little harder. His love of country may not be thing that he talks about very much, but he feels it. He may not be able to drive q bayonet through a Hun, but he can make his weight felt when 1t comes to war loan and he proposes to do it.
 The man who thinks sees very clear. ly that when he puts his money into a Liberty Loan he is putting 1t into something that will come back as sure l, as his government lives. Only the fool or the pro-German says that the Liberty Loans are poor investment. Tho American knows that his govern ment will do just what it says it will.
 He gives his money for bond that is solemn promise to pay his money back at the end of certain number of years. He knows that the interest will be paid just as surely as anything can be in the world. No I. w. w., no AuOlACdA DOiSn0Vlh WlLl d 1OT0lKH name and foreign twist to his tongue, is going to shatter the Americans con. iidence in tho government he is help ing to maintain.
 We simply lend, and the money comes back with interest. The bond is as good as American gold and is backed by every acre of land, every piece of property and by the blood of every man in America.
 The more money we raise the sooner we finish the job of smashing the Kai. ser. That is about "the sum and the substance" of the whole matter. Amer lea is in the war with every man and gun and dollar, and proposes to make clean and quick job of it.
 It Is everybody's war. It Is no rich mans war, no poor mans war, but 1t Is everybody's light The rich man is buying his bonds and fighting in the army and the poor man is buying what he can and fighting in the same army. We are giving our men but we are lending our money.
 You can give money to the Ameri. can Red Cross, and you ought to be proud of the privilege.
 When the Y. M. G. A. asks for money 1t asks 1t as gift. The Y. M. c. A. has no bonds to sell
 You can give money to the Knights of Columbus, to the Salvation Army War Fund and to other war-work!ns bodies, but you cannot give money to the United States of America
 But you can lend 1t. and the interest is at the fair and reasonable rate of 4N per cent for the Fourth Liberty Loan that opens Sept. 28.
 You have the best of reasons for lending 1t. Out from your doorway, or from that of the house next door, . young man In khaki has gone with the colors." He Is lighting in France today or b training to 60 overseas. It is the job of the stay-at.ho.ne to back him up. The man back home must put . rtAe in his hards, cartridges in h!s belt. . uniform op his back and bread In his mouth. While the lad in khaki h offering and g!ving h!s life, the rap wAo buys Liberty oard ;s rot ,s.v da1-hA Is 1eAdi-S hiA r4nrav