Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-30
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.

Brown stopped his team at the end or 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 In khaki. His younger brother was in the field carrying on his work.
 It was sundown few days later when Raymond Browns father spoke of the war, war gifts and government loans as he saw them. There was maybe a 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 l gave dollar to the Red Cross and helped out a little while back when the Y. M. c. A. wanted help. and that money was a gift. l bought some war stamps-mind you, bought them-and was glad could.
 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 it is a
 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 it when we buy bond. But you have
 to feel this war come close to know Just why you ought to buy bond" There are more Raymond Browns in the army now than there were last June, and more fathers and knfolks 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 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 a thing
 that he talks about very much, but he feels it. He may not be able to drive
 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 8
 Liberty Loan he Is putting it into something that will come back as sure
 ly as his government lives. Only the
 fool or the pro-Gernan says that the
 Liberty Loans are poor investment.
 The American knows that his govern.
 ruent will do just what 1t says 1t will. He gives his money for a bond that
 is a 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
 American Bolshevik with a foreign
 name and foreign twist to his tongue,
 is going to shatter the Americans con.
 hdence 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 o1
 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 ica is in the war with every man and gun and dollar. and proposes to make
 . clean and quick job of 1t.
 .l It is eveYybody's war. It Is no rich mans war. no poor mans war, but il Is everybody's light. The rich man 1, , buying his bonds and fighting in tho army and tho poor man is buying wha, he can and lighting in the same army We are giving our men but we art lending our money.
 You can give money to the Ameri can Red Cross, and you ought to b. proud of the privilege.
 When the Y. M. c. A. asks fo, money it asks 1t as a gift. The Y. M c. A. has no bonds to sell
 You can give money to the Knight. of Columbus. to the Salvation Arm, War Fund and to other war-workini bodies. but you cannot give money tt the United States of America.
 But you can lend 1t, and the interes Is at the fair and reasonable rate q AZ per cent for the Fourth Libert, Loan that opens Sept. 2S.
 You have the best of reasons fo lending 1t. Out from your doorway. O from that of the house next door. young man in khaki has gone witt the colors." He is fighting in Franc today,or Is training to go overseas. Is the lob; ots;ths .stay-at.home to bacj him up. The man back home must n,, riAe in, his hands. cartridges in hi < belt. uniform on his back and brea \ in his mouth. While the lad in khah is offering and giving his life, the ma wAo buys 3 Liberty Bond Is rot giy ht-Ae Is landing his money.