The Brinkley argus., 1918-10-18
SPORTING WRITEl.
 GIVES TWO TRAGIC
 BOND ARGUMENTS
LIEUT.. GRANTLAND RICE, POET, RELATES INCIDENTS FROM
 THE FIRING LINE.
APPEALS TO HOME FORCES
Lay Down a Earrage That Will Keep
 Hun on Road to Berlin, Is Plea.

Lieut.. Grantland Rice, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, sporting writer of national reputation, poet of the James Whit comb Riley stamp and American fight ing man, sends to the Liberty Loan Organization two humanly vital req sons why the Home Forces" should lay down barrage of Liberty Bonds that will keep the Hun going Berlin ward MT. Rice, who has been from the Somme to Alsace along various parts of the front since he went across several months ago, writes:
 "The sergeant sat at the edge of a thicket just this side of the River Vesle.
 His dejection was so complete that scattering drift of German shells, still dropping here and there through the woods.
 If they had only cussed or raised he'll he said, it wouldn't have been so bad. I wouldn't have minded it so much
 Wouldn't have minded what so much?' we asked.
 Tt 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 vent forward. In fact, they went for ward so fast that the field kitchens couldn't keep up.
 Six Days Without Food.
 For six days they had practically rothing 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 8 kick, not a word of complaint. Never mind, Bill" they said; its all a part Of the game. You couldn't help it."
 Think of it. Six days with rifle and bayonet into machine guns and shell fire without food or water-and yet not kick -Is they had only cussed or raised Some hell I wouldn't have cared so much
 This is just one sample of how the A. E. r. tackled the job in France-of what it has been up against.
 The folk back home had no doubt that the men at the front would make good for them. The men at the front haven't any doubt 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 n the midst of death, desolation and destruction without complaint, the others are pretty sure to raise S6,000, ,00O 000, or twice St, ,000- 000,000, 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 home to suffer and die for the great est ideal the world has ever known"
 The Second Reason.
 Here is the second reason:
 ''I saw him lying by the roadside, in 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. A heavy rain was still falling, but it has not yet completely erased the wiring on letter he had carried
 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 be back, as they were thinking of nothing else but his return. Your daddy! she wrote, sits by the fire at night and refuses to talk of anything but you ; and of the day you1l be back with Us } again
 "Well-and dry-and safe-with the rain beating on him, face downward m the mud-and a bullet hole through the top of his steel helmet. 9ut he had fallen toward Germany.
 He was only one of the many who had made the great sacrifice. His fs- ther and mother were only a small part of the many who had made the greater sacrifice.
 The question left is a simp,a one How many of these have died and are going to die in vain because the peo- pie back home couldn't raise the money to crush the military power that made such things possiblern CONTINUOUS BOND BOOSTERS