Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-08-10

wheat, and last spring made up MS
mind to devote not less than one third
of the proceeds to the war. This one
family is planning to subscribe $1OO
for the fourth Liberty loan, and IT
all goes we'll, 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 nave
laid bare the countryside they have
conquered-no animal or plant al
lowed to survive, even trees and vines
cut of close to the ground. Rural
homes demolished, barns burned.
You know how the B0ches enslave
the farmers of Belgium. Poland. the
Ukraine. Words cannot depict the
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 lover there"
It is 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
tons vet 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 periodically 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. Millions
of our healthiest young men. the very
seed of the race. are sacrificing their
lives that you and l and others may
live in peace.
The very least that each of us can
do now is to lend our money to Uncle
Sam so that he will have the funds
with which to fight The war is cost
ing billions. The only way the gov
can get the money is to Dor
row it from the people or tax 1t 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
on earth. They are absO-
utely 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 it doesn't help the government |
my for you to sell your bond or for
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, it to |
)ay the wages Of soldiers and sailors
md to furnish the ships and munitions
With which they shall win the VIC
DRY.
Must Do Our Best.
It is up to each of us to do not our
tit but our best. It's question of
ife or death. Simplify. econOmize. go
Without things, so that the effort, time,
hOught and money thus saved may be
into the things that shall
.nable the American flag to fly over
3erlin-a symbol of the new civfliza-
ion which is to insure peace through
'ictory
In our rural homes. on our farms, in
he trenches, in other branches of serv-
&c, in subscriptions to the Liberty
,onds and War stamps, our American
armers have repeatedly gone over the
CD. Their efforts, their patriotism,
heir loyalty, have been universally
Now in this fourth Lib
rty loan our rural folks will show
he same generous confidence in the
ternal principles of human liberty and
# self government that were cham
'ioned by those Middlesex farmers:
Their flags to April breeze unfurled.
Who fired the shot heard round the
world"