Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-05-17
Help Properly Equip Your Own
Son and Other Soldier Boys
Over There.
DUTY OF ALL TO BUY BONDS
Liberty Loans to Uncle Sam is Best
Guarantee of Our Fighters Safe
Return Home-Do Not
Hesitate.
(By ROLAND G. USHER Of the Wig
jlantes.)

Know perfectly We'll tnaI you WOulu
feel ashamed to keep your boy out of
the ranks If he wanted to go. You
know perfectly we'll that you would
probably feel ashamed before your
was sticking at home. But have you
ever asked yourself whether you felt
ashamed that you were keeping your
dollars tight in your jeans instead OF
lending your dollars to the war as
well as your boy? If you have not
got boy you probably would feel
that he ought to 60 if you had one.
You have got some dollars, why don't
you send them?
Think again; II you have sent boy
over there, don't you know for GER
tain whether that boy will come back,
God grant that he may. But he went,
just the same, knowing fully just as
you did that he might not come back.
You gave the dearest thing you had in
the world to the government freely, for
the cause of democracy. You were
glad to do 1t: you felt fine about 1t.
You still feel that if You had it to do
over again you would not do anything
else. But l will wager anything you
like that you have a lot of money that
you can lend TO the government with
out hurting yourself at all, and which
you are hanging on to until II screams.
Think Of It. Those dollars will be per
fectly sure to come back If you lend
them to the government. The govern
ment guarantees that. Why should
you therefore be so afraid to loose
your clutch on them. The great risk
you have already taken and did 1t be
cause it was a worthy and q noble
thing to do. The thing which is no
risk at all and yet which is just as nee.
essary to the war as the other, you
hesitate about.
Dollars Will Come Back.
Let me suppose for moment that
you have not yet sent your boy. l will
wager you have sneaking feeling
that he ought to go. He has too. In
this case, l won't have to make a wa
ger about it-you have not sent your
| dollars. If you hesitate to send the
| boy because you are afraid he may
not come back, you have perfectly ex
| plainable reason. but you have not got
| a good reason why you should not send
your dollars. They will come back
you may be sure Of it. Not only will
they come back. the government will
| pay you interest on them in the mean
time. You will lend the government
your capital and will get return or
It, Far from losing anything, yOr
will make something. Why hesitate?
| Look at it from another point Of
view. II your boy has not gone, or Il
you have no son, your neighbOrs wht
have sons have sent them. Those boy!
are going into danger. They are go
ing to need guns, food, artillery, ships
and airplanes. not only to enable then
to do what they went over there to de-
beat the Germans out of sight-bu
to keep them safe. If they don't have
those things they certainly won't come
back at all. You know perfectly well
however tight-nsted you may be, o.
however mean you may think yourself
and you are not half as mean a!
that-you would not hurt your neigh
boris son just because a few dollars
stood In the way. You would feel 81
ashamed Of yourself for the rest o
your life you would not be able t.
shave in the morning. Your neighbors
sons and your friends sons that 70,
have known all your life need TIL
things your money can buy for them
and 1t Is going to 60 mighty hard will
them II they don't get them.
Make Your Money Help.
Now put 1t to yourself straight. I
the thing was a little nearer to yo'
so that you really saw your neigh
boris son actually without food be
cause you had declined to give 1t t
him, you would not hesitate for mo
ment what to do. The difficulty 4
here, that the thing is on so large {
scale that you do not realize that you
failure to lend your money to the gov
eminent is going to result very prob
ably in depriving that particular DO,
of things he needs. You can say, 1
you like. there are so many million
Of them that it will be some other fel
lows son that will go without. 1 hop
you won't get much comfort out o
that, because 1t is the same old thing
You would not hurt him either If yol
saw him and knew he was in want
but because you don't see him, becaus
he is somewhere in France, you for
get about him and don't stop to thinl
that he wants a thing you would no
hesitate to give him II you knew him
Why hesitate, then. to lend your dol
lars to the government? They are tn
only thing that can really do this busi
ness. They are the only thing tina
can put tools into the boys hands owe
there to kill the Germans with. Don
hesitate any longer now; get !
straight, and go down and buy
bond and feel better about it for tn
rest of your life.
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