South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-01

Samuel Hopkins Adams. one Of
Americas best known writer's, has
written a four minute speech based
on the material furnished i'm the
bulletin provided to $4,000 speak
ers by the four minute men of the
committee on public information
for use during the campaign on the
fourth Liberty loan. The style Of
the noted novelist will be readily
recognized i'm his four minute eff
fort which follows:
This is going to he a little four
minute talk on business. I'm go
ing to talk 20 you as business men
and women For were all i'm bust
ness together now; the business Of
war; the business OF licking the
kaiser We're in business as the
partnership of Uncle Sam & Co.
Il ought to give us a feeling of sat
isfaction TO be partners I'm the big
gest and most important business
enterprise in the world TO-DAY.
Like all going and successful
businesses it takes money to run it,.
We've got TO finance il by putting
our money into Liberty bonds. I'm
here TO give you some details about
what becomes of the money that
Uncle Sam expects us all to put into
this new Liberty loan-all us part
ners in the business.
when a business man or woman.
such as YOU are. is asked to put
money into an enterprise. he nat
urally wants to know what that
money is going TO be used for. He
wants to know where it's going. He
wants to know what he gets for it.
All right. I'm here to report on
/ that We all know how magnifi-
/ Gently our bows have been going
| ahead over there, with the Huns
/ just a couple of jumps in front Of
| their bayonets Now let's see 'wha;
all this is costing in dollars. These
I figures that I'm going to give you
/ have been specially worked out for
/ the four-minute men by an officer
of the French high commission and
a corps of American experts. So,
! they're right Take, for instance, a
drive forward on a 10 mile front
What do you suppose that costs
/ Well. the first % hours of il costs
/ just about a million dollars an hour
And that doesn't count the loss OF
/ the boys lives. too precious 10 be
| reckoned in dollars.
Say there are five divisions. total
ing one hundred thousand men in
/ the drive They would have more
4 than two thousand artillery pieces
/ light and heavy, and these would
! shoot away in the first "a hours &C
/ ton close 20 is million dollars
worth Of shells. some of them cost
7 ing as high as a hundred dollars
/ apiece Then the rifles and machine
guns viii use more than half a mil
| lion dollars worth of the lighter
and cheaper ammunition. The least
you can estimate the wear and tear
on the guns at is five and a halt
/ million dollars more. Total "a
millions for the days work. A mil
lion an hour
1T comes high. But see what II
| does to the Huns. And see what il
means TO our boys. For one we'll
placed heavy shell will put an enc
my machine gun emplacement com
! pletely out Of business, and save
| hundreds of lives 70 the advancing
/ infantry. (And your notice. our in
I fantry has been doing lot OF ad-
vancing latelyD An artillery bar
rage will cut through and blow VI
. miles of barbed wire entangle-
ment and save not hundreds but
thousands of lives OF our men who
would be moved down like grass
If they had TO stop and cut their
own way through. II comes high
an that ammunition But YOU see
it's worth H.
And YOU see. now. don't you
where YOUR dollars are going2 These
well Invested Liberty bond dollars