The Washington herald., 1918-03-15

Perhaps women haye not realized
| how completely the success of this
third liberty loan depends upon
them. Women do not think of
themselves as a financial power be-
cause they handle money in small
sums. They fail to recognize the
truth of the old adage that many
nickel makes a muckle," and that
| IL all the money that all the women
| In America have tucked away in
their stockings, hidden under the
parlor carpet or in the old cracked
blue teapot on the pantry shelf,
were gathered together 1t would
tamount to billions and billions of
dollars. " =
It is this money that Uncle Sam
asks the women of America to lend
him to fight this war to make them
safe and to prevent this horror that
is upon us ever happening again.
In America 1t is women who are
4 the money class. In the average
family the wife handles the cash.
Out of what he earns the general
run of married men keeps but only
q few dollars for his personal ex-
penses. All the balance he turns
over to his wife.
She buys the clothes and the fur
niture. She is the prudent one who
does the saving, II there is any saw
ing in the family. II she is thrifty.
the family prospers. II she is ex-
travagant and wasteful. the family
stays poor to the end of the chapter.
| Therefore. II Is in the hands of
the women of America to make this
loan q success, or a failure. 1t is
up to them to spend their money
this spring for fine clothes. new
| cars, new furniture and luxuries
that they can do perfectly well
without, or to put the price of their
gewgaws and amusements into sub
marines, aeroplanes and shrapnel
| that will end this hell on earth. 1t
is for the women of America to de-
eide between patriotism and self
indulgence.
Which do they love more. their
country and freedom. or their pres
ent ease, comfort and future serf-
dom?
There is no woman so poor that
( she cannot do her bit in helping
along this loan. Their is no woman
so poor that she cannot Buy a thrift
card even If she cannot buy a bond.
| There is no mother who cannot start
! her children to saving up their
pennies and buying thrift stamps
il she will take the trouble to do
| so.
There is no woman who cannot
| get her whole family interested in
the liberty loan If she will try.
She can get the husband to cut
down a little on his smokes and
! put the money in a bond. She can
| get the children to put their ice
cream money, and the money they
earn for doing chores. into war
stamps. She can buy a bond in
stead of a new frock and the habit
of thrift thus started in a family
will be one of the unexpected bless
ings of the war.
And these liberty bonds will be
in the future a patent of American
nobility by which children will
Judge their parents. What did you
do to help win the great war;"
| the children will ask, and what will
you reply il you are too stingy. too
much OF a Stacker to even lend your
paltry dollars to help the brave
men who were risking their lives to
keep you safe?
Women of America. this war Is
being fought for you. The battle
line guards your home. it protects
your younger daughters from the
fate of the girls of Belgium and
| Flanders. Will you give your pitiful
=, little horde of money to bolster
up that fighting line, or is a few
| cents more interest on your money
more precious to you than the safe
| ty of your children and the glory
| OF your country?
You will decide that question by
the way you buy liberty bonds.
Money talks. Make it speak so
| loudly of the determination of
American women to give the very
! clothes off Of their backs. II neces-
sary, to buy liberty bonds to prose-
cute this war that it will reach even