The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-04-19
Help Properly Equip Your Own
Son and Other Soldier Boys
Over There.
DUTY or ALL TO BUY BONDS
Liberty Loans to Uncle Sam is Best
Guarantee Of our Fighters Safe
Return Home-Do Not
Hesitate.
(5y ROLAND c. USHER Of the Wig
lIantes.)

| know perfectly well that you would
feel ashamed to keep your boy out Of
the ranks IL he wanted to go. You
know perfectly well that you would
| probably feel ashamed before your
neighbors IL they knew that the boy
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; If 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 It; you felt fine about 1t.
You still feel that If you had it to do
over again you would not do anything
else. But / will wager anything you
like that you have lot of money that
you can lend to the government with
out hurting yourself at all, and which
you are hanging on to until it screams.
Think of 1t. 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 1t was worthy and a 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 a moment that
you have not yet sent your boy. 1 will
wager you have sneaking feeling
that he ought to go. He has too. In
this case, won't have to make 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 1t. 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 a return on
1t. Far from losing anything, you
will make something. Why hesitate?
Look at it from another point Of
view. If your boy has not gone, or il
you have no son, your neighbors who
have sons have sent them. Those boys
are going into danger. They are GO
Ing to need guns, food, artillery ships,
and airplanes not only to enable them
to do what they went over there to do
beat the Germans out of sight-but
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-fsted you may be, or
however mean you may think yourself
and You are not half as mean as
that--you would not hurt your neigh
boris son just because a few dollars
stood In the way. You would feel so
ashamed of yourself for the rest of
your life you would not be able to
shave In the morning. Your zneighbors'
sons and your friends sons that you
have known all your life need the
things your money can buy for them,
and 1t is going to go mighty hard with
them II they don't get them.
Make Your Money Help.
Now put 1t to yourself straight. II
the thing was n little nearer to you
SO that you really saw your neigh
boris son actually without food be-
cause you had declined to give it to
him, you would not hesitate for a mo-
ment what TO do. The difficulty is
here, that the thing is ON so large a
scale that You do not realize that your
failure TO lend your money to the gov
eminent is going TO result very prob
ably in depriving that particular boy
of things he needs. You can say, II
you like, there are so many millions
of them that II will be some other fell
lows son that will 90 without. | hope
you won't get much comfort out of
that. because II is the same old thing.
You would not hurt him either If you
saw him and knew he was in want
but because you don't see him. because
he is somewhere in France, you for,
get about him and don't stop to think
that he wants thing you would not
hesitate to give him II you knew him.
Why hesitate, then, to lend your dol.
lars 10 the government? They are the
only thing that can really do this bust.
ness. They are the only thing that
can put tools into the boys hands over
there 10 kill the Germans with. Don't
hesitate any longer now; get Il
straight, and go down and buy u
bond and feel better about il for thu
| rest of your life