Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
BACKING OUR
SOLDIER BOYS
This is the Meaning of the Fourth
Liberty Loan. Are You Backing
Them to the Limit of Your Ability?
You Must "DOuble Up"

The sale of Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds in Marathon county was begun
last Saturday with the most efficient
and best organized working force so
far put into the field, but the total
of results to date has not been graft
flying.
To be sure, Brokaw, went over the
top" before shutdown of the first day,
winning the distinction of being the
first place in the state to have re-
ported having secured its full quota,
and they are still at it adding to their
splendid record.
The amount to be sold in Marathon
county for this Fourth campaign is
just double what it was for the Third,
and instead Of the city of Wausau
having to take bonds as it did before,
its quota this time is $1,228,500
The public does not appear to APP
preciate this fact. Nearly every per-
son approached by statesmen has been
willing to repeat his performance of
the previous sale.
This is not enough. We have to
double up at least. We have got to do
more than double up if we can. Wau-
sau has got to subscribe for its full
quota, and the same is true of every
town and village in the county. If
you do not double up, you have not
done your share. What you do not do,
somebody else has got to make up for.
To double up, to subscribe for twice
what they did at the previous Liberty
Loan Bond sales, to many may APP
pear a hardship, an insurmountable
obstacle. Our boys in France are
meeting with seemingly insurmounta-
BILE obstacles. The taking of the ST.
Mihiel salient was one, the crumbling
of the Hindenburg line was another.
They did not lay down and say they
couldn't They found a way? They
overcame all obstacles. We here at
home can do the same. We must.
Those boys at the front have got to
be fed, clothed and armed. They have
got to have our undivided backing,
our last dollar if necessary.
All the other obligations which are
pressing us in our daily walks of life,
the mortgage on our farms and on our
homes, the notes that are coming due,
our winters supply of fuel, food and
clothing, are of secondary Importance
to the obligation which rests upon us
to buy Liberty Loan Bonds, to at
least double up, to do even more, if
by any hook or crook we can gather
up the money.
Those boys of ours in Europe are
daily facing death and hardship. No
sacrifice that we can make will ap-
proach what they are doing for us.
We must subscribe our quota, to do
less is to desert those soldiers in a
critical hour. You can pay interest a
little longer on the old and secured
obligations. You can get along, if
need be with last winters clothing,
you can deny yourself all luxuries
and some necessities, and will do it
gladly, if you know it will shorten
this war by single day, or bring
home to us our hero sons one hour
sooner
That is the significance of this
Fourth Liberty Loan sale. We must
have the money. 1t must come in
small amounts from a million homes.
You must do your share. We must do
ours. We all must do the best we
can, and when we get that idea firmly
in our minds, when we real
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army that will crush the enemy, that
our action is important, that we must
do the very best we can, that the least
we can do is to more than double any
previous effort, we will find the way
to do it.
Do not say you cannot do it. Double
up. We must. Have your subscrip-
ton ready, and let it be for the limit.
This is no donation. 1t is merely a
loan to the U. s. government in an
hour of need. Your bond is tangible
asset, not an obligation.
Be honest with yourself, be true and
loyal to the boys over there, and when
you decide upon the amount that you
can carry, bear in mind the load the
people of France and Belgium have
had to carry, and ask yourself if you
cannot easily double up without max
ing any sacrifice that will compare
with the sacrifices others are making.
Let that be your measure. You can
double up. We all can.
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