The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-04-28
Bonds For Every City Block
Every Block Sends Men Every Block Buys Bonds.


dollar can be transformed into anything that the
dollar wants Except sometimes happiness which is
not for sale and not to be bought.
Dollars set to work building gambling houses
prisons, hospitals schools.
Dollars can drain swamps irrigate deserts build canals
develop science enrich and encourage the vicious and de-
PRAYED.
by word of the hardened steel that perces
plate of enemy batteshps into machine bullets that
NOW down the advancing foe
Money makes thieves
Money saves from the poverty of which dishonesty
Money makes slaves of the foolish and free of the
wise.
He that has no money the slave of him that has it.
The penness is the slave Of another mans dollar.
And the richest often the slave Of his dollars
Money is power.
Power wins
When you buy bonds you give money to your country
and when you give money you give power soredup energy
the result of your intelligence and industry.
You pay one hundred dollars for Liberty Bond. You
give the Government hundred days wages for fighting
You carry your pail of water to the great fire that
raging burning up civilization and the white
Garry your pail to the fire. and another and another if
Who gives now gives quickly and gives twice
And at the same time ne gives not at all For every
hundred dollars invested, there will back to you
hundred dollars full value plus four dollars and twenty
five cents of interest for every year that you wait
What shall be said to persuade the who has not yet
bought Liberty Bonds to go out and buy them?
Do you want security? Look at this picture
This is New York. tiny speck of territory in the great
United States
This little of your country, smaller than your
little finger nail shown big map of the United States
is worth great deal more than the total issue OF Liberty
When you have Liberty Bond you have an absolute
first mortgage on everything in this picture
You know how force of one kind transformed into
force of another
over the rock cliff of Niagara the water falls creating
power.
miles away driving through the streets lighting cities
crashing through copper wire to destroy the life of
condemned criminal.
More remarkable another transformation of power of
which YOU the
In your particular way patiently day after day you
have worked and you have saved And the money saved
represents power that be miracuousy transformed
Buy Liberty Bonds with the money that represents your
labor and these things be shown to you
Do you hear that noise in German trench? Do you
see fragments of bodies flying in the air?
That is YOUR ENERGY, the work of your body and
dynamite and dynamite INTO AMERICAN VICTORY.
Do you see that machine in the air, flying over the
German army? And do you hear the rattle of the machine
gun fighting off enemy ier? Do you the watcher
sending by wireless the message correcting craftsmanship
gunners? Do you the great bomb dropping the
Prusslan railroad bridge or ammunition factory?
That machine is flying with YOUR money That quick
firing handled by the young American er scarcely out
Of his teens sends bullets that YOUR DOLLARS
That dull explosion the great bomb strikes and
wrecks enemy train represents the work of your brain
transformed into explosive force
Who would not put his money to work fighting for his
country?
Who would not gladly transform his energy, his
money earned in land of freedom into fighting material to
make that freedom perpetual and universal?
BUY LIBERTY BONDS.
You know what has happened since you began reading
this article.
hundred good men, fighting for you have pressed
their hands against heart forehead and fallen again
to RISE to hear of victory be praised or
thanked.
These men, hundreds and thousands and hundreds of
thousands have given and will give life to be restored
No payment there Of interest principal.
They because it is their duty and do not back
Can you do less than send your money with them and
after them the money that will to you the money that
is safer than it would be buried in the ground or locked in