The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-09-20
RAY BROWN JOINS
CQL0RS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR PLOW, OONS
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO HELP
VIII Invest In Fourth Liberty BONDS
10 the Uttermost in Order to
Help Win the War
Quickly.

One sundown last June Raymond
brown stopped his team at the end Of
The corn rows. He swung his cult
vator around. lifted the shovels SO the
wet earth would not rust their glitter
Ing surfaces and unhitched his team.
Inc next day he was on his way to
Camp Taylor and the next day he was
IN Khaki. His younger brother was in
the field carrying on his work.
1t was sundown few days later
when Raymond Browns father spoke
OF the war, war gifts and government
loans as he saw them. There was
maybe a dozen men in front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Yes. Raymond's gone." he said. 1T
makes things look lot different. Last
winter | gave dollar to the Red
Cross and helped out little a while
back when the Y. M. C. A. wanted help.
and that money was a gift. bought
some war stamps-mind you. bought
them-and was glad / could.
But let me tell you that when the
next Liberty Loan comes around I'll
buy two dollars worth where bought
one before. That boys going to be In
France one Of these days and IL Is a
far country. / am not going to fail
him when he gets over there. And
every dollar put In bonds Is just that
much protection for him. 1t backs
him up and makes his fight easier.
The man who goes deserves all we can
do for him and for the country that Is
sonding him across. And, after all. We
are buying something that is as good
and better than the money we pay for
1t when we buy a bond. But You have
to feel this war come close. to know
just Why you ought to buy q bond"
There are more Raymond Browns In
the army now than there were last
June. and more fathers and kinfolks
are thinking about the lad who stepped
away fron the home fires to the hell
FIRES that never die down on the west
front
There will be Z vim and q detsrmi.
nation in the Fourth Liberty Loan sub |
scriptions that will be greater than be-
fore. Then, too. the man who has no
relatives in the army. who is just a
plain GQd-feartng American citizen, is /
feeling, ths thing . little harder. His 1
love pftcouutEy may not be thing
that pc ta2ks about very much, but he
feels Il He may not be able to drive
a bayopst through .Hun. but he can
make his weight felt WFen it comes to
a war loan and he proposes to do il.
The man who thinks sees very clear
ly that when he puts his money into a
Liberty Loan he is putting it into
that will come back as sure
|! as his government lives. Only the
tool or the pro-German says that the
Liberty Loans are poor investment.
The American knows that his govern
ment will do just what 1t says It will.
He gives his money for a bond that
8 solemn promise 10 pay his money
back at the end OF certain number OF
1ears. He knows that the interest will
De paid just as surely as anything can
De In the world. No |. w. w, NO
American Bolshevk with a foreign
lame and foreign twist TO his tongue,
8 going TO shatter the Americans 9 con-
idence in the government he is help
ng to maintain.
We simply lend. and the money
comes back with interest. The bond
. as good as American gold and js
,ecked by every acre Of land. every
'iece OF property and by the blood of
every man in America
The more money we raise the sooner
We finish the job OF smashing the Kai-
er That is about "the sum and the
OF the whole matter Amer
ca is In the war with every man end
'un and dollar, and proposes to make
clean and quick job OF IL.
II Is everybody's war. II is no rich
mans war, no poor mans war, but II
5 everybody's fight. The rich man Is
uying hfs bonds and fighting In the
rmy and the poor man is buying what
le can and hghting in the same army.
We are giving our men but we are
ending our money
You can give money 10 the Ameri-
an Red Cross. and you ought to be
roud OF the privilege.
When the Y. NJ c. A asks for
loney 1t asks 1t as gift. The Y. NJ.
;. A. has no bonds to sell
You can give money to the Knights
Columbus. TO the Salvation Army
Var xond and TO other war-worktu1 I
Q6i0 RQt You cannot give monay 70