Cleveland County herald., 1918-09-19
RAY BROWN JOINS
COLORS AND SHOWS
FATHER HIS DUTY
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IMPROVING ON PUTNAM FARMER
BOY CARES FOR Pillow, DoNs
KHAKI AND GOES TO FRONT.
FATHER PLANNING TO nELp
VIII invest In Fourth Liberty Bond.
to the uttermost In Order to
Help Win the War
Quickly.

~ "'oppoo hio eedlH at the END OF
the corn rows. He swung mis- cult
vator around, lifted the shovels so the
wet earth would not rust their glitter
ang surfaces and unhitched his team.
The next day he was on his wav to
camp Taylor and the next day he was
IN khaki. His younger brother was In
the field carrying on his work.
1t was shutdown a few days later
when Raymond Browns father spoke
of the war, war gifts and government
loans as he saw taem. There was
maybe a dozen men In front of the
blacksmith shop as he talked.
Yes, Raymond's gone," he said. at
makes things look lot different. Last
winter | gave a dollar to the Red
Cross and | helped out little a while
back when the Y. NJ. C. A. wanted help.
and that money was gift. l bought
some war stamps-mind you, bought
then1-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 1t Is
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
6n fnr n i'm md for tho fy,y T.
sending 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 bond. But you have
to feel this war come close to know
just why you ought to buy a 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 from the home fires to the hell
fires that never die down on the west
trent
There will be q v;n1 and a determi-
nation In the Fourth Liberty Loan sub
seriptions that will be greater than be-
relatives in the army, who is Just
plain 0od-fear;ng American citizen, 10
fesfins the thing = little harder. His
love of country may not be thing
that he talks about very much, but he
feels 1t, He may not be able to drive
bayonet through Hun. but he can
make his weight felt when 1t comes to
a war loan and he proposes to do it.
The man who thinks sees very clear
~ that when he puts his money into
Liberty Loan he Is putting it into
something that will come back as sure
" as his government lives. Only the
fool or the pro-German says that the
Liberty Loans are a poor investment.
The American knows that his govern
ment will do just what it says it will.
He gives his money for a bond that
Is a solemn promise to pay his money
back at the end of certain number OF
years. He knows that the interest will
be paid just as surely as anything can
be In the world No I. w. w. no
American Bolshevik with a foreign
name and foreign twist to his tongue.
is going to shatter the Americans con-
-fGence in the government he Is help
ing TO maintain.
We simply lend, and the money
comes back with interest. The bond
is as good as American gold and is
backed by every acre of land, every
piece 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 Kali
ser. That is about "the sum and the
substance" of the whole matter. Amer
lea is in the war with every man and
gun and dollar, and proposes to make
clean and quick job OF it.
1t is everybody's war 1t is no rich
mans war, no poor mans war, but It
buying his bonds and fighting In the
army and the poor man is buying what
he can and fighting in the same army.
We are giving our men but we are
lending our money.
You can give money to the Ameri-
can Red Cross, and you ought to be
proud of the privilege.
When the Y. NJ. c. A. asks for
money it asks It as a gift. The Y. M.
C. A. has no bonds to SELL
You can give money to the knights
of Columbus, to the Salvation Army
War Fund and to other war-working
bodies, but you cannot give money TO
the United States OF America.
But you can lend it, and the interest
is at the fair and reasonable rate OF
Az per cent for tLs Fourth Liberty
Loan that opens Sent. rs.
You have the best of reasons for
lending it. Out from your doorway, or
from that of the house next door, a
young man in khaki has gone with
4ttiae coiors" He-is Aehting in France
today lsr Is trimming t. go overseas. 1t
Is the job at tbs st at-home to-back
him up. The nan becs home must put
q rife in his hands. cartridges In his
belt, a uniform on MS back and prea"
IN mis- mouth. Willis the lad in KHAKI
10 oGering and giving his life, the man
who buys q Liberty Bond is not civ.
ing-he Is lending hia money, ;