The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-02
AMERICA 5 FRONT
IsFR0M NO MANS
LAND TO PACIFIC
DEPTH OF. OUR FORCES DE-
scRIBED BY AMERICAN OFF,
GER TO BRITISH COMRADE.
BACKING LINE WITH BONDS
Support of Battle Forces Extends
From France to Your Own
Doorway.

It was Just after the American
troops had taken over their first Sec
tor on the Western front one day last
fall. An English officer was talking
with an American captain who had
Just come back from tour of duty in
the trenches. They were talking mill
tary problems and the Englishman
asked:
What is the depth of the Ameri-
can front"
From the German barbed wire in
No Mans Land to the Pacific Coast"
was the American officers answer.
OF course, the Englishman referred
to a military technically when he
asked his question, and yet the Ameri-
can captain was right He told the
whole story of American participation
in the war when he made it plain that
all of America is in the battle front.
America had not been in this war
six months till we all understood it
was a different sort of war from
what we had expected. Years ago We
all pictured war as struggle in which
a few from each community went
away, while the great majority of the
people stayed on at home and went
about their business and life went
along undisturbed. We know better
now. We realize we are all in the
struggle.
All Are Enlisted.
Those who cannot fight, who can
not work in war plants, who cannot
help in Y. NJ. c. A. huts or Red Cross
hospitals can help nevertheless. The
Liberty Loans offer an opportunity
for every man and woman in America,
for every American under the pro.
tecting shadow of the Stars and
Stripes to help support the battle front
of America far across the seas in
Europe.
The front reaches all the way bach
to our pay envelopes, to the money
that was brought in for a load OF
wheat, to the returns from a corn
crop, for building house, for days
work at the mill or in the fields.
Every bond that is bought strength
ems the American front by just that
much. 1t makes It Just that much
easier for the Americans to drive the
Huns back. 1t stiffens the American
line by just so much against those
grim massed attacks of field gray
shock troops that Won Ludendorfi
loves to send against the Allied lines
Every Liberty Bond is helping the
Americans, it is helping the French
and the English and Italians, who are
fighting as they have never fought
solidly that deep American front thai
stretches back of No Mans Land and
reaches all the way across the At
lantic, across the Alleghenies, across
the wide stretches of the Middle West
across the Great Plains and wall Of
the Rockies and ends at last at the
Pacific beaches.
That is what the American front il
like for depth, and it is as wide as the
country that stands back of US and al
solid as the credit of American insti
tutions.
Must Keep Front Solid.
1t can be kept as solid and enduring
as the Rockies by every American lin
ing up to take his share of the Libert!
Loan that is at hand. 1t cannot b,
kept solid and safe in any other way
It takes money to fight wars and sup
port armies. 1t takes more money t
build merchant ships and destroyer.
and submarine chasers.
Every one of us will have to thinl
this out honestly and carefully. /
won't do to just buy as small bon'
as we can afford to buy. The Amer
can front is weakened by that kind o
patriotism. When the time comes t
sign up for the Fourth Liberty LOAF
take every dollar you can spare an,
get into 1t for all you can possibl,
afford. It is a good investment, non
better in the history of the world. an
1T is helping to bolster up that Amer
can front that is going to smash int
the Kaiser's domain one of these day
and send the whole German natiol
crashing down to defeat
When you buy bond you are NAL
ing it certain that the American from
IS being supported all the way fron
France to your own doorway. 1t make
you part Of that magnificent body @
fighters who are massing over il
France to put an end to the Kaiser
dream of levying tribute from ono
free America.