The Brinkley argus., 1918-10-18
FIGRTING LOAN IS DESIGNATION
 IF FOURTH LOhN
FIRST WAS req ASSEMBLY,, SEC
 oND FOR ADVANCE GUARD, TRiR2 FCa OPENING GUNS.
NOW THE HOT STUFF" Is 0h
With Ttis Liberty Loan Issue the Hun Glimpees the Fiery
 Writing.

When the First Liberty Loan was raised, in 1917, America was merely planning her armies. The First Loan was used to bolster up the credit of our Allies. When the Second Loan was on we were just beginning to get the vanguard, the patrols, we might say of our forces overseas.
 When the Third Loan was floated the German drive was getting under way and the Allied line in the west was trembling. Even then our troops, while arriving in vast numbers, were not playing any active part in the giant battles that were laundering ! from the North Sea down across France.
 But the Fourth Loan! We have made history in the last few weeks. Who will ever forget Chateau-Thierry and Belleau? Or Cantigny, or the des perate fighting in the Marne salient, the splendid victorious rush of the Americans out of the Compiegne Wood on the German flank, or the grim bat ting side by side with Frenchmen on the way to St Gobatn Wood2 We have been fighting since that Third Loan went over. We are fighting now.
 Response From the Homes.
 This Fourth Loan is a Fighting Loan" America has seen her dead in the hills and fields of France. Our cas- ualty lists are lengthsning. We are faintly sensing the hurts that England and France have felt for more than four years. But our resources in men and money have been scarcely touched, while France and England have been steadily throwing in their human and financial resources for weary year after year.
 But we have had taste of the real quality of the greatest war in history This loan will be subscribed in manr homes with the realization that one who has gone will never again gladden. the doorway, and in thousands of oth- CT homes there will be the tense reali- zation that every bond bought and every dollar subscribed is helping to back up the lad overseas who has gone from that home
 American cannon are laundering in the Foul sector, they have smashed their rvav into St. Mihiel, they are menacing the Rhine cities and roaring over the war-weary fields of Picardy As we raise this loan We have the feel ing that at last we have gone in' and are massing for that last series of ter rife blows that are to shake the iIn- perial German strongholds from cen ter to circumference.
 For this is Fighting Loan" Those that have gone before were the loans of preparation, of making ready, but at last we are ready. Our full strength is finally being mobilized The Hun has felt the power of America and has reeled under the strength of the New World that has come to the rescue of the Old With the Fourth Liberty Loan the German has glimpsed the fiery writing, painted on the skies of France and along his own borders by the great guns of America
 This is the Fighting Loan" There is an American Sector" now. It is no tiny little fragment of the great line that runs up from Switzerland to the sea. It is growing and growing. re lieving the tired fighters of France and the wearied men of Britain, giving them a chance to rest and again hurl themselves into the line that is now moving eastward and northward with the relentlessness Of Fate.
 And the Fighting Dollars of Amer ica are backing up that fighting line of American olive drab and making the Fighting Loan one of the mile stones of the great war.