The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-16
GOLD, As WELL AS
BLOOD AND STEEL,
IS VICTORY PRICE
GERMANY'S WAR CHEST AT SPAN
DAU KEEP WAS READY
WITH ARMY.
OUR CHEST IS BEING FILLED
What Could Our Fighters Do II the
Liberty Loan Failed7


and not the least of these is gold.
There is tower in Berlin, the Span
dau Keep, where for generation be-
fore the year 1914 Germany was hoard
ing the yellow metal that was to
launch her imperial effort at conquer
ing the world. The hoard long since
vanished in the red furnace of war and
loan after loan has been raised in Ger
many in order to carry on the conflict
Germany had the trained men, the
blood of the nation; she had the steel
and she further increased her steel re-
sources by Immediately Selling the
great iron-mining sections of France
as well as Belgium, but the gold, the
credit, has had to be found as the war
moved along.
When Germany can no longer raise
or force loans, or plumber conquered
countries, the war will end in Ger
man defeat Blood and steel are help
less without it.
Gold Is Vital Here.
Our own We, preparations would
never have moved had it not been for
the modified credit of the nation.
Without American gold the Allies
must have faltered. II the country
could no longer raise the money to
carry on the war all the training camps
would be deserted, our ships would lay
at the docks, the American navy would
gather rust in quiet waters and the
American army, overseas, would face
starvation. Our cannon would fall
quiet for lack of shells, our rifles
would be empty. The Huns could mas
sacre the American troops at will.
That is what it means when we are
asked to subscribe to a Liberty Loan
That is the real meaning of the Fourth
Liberty Loan. Our armies must be
kept in the field. Our navy must be
kept at work and our transports and
freighters must pillow the seas with
men and munitions and food. That is
why the buyer of a Liberty Bond is
actually backing up the men who are
with Pershing.
The blood and the steel have gone
overseas and the dollars, or what the
dollars will buy, must follow them
and keep following them.
Not an Idle Phrase.
BUY a Liberty Bond and Back the
Boys Over There" is not an idle
phrase. Every word of it is full Of
solemn meaning. Picture to yourself
the despair that would overtake every
American in France if he knew a Lib
erty Loan had hopelessly failed, tha
his relatives and friends were no long
er willing to buy bonds that he nigh
live and fight on!
The rifle in his hand might as wei
be a broken stick. His bayonet nigh
as well be burnt match. He would
realize that, no matter what he ha(
done, how he had fought, how man!
American graves there were on thu
hills of France-that the war was lost
that there was nothing but mocker.
1 back of the American front.
That was what, in measure, hap
pened to the Russian armies when tn,
loose-tongued revolutionaries seize,
the government. The support Of tn
army was gone. Here in America, 800
miles away from the star shells tina
spot the night and the shrapnel burst
that spangle the days, we are Gale,
upon to supply the gold that is to bacl
the blood and steel. The Fourth Lii
| ortv nan ic tho cal1 for American
gold, for the gold that must be par
of the combination of men, money an
iron that makes and stiffens armie
and makes or breaks nations.