The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-29
Buy Until It
Helps, Not
Until 1t Hurts

Wy lNiCudiu H. EuiHuHuS, DultOT
Manufacturers Record, Baltimore)
Buy until it hurts Give until it
hurts" are two expressions that are
often used, the one referring to the
purchase of Liberty Bonds and the
other to contributions to the Red
Cross or the Y. M. G. A. or kindred
work.
Both are fundamentally false in
meaning They should be sent to the
scrap heap OF rubbish and supplanted
by BUY until it helps" and "Giye I'M
til it helps"
Do not for one moment vainglor.
iously think that this means until it
helps the country or the Red Cross
or the Y. M. G. A. organizations. It
means buy or give until it helps you
and gives you clearer understand
ing of your responsibility.
BUY until it helps you by broad
ening your vision of the war and the
struggle to save civilization.
Buy Liberty Bonds not out Of the
surplus which you can spare without
feeling.
Buy not merely because the pur-
chase of Liberty Bonds is strength
ening the nations power to fight.
But buy because your soul needs
the quickening influence of wider
conception Of liberty and humanity
and civilization. And the more free
ly you buy the greater will be the en-
noblng of your own soul. You will
be helping yourself, and in that way
you will at the same time be helping
the nation and civilization.
1t is no act of charity to buy Lib
erty Bonds. 1t is merely contribut-
ing moiety out of your ability, great
OF small as it may be, for the pur-
, chase of the engines to stop the con-
fiagration which, having swept over
| much of the world, is sweeping d.
' rectly toward your house, and you
: must save your house by your own
J work, or else recreantly throw upon
! your neighbors the responsibility Of
saving you, while you stand off and
shirk your duty.
/ Buying Liberty Bonds is to save
: your wife, your mother, your daugh.
5 ter, from the last degradation which
$ women can suffer, as in Belgium and
: France, and to save your property ant
your nation from destruction.
: Then buy Liberty Bonds until II
: helps you to know the meaning Of the
: war, and until down in your sou
d there comes the real awakening O.
!, how millions and millions of mel
e have died, and other millions mus
:, make the supreme sacrifice upon thu
:, cross which stretches over a thou
4 sand battlefields, as they offer thei
lives for your salvation and the sal
/ walton of your wife and your children
A and the salvation Of your liberty, O
5 your country, and of civilization 1t
s self from damnation under German
rule and ruin.
: Never for one moment let tn
0 thought find lodgment in your brail
e or soul that you have done you
9 share in the purchase of Libert.
Bonds, and in giving to the Red Cros!
or the Y. M. c. A. or the X. of c.
until you feel that you are ready il
the sight of God and of man to stant
beside the men who are dying on tn,
battlefield and to be able to say tt
: them
a "As you are making the sacrific,
n of your life for me and for civiliza
y ton, so 1 am standing by your side tt
o the last ounce of my financial power
g and in the great day of reckoning
!. when all men shall stand before tn,
O judgment seat Of eternity, am will
K ing to have my effort in this might,
r cause placed by the side of the recort
of the men who are dying that Others
may live, and in doing so are fol
: lowing the example of the Son of Coz
: Himself
d Until you have made your purchas,
o of Liberty Bonds and your contribu
lions to the great work of the chart
table organizations, whether they b
the Red Cross, or the Y. M. C. A., OF
the Y. W. C. A., or the K. OF c., OF
whatever may best express your in
ldividual effort to help the soldiers
Ion this basis, then think not for one
moment that you can stand with {
clear conscience before the men whC
are giving their lives. and who in thu
great day of judgment, when tn,
hearts and the lives of all shall b.
made plain, shall be able to compar:
what they have done with what YOU
have done.
Buy Liberty Bonds, therefore unit
your buying helms Won. until vou,