Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-17
FIGHTING LOAN'' !
IS DESIGNATION 4
OF FOURTH LOAN
FIRST WAS FOR ASSEMBLY, SEC
oND FOR ADVANCE GUARD, !
THIRD FOR OPENING GUNS.
:N0W THE "HoT STUFF" IS ON
With This Liberty Loan Issue the
Hun Glimpses tho 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
ION 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 we're laundering
from the North Sea down across
France
But the Fourth Loanl We have
made history in the last few weeks.
WHO will ever forget Chateau-Thierry
and Belleau? Or Cantigny, or the des
Iperate fighting in the Marine 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. Gobain Wood? We have
been fighting since that Third Loan
went over. We are fighting now.
Response From the Homes.
This Fourth Loan rs Fighting
Loan" America has seen her dead In
the hills and fields of France. Our cas-
ualts lists are frightening. We are
family 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 many
homes with the realization that one
who has gone will never again gladden.
the doorway. and in thousands of 9TH
or homes there will be the tense reali-
cation 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 Toul sector, they have. smashed
their way 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
rifle blows that are to shake the i'm
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 fun strength
is finally being modified 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
andalong his own borders by the great
guns Of America
This is the Fighting Loan" There
is an American Sector" now. 1t is no
tiny little fragment Of the great line
that runs up from Switzerland to the
sea. 1t 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 "reminiscences of Fate.
And the Fighting Dollars" Of Amer
lea are backing up that fighting line
Of American olive drab and making
the Fighting Loan" one of tie mile
stones Of the great war.