The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-18
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

I used to hear a great deal about bloody bondhoders" in presidential years It was the favorite cry of the proletariat in the cities and was taken up by the "one- gallusedt boys in the country.
 But we are going to hear less and less of such nonsense from now on. for there are whole lot of us who are bloody bondholders-not in the sense the term was once used, but in a far deeper sense. for our money has been consecrated- in the blood of our own sons. and the pos- session of a bond is mark of honor which we proudly wear in memory Of these who gave their lives to keep us free
 One of the oldest money proverbs is this "As safe as government bond" But we are not buying them merely be- cause they are the safest investments in all the world, but because Liberty Bonds are liberty insurance; we pay the premiums now out of our savings, and get the capital sum with interest after liberty is assured
 I have heard men say: My word is my bond" and knowing the men, I have known their bonds were not worth a continental But along comes Uncle sam and he says: My word is my bond" and knowing his yeracity, and his worth we are ready to take them at a hun dred cents the dollar, for we know due.
 I think one of the best things I have lets the other mans son do his fighting and the scrub woman buy his bonds The man who holds out" on the boys over there because he is too stingy to turn loose his money over here to say the least of him is ''an undesirable citi- zen" and no self-respecting community should permit him to live in it.
 
 l cannot get over the fact that I am "a bloody bondholder," The mere fact of possession gives me sense of money
 
 ! thought that my money has gone to the l helping of the allies to put down the i "plunderbund,' fills me with an un- speakable joy and every time I hear Of 1 d victory at the front l think Well, 1 my dollars helped to win it. I I have seen bank advertisements in 1 peace time which said: Make your dollars work" that is draw interest. l Don't hoard or keep them idle, but ! fellows there is a higher call now to put i your money to work than the mere draw l ing of interest, for the blessed fact comes that while I am too old to fight, my gone across to protect us and ours. 1 now let's come across with our money to protect them and theirs.
 
 l Buy bonds and get a good rate of i'm terest, merely to do this is to show good business judgment in investing Buy l bonds and save paying more taxes, to do this is merely a form of self-pro- l lection, Buy bonds, to save lives this l lifts the matter out of the low place , of interest and protection into the at mosphere of sacrifice. and is but a just tribute to the unselfishness of the men who under bonds of loyalty to their coun- try give their blood
 1 Every one of us can buy bonds if we but make up our minds to do it. | | 4p any household drudgery or cooking, and yet when the acid test came dismissed her servants and went into the stove room and cooked and then cleaned up her home and stuck to it until she had bought "a Liberty Bond With money which she ' bad actually won by the sweat of her brow, and ever since has had a keener 1 wal activities.
 ! Yes. every one of us would be more | ly get it into our heads just what it means in the winning of the war I have heard fellows say: T wish l could give the Kaiser Diff on the nose. ' Well. brother, you can slap the Kaiser iii the face every time you buy a Lib- erty Bond, for their purchase is the l quickest way to rid the world of Kaiser ism,
 It's hard for some people to visualize l things. If the Kaiser could be captured and exhibited at our fairs, and some en- < terprising snowman could get the right to make him stick his head through a hole in the canvas as we often see ne sroes do, he could make fortune by charging dollar a throw. Yet. the