The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 They call to us from Flanders fields, yes, from all the blood soaked fields on all the fronts and cry: Take up our quarrel with the foe. To you from fall- ing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep. Yet, in spite of the warnings of the danger of the great German peace of fensive" too many with cheery opti- mism are ready to throw up their hats and holler, Its all over," little realiz- ing that in so doing unconsciously they
 are slowing up the fourth Liberty Loan. The men out there on the front who are facing the bullet of the Hun are not deceived, because they are in sight of | burning churches, devastated villages and | shell-torn cities, and know the fury that 1 still rages in the heart of the Blond Beast of Berlin because he cant impress l his kultur on the world.
 l The hearts of our soldiers are aflame with burning desire to punish the mur- derers of helpless old men, weary old l women and innocent children. While we who sit quietly at home thousands of
 miles from the battle line and talk Of | peace, those who face the deadly gases and cold steel of the brutal Prussians
 are thinking only of bringing them to
 an accounting for their unspeakable out ! rages.
 l There are wrongs to be lighted before 1 this or any other self-respecting nation
 can talk peace with the war lords who willed the awful war which has swept | like a scourge over the fairest parts of Europe and far down into Macedonia and
 the Holy Land itself-yes, into the very
 shadow of Calvary's hill upon which
 Jesus gave his life that men might be made free
 l Belgium. Poland, Roumania, Servia, Ar menia, Russia and northern France, each l calls to us to right wrong against hu-
 manity as God gives us the passion to fight that right and not might shall be | the governing principle by which the world shall live in the years to come. We dare not stop. We will not fail. We will keep the faith.
 l We owe a duty to all the dead-the
 millions of dead, who went to their graves
 because twentieth century Caesar mas 1 querading under the title of Kaiser, got it into his ambitious head that he was
 to be the head of an army of supermen | to overrun the world and set at naught
 the Sermon on the Mount and tear up
 paper like the treaty he tore up with | Belgium, his unprotected neighbor. 1 Our allies within the reach of the
 mailed fist. have given everything, se-
 cure in the faith that the liberty-Ioving peoples of the world will not fail to "carry on'' to the end until Germany by armies stronger than her own who
 have the power to mete out to her and to her partners in crime some of the horrors she has caused them to undergo. |
 Belgium. the marvel of the modern
 world, has given to future historians something to write about which will call
 to the heroic in man as long as men
 shall live. Belgium, which for all time
 has furnished an epic of heroism to stir the imaginations and guide the pens of poets. Belgium, brave beyond the power of words to express, mute, still lifts her pierced hands and beckons us to win back the land she loaned to lib erty.
 The fourth Liberty Loan must not fail
 for the voices of all the stricken and en-
 slaved peoples of the world are cryine
 into our ears to show to the autocrats
 that democracy has the will and ths power to forever break the shackles which they have forged for mankind ane
 will punish those responsible for tht
 enslavement and deportation of noncom
 batants.
 For America not to subscribe the $6,
 o00,000.oo0 will be for us national calam 1 ity. It will cause Uncle sam to bow
 his head in shame that the richest coun