The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-04-11
women MUST HELP
RAISE WAR FUNDS
Lovers Of Home and Country
Called to the CoIors.
ALL CAN BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Wives, Sisters, Mothers, sweethearta
Never Before Called Upon to Play
Such a Vastly Important Part
Lend Your Money.
(By DOROTHY Dlx.)

by DOROTHY DIX
Buy a Liberty bond, ladies'. No mat.
ter how many you have bought before,
stretch a point and buy another.
You can't shoulder a gun and go OF
and fight for your country, as the men
are doing. You can't put on a nurses
uniform and go and nurse wounded
soldiers or drive an ambulance or work
in a munition factory, as many other
women are doing. but you can do your
bit by backing up these other men and
women, who are risking their lives to
defend you with your money.
Without guns and munitions, with,
out food and clothes, without hospital
supplies, the army in France is just
so many sheep led to the slaughter; If
we let them die for the lack Of the
things that money buys, their blood
is on our heads, and our crime against
them will be blacker than the Boches
because they trusted us.
1t takes money, money, money and
yet more money to carry on war, and
this war is to be the war of the long.
est p~ocketbook. 1t is the last ton OF
bombs, the last load of shrapnel, and
the last big gun that will thunder out
victory. Therefore, if we want to win
this war, we must find more money
and it is particularly up to us women
who can fight with our hands, to
fight with Il dollars, and pour then
like water at Uncle Sans feet.
Women's Greatest Sacrifices.
In no war in all history have WON
en- been called upon to play such u ire
mendous part as in this war. Never
before have women had to give sc
many of their husbands and sons anG
brothers to be cannon fodder. Never
have ONE before gone into the
trenches and fought side by side witt
men. Never have they gone into fac
tories to make munitions of war with
their own hands. Never have they
had to take upon their shoulders the
heavy burdens of hard physical labor
that men laid. down when they wen
forth to battle. And never before die
their country call on women to make
such sacrifices Is they are called or
to make now.
1t is because this war touches WON
en- more nearly in every way than an!
other war has ever done, because more
women's hearts have been broken b,
it, more women impoverished ant
YnO1n hnYno1oSc ro,1~o ,,,1%ho,, ho.,.
seen their babes slain before their eyes
more mothers have beheld their youns
daughters ravished, that women mus
use their utmost effort to put an ent
to war.
Women must see to it that there Il
never another val to lay waste to tn,
world and drench it with women!
tears, and this can only be accomplish
ed by our winning this war.
And to do that we must have money
So, let every woman who has som
loved one at the front buy a Libert,
bond. Let every woman who has I,
hearthstone that she would keep SAT-
buy u Liberty bond. Let every WON
an who has a babe that she loves, o.
a young daughter whose purity sh'
would guard, buy a Liberty bond
Reasons Arc Numerous.
Let every woman who has a particl,
of sympathy in her soul for the for
lorn women and children Of Belgium
and France buy a Liberty bond. LIE
every woman who believes in justice
and freedom, and right buy a Libert,
bond. Let every woman who hate
war and Graves for peace buy a Lib
erty bond.
The trip that you had planned, tn
new frock you were going to get, how
pitifully small is the sacrifice of thes'
for the sake Of those who are sacri
fcing their lives to protect you ant
yours.
Buy all the Liberty bonds you can
and then go in debt for some more, S,
shall you prove yourself a worth.
daughter Of Uncle Sam.
This is a time when money talk!
and tells the kind of a patriot you are
The woman who hasn't a bunch O.
Liberty bonds if she's rich, or VIII.
isn't paying on a Liberty bond If She.
poor, is a traitor to her country ant
should hang her head in shame ever,
time she passes a mar in khaki o.
feels the fold of the red, white, ant
blue floating over her unworthy head
The Badge Of Citizenship.