Cleveland County herald., 1919-04-10
IT's NJ TIME ID GO' ROUND PUTTING
 UP A POOR MOUTH
LOOK YOURSELF IN THE EYE AND THEN ANSWER SOME PERT!- y. NEWT QUESTIONS.
HAVE YOU DONE DUTY ?
Before Answering ..hink Of What Our Boys Did on the Other
 Side.

Have you got the idea that you ye done all you can afford to do for your Uncle Sam and the boys who did your fighting at the front?
 Have you told yourself that you have bought all the Liberty Bonds you can carry?
 That. you have taken every single, possible War Saving Stamp that you can take care of?
 And that you have given every pos sible red cent to the war aid societies, including the Red Cross?
 So; you are satisfied, are you, now that the war Is over. that you have done your part and that you will let the rest of the country take care of the balance of the war?
 Do you stand up and stick your thumbs in the arm hole of your vest and talk whiningly about the way you are being asked to subscribe?
 And looking yourself in the eye can you call yourself red-blooded. 100 per cent loyal dyed-in-the-wool sort of an American?
 Do you feel that you are Just as much, responsible for the victory as the chap who went across and lost an arm?s Or leg, or an eye? Just as much as the lad who lost his hearing, or his, life. or all the future there was for him?
 Think of This Boy?
 A search party following a National Guard Division through the woods west of the Meuse came upon a Ger man machine gun pit that had been hit by an American shell. There were away lay lone American, who had been closing in on them. The top of his head was gone, but he lay facing the gun pit with his arms full of hand grenades. Now, have you done every thing possible? Have you done your part as we'll as that lonely American who was boring straight in when the Huns got him?
 Have you done as much as the other fellow who stayed at home and who believed in the war, who did what he could. who went into debt and Is now saving and skimping and sacrificing to finish zhis bond payments?
 You know whether you are quitter or not. You know whether you have done all that you could. You know whether you are in the mood to lay down atthe fnish-to quit like mon- grel strain racer that feels the spur.
 Are You Stacker?
 As matter of plain fact there are of Americans who never did do all that was in their power In the way of buying Liberty Bonds. They had the quitting" strain in them right along. They weren't "slackers." They did a lot. But they never put that last ounce of pull into the collar.
 The man who is able to buy bonds is putting himself in the "quitter'' class when he fails to come through on the Fifth Loan We went into this thing with our old Uncle Samuel We swore that we would see it through. We all want the ghastly mess cleaned up and dono with. We want the lads back home, going about their busi- ness, working, playing. making love. marrying, making homes and building up Q great country.
 But we are not out of the woods yet. We don't know when we will be- Having started this, 1t must be fin ished We have gone too far to quit now and come homo and forget about it.
 There is only one honorable thing to do. We must stay abroad until our obligations have been fully and fairly met. To do this there must be SUD- port, full, hearty and complete sup port, financially and otherwise, in the Victory Liberty Loan.