Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-04
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THE JOY YOU FELT
LAST MOVE MBER1 Il
% YOU remember HOW you
hoWLED WITH oLEE WHEN
ARMIeTICE WAS SIGNED
WOULD GIVE ANYTHING
Now You Are Asked Merely to Lend
Your Dollars to Uncle
Sam.

That was one great day, last Novem
Der II. The country went stark, raw
ing crazy for full "a hours. II we
had that same amount Of Joy in our
hearts, that same amount of relief
and troubles-over, that we had that
day. we would have put the Victory
hours.
You recall 1t all. don't you? How
many. OF US simply dropped everything
and called 1t day? We went cele.
braung and we didn't care what hap,
pened. There were wild yells OF vic.
tory that were tinged with relief. We
rode around and we marched about
We yelled, howled and blew in our
money. Tomorrow for us simply did
not exist. We were glad to be alive
on the day OF victory.
That day, If the government had
suddenly asked us for ten billion dol.
lars we would have gone out and
raised it. We would have been en-.
tirely irresistible Anything that we
had that the nation wanted, well the
country could have It,
1t was worth an ordinary lifetime
to live that day, The world had been
saved. The Hun had his hands up.
We had been fearing him for four
years and now-well. 1t was all over
that day.
Recalling all that occurred, that day
just why is it that we, at least some
of us-are unwilling to lend today
what we would willingly have given
on that day? n
Why is it that some good Ameri.
c<ns, and some Of the other kind. have
been viewing the Victory Liberty
Loan with apprehension? Why is it
that some people have doubted the
ability OF the country. the Willingness
of the people to subscribe every dol
lar needed in the Fifth Loan?
i Did We Lose Patriotism? !
What happened, anyway? Did we
howl away all the patriotism We had
between two suns on that day oflthe
armistice? Did all our loyalty and
our gratitude waste itself in wild
yell Of joy and exultation over the
victory that day? -, 9
Was it, after ALL only sort OF a
hypocritical howl that we, were in,
dulging in at that time? Was it a
sort of a paroxysm of cowardice, a
day Of jubilation over the fact that
neither the army, the navy nor the
kSiser's housekeeping hordes would
get US now? so
The time has come when we can
prove whether or not we were glad
ON that day back in November We
have q chance to translate into dol
lars the extent of our joy and our
gratitude as 1t was on the day when
It was officially. announced that the
armies of the kaiser would fight no
more.
II we fail to come UP to the mark
we will fail to prove that we were in
wild earnest last fall when we put on
a day of joyous celebration. We must
put 1t over good and strong This We:
tory Liberty Loan is cur last chance
to get in" on the war.
~ Our Last Chance. /,
And If there was ever loan that
should be put over good and strong
1t is this one--this last and Fifth
Loan. They have called it the Vic.
tory Loan. but there'is many mother
in America who would be glad If it
were called Thanksgiving Loan
the loan of thanksgiving that sthe war
is over and done and that peace has
come to the world.
For months the United States has
been trying to realize that we ma,
longer need to go on steeling our
selves to hear of death and losses, of
battles that night be lost. of reverses
that might come to American arms, of
the sorrow and pain that must come
before victory would be ours. We
had been schooling ourselves to bear
with manning and Gripping and
death.
And the man who is so poor in 10y.
atty, in gratitude and in patriotism,
that he cannot lend in the name Of
Victory is pretty poor apology for
an American. His company is good
to keep out of.
The Victory Liberty Loan should be
sort Of thanks testimonial. 1t ought
to be an expression of gratitude, and
no American Ia so poor that he cannot