Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-02-12
Uncle Sam Asks All to Save and
Conserve Until Boys Are -.
Brought Home.
HERBERT QUiCk WRITES
Says Heaviest, II Not BIoodiest, Task
10 Before Us, and Advocates Pur-
chase Of lnterest-Bearino Gov
eminent Securities.
By Herbert Quick.

We think we have won a great VIC
tory over Germany-and we have. Ger
many is so weak that an army Of 80.
600 Poles, 90 I write, Is threatening
Berlin.
1t looks now as If anyone might kick
Germany around-the once allpower-
full Germany!
Why is Germany weak?
Because the Germans have lost con-
troll of themselves.
Unless we retain control of ourselves
of our own souls-we have not won
a complete victory over Germany. II
we retain or acquire complete control
over ourselves we can win the rest OF
the war. Unless we do win the rest of
the war we have not only defeated
Germany, but we have defeated and
disgraced ourselves!
The saddest nation, the nation most
completely crushed is the nation de-
feated by itself, and the deepest dis
grace is that which is selt-inf1icted.
Germany can emerge from her defeat
and humiliation and disgrace, after a
while, by getting new grip on her
own soul. The only hope for victory
for her is the hope Of victory over
herself.
What do mean by suggesting that
we must win 1.-The rest Of the war;"
mean that the heaviest, If not the
bloodiest, part of the task is still be-
fore us. We have that great army of
which we are so proud-it seems to US
the bravest, finest, most splendid army
the world ever saw-still under arms,
and encamped on the soil of Europe.
They said in Germany that we could
never get that army across the ocean
that we could never get that army
across the ocean-but we did. They
are across the ocean now, our soldiers,
100000 of them. They must be sup.
ported, clothed, fed and made as com.
Portable and happy as boys so far from
homo can be made, until they can be
brought back.
And they must be brought back.
When they are through with their
wonderful, their epic task, they must
be brought back.
And it will cost as much to bring
them back as It did to take them over
1t will be In some ways harder task;
for all the world on our side wanted
them to go over and was willing to
help while nobody but the little old
United States is especially interested
In getting them back.
Therefore, We must 90 on with the
war so far as expense is concerned
We must go on with nearly every
expensive phase of the war except
the fighting phase.
Suppose that the people of the Unit
ed States should quit furnishing the
government with money now, and ou1
wonderful boys in Khaki were desert
ed, left to suffer, left to feel them
selves deserted, left to shift for them
selves and become Migrants and beg
gars-would it not be the deepest dis
grace possible to this nation? And
yet. 1t Is to prevent that most impos
sib1e thing that the government asks
the people to give in taxes and to pro
vide for in the purchase of War Saw
1ngs Stamps and other securities.
Uncle Sam, in order that the rest Of
the war may be won, asks every man
every woman, every boy and every
girl to get himself or herself under
control, to put self under foot, to stifle
appetite for the unnecessary thing. to
save and conserve, and to work and
earn and produce and to buy, buy, buy
the promises-to-pay of the government
so that the government may win the
rest OF the war-may bring our boys
home, their tasks done.
And this brings me to BENJAMIN
Franklin-you will see how, in a mo-
ment-to Franklin, one Of the greatest
Americans that ever lived-one OF
the greatest men who ever lived, thu
man whose likeness is on the 1915
War Savings Stamps.
want to ask you to win the rest Of
the war as Benjamin Franklin would
have you win it. But first. what sort
Of man was he whose advice I Am
asking you to take?
He was a wonderful man! He was q
favorite with the courtiers of the court
Of France, with the philosophers. the
savants, the jewelled ladies, the ruf.
fed and sworded gentlemen-of the