The Holly chieftain., 1919-02-27
Many Questions Answered
by Federal C0vesnneaf
me WAR u OVER;
BILLS MUST De PAID
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Psopls Are the 0ovsrnmsnt

Why should there he another
Liberty Loan?
This is a question occasionally
heard by Liberty Loan workers.
Usually 1t lie asked by those who
are not at all familiar with the
financial responsibilities connected
with waging q war and who are
really desirOus Of explicit informa-
tion. The answer is simple:
Why should you pay your bills?
And this answer opens up other
questions OF expenditures, their
amounts and the reasons for them.
And, again. the answers Of these are
simple and quite apparent.
Speaking broadly, Ia. rlfth, or
Victory Liberty Loan, is necessary
because the bills of the war must
be paid.
The Victory Liperty Loan is nee
essary ut the time 1t Is called be.
ca money raised by previous
loans has been expended and the
government Is operating today on
money borrowed on short time sc.
curities to tide it over until the
Victory Liberty Loan.
Enormous expenditures, you say?
Have yOll weighed the value OF
Americas expenditure for guns,
ships, airplanes. trucks, munitions,
training OF men and transporting
them-two millions of them--to the
battle areas of France and Belgium.
and the training of two million
more men in American camps?
This expenditure showed Germany
Americas determination and
strength and put war to an end
fully . year sooner than predicted
b. y most conservative Of allied
military men.
Have you compared In your mind
the cost of munitions, even though
lmusued, with the value of lives Of
thousands of American young men
that would have been sacrificed in
the manslaughter in the next year
of fighting?
Germany was not entirely ex-
hausted. She was whipped, it is
true, but she was whipped in spirit
by the tremendous show of power
and determination of fighting dis.
played by America.
What If we have to cancel con.
tracts at loss? The making OF
these contracts and the work of
them dispelled the Boches hope of
victory and ended war. We have
saved both money and lives.
Is not this one fact worth the en-
tire size of the Victory Liberty
Loan, however large it may be? Is
1t not worth as much to us to bring
our boys home from victory as It
was to send them over to uncertain.
ty and constant danger? Are we
SO ungrateful that we can lend our
money to put our men into danger
and not lend equal amounts to get
them safe home, now that they
have stopped the Hun and made
possible q great victory? Are we SO
selfish that we will say to our BOYS:
We supported you while we were
of yourselves, whether you are able
or crippled?
The money to be raised by the
Victory Liberty Loan will be used
Tor the following purposes which
elumerate only some of the things
to be paid for:
It VIII be used in bringing home
our boys, the thousands who are
hale and hearty and the hundreds
OF others who are still in the h0spi-
tails of France.
1t will go toward re-educating the
unfortunate American soldiers who
We're manned or crippled to such
extent that they cannot. return to
their former occupations and make
a livelihood.
1T will be used in paying for war
munitions and equipment, includ.
ing shells that have been shot and |
millions OF them that were IN
France ready to be launched at the
Hun at the time he quit; for guns.
tanks, railway trains and steam.
ships; some of which were used.
but many others that were on the
way and that would have been
used had not the German hordes
had enough of the Yanks at Cha.
teau Thierry and Belleau Wood to |.
convince all Germany, that America |
meant business.
1t will finish the ship building
program, the beginning of which !
was such great help toward feed
ing our own soldiers and the sol.
diers OF our Allies.
1t will, in short, settle the debt OF
our nation in war and in readjnst.
ment.
No matter if the munitions were
not all consumed; they must be
paid for.
No matter ii some OF our ships