The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-07
Bond Buying Bunts

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{, Some of the foolish people say that
| there is no need FIR the government
to be borrowing Il 1ey now that the
war is over. but
The cost of returning the soldiers
from France is $40. 10000.
Maintaining our men in France 81
oSG. .52S, 565 90.
Treating 5000 wounded soldiers III
hospitals $67.425, 100000.
That is but three Of the hundreds
of items that have to be taken care
of by the government, and small items
run up into the millions these days.
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IF YOU did your duty to help win
the war whycnot do your duty now to
! help secure what you have done SO
| far? Money makes the mare so. and
money is needed to keep moving ct-
| ficient1y the various arms of the gov
ernment. The prohIe ms of readjust-
ment are Just as trying IS the prob
! lens of actions. only I'VE are not
working on them under quite as much
press re. The call for money by the
government should be met now Just
as it was met before. 1t is easier to
be met now, and the bonds offered
viewed from the investment stand
point. are much more attractive. No
one can ease his conscience by saying
to himself that there is no necessity
for his Joining in. The necessity OF
patriotic action. and the necessity for
air play between man and man, is
as much to the front as it ever was.
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Private Huffman, badly wounded
and on crutches, but still doing his
duty is in Sumter to help boost the
loan He is to make talks at several
points today and tomorrcv.
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The loan in Sumter has not moved
so far as the other loans have NOV
ed; there is no use in trying to conceal
that fact. The necessity is still as
great in the proportion asked. The
call TO you is just as urgent. and that
you SHOULD respond is just as true,
and there is no use in trying to con-
ceal that fact.
Friday wa busy day in the Vic
tory Loan work. at noon there was
at the Magnetic works and
then the people there pledged n sub
scrip6on of s3.500.0O 10 the purchase
of bonds Private Huffman talked to
the people there. At noon Private
Huffman and the Hon. Jno. II. Cliff
ton toured the Concord section and
the haul was about $20.000.00. At
Bethel Friday night Private Huffman
assisted by a squad from Sumt"r's |
Victory workers presented the cause !,
and Bethel and the Privatccr section
subscribed to $1,000 worth of bonds !
Private Huffman is in q rest sector to !
aav but gets busy st MayeSville TINS
afternoon where he and q committee
will go to place bonds.
a subscription for bonds becomes
purchase of bonds when the ten per
,ent initial payment is made. Before
hen it is a promise. and that is all;
t cannot be counted into what the
is doing. II you have not !
made your first payment, please do so
1t once. Go to whatever bank you
wish your subscription to pass
through and make the payment. II
-ou are TOO busy hand your check &c
my campaign worker and it Will be
attended to. Pay it any way Eou
please but pay it now-the work Is
,eing held up on account of SuhScrip-
ions on which there have been made |
10 payments
Handling these loans places . very
arge amount Of detail work on the
banks for which they get nothing
They are not even allowed free pos
age on the notice they send to :ou
when you get behind in your payment /
on bonds. It is q patriotic work WITH
them. so it is up to all the rest oi us
% make this work Just rs tight a% pos
sib1e
The country is made up Of Us. Ev-
erybodv who is working for the ccuD-
try is working for us DO not make
il harder for the body who is work ing
for on and whom you are not paving
for that work.
There is one more week OF tn" VIC !
tory Loan ca,upaign. Sumter county I
has not Yet failed on any Of the F"ar /
worl. It has been called uuon u q" - {
close the county has nos get +
gene one-half Of the way It is :" so (!
How much of that tagging behind can
he charged UP to YOU? Have you done |
your duty? Have you done what Tou-s
can do Adding UP every sacrifice Tou
have already made Of you have made
any) and multiplying it several tii:'cs.
have YOU sacrificed as much as q col
,Ijcr sacrificed Have Eou vet s:itri
feed AS much rs you really could II
YOU make up your mind tn it fanny
The government needs this none
it is asking Is ii the business OF acy
one TO furuiSht it any norc than It J:
your business
If everyone takes the attitnd" that !
he will slip out Of It and let 1onac "ns
else, furnish it what il; going 70 il.n
pen?
is there any reason Why you should
not do just as much as another should