The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-04-25
COST NOT COUNTED
WHEN II CAME To
SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK or SITUATION YEAR AGO,
AND HOW READY WE WE'RE
TO STAKE ALL.
BIG DEBT WAS INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone
Expected, and We Must Finish
Paying For IL.

When your boy was on the fighting
| front over there last fall. or was III
one OF the training camps over here
being hardened for the most terrible
task that ever confronted man; when
| countless mothers with sad eyes were
scanning the death lists with hearts
atremble. fearing lest the name of a
| loved one might be there; when the
fate or the nation and of the world
7 hung in the balance then the thought
I upperInost in every mind was the win
ming OF the war and the avoidance Of
i continued loss OF life
Then during the fall months Of 1918
/ the purse strings OF Americas citizens
were cut with willing hands. For the
Fourth Liberty Loan-the Fighting
Liberty LOan-the almost inconceiv-
! able sum of six billions of dollars was
1sked by the United States Govern
nent to prosecute the war What the
answer was is history-glorious his
DRY.
Americans not only met the call but
brew in another billion for good
measure.
1t required the most sanguine opti-
mist then to predict a victory over
Germany before the summer that Is
now approaching. Thousands OF
Americas best and bravest young
men. the flower of the country, were
daily offering up and giving their lives
for the veal of humanity They were
suffering CHASTITY wounds, inflicted by
weapons such as orly the brutality OF
Germany's most vicious minds could
fashion; they were being blinded and
tortured with poisonous gases that
Germany introduced against all usages
into modern warfare, and they were
lying in the mud Of Shiny trenches. de-
priVed OF every comfort, with each
recurrent day sapping their vitality.
that America might be saved.
Total Wealth Pledged
Then could anyone in absolute au-
thority have promised a victory before
Europe was locked in winters grasp,
the total wealth of this rich land
would unhesitatingly have been placed
At the nations disposal, that the lives
Of countless thousands of the flower
Of American manhood need not be sac
rifced.
Those who We're planning and di-
recting the war, or that part of il
being enacted by America, were domi-
mated by the idea OF ending the war
quickly AMI saving every American
life possible. The cost was not
counted. The money that flowed from |
the peoples purse was spent unstint- |
eddy. Millions were spent TO equip |
the grandest army the sun ever shone |
on. Other millions were spent for |
ships TO convey them across the Allan
tic Factories were kept at work |
night and day turning out munitions |
and supplies.
America surpassed even herself
She arose even above the glorious
traditions OF the worlds greatest coun-
try, that has never tasted defeat She
the impossible. At the
very moment when the German war
machine seemed inyincible, when that
which was intended as the final drive
that was to wipe France off the map
then Pershing's ads were thrown
against that terrible army in gray
The onslaught was all that Germany
had planned. But the stolid German
mind had not adequately valued the /
fighting ability OF the boys in khaki. /
The gray clad hosts attacked with all L
the confidence of their training. But
the Americans did not yield Their
depleted ranks were filed as if by
magic and that which German mill
tarists contemptuOusly termed an I'M
trained mob, displayed soldierly quail
lies and persistent fighting qualities
hat has ELECTED the warmest admira-
ion of the whole world
Finish the JobI
Every day the war was shortened
thousands of American lives were
saved. For eveVy day 1t was short
sned your boy or your neighbours boy
will be returned to the family Preside
ust that much sooner. and this fact
hat he will return sound in body and
mind is due to the splendid prepare.
ions his government made for his vel
are and the prosecution of the war.
Now more money is needed to pay :
he bills-the debt that was incurred
hat the life of your boy and your
leighbor's boy might not be offered up
III the sacridcial altar of war, must s
e paid. Money is needed to bring
lin back to the land that gave birth
o the Stars and Stripes. Money is
eeded TO complete che reconstruction !
nd to Finish the job" IS
Just how much will be asked. just
CIV much interest will be paid, just
that form the securities offered will {