The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-05
Are You Going to Put a Yale
Lock on Your PoCketbook?
Uncle Sam Needs His
ChiIdren'S Help,
BY Dorothy Dix.
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer,

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The government is calling upon YOU
20 subscribe to the Victory loan, What
are you going to do about i'll
Are you going to shut your list on
every dollar you possess, put a Yale
lock on your pocke,book and alve
your conscience by how many war saw
ings stamps you have tucked away IN
your safety deposit box, and recount
ing how much you gave to this and
that war fund.-
Or are you going 10 open your hand
still more generously for your coun-
try's last great need, and dig still
deeper down into your pockets, and
add little more to that collection OF
bonds that is the measure OF your
loyalty and patriotism and the out
ward and visible sign thercoil
slaekers Will Suffer.
For, believe me, a few years hence,
| when the daughters Of the great war
for democracy and the sons OF 1918
are organized, the card OF admission
is going to be in the shape OF Lib
erty bond aud a Victory bond, and
those who can't produce them needn',
apply The sons and daughters oil
| siaekers will be barred. .
Our government is asking a. 10 buy
Victory bonds. Victory bonds Doesn''
the very name sing in your heart like
4 strain Of martial musis3 Can't you
hea, the beat OF the drum and the
tramp Of marching feet a. the Iona
br. wn lines OF khaki swing down thu
street, as you looked through teal
dimmed eyes for some one young fact
that you knew you might be seeing
for the last timer
| Victory ioanl Isn't there 4 eraekl'
OF . slafry flag flung TO the breei'
| in the very sound Of 1.-THE flag tha
never went back. but that was born
on and on through the he'll OF machine
gun fire md the rain Of shrapnel L
the greatest triumph that any battle
field ever knew
Can YOU even think OF holding
Victory bond in your hand withou
tightening OF the throat and feelinl
that YOU arc touching part OF N
very robe OF glory that envelope, you
country
Stands Az q Memorial
IA Victory bond meant nothin
. more than Ito symbolism, surely thet
is no nan Of woman with 20 littl
, imagination. 20 little romance and pa
! etry In his or her soul, % not 10 Ion
. to posssss one Just because Il stand
- Z memorial Of the greatest ever
In all history.
Think Of the Victory loan in term
Of flamboyant patriotism. Think OF
!; also in terms Of marvellous accom-
= plishment II, q year ago. some proph'
could have assured Us that this yei
: the great guns would be hushed an
the war won. our country safe On
! OUT boys coming home u. we &oul
y havp fought with saeif other for Il
. privilege Of paying the price Of peac
= Now dat that miracle has come
"" " pass shah W withhold our help 10 o.
9 Victosyi
Are W % poor Of spirit that II TAX
Z fear 10 overcome our selfishness ~
= Heedl We subscribed, and owe
. subscribed, TO the Liberty loans b
{; cause the submarines Of the enen
u menaced our ihores. and our bo
D. "over there" would have been - she,
6 led to the slaughter without our ai
u In time Of danger We stood togetht
as one man, Of one mind, deterinin,
to defend the country 70 he hest m,
Z and the last dollar. Surely now th