Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-02
FLAG THAT NEVER
HAS KNOWN DEFEAT
CALLS To YOU NOW
PROUD RECORD MUST NOT BE
SMiECHED Ely FAILURE OF
VICTORY LOAN
WAR IS NOT YET ENDED
pIeted Before Nations Honor
Is INDICATED.

Never in any war has the United
States been defeated We have lost
battles. We lost Lundys Lane to the
British. The Union lost various bat
ties to the Confederates, but when
the end comes and the peace is to be
made, the United States has always
won it's conflicts.
The banner of America is the flag
that has never known defeat They
told US in the beginning of the Ameri
can effort in the Great War that we
must expect to lose battles. We
listened, but We could hardly believe
i. We didn't expect to lose when we
went in, and yet by all the rules of
the game our untried divisions should
have taken some beatings from the
Veteran legions of the Hun.
Just the same we knew that we
would win in the end. And the fact
that we had never lost war, nightly
heartened the war-weary allies. You
could see references, to that fact in
the newspapers of France and Eng
land in the days when We picked up
the gage of battle flung in our faces
by the Hun.
We came into the greatest war In
history at its most vitality crucial mo-
ment and our added weight gave vic
tory. We did not do it all ourselves.
That is a notion that We want to
throw aside if we have it. Alone We
would probably have taken an awful
hammering from the veterans of the
kaiser until we had brought our ut
most strength to bear. Our dead would
have been a staggering list. But we
did come in at moment when our
weight counted for most and we did
smash the Hun.
So we have a right to pride, always
remembering that we did not do it
all. The nation is proud Of its record.
Individually we are proud OF the re-
suits we showed and the fighting We
did.
Represented All America.
The men who did the fighting repre-
scented all Of America. They were
fighting for our liberties, just as they
were fighting for the stainless honor
of the nation. And they were fighting
for the liberties of the world now and
in the coming generations.
You may not be grateful, but if you
are not it is because you haven't taken
the trouble to understand just what we
have won and how much pride we have
right to have. But whether you are
grateful or not the world is grateful.
We must not smirch our record. The
war is not over for us yet. We have
loan to raise to carry out our part Of
it. The men on the Rhine are still
watching out for our interests. They
are still guarding the Hun. There must
be no slackening of effort now that
we have won the war. We want to
! make the flag stand for as much in
peace time as we know it stood for
in war.
We would have been doing our duty
here now it the war were going on.
No doubt OF that. But We should go
right along and finish up the contract
even though the fighting has ceased
1t is all the more important that those
of us who stayed at home should
stick to the finish.
The Fifth and last loan is offered
| In little while it will have succeeded
| or failed. If it fails it will be be-
cause the common folk of America, the
average man and woman, the plain
people, have not taken any interest
in it.
And that will be very bad sign.
It will mean that the American is not
paying much attention to his govern
| ment That he can be vitality interest
ed when immediate danger threatens,
| when the battle is raging. but that he
loses interest when he is no longer
directly threatened.
The Victory Loan will tell the story.