Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-17
aoET BACK ON THE JOB" IS MES.
SAGE TO WORKERS IN LIB
ERTY NoTEs CAMPAIGN.
TO BE EASIEST TO SELL
Going to Battle Line With Same En-.
thuslasm AZ In the Previous
Bond Drives.
BY WIN. r. COMPTON,
Federal Director of War Loan.

OASIWt VI VGT IO0HH
This will be the last of all the great
loans which the Liberty Loan Organi-
cation has been called upon to place
and when the campaign closes on May
10th, the job will be finished. Success
will surely come to the Eighth Dis
trict, as it has in previous campaigns,
and we shall leave behind us an un-
broken record, and history will know
that the people of this section Of
America proudly accomplished their
portion of the financial undertakings
of our Government incident to the
great war for Freedom and Liberty.
I have heard some people express
the thought that since the armistice
was signed there is no individual re-
s~ponsibility to finance our nation. I
am firmly convinced that this is not
the thought of the great American peo-
pie and when there has been brought
squarely home to them the realization
| that the debts and obligations of the
United States of America are the
debts of each individual, that severally
and collectively, when we entered this
war we pledged our entire assets and
income to carry on until the last pen
ny had been paid, and that national
honor can only be saved through each
individual doing his part to maintain
the credit of our great country, there
will be no trouble in placing this loan
as others have been placed heretofore.
The loan will be attractive as to
terms. maturity and payment. 1t will
mean an investment which will be
sought after by men of wealth as we'll
as those of modest means; but it must
be remembered that no financial I'M
dertaking running into the billions OF
dollars car be placed entirely with
people who have idle money and who
are seeking investment in an interest
bearing security. 1t therefore be
comes necessary for each to do his OF
her share.
Someone said that a part Of this
money was wasted, My answer to
this is that war is waste. 1t is waste
of life, of human energy, of property,
of raw material. 1t is waste of men.
tally. We undertook to do a tremen.
dous job and to finish it at the earliest
possible moment. 1t was finished
months, nay years, in anticipation oil
the widest dreams Of our people. II
was finished because Of a reckless ex
%penditure Of funds; it was finished in
time to avoid the slaughter and sac
riice of hundreds of thousands of oul
gallant young men. 1t was finished II
time to avoid the payment of billions
upon billions of dollars which would
have been incident to even one veal
more of active warfare, and in the
waste of hurried preparedness VIZ
saved. We saved all that was dear t.
us-frst and greatest of all, the live.
of Jul sons; and, second, our material
property and income-and we may
share for all time to come the free
uOm VI d Tree people,. we nave HUI
to grumble about and everything TO.
which to be thankful.
/ send this message to every faith
full Liberty Loan worker: Get back o
the Victory Loan; do it quickly
Promote enthusiasm in your city
county, community. This should b,
and this will be the easiest loan of al
to sell and we are going to the BATH
line with the same enthusiasm, witt
The same determination for success
that brought. victory to the grea
American Army on the far distan
shores of suffering France on that fate
!, full day of November II, 1918!