The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-14
9TH LOAN
DIRECTOR SOUNDS
CALL TO VICTORY
.0ET 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-
thusiasm As in the Previous
Bond Drives.
BY WIN. r. COMPTON,,
Federal Director Of War Loan.

Federal Director Of War Loan.
This will be the last Of all the great
loans which the Liberty Loan Organi-
zation 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 b 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.
l have heard some people express
the thought hat since the armistice
was signed there is no individual re-
sponsibility 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 t o maintain
he 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. It 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 can 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 or
her share.
Someone Eaid that a part of this
money was wasted. My answer to
this is that wal is waste. It is waste
of life. OF human energy. Of property,
of raw material. 1t is waste of men
tality. We undertook to do a tremen-
dous job and to finish 1t at the earliest
possible moment. It was finished
months, nay years. in anticipation Of
the widest dreams of our people. It
was finished because Of a reckless ex-
penditure Of funds; it was finished in
time to avoid the slaughter and sac
ri1ce of hundreds of thousands Of our
gallant young men. 1t was finished in
time to avoid the payment Of billions
upon billions of dollars which would
have been incident to even one year
more: Of active warfare, and in the
waste of hurried preparedness we
saved. We saved all that was dear to
us-Rrst and greatest of all, the lives
of sons; and, second. our material,
property and income-and we may
share for all time to come the free
dom Of a free people. We have little
to grumble about and everything for
which to be thankful.
I send this message to every faith
full Liberty Loan worker: Get back OF
the Victory Loan; do it quickly!
Promote enthusiasm In your city,
county, community. This should be
and this will be the easiest loan of all
to sell and we are going to the battle
line with the same enthusiasm, with
the same determination for success,
that brought victory to the great
American Army on the far distant
shores Of suffering France on that fate
full day of November IL, 1918!