The courier-index., 1919-04-18
COsT N0T COUNTED WHEN|T CAME II
 SAVING DUR BUYS
THINK OF SITUATION YEAR ASo AND HOW READY WE WERE
 TO STAKE ALL.
GREAT DEBT INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyoos Expected. snd We Must rlnisn
 Paying For It.

When your boy was on the lighting | front over there last fall. or was III one of the training camps over nere ] being hardened for the most terrible task that ever confronted msS; when 1 countless mothers with sad eyes were scanning the death lists with hearts atrsmble. fearing lest the name of loved one might be there; when the fate of the nation and of the world hung in the balance. then the thought uppermost in every mind was the win n!ng of the war and the avoidance of continued loss of life
 Thsn during the fall months of 1915 the purse strings of Americas citizens were cut with willing hands. For ths Fourth Liberty Loan-the Fighting Liberty Loan-ths almost inconceiv' able sum of six billions of dollars was asked by the United States Govern. ment to prosecute the war. What the answer was Is history-glorious his tory.
 threw in another billion for good measure
 It 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 ghastly wounds, inflicted by weapons such as only 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 slimy trenches de- prived of every comfort. with each reeurrent day sapping their vitality. that America might be saved
 Total Wealth Pledged.
 Then could anyone in absolute au- thority have promised victory before Europe was locked in winters grasp the total wealth of this rich land would unhesitstingly 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 were planning and di- rscting the war. or that part of fl being enacted by America. were domi mated by the idea of ending the war quickly and saving every American life possible. The cost was not counted. The money that fowed from the peoples purse was spent unstint- edly. Millions were spent to souio the srsndest army the sun ever shons 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 xloriou. traditions of the worlds greatest couu. try, that has never tasted defeat. She accomplished the impossible. At tn. very moment when the German war machine seemed invincibls, when that which was intended as the final drive that was to wipe France off the man then Pershing's lads were thrown against that terrible army in gray The onslaught was al that Germany had planned. But the stolid German mind had not adequately valued in. nghtins ability of the boys in khaki The gray clad hosts attacked with all the confidence of their training. But the Americans did not yield. Their depleted ranks were filled as if bv magic and that which German ,oili. tarists eontsmptuousiy termed an mn. trained mob. displayed soldierly oual,. ties and persistent fighting ouslitie. that has eiioited the warmest admir.. ton of the whole world.
 Finish the Job.
 Every day the war was sbor,os thousands of American lives wara saved. For every day 1t was short. ened your boy or your neighbor's hov VIII be returned to the family nrssids lust that much sooner, and this tact 1hat ne Will return sound in body and mind Is due to the splendid prsnsra. loas his government made for b,s vel I@re and the prosecution of the war
 Now more money is needed to nav the oills-the debt that was ineprraS that the life of your boy and von- nelshbor's boy might not be offered rn on the sacrincial altar of war mrst be paid. Money is needed 10 hr,nS nim back to the land that gave b,r,S 10 the Stars and Stripes. Money I. needed to complete the reconstruc,,or and to Finish the Job" w
 Just how much will be askad .. no" much interest will be paid ,ust what form the securities offered w1S take. and just when they win ma,nra nave not been announced --ha,.