Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-04-03
COST NOT COUNTED
WHEN It CAME TO
SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK or 1iTuETlCN YEAR AGO
AND HOW READY tfz WE'RE
70 STAKE AL.
GREAT DEBT INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone
Expected. ard We Mu5t Finish
Paying For Il.

When your boy was on the fighting
front over there last fall or was in
one of the training camps over here
being hardened for the most terrible
task that ever confronted man; when
countless mothers with sad eyes were
scanning the death lists with hearts
atremble, fearing lest the name OF a
loved one might be there; when the
fate of the nation and Of the world
hung in the balance, then the thought
ugpermost in every mind was the win
ming of the war and the avoidance Of
continued loss Of life.
Then during the fall months of 1915
the purse strings Of Americas citizens
were cut with willing hands. For the
Fourth Liberty Loan-the Fighting
Liberty Loan--the almost inconceiv-
able sum Of six billions Of dollars was
asked by the United States Govern
mont to prosecute the war. What the
answer was is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. his
tory.
Americans not only met the call but
threw in another billion for good
measure.
It required the most sanguine opti-
mist then to predict victory over
Germany before the summer that IS
row 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 CHASTITY 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 shiny trenches, de-
prived of every comfort, with each
recurrent day sapping their vitality,
that America might be saved.
Total Wealth Pledged.
Then could anyone in absolute all.
thority have promised victory before
Europe was locked in winters grasp.
the total wealth of this rich land
would unhesitatingly have been placed
at the nations disposal, that the lives
Of countless thousands of the flower
Of American manhood need not be sac.
rificed
Those who were planning and d.
recting the war, or that part of it
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 flowed from
the peoples purse was spent unstint-
edly Millions were spent to equip
the grandest army the sun ever shone
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 glorious
traditions of the worlds greatest coun-
try, that has never tasted defeat She
accomplished the impossible. At the
very moment when the German war
machine seemed invincible, when that
which was intended as the final drive
chat was to wipe France off the map,
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 the
fighting 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 by
magic and that which German mill
tarists contemptupusly termed an an
trained mob, displayed soldierly quail
ties and persistent fighting qualities
that has elected the warmest admira-
ton Of the whole world
Finish the Job.
Every day the war was shortened
thousands of American lives were
saved. For every day it was short
ened your boy or your neighbours boy
will be returned to the family fireside
just that much sooner, and this fact
that he will return sound in body and
mind is due to the splendid prepare
tons his government made for his vel
fare and the prosecution of the war.
Now more money is needed to pay
the bills-the debt that was incurred
that the life of your boy and YOU
neighbours boy might not be offered III
on the sacrifcial altar of war, mus
be paid. Money is needed to bring
him back to the land that gave brit
to the Stars and Stripes. Money is
needed to complete the reconstruction
and to Finish the Job"
Just how much will be asked, JUS
how much interest will be paid, jus