Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-18

tlonal reputation of being the super patriotic county of America and has always been among the very first 10 go over the top" in every patriotic drive. Jefferson cOunty's quota is al out six hundred thousand dollars less for the fifth loan than it was for the previous ones, and no one doubts for n single minute that Jefferson county will be among the very first to set the wires afire with the news of her patriotic victory.
 Pine Bluff as the great industrial and commercial center of Jefferson county, will be expected to blaze the way and set the pace for the rural districts and county. Jefferson coun- tvs soldier lads failed not in the hour of their country's need; they heroic ally laid their all upon the altar of sacrifice, and many of them sleep meath the sod, awaiting "reveille" or the Resurrection morn. Others ot our lads are bivouaced on the scared battle fields of foreign lands, staying there to finish the job of freeing the world for democracy
 Sammies Did Work.
 It was the American dough boys that crushed the backbone of the Hindenburg line. It was the Ameri- can dough boys, backed by the pa triotic citizens and money of Aneri- ca struck terror to the hearts of the Huns. Old Glory, the starred and striped emblem of liberty, is wor- shipped by every nation on the globe. Monstrous dreadnaughts have carried our country flag on their masts over endless seas and. oceans as the champion of human liberty, and challenge of justice. Old Glory, invincible and unbeaten, was flung to the breeze by the hands of Americas soldier lads, as they wend- ed their way through tangled forests, plowed their way through dismal swamps to meet the molten hell, belched from the gums of freedoms assassins
 While the Hun had his rapine clutches on the throats of the wrold, the death pail settled over. this na- tion like the death damp in the Valley of Despond. We woke from troubled sleep at the break of day, eagerly awaiting the news from the battle fields of Europe Millions of men toiled night and day, building ships monstrous guns, and the greatest equipage of war destructives cne world has ever known.
 o Must Redeem Promise
 Our sons we gave without quas- ton; our purses were opened wide to pay the price of victory. We told our boys to wipe the Hun off the face of the earth, and we would pay the bills; they did their job, fearlessly and quickly, now it is up to us to furnish ours. The great Fifth Vic tory Loan will be put over without argument or quibbling. America will make good her promise to her great army and navy and pay the bills of victory without murmur.
 Here and there few, whose hearts and lives were untouched by the ravages of war, twill quibble about the price and find fault with the way the money was spent, but let it be remembered that nothing but the lavish expenditure of bill lions of dollars could have stemmed the awful tide of destruction in so short length of time. An attempt to economize during the months when the allies were slowly but sure ly being bled to death, would have cost America thousand times more in money; the sacrifice of millions more of our sons, and years of cal amity in Business. The billions spent to vansuish the enemies of civilization