Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-10
s..-- t- e.ss--- REMEMBER THERE |S JUST ONE MORE
 RIVER ID CROSS
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE SUCH A Gl- GANTlc TASK NOW THAT
 WE'RE INTO IT.
DEAD LEFT US A LEGACY
One More Job and We Are Through and Can Push the War
 Behind Us.

After the corn was laid by, after the
 summers work was well nigh done.
 when the harvest moon rode high In
 the heavens and the dust of the coun-
 try lanes lay white in the moonlight,
 there used to be big religious revivals
 among the colored population of the
 countryside. And one of the songs
 ran:
 One more river, one more river to
 cross."
 It is like that with America in the
 war. We have one more job to finish, 9"One more river to cross" This Vie
 tory Liberty Loan must be put over and when that is done we can sort of
 shove the world war back on the shelf
 things that are clamoring for atten. tion. %
 : And that river crossing does not
 look like such tremendous job now
 that 1t is going with rush. A few weeks ago there was much doubt and
 some downright pessimism. It ap-
 peared at times as though this might be hard loan to put over. But we . were all wrong who thought so. 1t was just question, after all, of fin- ishing up the job and this nation has made up it's mind that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well and we are going to apply that to the war and all it's related problems. It doesn't, look like such gigantic task now that we are into it. We have
 put over bigger loans, come to think
 of 1t, and loans that were not so at
 tractive In the matter of interest rates.
 We have always met the demands that
 were made on us. We know that we
 can do it again.
 We can'ts do. otherwise if we are E to keep faith with those "who sleep in Flanders Field" and at Belleau Wood, at Cantigny, at Fishes and Bantheville, at verdun and in the Ar gonne. There gre 10000 of our dead who are calling to us that we must not forget, that we must not slacken that we must not make it appear tha. our dead have died in vain. Left the Job Unfinished. They left us legacy of job un- | finished. We will finish it. They left us,a tradition of American honor that We will uphold for them hero at home | as worthily As we can. The faith they pledged to us we will not betray. One more job. We will see it through. It is little thing after ali
 to what we have done and little
 thing compared to the task that the
 men of the fighting forces undertook, Thus far there has been no such a
 thing as failure. If our dollars were 1 asked, we gave them When our hands and our brains were asked we gave them. When the sacrifice of our lives was asked we offered them up. l The call of loyalty has stirred us again. We have not forgotten. There was a resting period after the armis- tice but when the call came we leaped
 to attention once more. Patriotism
 has not rusted since the war was won. We come back to the last task with
 a keener pride in our country and a sense of power stirring in the whole
 nation.
 After all, why shouldn't we! The money that is asked for is only pal
 try $4500, 100000. when all is said and done. Just a fraction of the
 wealth of America. And there are not very many of us who haven't been
 making more money in the last two o, three years than we have ever made before.
 We have saved some of it. too. thanks to thrift campaigns and Lib erty Loans. We have all put few dollars by, and we are all in the mood to lend something to the nation that has made us safe and secure. We should fail in gratitude if we didn't. We have the best country in the world. Doubtless no nation can be perfect. but we do have opportunity and liberty and high standard Of living and real future to look into. The support of the plain folks of America, and all other folks therein, is going to send the Victory Liberty Loan over.