Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-04-10
LONG DARK HOURS
To De DISPELLED
BY VICTORY LOAN
EUROPEAN CONFLICT NOT FIN.
ISHED UNTIL RECONSTRUC-
TON DAYS ARE PASSED.
AMERICA FACES BIG DUTY
Debt Created to Win Mar Becomes
National Debt of Honor and Must
Be Paid in Full.

Did you ever walk your post" just
before the dawn, when the minutes
are longest and a rifle is heaviest?
When that peculiar sense Of daycom-
ing makes you curiously wakeful,
strangely fearful, wide-eyed in the
grip of suspense?
When you worry about everything
and everybody? When common and
familiar objects take on strange
shapes? When a bush becomes a
lurking enemy? When the dawn call
of night bird is a menacing signal?
The war is over and the Dawn is in
the sky. The nerves of the world are
on edge. The nations are worn with
watching. They are tense, suspicious,
alert, strained and nervous.
For four years nerves have been
teHsed. There has been a let down,
but the strain is still fearful The
mothers of the world have dreaded
the coming of the messenger boy, or
the Red Cross worker. Death was
abroad daily-legions of him. The
fathers of the world have been bowed
with work and with battle. The work
ers Of the world have driven at high
speed.
Reaction has set in. There are
strikes and trouble, chaos in some
parts of the earth, madness in others,
unrest bubbling in all countries.
1t is hard to see what would hap
pen If war were to come again soon.
1t is a war-sick generation that is
watching out the long, long hour at
the dawn.
There was never a time when the
world needed steadiness, law and or
der, strong and unwavering support
more than 1t does now. This support
America is giving in great measure,
1t is material, moral, military and
financial.
We hope the day is at hand when
our military support can be with
drawn. But the material support, the
moral and financial support must con-
mat oupPOlI 1l1uDI 'CSlh Will
the plain citizens of the United States
1t has been given throughout the
struggle, Liberty bond billions have
been subscribed at the Governments
call. There was no cavilling and no
questioning while the fighting was I'M
der way.
There ought not to be any question
ing now. A Government does not call
4or gigantic popular loan unless the
money is needed The Victory Loan
would not have been authorized if the
Congress had found any other method
to finance the immediate afterthe-war
period.
Your Government needed your aid
in the First, Second, Third and Fourth
Loans and you gave it. Are you Co
ing to quit now?
1t is matter Of dollars now where
year ago it was matter of dollars
and Of human lives. In a matter of
mere dollars we ought to do our part
mighty cheerfully. There ought not
to be any tagging, any skulking, or
hesitation or evasion.
We have a debt to pay and few Of
us stay-at-homes have actually paid in
full. It must be carried through, we
must do our individual and personal
share.
For the long, long hours are here
and we must make them pass as
quickly as we can. When the Victory
Liberty Bonds are offered we must
buy what we honestly and conscien.
tiously can, that the long, long hours
may pass and that the world may
walk into the new Dawn, the dawn Of
lasting peace.