The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-09
COST NOT COUNTED
WHEN It CAME TO
SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK OF SITUATION YEAR AGO
AND HOW READY WE WERE
TO STAKE ALL.
GREAT DEBT INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone
Expected, and We Must Finish
!: Paying For It.
GREAT DEBT INCURRED

t: When your boy was on the fiRhtin,
'front.' over there last fall, or was il
n OF the training camps over here
being hardened for the most terrible
task that ever confronted man: wher
countless mothers with sad eyes were
scanning the death lists with heart.
atremble, fearing lest the name of q
one might be there; when the
rate OF b nation and OF the world
hung in the balance, then the though,
uppermost 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 FiEhtina
Liberty Loan-the almost inconceiv.
Able sum Of SIX billions Of dollars was
asked by tho United States Govern.
ment to prosecute the war. What the
answer was IL INTERPRETATIONS his.
tory.
Americans not only met the call. but
threw in another billion for good
measure.
1t required the most sangufne Opt.
mist then to predict a victory over
Germany before the summer that is
now approaching. Thousands OF
Americas best and bravest young
men, tho flower of the country, were
daily Offering up md giving their lives
Tor the . 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 usaxes
into modern warfare, and they were
lying In the mud Of Shiny trenches, de-.
prfvod OF every comfort, with each
recurrent day sapping their vitality,
that America might be saved.
Total Wealth Pledged.
Then could anyone in absolute au.
thority have promised q victory before
Europe was locked in winters erasp.
the total wealth Of this rich land
would unhesitatingly have been placed
1t the nations disposal, that the lives
OF countless thousands OF the flower
OF American manhood need not be sac,
ridcod.
Those who were planning and d.
recting tho war, or that part Of /,
being enacted by America, were domi.
mated by tho 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 eouip
tho grandest army the sun ever shone
Other millions were spent for
ships to convey them across the Allan.
tic. Factories we're kept at work
night and day turning out munitions
and supplies.
America surpassed even herself
n arose even above the glorious
OF the worlds greatest conn.
try, that, has never tasted defeat. She
accomplished the impossible. At the
very moment whom the German war
machine seemed invincible, when thai,
which wa intended as the final drive
hat was to wipe France of the man
Pershing's lads were thrown
against that terrible army in gray.
Inc onslaught was ( that GERMANY
nad planned. But the stolid German
had not adequately valued the
lighting ability Of the boys In khaki
inc gray clad hosts attacked with all
The confidence Of their training. But
The Americans did not yield. Their
depleted ranks were filled as II bv
magic and that which German mill.
artists contemptuously termed an IN.
mob, displayed soldierly quail.
les and persistent fighting qualities
hat has elected the warmest adnira,
'ion Of the whole world.
Finish the Job.
Every day the war was shortened
Of American lives were
'aved. For every day it was short.
ned your boy Or your neighbor's boy
VII be returned to the<@amily f1reside
ust that much sooner, and this fact :
he will return sound In body and
! Is due to the splendid prepare.
his government made for his vel.
are and the prosecution Of the war
Now more money il needed to nav
ne oills-the debt that was incurred
the life OF your boy and your
letkhbor's boy might not be offered uu
a the sacrifciai altar OF war. must
y paid. Money II needed to brine!
i'm back to the land that gave birth !:
Q the Stars md Stripes. Money is
eeded to complete the reconstruction !!
to Finish the Job" ]
Just how much will be asked. Just
ow much interest will be paid, just ]
hat form the securities offered will
aks, and Just when they will mature I
ave not been announced. They are :