The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-04-16
COST NOT C0UN TED
WHEN IT CAME To
SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK OF SITUATION YEAR AGO
AND HOW READY WE WE'RE
TO STAKE ALL.
BIG DEBT WAS INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone
Expected, and We Must Finish
Paying For II.

When your boy was on the lighting
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
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 1918
the purse strings of Americas citizens
were cut with willing hands For the
Fourth Liberty Loan-the Fighting
Liberty Loan-the almost inconcelV.
able sum OF six billions OF dollars was
asked by the United States Govern.
ment to prosecute the war, What the
answer was is Interpretation his
tory
Americans not only met the call. but
threw In another billion for good
measure
II required the most sangulne opu.
mist then to predict q victory over
Germany before the summer that is
now approaching. Thousands OF
Americas best and bravsst 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 au-
thority have promised a victory before
Europe was locked In winters grasp,
the total wealth OF II is rich land
would unhesitatingiy have been placed
at the nations disposal, that the lives
OF countless thousands of the flower
OF American manhood need not be sac
rihced
Those who were planning and di
recting the war, or that part OF 1t
I hatpU cd hu A dnnaf.
mated by the idea OF ending the war
quickly AMI saving every American
life possible. The cost was not
counted. The money that flowed from
the peoples purse was spent unstint-
eddy Millions were spent to equip
the grandest army the sun ever shone
on. Other millions were spent for
ships to convey them across the Attain
tic Factories we're 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
that was to wipe France OF the map,
then Pershing's ads were thrown
against that terrible army in gray.
The onslaught was all 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 il by
magic and that which German milf
tarists contemptuously te' med an I'M
trained mob, displayed soidierly quail
ties and persistent fighting qualities
hat has elected the warmest admira-
; ton of the whole world.
Finish the JoLl
Every day the war was shortened
thousands OF American lives were
saved For every day was short
ened your boy or your neighbours boy
. will be returned to the family Preside
} 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 10 needed to pay
the bills--ths debt mat was incurred
that the life Of your boy and your
neighbours boy might not be offered ~
on the sacrincial altar Of war. must
be paid Money is needed to bring
!. him back to the land that gave birth
to the Stars and Stripes. Money is
needed 10 complete the reconstruction
, and TO Finish the Job"
lnst how much viii be- asked. Just
no muck interest will be paid. Just
) Nh TO-; tta ST. urit ~ offered VII
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