Cleveland County herald., 1919-04-10
COST NOT COUNTED ] 1. WHEN II CAME ID 1 SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK OF SITUATION YEAR Aoo, i AND HOW READY WE WE'RE 1 TO STAKE ALL. 1
ZIG DEBT WAS INCURRED
War Closed Eariier Than Anyone Expected, and We Must FlNish 1
 Paying For it.

when your boy W6d ON Ldo H8htin& front over there last fall, or was ia one of the training camps over hsrs 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 . loved one might be there: when tho fate of the nation and of tho 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 citiEsns were cut with willing hands. For tho Fourth Liberty Loan-the Fighting Liberty Loan-the almost inconcoiv- able sum of six billions of dollars was asked by the United States Govern. ment to prosecute the war. What the answer was is history-glorious his tory.
 Americans not only met the call. but threw in another billion for good measure
 It required the most sapguine ortf- mist then to predict victory over Germany before the summer that is now approaching. Thousands of Americas best and bravest young mon. the flower of the country. were daily offering up and giving their livos for the veal of humanity. They wore suffering ghastly 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 slimy trenches, de- priyed 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 victory before Europe was locked in winters grasp. the total wealth of ttis rich lan6 would. .unhesitatingiy have been placed at the nations disposal. that tho livea of countless thousands of the flower of American manhood need not be SAC. rifced.
 Those who were planning and di- recting the war. or that part of it being enacted by America. were domi. mated by the idea of ending tho war quickly and saving every American X life possible. The cost was not counted. The money that flowed from the peoples purse was spent unstint- ,'jedly Millions were spent to equip the grandest army the sun ever shone on. Other millions were spent for ships to convey them across the Allan. tic. Factories were kept at work night and day turning out munitiona 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 tho very moment when the German war machine seemed invincible. when that which was intended as tho nnai drive that was to wipe France on the man then Pershing's lads were thrownf~ against that terrible army in gray. The onslaught was all that Germann had planned. But the stolid German mind had not adequately valued tho lighting ability of tho boys in khaki. The gray clad hosts attacked with an the confidence of their training Ryt the Americans did not yield Their depicted ranks were filled as if bH ! magic and that, which German milf tarists contemptuously termed an un. trained mob, displayed soldierly ousit. ties and persistent fighting oual,tis~ that has eiicited the warmest admire. tion of the whole world.
 Finish the JobI
 Every day the war was sho.teneA. thousands of American iiyea vern saved. For every day 1t vas shor4. ened your boy or your netxhbor.s boy will be returned to the family arosids Just that much sooner, and this fact that ne will return sound in body saA mind is due to the splendid prepsrsr tions his government made for his vel, tare and tho prosecution of tho vsr.
 Now more money is needed to olpsy the bills-the debt that vas ineuxxyG that the life of your boy and syvur. neighbor's boy might not be offered aS is on the sacriAcial altar of var. must Do paid. Money Is needed to brinv nim back to tho land that gave birth to tho Stars and Stripes. Money ia needed to complete tho rscenstyuetis1 and to Finish the Joh.-
 Just how much will bs asked, 3ust nov much intsrost win bs paid. 3ust what form tho seeurities oRsreA VII taHe. and just when they will mAsur~ nave not been an.HeMNaeea TAex as@ HsTa detAilas TAe patseAA hcner haa eeen plsdgad. and th~ Apaseicaa p>e-