The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-04-11
LONG DARK HOURS
To BE D|sPELLED
BY VICTORY LOAN
EUROPEAN CONFLICT NOT FIN
isHEp UNTIL REcoN3TRuc-
TioN 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 rife Is heaviest?
When that peculiar sense Of day-com-
ing makes you curiously wakeful,
strangely fearful, wlde.eyed in the
grip of suspense2
When you worry about everything
and everybody? When common and
familiar objects take on strange
shapesf When 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
tensed. There has been a let down,
but the strain is still fearful. The
mothers of the world lave 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 teen 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 Il some
parts OF the earth, madness in others,
unrest bubbling in all countries.
1t is hard to see what would hap
pen il war were to come again soon.
1t is 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.
It 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-
tinue. That support must 'egin with
the plain citizens Of the Unitea states.
II has been given throughout the
struggle. Liberty bond billions have
been subscribed at the Governments
call. There YVES 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
.ar a gigantic popular loan unless the
money is needed The Victory Loan
would not have been authorized 4 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?
It is a 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 arc 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
a lasting peace.