Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-03
AME RIGA 5 PROUD
RECORD SHALL Be
KEPT I'm TARA|SHED
WE BOUGHT CHIPS IN THE BIG
GEST GAME OF THE AGES AND
MUST PLAY IT OUT.
WORLD OPINION AT STAKE
Get the Victory Liberty Loan Over
and We viii Go on to the
Next Real Job.

We were amateurs q the Big League
OF war, but when We once got in we
made proud record Not one of the
allied nations, or any other nation, for
that matter, made any better showing
than the old U. s. A.
, We are all Of us proud of it. 1t is
record that we would like to see
maintained
The world has changed toward us.
Today no nation treats US with any
thing other than most profound re
spect. We can lay that attitude to the
fact that We have not hesitated to
back up our convictions with every
| available man and every available dol
lar in the immediate past
The time has gone by when it is
fashionable to sheer at the courage
or the loyalty Of Americans. It is no
longer considered the proper thing
to make fun Of American ideals, to
sneer at the barbarian Yankees" as
has been done by some Of our near
neighbors no SO long ago. The world
has Witnessed the making Of proud
American record. And the world has
marveiled thereat. 4
We have done some big things in a
big way. Here among ourselves we
may be pardoned for calling attention
to that fact. Abroad the facts speak
for themselves. In the worlds coun-
ellis it is understood that our weight
is to be found on the side of justice
"a nd .ierI%t hot lon h
bers or hunters for trade areas
Because of these things, because of
our help in winning the war, our in.
fiuence in the councils of the earth
has never been quite so, great as it
is at this hous. 1t is generally under
stood that hereafter America is a
power to be reckoned with.
In word, the American nation has
established itself at it's true worth.
More than any thing else, it was the
speed with which we went in and put
things over, that made us a power.
When we started to prepare for war
it was on scale that no other nation
had eQualied. AS an instance, our
poison gas plants were ready to turn
of England, France, Italy and Ger
many on the day the armistice was
signed.
On the Battlefield.
The recklessly cool courage shown
by Americans on the battlefield is an
other phase Of this same proud record.
Still another phase, and one that is
still Of high importance, was the finan-
cial responses made by the people of
this country from the very day we
entered the war.
We were admittedly an unknown
quantity when we entered the struggle.
We went into it hating it, but not fear
full Of it, anxious to get the evil task
over and done with, and thinking but
little of the probable cost. We sim
ply took the national purse and tossed
it to the war makers and told them to
go ahead.
It is this sort Of a record that puz-
zled and even disturbed the other ma
TONS friends as we'll as enemies. But
when our unswerving loyalty and the
mistaken courage of the American
armies was witnessed our friends knew
then that it was matter OF time,
only. unt1 the Hun would be whipped.
We have made record that we can
not afford to have maFred. This is
no time to ignore the obligations that
our own past record puts upon US.
1t would be mighty poor time to
say to the world 1t large that we were
through" We must so act as to live
up the opinions Of greatness. that good
opinion of the whole world
There is job to be finished and we
have eur part Of it to do. We can't
afford to turn our backs upon it, even
though we are tired of the whole bust
ness
We have bought chips in the biggest
game OF the ages and we must sit it
out
We may as we'll take this Victory
Loan and put it over. get it out of
the way. and go on to the next real
job. But let us see to it that we do
that first and do it well.