The Little River news., 1919-04-26
COST NOT couNTED IN
 SAVING OUR o1NN BOYS
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone Ex- pected, and We Must Finish
 Paying for It.

When your boy was on the fighting front over there last falif or was in one of the training camps over here being hardened for the most terrible l task that ever confronted man; when countless mothers with sap 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 lie.
 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 inconceiv- 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 rot only met the call, but threw in another billion fer good measure
 It required the most sanguine opti- mist then to predict victory over Germany before the summer that is now approaching. Thousands of Americas best and bravest young men, the flower of the country, were daily offering up and giving their lives for the veal of humanity. They were 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- 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 ttis rich land would unhesitatingly have been placed at the nations disposal, that the lives of countless thousands of the flower of American manhood need not be sac rificed.
 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 the war quickly arl saving every Amer can life possible. The cost was not counted. The money that flowed from the peoples purse was spent unstint- edly. Millions were spent to equip the grandest army the sun ever shone on. Other millions were spent for ships to convey them across the Atlan- tic. Factories were kept at work night and day turning out munitions and supplies.
 America surpassed eve:l herself. She arose even above tho glorious traditions of. the worlds greatest coun- try, that has never tasted defeat. She accomplished the impossible At the very moment when the GeIman war machine seemed inyincible, when that which was intended as the final drive that was to wipe France off the map. then Pershing's ads were thrown -:l ; s,:aiast that tsssffs3fe 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 if by magic and that which German mili- tarists contemptuously termed an un- trained mob, displayed soldierly quali- ties and persistent fighting qualities that has elicited the warmest admira- ton of the whole world.
 Finish the Job!
 Every day the war was shortened thousands of American lives were saved. For every day it was short ened your boy or your neighbors boy will be returned to the family firesida just that much sooner, and this fact that he will return sound in body and mind is due to the splendid prepara- lions his government made for his well fare and the prosecution of the war.
 Now more money is needed to pay the bills-the debt that was incurred that the life of your boy and your neighbours boy might not be offered up on the sacrifcial 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 to complete the reconstruction and to Finish the Job"
 Just how much will be asked, just how much interest will be paid. just what form the securities offered will take, and just when they will mature y,oxv1 ,,o< haon annnnnood ThnU ara