The Brinkley argus., 1919-05-02
COST NOT COUNTED WHEN II CAME ID
 SAVING OUR BOYS
THINK OF SITUATION YEAR AGO AND HOW READY WE WERE
 TO STAKE ALL.
GREAT DEBT INCURRED
War Closed Earlier Than Anyone Expected, and We Must Finish
 Paying For 1t.


 front over there last fall, or was 1T one of the training camps over here being hardened for the most terrible task that ever confronted man; wher countless mothers with sad eyes were scanning the death lists with hearts atremble, fearing lest the name of . 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 oi continued loss of life.
 Then during the fall months of 191l 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 not only met the call, but threw in another billion for good measure.
 It required the most sanguine opti mist then to predict a victory over Germany before the summer that is now approaching Thousands ot 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 oi 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. pr1ved 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 this 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- rectlng the war, or that part of it being enacted by America, were domi. mated by the idea of ending the war quickly and saving every American 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 Allan JIG. Factories were 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 off the man then Pershing's lads were thrown against that terrible army in gray. The onslaught was al that Germany nad planned. But the stolid German mind had not adequately valued tho nghting ability of the boys in khaki. The gray clad hosts attacked with all the confidence of their training Rut 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 ouali- 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 neighbor's boy VIII De returned to the family fireside Just that much sooner, and this fact that he will return sound in body and mlno Is due to the splendid prepara- lions his government made for his well Iare 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 neighbor's boy might not be offered up on the sacrifcial altar of war. must pc paid. Money is needed to bring nm back to the land that gave birth to the Stars and Stripes. Money is needed to complete the reconstruction ana 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 nave not been announced. They are mere details. The nations honor has been pledged. and the American peo- pie will redeem it with the Victory liberty Loan.