The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-10
EXCUSES DO
I. NOT CO WITH OUR
| RETURNED TROOPS
IF you THINK you HAVE SOME
PRETTY GOOD ONES you
WILL NEED THEM.
DoUcHBoYs CAN'T SEE EN-
."If Could Afford to Face Death Yos
+: Can Afford to Subscribe"
! Says Soldier.

+: IL you are framing up any excuses
for yourself as to why you are moi
"going to take any Victory Notes.
you had better make them mighty
good ones. They will need to be vital
,ly important to really excuse; you, s9f
there are thousands Of mighty sharU
icritics listening for those EXCUSES.
!. Maybe you think you have some
pretty good ones-if so, you will need
@hem. Don't worry trying to decide
just which is the best excuse you haXq.
In one day recently $4,000 AmerI4 R
soldiers landed in New York The
country is filing up with others who
are back from the front You may
hSve seen some Of them. Some Of
them have empty sleeves. Others are
walking with crutch instead Of the
sturdy leg they had year ago. Some
of them have that gray and drawn look
of the man who has tasted Hun gas
Some Of them have lost an eye.
These boys know what that war
game was. They have looked on the
doings Of the Boche in France and
Belgium. They know what the Ger
man did to those countries. Looking
at the ruins of nations there IN Europe
they got a pretty clear idea of what
the Hun had planned for America when
our time came
Furthermore, these men are going,
to want to- know just why any man
who calls himself an American is
hunting up excuses for not subscribing.
to Liberty Loan. They know that
il was Americans whe signed the death
warrant Of the Hun overseas and they
are going to ask some mighty pointed
questions of the stay-at-homes, who
stayed 5000 mfats away from the,
danger and went cstmiy about their
businesses in wax time.
The fighting man is goisg to argue
this way: III could afford to leave
everything that made life sweet to me
and go overseas for America couidi
anord to take my chances with sudden
death to get there and sudden death
after arrived; / cO1lS afford to fac0s :;
nIth, disease. gas; shrapnel and ma
chine gun bullets: could AFFORD o,
face cold steel and showers Of hafid6
grenades and fight hand to hand with,
the Hun In . dirty ditch And these.
Americans who stayed at home tell
me that they can't AFFORD to subscribe,
TO Victory Loan!" ora
You can begin to see that you need
some handmade, GOpper-riveted ex-
fuses, can't you? You can begin to see
that these excuses are going to have
10 be little above the average run.
rant you?
THESE armless, legIess, eyeless men
who have come back from overseas
Will be glad to listen to your excpaeh
Try some of them ON the first one y6u
run across. Try them all on him, ff
he has the patience tolisten to them.
X you can convince one of these
men who has looked upon He'll with
ne lid OF, on that smoking Western
Front, and can make. him believe that
Tou have done everything you ought
o do and all that you can possibly az
ord to do-why then you ought not
o have so very much trouble standing
n the Victory Loan, salesman when
lie comes around with the subscription
blanks for the Fifth, last and Victory
4Oan.
But people who have already tried
on the returned soldiers are not
cry enthusiastic. They haven't had
much luck at convincing these men
VhO did the fighting for the rest of US
hat there is anything American about
uniting on Uncle Sam when he is maxi
ng his last call and needs all that we
an do for him.
Frankly, there isn't much use in
up the excuses. You NAV
ry to believe in them yourself but
own in your heart you know them
or what they are-just excuses to helm
ou dodge plain duty that is Yours
nd yours alone. May as well make nm
our mind to subscribe every dollar
hat you honestly and conscientiouslv
an, and let it go at that.