Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-19
|T1lE WHITE CR0S SES IN FLANDERS
 HELD SHOULD REMI ND US OF OUR PLEDGES
American Is Honor Bound To Keep Faith With land Of Graves In Northern France, Where
 Rest The Men Who Paid For Peace.
that broke the over of the hun.

lieluS. TOT tHe most part these i Americans had been buried where | they fell. Others were gathered in- to groups and buried in little plots. Some were in the open, others in the l timber of the hillsides, others by the l side of the road. They had come a long way, these boys from the Heart i of America, these Middle Western CTS from Missouri and Kansas, to die l in the Fields of France by French 1 roadsides.
 The graves all but mapped the battle lines of the late September fighting in the Argonne Here was the place where the American tanks had advanced in force south and southwest of Vauquos Hill. Far 1 ther south are the graves of the thousands of Frenchmen who had tried hard, and failed to take that particular German strong point. Where the tanks fought there are many American graves for the hun fought hard Mud, drifted snow dead shrubbery, brown grass, and a little rusted barbed wire and the l many, many graves arc all that is left now. T hCI alt SldNCS lOuIlu ' al SIlHCS, little groups of graves that show hoy America paid the price for that viii lage. At Chcppy where the St. Louis and Kansas City men, the Missouri ans from the little towns, the Kan ] sas lads from the rolling prairies, i had fought shoulder to shoulder, there were very many graves. But they took Cheppy and passed on. 1 There were other graves of Middle Wsternars all the way to the height i of Baulny, to Very. and Charpentry, i where the tired division dug in and held on until relieved. The "fox holes, that the men dug for them l selves in the reverse slopes of tho ihillsides are still there. The hill- sides are still searex with the work oR the men who were fighting there last September. N4.
 Nature is changing the face of the ! old ,battlefields. The armies and ci vilion workers have salvaged the field , and arc cleaning up the job. All , over the world the nations arc do ing ono of two things. They are 1 taking hold. starting in to clean up and get going, or they are going to pieces like the half-hearted Rus sians and the huns, the Bavarians and others of the defeated Central European peoples.
 In order to complete the task that the men who lie in the Land of Graves begun, America has laid down certain tacks. Practically ali of the tasks laid down upon the fi- nancial backing of Americans We {@ 1,,,iI T ,y1I we must find the goods and the pro- ducts with which to fill it. We have our War Risk pledges to keep up, our ammunition bills to pay, our AL lies to aid as far as possible, our pub lie works to get in order that there may be work for every man Ameri, ca who wants to work.
 To Complete The Work.
 These things cannot be carried out unless the money is forthcoming to finance them. A part of this money is being raised in the shape of taxes and considerable part must come on the form of money loaned to the nation by it's citizens.
 The Liberty Loans have been made by the citizens to their government. in brief to themselves. Every dOllor of the Victory Loan is to be used in the work of replacement, rahabita tion and reconstruction. We are now pulling a military machine to pieces, and that is expensive and must be paid for. Every dollar that is raised for the purpose of keeping America moving forward is fulfillment of the pledge that we have made to the men who lie in the Land of Graves under the white crosses
 We must subscribe the Fifth Loan in order to carry out our pledged words given to ourselves, our army and navy and to the world. To pack up and come home, leaving the rest of the world to settle its own future, that would mean trouble in the not far-off future We want to make a clean job of it now. We don't want to go to war in five years, or ten years, or twenty years against an other world menace. We want the hun made helpless so far as war is concerned, we want a quiet Europe and we want as many of the world war-brecding questions settled as possible.
 But unless we back up the Amcri- 1 CduS WuO dlC tly ihS CO "SSP ou- pledged word and to make the world safe, we cannot expect peace and tranquility. Leaving the job half done( wining the war and losing it when peace is signed, would be the greatest crime imaginable. A gov ernment with ample money can do things. A government that has been left to pass the hat by it's own citl- zens cannot The thing to do is to subscribe to the Fifth Loan as we did tn others. We cannot afford to break with our dead who sleep in ', France.
 The Scotch of 1.-Two old Scots men sat by the roadside, talking and pufting away merily at their pipes.
 "Theres no muckle pleasure in smokin', Sandy" said Donald.
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