The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-09-24

Governor O'Conor in special ap-
peal to support the 3rd War Loan
drive and raise the States quota of
$196, 100000 said that he had been
authorized by the War Department to
announce that total of 148,503 men
and women from Maryland have en-
tered the various armed services.
The total number Of Marylanders
serving in the armed forces in the first
World War was about 51,914. Of the
present total, 96,121 were registrants
under the selective service act, and
were indicted as of September l, the
executive declared. In addition, ST.
1892 Marylanders entered the armed
forces through other channels.
"This is terrifically high percent
age of the able bodied population of
our State, but its proportion is dis
tinctly in line with the response that
Marylanders always have made to
their country's CALL" Governor O'Conor
said.
maryland knows what sacrifice
means and surely no State in the
country has more incentive to back
up its fighting sons.-No State will
give a better account of itself; / am
confident, in this Bird War Loan Cam
paign," the Governor said.
Governor O'Conor's appeal to all
Marylanders to support the Bird War
Loan Drive follows:
"In the Statewide Campaign for
the Third War Loan, it seems to me
that one of the vitality necessary ele-
ments for success is change-about
in our way Of thinking about the pur-
chase of War Bonds.
Despite the surrender Of Italy, and
the progress towards ultimate Victory
that this dramatic development may
represent, it would be worse than folly
to conclude that the end is in sight.
1t isn't. Germany is still strong,
implacable foe. Japan has won un-
limited resources to bolster its war
like ambitions. Together, even with
out Italy, they constitute threat to
American and world security that can
be averted only by aggressive United
Nation Action on scale the like of
which the world has never seen. And
such an offensive entails financing
by America and all the Nations-so
vast as to be almost beyond calcula-
ton.
If this war is to be won, if all we
hold dear in civilization is to be sal
vaged, we cannot, we dare not, sit
back complacently here in America
and talk and think in terms Of 'sacri-
fee when it comes to buying War
Bonds.
Sacrifice becomes too holy word
at time like this to be applied to
placing ones money in the safest in
vestment available upon the earth to-
day. The mothers and fathers who
have lost their loved sons, the wives,
relatives, and sweethearts who have
proudly and bravely heard the news
that their gallant men will never re-
turn, the thousands of fine young
Americans whose bodies have been
MANNED and torn in this tragic strug-
gle = to them the word sacrifice
should be reserved and dedicated.
We who are still free while much
Of the world is in chains; we who are
prospecting financially as few genera
lions have ever prospered, we have no
right to use the word sacrifice to de-
scribe the mere lending Of our money,
when so many of our boys are lending
their youth and their health, willingly
giving their blood and even their lives
for us.
In this Third War Loan Campaign,
therefore, / believe that as true
Americans all, we will welcome the
opportunity to set aside a great por-
ton of our available funds and
earnings, so that we can be sure that
the husbands and sons, the relatives
and friends fighting on far-away
beaches, daily placing their lives in
jeopardy that we may live securely,
may have whatever they require for
Victory. No matter how much Of our
money, our supplies and comforts it
may require, we cannot in justice, in
decency, fail to assure these things to
our fighting men. They are giving us
too much for US ever to deny them
anything they might need.
1t was a wise judge who, at hear
ing of war workers charged with
malingering, Unexpectedly brought
them face to face with three badly
wounded veterans of this war. If all
the people of America could at some
time visit one of our great Army or
Navy hospitals, and see the row upon
row of young men who have sacrificed
all t..sir hopes for future success and
happiness, and who now lie wounded
gr.evoasiy, there would be no ques-
ton but that this Third War Loan
Campaign, gigantic as It is, would be
greatly oversuhscribed.
All this wishful thinking about
Cermany's near collapse and Japan's
being pushover after Germany is out
Of the war is as detrimental to the
cause Of Victory as well-planned sabo-
tage could ever be-: In justice to our
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