Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1918 — BE MENTALLY PREPARED SAYS POET PHILOSOPHER [ARTICLE]

BE MENTALLY PREPARED SAYS POET PHILOSOPHER

Now once again you’ll have a chance to buy yourself a bond, and help the allies ottt in France, rn Belgium and beyond. In February Uncle Sam will start another loan; and are you ready,, as I am, to put up plunk and bone? It’s a little we old gents can do to help our armies win, but we certainly come through with package of tin. When everything is said and done, ’tis wealth will win the scrap; and there should be a flow of mon from every loyal chap. You are not asked to give away or sacrifice your dust you lend to Uncle Sam—and, say, he’s surely safe tof trust! You are not asked to lend for fun; good interest you receive; if you’ve no bonds, when war is done, you’ll rend your robe and grieve. Ah, then you’ll hang your head in shame, and sound a doleful note; you did not help to win the game and get the Prussian goat. But there is none with soul so dead he will not buy a bond, e’en though he has to cut out bread, and see his cook stove pawned. Let’s march up cheerful, blithe agd quick, and buy, and buy, and buy; for thus we’ll make the Teuton sick, and soak him in the eye.—Walt Mason.