Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1918 — EVERY LIFE A REASON FOR PURCHASING BONDS [ARTICLE]

EVERY LIFE A REASON FOR PURCHASING BONDS

Duty to Our Country Far Greater Than to Dearest Friends Ih Time of Need.

By LILLIAN GISH,

Famous Screen Actress. ' I know 500,000,000 reasons for buying a Liberty bond, and not one against a bond. Certainly every life in this country and in the lands of our allies offers a reason, for each one considers his or her l|fe and freedom worth any protection necessary, even to death. \ No matter how pressed for funds one would loan a dearest friend a few dollars in time of greatest need, knowing the money would be returned with interest. And how much greater is the duty to one’s country than to one’s dearest friend I. If you had been with me in London one afternoon, a “Four-Minute” man of a different breed than ours would have given you so many reasons to buy bonds you would never think of reasons, but just give, and give, and give. He was a Hun aviator and he was over London just four minutes. And he dropped bombs. One dropped on a public school! where little children were at their studies. It was a big school. Nearly all were killed or maimed. Their mothers came, when the alarm was spread. They fought with the police. Most of the mothers had husbands at war. Their faces and their outcries 1 Howjnuch those women had to give! A few Liberty bonds measure up pretty small compared with a little child, or a brother, or father, or husband, or sweetheart, or friend. In the past we have put our raw efforts in the mint of commerce, and got money; and now we put our money in the mint of patriotism and get Liberty bonds. In the prayer book of democracy today the fly-leaf should be a Liberty bond. Have you got yours?