Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — “If the Folks Back Home Fall Short, Call on Us” [ARTICLE]

“If the Folks Back Home Fall Short, Call on Us”

Our Soldiers in France Have Said That—Can We “Fall Short in This Liberty Loan After That? / The front page of a recent issue of'the Stars and Stripes, the newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, bears this stirring appeal: “If the folks back home fall short on the $6,000,000,000 you need, Mr. President, call on us sot the balance. We like our pay—but, if we have to, we can go without it. Yours for victory, * Can you thjust your hands in your pockets, jingle your money, and aav “No.” after reading that? Can you refuse to buy Liberty Bonds “until it hurts when you read such an appeal from the boys in France who are now making the enemy “hunt his hole?” . , “If the folks back home fall short,” it reads. Think what that means to them and to you. The folks back home.” That means YOU—you are “the folks” at home upon whom those hard fighting, never quitting scrappers in Uncle Sam s army trust to see them through. No man or set of men can or could ever stage a big drama without applause, if it was a good show. Those boys have given a show that startled the world. They must have applause—not in words, but in money. The rattle pf your money into the coffers of the Liberty Bond salesman is the sort of applause they need and merit. Then they say, “If they fall short, Mr. President, call on utf for the balance.” . . Do you grasp what that means? Already they- are giving their blood, their time, their very lives, in the cause of democracy. They place their all on the glittering new altar of freedom, and STILL THEY OFFER MORE. , AH they ask of YOU is a little sacrifice so that you can furnish money for the loan of which your government will PAY YOU VERY GOOD INTEREST. “We like our pay, but if we HAVE TO we can go without, they go on. . . Does that sting your conscience? Does that make you feel cheap.” ' ’ . . You aa-fp from bullets and German atrocities. You can go to sleep without fear of death for you and untold horrors for your families. ■ Your business is prospering. You are getting a good salary'. You are happy. The sun shines and the birds sing for you. Did it ever occur to you that the reason for all this serenity and safety was because of the great sacrifice of those boys over there? , If it came to a question of your money or your life, with a settlement in the next ten minutes, there could be little doubt which you would hand over, and with a smile. The situation is just as serious for boys of your own kind in France. Why not loan your money and save them when they are to save you? BUY AT.T, THE BONDS YOU CAN TODAY. Read this. Think over it. Ponder it well, and figure out that the money you are holding from these boys who are giving their all is tainted money—tainted by the blood o£ our own boys. You are a MISER, a SLACKER and DESERTER if yen ean and will not buy Liberty Bonds now and buy until it hurts. * Jasper County Telephone Co.