Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Does America Know? (Ruth - Wright Kauffman, special correspondent of The Vigilantes, sends the following appeal from Paris:) DOES AMERICA KNOW— That there is a WAR going on in Europe? That the WASTAGE on the British front alone is 2,000 MEN A DAY? That a present of 100,000 AIRSHIPS to the allies will do no good unless the ENGINES are of the sort THAT CAN BE USED at the front? Thpt when America pends MEN to France, the men must be FED and CLOTHED and given GUNS? That the MAINTENANCE of an army at the front is the maintenance of a city as big as Chicago suddenly dumped in the middle of a desert? ’lhat England has had to build her own DOCKS in northern France to receive her transports? That it’s like offering A LIVE ELEPHANT to a baby to offer to France American troops without maintenance? THAT EVERY DAY THERE ARE FEWER MEN LIVING IN THAT THIN HUMAN WALL WHICH DIVIDES GERMANY FROM NEW YORK? That there REALLY are such things as SHELLS and BOMBS and POISONOUS GAS and LIQUID flame, and that when these things strike you, they HURT 7 That either: \ IT’S UP TO AMERICA TO STRAIN NERVE OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL AND FINISH THIS WAR PROPERLY. Or: . ' • ' IT’S UP TO EVERY WORKINGMAN IN THE UNITED STATES TO HAND OVER SO MUCH PER WEEK OUT OF HIS WAGE FOR THE REST OF HIS NATURAL EXISTENCE INTO GERMANY’S POCKETBOOK, AND PAY FOR THIS WAR PROPERLY. MUST WAR PUT ITS IRON FINGERS ON THE THROAT OF EACH SMALL TOWN OF , THE UNITED STATES BEFORE AMERICA RUBS ITS EYES AND YAWNS AND TRIES—TOO LATE -TO JUMP OUT OF BED?