Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1918 — WOMEN AND THE LIBERTY LOAN [ARTICLE]

WOMEN AND THE LIBERTY LOAN

By MARION LUCE.

American women are protected from the hardships of the trenches by the courage of the American men. It will never be necessary to recruit an American Battalion of Death —but in the other two branches of war service women can and must take their places. Women are taking men's places In the workshop, the office, even In the fields. Wherever there Is work to do, American women will do it. No other nation has given its women so much — none other deserves so much from them. Women can invest in Liberty bonds. Women can curtail waste and stimulate thrift, and invest in more Liberty bonds. When women save money to Invest in Liberty bonds, they serve doubly, for they release all the labor and the materials that would have been used In manufacturing the things they didn't buy, at the same time aiding their government in continuing America’s holy w ar. Women Must Save and Work. Women, stand beside our fighting boys in spirit! Keep up the morale of our army by unflinching courage and heroic devotion at home. The Third Liberty loan points your duty—the third nation-wide call to universal service—the third sword sharpened for victory in the forge of freedom. America must win—it dares not fail —lt is America, the unconquered, that calls. Women, it is said, spend ninetenths of all the money that is spent. Let every woman scrutinize her family budget. She must do the major part In taking her family’s share of Liberty bonds. Upon th® women of America must rest, in a large measure, success of the Third Liberty loan. To the American Mother. A boy, yours Or your neighbor’s, lies shivering in the trenches "over there." Wet, cold, weary, or, worse yet. on thd stretches of No Man’s Land, wounded, alone, dying. You cannot bear for him one agony; you cannot him life, health or happiness. But if all America does her duty y«ej can give to every American lad who g—-s over the top the glory of hope—the reasonable certainty of victory—the emulation of knowing that he does not die in vain —that America has risen as one to make the world fit for life, fit for home, fit for freedom. ' ■ ■w--Invest in Liberty bonds now. Subscrib* until it hurts. Take what you can outright. and take on the ir.stalln»< nt plan as many as you can stagger under. Remember —it's no longer “do your I it.” but d<> your ail. Hold fast for -