Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — The Great American Dollar Has a Great American Heart [ARTICLE]

The Great American Dollar Has a Great American Heart

WILLIAM GERARD CHAPMAN.

I AM the Great American Dollar. I was born of Toil and Sweat and sired by Human Endeavor. Treasured and trained by Thrift, I grew powerful and competent to perform for my masters the duties of a willing servant Apprenticed to Industry, I earned wages that repaid my sponsors for their care and self denial. They loved me— not for myself alone, but for 'what 1 accomplished for human good, for by tireless labor • I smoothed the paths of their lives and the fruits of my energy made sweetej their days. A Sudden Awakening. In piping times of peace 1 grew self complacent, and, forgetting the Spartan character of my upbringing, became more and more the slave of Luxury. Then suddenly came an awakening. The forces of Good entered into conflict with the Legions of Evil, and battle raged upon the .earth. The ( Land of the Free, where I bad my be-

ing, entered the great tight that Right might triumph, and Men and Dollars were marshaled to combat the enemy. I chanced to be of those that lingered behind. for I was the mainstay of my masters, but one day the call of the wounded in a far country was heard by them, and they sent me to where the coffers-ef compassion waited to receive me. There by the alchemy of human sympathy I was transmuted into instruments of aid and relief and healing. Beneath the banner of white bearing a blood red cross I fought the good fight against pain and disease and death that the heroes who fell in the great war of Humanity against the Hun might be comforted and given new life. Comfort for the Wounded. Now, on the thundering battle line in my new identity I minister to the wounded, "bringing them Vom blood soaked rampart* to bed* » comfort.

giving ease .to maimed bodies, relief to limbs writhing in torture, cooling drafts to parched throats. And under my beneficent ministrations the sons of my masters are rescued from agony, the hero youth of the la»d are restored, or the last hours of the wounded to death robbed of the grisly horror of neglect. The flower of our young manhood go in ever growing hordes to right the world’s wrongs. New legions of the Great American Dollar must be marshaled to equip the army that follows —the Red Cross Army that wages its splendid fight against pain and death behind the battle lines. Enlist your dollars to fight under the Red Cross banner, you who would staunch the wounds of those who battle to bring peace and safety to you and yours and your <iiome land—and to the world; For thus is the Great Anwtcan Dollar ennobled*