Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — FARMERS' AID ASKED [ARTICLE]

FARMERS' AID ASKED

VICTORY LOAN BACKED BY AGRI* CULTURAL BODIES. Appeal to Buy Bonds by National Organizations—Also Asked to Assist In Campaign. Washington, April 11.—An appeal to farmers to buy Victory bonds nnd to assist in every way possible In the loan campaign which starts April 21 was Issued today by heads of 85 leading agri cult urn I organizations, state and national, through the loan publicity bureau. "No finer patriotic service was ever rendered," said the appeal addressed to the farmers of America, “than when the formers of America, short of labor, credit nnd farm supplies, still grew the Increased crops without which we could not have won the war. The more that is known about the war, the more gloriously our farmers’ part In It will shine. “The Victory Liberty loan drive begins April 21, and continues until May 1. We appeal to you. farmers of America, to finish what you havf so well begun. Make this loan ns superb n success as the war crops you have raised. See to It that the farmers lead In putting the Victory loan over the top. “Make your participation In the Victory Liberty lonn, both In money nnd service, the measure of your devotion to the great cause of democracy—the democracy for which many of our boys have made the supreme sacrifice. Let your subscription and your effort be both nn offering and the means by which the world may measure the strength of your patriotism and your determination to see to it that the war shall not have been fought In vain.”