Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 106, Hammond, Lake County, 23 October 1917 — Page 13

Three Men Who Are

You know what these two young men in uniform are doing. They are offering their lives to preserve this land of ours as the "home of the free." The man in the center is serving his country in business and by buying Liberty Bonds to the limit of his resources. You men and women are not asked to offer your lives. All you're asked to do is to lend your money, and the government pays you for it, four per cent. You have an opportunity to make a good, sure, remunerative investment and its your chance to serve. Buy all the Liberty Bonds you possibly can. It's

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a small thing in comparison with what the men in uniform are doing. They may lose their lives. Nobody can give them their lives back again. The government can't pay them for their lives. Notwithstanding this these heroes bought over $25,000,000 of these bonds in one week. The best way for you to serve is to help oversubscribe the Liberty Bonds by at least two billions. Let's all get together and make this America's second big victory.

This space paid for by the BANK OF WHITING, Whiting, Indiana