Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 37, Hammond, Lake County, 14 September 1918 — Page 3

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By GEORGE ADE

We ccme to another big tasK. This time we need not call for helpers. The volunteer wcrKers stream in myriad hosts along the main highway leading to victory and patriots, by confession. The grumblers are awed into silence. If the taint of disloyalty remains anywhere it is hidden as a shameful secret The heads are wagging and we hear many bold assurances : "111 do all I can." " I'll go as far as the next fellow." -111 taKe all I can afford to taKe." Ve are speaKing, of course, of the Fourth Liberty Lean and the willingness of the war-bacKers to subscribe. Thi. time we do not explain a Liberty Loan and how it worKs, or why we battle with Germany or that a war costs money. It will just about require a search-warrant to find a man who dees net say that he will taKe all the bends he can "afford " to taKe. But, O my countrymen, we need night schools and correspondence schools, private tutors and chautauquas and special information bureaus to enlighten Mr. A and Mr. B and Mr. C as to the real meaning of the word "afford." Are you penciling around to find cut how much money you can set aside without the slightest inconvenience to any of your pet private projects? Are you trying to decide how many bonds you will have to taKe in . order to escape the charge of being a slacKer?

Are you getting ready to answer in hundreds a country that has endowed you with, thousands? As you squint your eyes and try to decide upon the sum which will fairly represent your individual quota, are you acting as attorney for the United States of America or have you gone in for technicalities in order to protect special interests? In reasoning with your conscience, are you trying to be generous or trying to play safe? It is up to you. The bucK cannot be passed. It is for each man to decide whether he is going to be a thoroughbred or a squeezer of 50-cent pieces. For the saKe of your own self-respect, ccme through to the limit If you live to be a thousand years old you never will have another chance to start your iron dollars upon such a noble missionDo you wish to deepen the wrinKles upon the brows in Potsdam? Would you fortify the courage of every soldier in France? Shall we set in such a stacK that the Kaiser can't see over the top of it? All right! You are appointed a Special Agent Don't wait for a committee to hunt you up or run you down. Hurry to the banK and breaK through the line and order so many Liberty Bonds that the man inside will be dazed and all of the neighbors surprised and all of your relatives proud.

uy Liberty Bonds Wholesale, Not Hetai!

This Space Contributed to Winning the War by Citizens'National Bank Hammond, Ind.

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