Show I I r- r r- r Billions Needed ACCIel rr THE iu approach of a German collapse should deter no noone 1 one from buying Liberty bonds In the fir first t place the mo most t optimistic war experts tell us the are arc that our fighting men will need a no great to Teat deal of ammunition and other war supplies yet ct before beCore Germany Ger tier ninny many is down and out But Rut even cn if the fighting fig should cease c. c C lS permanently tomorrow the American and allied governments g would rould need vast ast sums of money mone to keep things thing running smoothly until the armies hn had been musI mustered mus innS out and normal conditions condition had returned 1 If Ic f the Germans laid down their arms tomorrow ninny many months month would elapse before the first of our soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers aiels would be he mustered out In the tIle meantime they would be bc eating and sleeping and wearing out oUti clothes and drawing their pay It H t costs a n great deal to maintain maintain main main- tain taut in in idleness two or 01 three million men a great t c. majority majority ma ma- of oC whom arc three or four thousand mil miles awn away and who must harp h almost everything they use trans trans- ported to them overseas At least ei eighteen months month will elapse e after peace i. i is declared before the last of our fighting fig men arc back in ill America following the pursuits of or pence peace A great deal 0 of the money we arc nrc rai raising ing through the Liberty loans balls is being used to manufacture airplanes air nir- planes and to build up a great gnat merchant fleet Shall we abandon these industries triS when n the tile last shot of the war is fired 1 Indeed not Since our entrance into the war we have o advanced nd hundreds of millions of or dollars to our allies If they continue to hu buy our goods the they will be compelled to borrow borrow borrow bor bor- row from us for a number of months month following the tIle wars war's end The great rent armies of ol men in the munitions factories cannot he be dischar discharged ed immediately following the end of tho the war var Tho They will have hae to be given ginn something something- to do The government o may Inay have Ilave to find wor work for thousands This will take taka more moue money S If Te you JOll have hn an any mon money r at all with which you can possibly buy huy L Libert Liberty rt bonds dont don't on t hesitate to lo buy bUr them because you Oll think Germany is IS defeated In any event Uncle Sam will need the whole whole six billions and then 6 some om C. C te a S SIt If It the kaiser kniser regarded Americas America's 8 entry as a Ii bluff he mu must t look upon the tho present situation as ns a n. showdown Pa J pa nn 1 Perhaps the Germans could mo move faster if it the they did not try D' D to take so much with rith them a p to KS E Everyone cr one is agreed that the kaiser must go o but where will vill he be go gol o |