Show FINANCE M an I 1 N EASI TERMS government M must have twenty four billions om in a year WILL BE RAISED BY SAVING sixteen cents from each dollar each ono one earns and the nest b by y sell ino ing liberty donds bonds to patriotic 11 citizens citizen M by ST CLA clain I 1 fa the problem of government finances 1 s just na as complicated as we choose to make inako it approached from different angles it can be made ns as baffling as a chinese puzzle or as as tile operation of an old fashioned dat dacher lier churn if one attempts to delve into the of tile tic expansion of currency slid and nil all that hint sort of thing lip to Is very likely to develop stiff nock neck from craning up ill abid down columns ot of figures agures and wind up tip by declaring that figures llo ile horribly on oil the other hand it if lie ie faces tile the situation in a road brond cAt concrete crete way and compares it the problem of t financing tits homo or op some noine similar everyday expenditure lie con grasp and muster master it as lio lie would the handle of the family pu pump aurill rill here Is the governments immediate financial problem leni in n nutshell lit in the next twelve months probably will lq required by lilt th united states government to meet war or expenses the total income of every person in this country Is only about a n year therefore if tho the cost of tile war for the next year were ivero to he be asses assessed seI pro rata every persons share would bo be forty eight cents on every dollar that lie he or bit alic earns coins needed to beat off murderers murderer now let ui ug bring tho the proposition st a little nearer suppose that a band of murderers in blood smeared uniforms of gray having slaughtered their way through the helpless waves of women and children in nearby cities just ns na the alun tins lias done tit in france and belgium Holg tinn established themselves in the woods tit nt tile tho edge of our town with the aed purpose of waging slaughter in ili our midst then it it were announced by the nu authorities thorl that hat it would cost forty eight cents of every dollar that hint every cery earner in our town ineide in tile next twelve months to conduct a defenso defense against the murderer that would be clear it anil and it if tile authorities were to go further anti say aay that they would assess ell cents or of this forty eight on per sont who wild could to pay it and accept tile tho other thirty two front from persons persona who out of their zeal to at aidin the lie defenso of and their homes and I 1 their loved ones would take tho the pro promise nilse of the tha local covern government ment to repay it that would bo be plain too there a bit of difference bo be tween the local case I 1 have described and nd tho the present case of united states government the gifun Is in ili tile oiling offing the government needs un till average of 48 one hundredths of eye ones earning in the tha next year ear to conduct its defense and it plans plaits to raise this ills woney money on a one third tax anti and two thirds bond or stamp sale balo plan pion within tile tho next year approximately will bo bet raised by taxes and liy tho stile sale of government securities must de be crafted rafted by economy T there ht ire la Is tile the situation end and tile question now arises bov in ili tile tho landof land of goshen are arc wo we ever eve r going to raise such euch a sum as 2 tito the Is save as an wv vve never have hao before it will not be to skimp ourselves tor for we have not been used to skimping but wo we simply have to do it that old f 2 re qui rement to Is going to stick to us its like a hurr burr to it a pair of wittens mittens and we must raise ralso it we must practicum the same econ economy oiny to tn dalae tile the money with tile lie alun 31 OM miles away that hat we tic would it lie aro ivare in ill tile 10 I 1 provo grove pill nt at the edge of lie iio may maj vo bo nines away in person but at every bent beat ills lustful heart spans that gap between your our slaughter aji mine and ills fingers n I 1 ent artle etelk etc tor for yolar money and your houi ar ina the question of what ahn each ot of us its on ran can bo be settled only in our nianda and tit nt our own presides sIdes it if the gifun were lit in the alio giove literally would guy any ot 0 us ask pur our alint wo we should sacrifice lit in order to help raise our respective felarca of the forty folly eight cents on tile tho dollar I 1 think not aly notion ii 19 that the question every patriotic american should ash hillis himself telf Is alint blat must I 1 have the ali query willit con n I 1 get along alone without Is in not eno tigh heber gramla story ator apropos kry line ehno tile ho fidei of 0 lavint oc cui to me I 1 think of old iloner orlin grim a ani ncr out ani it 11 io wio w had a habit u joining chur church cli just n as regularly Is 11 revall weeting geeting ahne rolled around ikebe alel cr would get till liet bet up ill I 1 his sins kins find and ulong in the wt last days of fit tile meeting lie would come and snorting down dowil tho the aisle indiola indi oln up ap soni somehow chow though bieber never got around arnuad to making any lit in behalf of all new fund faund religion lie iio al ns ap kept right on chewing tobacco 2 t uke like n mule ill lyer drin drinkins kinc ime ri a ash and worst ot of nil all squander ing lila ills money on loud clothes and other luxuries to such oil an extent taint lie had a cent to 0 o apply to any worthy cause such as ai the tha care caie of his family or the tha upkeep of tile church As a result of Ile berm regularity in black sliding therefore for it dozen doza years or diore aivre the church folks never baptized tint they just sort dort of let him slide along and when immersion jicy city veI lie he us wm out behind lilt lil trotting fiorre at it ft cock ight or nt some soine other 1 scarcely fitted filled for converth condei h binally Vi nally though thou Kli hie file church chuich authorities got tiled fired of fl ebers professions profess silona lons of and their subsequent flat iu ins ing out ind and oien tile the next revival started along lit in the spring and ho hi li begaii Kiin to show signs ot interest tin then advised jilin him that his confession be received only avith the understanding that immersion Immer sIdn should shoud follow lin fill med mediately lately lie thought the lie matter over oer for three datys and then ni rend to join that night and be baptized without delay and sure enough lie h arrived bright find early and when the alie going got good lie joined coined up p tor for the alio thirteenth time baptized him in a flood unfortunately just as the ruee tInZ started A tet rille storm arose and the subsequent cloudburst flooded the country coal creek where the baptizing was to tako place being particularly swollen this situation made the baptizing somewhat dangerous but the lie agreed that it was their only chance to get cleber so utter after church with the ho repentant sinner in ili tow and armed with lanterns they lied filed down to the creek for the baptizing stories dafter As to how cleber just juat As lie ha was waa being immersed escaped lie offic pastors hands some saying ho he wriggled out and others othen mitt gitil in ing that lie he SlIp slipped pod but anyhow lie disappeared in ili the lie darkness daylight found hlin film perched in ft a trop tree a nille down the creek in id the center of it a whirlpool that ewt ni worth morth a il lallo life to attempt to invade blence we had field to glenve hlin him up the tree for until tho the water receded why ha vowed when tile tho rescuing party fiti tilly or nr rived at tile alio base of the tree it was surprised to find cleber mining down plug tobacco drinking liquor dice stickpins stick pins fancy rings and other trinkets nit mi which lie ho had squandered ills money dedal declaring ing loudly alint there wits no sacrifice lie ho would not make in tile future for the good of tile the church tind tile the protection of ills ha soul sold ym nor did ile he descend until lie ho had bad stripped himself of everything that lie he could reasonably spare and a little lilt hit more moio well cleber boggs tile postmaster said after slinking hands with etli him hirn 1 I certainly wits na impressed with your spirit of sacrifice why was it alint that you never did that before why maal lifeber exploded 1 I never was up tip n tree like that before and there you tire arc when before were we as patriotic citizens up ill a treo tree ns as we are this year |