Show HOW FARM FOLKS WAR little stones from real life illustrating how they back up uncle sam LIBERTY BONDS encourage saving habit in those who never saved before great criel demands the best from all of ue by HERBERT myrick Preal dAit ot the national farm power group 0 agricultural papera did you read that item in the news papers the other day of a onetime one time distinguished and prosperous citizen of chicago who died suddenly in the hospital unknown alone unloved he was an old man a victim of ad verity forgotten by the acquaintances of his prosperity the authorities were about to consign the body to the pot field when they found in his pock et a liberty bond for 50 and a certificate of a fraternal lodge to which he had once belonged that society was notified and gave him a christian burial the undertaker and cemetery accepting the bond in payment for coffin and lot jamie we salute youl A good man and true Is jamie bliss age five years who lives with mamma and papa on a farm near eau claere wig jamie had heard air the discus slon about liberty bonds and thrift stamps and not set being established in business for himself was puzzled a little to enow how such a little boy could have a part in this great un der taking at the same time he learned how sorely our fighting men need wool and the great idea came to him consulting anyone jamie started about the farm harvesting from hedges and wire fences the little wisps of wool left there as his father s sheep pastured As a result of his expedition jamie came into the house with his pockets and inside of his waist bulging with wool mamma miss was somewhat astonished when he explained that he was gathering wool to sell so he could buy thrift stamps but being a wise mother she aaa the point quickly since then honorable bumie wool estherer eat herer to uncle sam makes dally ex curs lons into the sheep pasture al ready his wool has purchased two S savings stamps and a good start tow ard another one this folks Is something which was not taught out of a book but it Is a sample of the patriotic citizenship now growing up ready to stand at the helm a few decades hence becoming a bondholder among my friends tor years Is a bard working farmer with wife and several children he never seemed to quite get there though he work ed hard he just lacked the knack of getting a bit ahead daring the past year he seemed to have prospered I 1 saw him last week he said its this way I 1 50 for a liberty bond last year and simply had to pay for it I 1 did so by paying in every dollar I 1 could spare instead of spending money for things we could just af well do without it Is curious how one lates it they go at it that way 1 I see now that one reason why I 1 acter saved aay money was because I 1 dian didn t have anything like this to take my cash a little at a lime I 1 used to think that I 1 would begin saving when I 1 had my bills paid and 25 to the good bu I 1 have discovered at this ladd date that the wa to do it Is to save a little at n time and put it by as you get it I 1 have been surprised to find that the same Is true of so many other farmers especially renters hat they have put into the liberty bond la money that would have slipped through their fingers they w have nothing to show for it whereas now they have got a bond earning good interest while their money Is helping to lick the kaiser my first bond 1 now paid in full and I 1 am beginning to save up my subscription to the fourth liberty bond this reminds roe of till another case where the bos and girls have earned and saved along with thear parents until their subscription for each of the three liberty loans are now paid up they did not see how they could raise the money for their first subscription but their second was double that and the third was still larger the oldest boy was taken by the draft which made the family all the more determined the mother Is saving her egg money each of the children lias a bit of a garden from which they are selling stuff one of the girls Is a member of the pig club and the oldest bo still at home has quarter of an acre of onions that promises a splendid crop the father Is lia nesting a heavy crop of wheat end insi spring nude up his to devote not less than one third ot the proceeds to alie war this one family is planning to subscribe for the fourth liberty loan and it all goes well will be able to pay down nearly half the amount A horde of huns at your door you know what they would do to you and your women a fate far than death you know how huns have laid bare the countryside alicy have conquered no animal or plant al lowed to survive even trees and vines alt off close to the ground blural homes demolished barns burned leu know how the bodies the farmers ot belgium poland the ukraine words cannot depict th horror of it to prevent the same thing happen ing right here to yon and your family to your own community stat and nation that la what our boys are fighting tor over there it Is a question of right over might 1 shall liberty be destroyed by slavery this Is the question the war Is to an awer for you and me and for genera alons yet unborn this final struggle for the survival of the fittest among humans demands every ounce of our energy every cent of our money men and worn en are patriotically devoting some or all of their time without money and without price to help Uncle Sam win a victory others are giving produce or money to the good cause millions of our healthiest young men the very seed of the race are sacrificing their lives that you and I 1 and others may live in peace the very least that each of us can do now Is to lend our money to uncle sam so that he will have the funds with which to fight the war Is costing the only way the government can get the money Is to borrow it from the people or tax it out of them the more the public lends to the government the less taxes it will have to pay you can help in this crisis by subscribing to the fourth liberty loan thee government bonds are the safest investment on earth they are absolutely good they yield good interest you can get your interest money twice a year it you have to use your prin cipal you can sell your bond ute or you can use it as security at the bank to borrow for temporary wants the latter Is the better way because it doean doesn t help the government any tor you to sell your bond or for somebody else to buy your bond get your bond direct from the government then your money goes direct to the government and will be used bi it to pay the wages of soldiers and sailors and to furnish the ships and munitions with which they shall win the victory buet do our beat it la up to each ot us to do not our bit but our best its fe question of life or death simplify economize go without things so that the effort time thought and money thus saved may be transmuted into the that shall enable the american flag to fly over berlin a symbol of the new civilization which Is to insure peace through victory in our rural homes on our farms in the trenches in other branches of service in subscriptions to the liberty bonds and V ar stands our american farmers have repeatedly gone over the top their efforts their patriotism their loyalty have been universally recognized now in this fourth liberty loan eur rural folks will show the sam generous confidence in the eternal principles of human liberty and of self government that were cham cloned by those middlesex farmers their flags to april breeze unfurled who fired the shot heard round the world |