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Show IF AMERICA LOST THIS WAR By HILDEGRADE HAWTHORNE Of the Vigilantes. Have you-, yourself, sat down tc c1: slder soberly what It would nif.-.n i' Germany, and not we, should wi the war? With the war won, she could hoover ho-over us the threat of Invasion and ' know what Invnslon by the rr."' means. But, beaten, we could rvot prevent pre-vent such an Invasion, even thnTi;h '' the long ending we might manse ; drive out the invader, for the cou:itr? Is great. But if we did do this nt to--"picture what the country would be reduced to first. Swrf the war pictures from Franc an B gium and the Invaded portions flf I'-'-'V and you won't require much rfrirt o-the o-the Imagination to vlsttntiw yotr " town or village or peaceful faWF country under the Prussian he?!. If ve, Incapable of resist!"? slon, yielded to the Prussian urn"" ' what would these beT Germany wants much after 'if wasting of four years or cer.r'y i" of war. We should have to ro:-'" her losses by huge Indemnities. would put n staggering burden on of us. We would live under l!ir' a threat from the most hrntid nst the world has over known. V bowed to that threat, and a hrateti ' tion must bow, then the ery T:r;i.', America, all we mean by the worj' ns we Interpret It, would lie wtiri.'';'-Better wtiri.'';'-Better that we ourselves sUmiU and our children with us. The our fathers, the work of " nation, our Individual choncr'r freedom, all ended. The price f ' f erty has been paid by this nation r before. To fail now to fail . j Shall our noble dead have diet! r,(V and wo bow to the oppressor-shall oppressor-shall we bring freedom fully tn ' r-nt r-nt last, and with the soldiers "f great allies see the dawn of , row whose foundations were '- ' , Yorktown and Appomattox. ; whose blood runs In our veins. '' hopes and beliefs are our on- , ,; Think of this when you nre ;;' to buy Liberty bonds or Thrift st- |