Show I HERE IS MEAN MEANING INC I OF OF LIBERTY BOND BOr D J Buying It t I Is Merely Lending I Money to Yourself for I jv L a j jf 1 f 1 h j t Great Necessity 1 i Ji u. u US U.S. S. S GOVERNMENT MEANS f S USi US i Stupendous Amounts Are Needed Needed to I 6 4 Pay for Work and M Materials So 1 Our Time Old-Time Extravagances Extravagance I I Must Be Dropped i i Dy Cy y JOHN PALMER PALMED GAVIT CAVIT 1 S x One of the good results that will wUl accrue acerie ac nc ac- ac I. I erie crue to the American people from their 7 1 participation in the the war is a n better 1 understanding of the purpose and function of money Also they will vIII willmore more fully tUlly appreciate their relation to the government and the fact that It Is t their government as as much theirs as J their homes and farms and factories For purposes of poetry and sentiment it Is well enough to talk about Uncle Sam your ur devotion to him your willingness will will- l to lend to him by the purchase of f bonds War Savings Certificates and j ft Thrift Stamps and to give your own life and the lives of your sons on the r. r actual fighting front but you must not j lose sight of ot the fact that after all the ther United States Un Uncle Sam U. U S. S r le y Sf t t Our Country and so on whatever on-whatever whatever poetic phrase we use to represent the nation n In its united action and aspiration aspi aspi- t r ration Is ration Is Just US ourselves In our own proper persons working and sav say I Ing and applying appling our joint strength for ourselves our children and our children's childrens chilt chil chil- t drens dren's children V Too much have we thought of the t i-t government the nation nat Uncle Sam and so on as something separate from fromi J i ourselves something to which we give giveand giveand and lend eagerly or willingly or grudgingly or under compulsion as the I case may be We have had too little littles s of the practice of team work for a e great common purpose purpose our our own pur pur- pose The Liberty Bond campaigns furs furi furnish fur fur- s i nish occasion for for- reminding ourselves that It Is our country ourselves In our that is Ig in inthe A 1 organized capacity eng engaged ged the war var to abolish a autocracy that Uncle Sam Is us In common determination determination de de- de termination to do and give all of ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves to an nn enterprise as thoroughly worth while ts the American Revolution t tion lion or the war to preserve the Union and free the slaves And one of the ways in which we can participate directly di ill- and actively In this enterprise Is Isto Isto to turn our money money all all of It that Is not absolutely and h hOnestly nestly necessary to the essential purposes of living and keeping well and efficient for the other things we have to do to help along th the enterprise over enterprise over to ourselves In out our organized capacity that Is to the the ther N r government for the work of the war wari i which It Is conducting for us I Money Useful Only for Exchange t Money Is nothing in Itself just Itself just pac paper paper pa pa- c per and metal It Is useless unless somebody else will accept It in exchange exi ex ex- ex- ex change for something he has or orsome something something some some- i thing he can do The measure of its t 4 value to you Is the oth oth r fellows fellow's need of the materials or the labor which It itc t. t c will in turn command for him Spending Spend Spend- ing lg mon money money ey is the the wa way we we have of getting getting get get- r J j ting from other people the things they i have or or oi the work they can do Goods do Goods c T and Services Our responsibility therefore lies In the question of the too kind of things for which we choose to exchange money and the time and andi i circumstances In which we exert that i cl choice V Now we have been a very wasteful and extravagant people we have not nott t thought much about the effect upon ourselves and other people and upon i the Ule nation as ns a whole o of the ways way In fn Ini i which we e spent our money or the time tima k and circumstances In which we spent It But the war Is compelling us to think about that Not even the greatest greatest great great- I est eat nation or or the most powerful government government gov gov- or the shrewdest financiers cnn make ml something out out of nothing And wh when n war the most ravenous kind of waste and extravagance that mankind mankind man man- kind has devised comes along to take workers out of Industry and of off th the farms and to turn them from production linn tion to power high consumption and n destruction no no matter If It- the ultimate purpose of the war var be quite w worth v rth Its cost In life lite and there property simply are not material and labor enough in th country to permit both the con contin- contin tin vance of the old kinds of expenditure awl aud the taking on of the new Why We Must Do Without For the purposes of the war the government of th States must t ha have stupendous amounts of materials and work ork and there Is n not t enough of these to give the government what it iti i r must have and at the same time allow till the people cople generally to have as much material and work for tor their private f as they tIley have In ordinary ary times I Therefore we must to he the greatest ri po possible ihle extent keep out of the market for and labor so as 1 to ke keep tup p from makin making other folks sell Mil us things and work for tor us ua Instead of ot for tor forthe forthe the government and so 80 o that 2 the tha things and the work that would be put Into products and efforts for tor our personal personal per per- use and enjoyment shall be compelled compelled com corn to turn to the kinds of products products products prod prod- and work that the government must have to win the war Every dollar dollar doltar dol dol- lar tar every cent that we spend for something that we could go without competes In the market with the government gov gov- and by just so muc Impedes the big cause Even If we saved d the money mOnty and buried burled It ft in the back yard we should be helping the government But there Is a better thing to do with It The government must have money In Immense Im mt mense nse amounts In order to buy ma- ma and work And we are asked to lend It to the government for that purpose in addition to what we pay payas payas payas as taxes tate Bonds Are More Th Than n Receipts The Liberty bonds are the receipts which th the government gives us for this loan lonn But Rut they are more than receipts re re- we wc get receipts for the taxes A Liberty bond Is not only the governments government's gov governments governments acknowledgement that you have loaned the money it Is Its promIse promise prom prom- ise Iso to pay it back upon a certain day duy and to pay you in the meanwhile at certain Intervals for the use of th the money All of the resources of the country in materials and the labor of the people our people our own good faith toward toward to to- ward each other our permanence as a civilized nation nation are are pledged to the payment of principal and interest in strict accordance with the terms o othe of ot the transaction as printed on each bond There Is not a safer or more valuable piece of paper in the world world- When this war ar Is over there will be only two kinds of folks in the United States those States those who did cUd all they could and gave all they could and those who Among those who didn't willbe will willbe willbe be the ones who tried to keep on using and enjoying things and the work of other people as they used to do those who failed to do their utmost in the way WilY of really useful work vork and those who demanded for themselves unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary essary things and lab labor r which might have been used for the purposes of the government In winning the war All You Can Is the Measure Every man knows In his heart what he can do and whether he Is doing Itlie it itHe He lie may be able to deceive the government govern govern- ment meat by mouthed loud-mouthed professions of patriotism saluting the flag cheering at meetings and other noisy and conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous con con- displays he lie may deceive his neighbors but he cannot fool himself lie He knows whether he has done all he could I And all he could honestly could honestly on the level every man the judge of his own effort In the squarest kind of dealing with his own soul in a kind of ot Judgment day that day that Is the measure He Is a poor creature who thinks of the Liberty bond solely as an Investment Invest Invest- ment a meat a grudging gift to his country with a string on It But no one need be ashamed to lend to the govern govern- ment Uncle Sam will take what he needs without money return In the form of taxes and and we shall pay In willIngly willingly willingly will will- cheerfully We are doing loing a work for the future the future the world will be cleaner and better to live In for all all all' time by reason of what we are doing no nov therefore It is right that a part if f tills this burden should be met by those I who rho will come after us and reap the time long-time b benefits In the finest spirit our young men are going to the battle front to offer their utmost their very flesh and blood In unutterable toil toll and agony In doing what must be done there They hope to come back but they are willIng willIng will will- Ing to die there If that must be And thousands of our best are doing doing- Just that In like unswerving spirit we who stay at home must do our part part going going without things and making those we ve have serve to the utmost utmost and and through i I this self denial furnishing to the government gov gay your your government government which which Is taking care of our boys the means eans to get the enormous amounts of materials and labor Jabor needed to take care of them and to equip them for what they have to do Thu Is the meaning of the Liberty b bond |