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Show SHALL WE I5E MORE TENDER WITH OUR DOLLARS We on the home front face one of the most personal per-sonal challenges of this war to date. That challenge is whether or not w eare willing to .sacrifice to a sufficient suf-ficient extent to lend our government thirteen billion dollars within the next few weeks. To do the job, you and I, and everyone we know, are going to have to dig down in our sock to dig out gasoline rationing, food rationing, higher taxes and a day a3 v,eii as to take a good hunk out of this month's pay check. This is a job that has to be done. Sure, we on the home front are feeling the pinch of war. We have gasoline rationing, fodo rationing, higher taxes and a lot of other little discomforts. But they are nothing compared with the agonies faced daily by our men-men men-men from this community among them out there on the fieri tine fronts of the world. Yes, we know that this constant demand for more money out of our pockets and out of our paychecks an increasing amount each month is monotononous. But so is sitting in a fox-hole or lying in a slit-trench day after day, slogging through the hell of a humid jungle or that of Sahara sand. Our sons, friends, brothers, husbands and others we know are doing that for us. They are facing something some-thing more terrible than cutting down on a few things that we once thought were essentials to the American standard of living in order to do it, too. As Secretary Morgenthau has said: "Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons?" The Second War Loan is an order to the home front to go on a new offensive. Your dollars are the weapons weap-ons in this attack. They will make possible the passing of the ammunition to those boys up there in the front lines. To win this war is going to cost more and more money and more and more lives. But the price of freedom is high. We can not ; we dare not let our fight-1 ing men down. You can't let George do this for you. You must pitch in with your dollars. Just keep in mind those boys in the front lines. They give their lives you lend your money! Don't wait for someone to come around and ask you to do it. Do it today and do it until you feel worthy of them. |