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Show I YOUR PART IN THE NEW NATIONAL LOAN H; Jail Hy William Hard In October Metropolitan. . H fll For the good of your own soul remember to mnko a diatinc- L Ml tion between what is patriotism nnd what is not patriotism in l M your subscription to the new national loan. It is very decent B jU of your country, after all, you know, to take your spare money ifig from you for the war and then give it back to you at a future il date and pay you interest on it in the meantime. You have B gl that money at your manifest disposal. And your country I m knows that you have it. And yo'tr country needs it, virtunlly Ml all of it, and the government at Washington will either take it I Jfj from you and give it back or else it will take it from you nnd H 1 1 never give it back. j u wM 1 1 This is a real war. The total annual income of the people of If tho 'United Statos is $'18,000,000,000. The government will B f fj need half of it. People who have money above their wants, H 1 1 people who have spare money, will, in the end, hand it over in B M 1 loans or hand it over in taxes. For many excellent economic H ) A reasons the government wishes to use the method of loans as ll I well na the method of taxes. But if loans fail, taxes will sue-H sue-H li ceed. And taxes, in this age, aro ceasing to fall upon the poor j lljf and beginning to fall with great directness upon tho rich. For H ftlfjj you to put your spare money into the Ionn is not patriotism. i jlj j It is insurance. It ia sense B H IJu; vou wi" wnnt to show patriotism. And you will begin B Hj ' - to show patriotism when you begin to dig down below your BMI spare money into the money that means sacrifice. Think of our European allies. The total annunl Income of all the Euro-pean Euro-pean countries allied with us is only three-quarters of tho total nnnual income of the United States. Yet, out of that three-quarters three-quarters of our annual Income, they have been lending their governments some $15,000,000,000 u year. That has meant sacrifice indeed. Think of the mass of your fellow citizens Seventy per cent of the families of the United States get only a thousand dollars, or less, a year. Yet countless fnmlllos within that 70 per cent will buy n fifty-doll.tr bond or a hundred hun-dred dollnr bond. That will menn real sacrifice. Then think . No. Drop thinking and get up and go to the military training camp nearest your home and look at the long lines of youth brought to the top of the vigor ami tho jov of living to bo fitto face dying. What a loan we should Imvo if every subscription were signed with those boys marching by tho aigner'a desk I Fc who can bear it that in a world made free only by the suffering of millions of people ho should suffer not nt all' Within your opportunity you aro bound to wish to suffer too' In thnt spirit make your subscription. Make it to include money you need. Mnke it to include money you cannot possibly pos-sibly spare. And the feeling thnt will spring up in your heart will be patriotism and more. It will bo your union with tho whole world's sacrifice for the whole world's certain coming liberty. |