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Show 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 A LETTER TO THE C0UN- o TRY FOLKS FROM I UNCLE SAM I . By HIRAM MOE GREENS. Editor Woman's World. O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.Q.O.O. Dear Nephews and Nieces- Even before you open 'this letter I Know that you will know what it "bout .Some one of you-Lemuel Jones I guess It was-suld the last time I was out to your house for Sunday '"nor. that I hardly ever came around ami almost never wrote, unless it was about money matters. Well, I guess hat Lem is about right, but as the fel-low fel-low said when some one offered him sympathy because he lost a couple of fingers In a corn shredder. "You can't leel any worse about it than T rin " I m sorry that this unfortunate affair af-fair that we are in Is taking s0 much money, nut I'm glad right down to the very bottom of my heart that we can raise the money to see the whole ling through. I know you will raise It but we'll come to that later. The other day I was in New York-ami York-ami I went out to see one of those big transports for soldiers. There were little tugs all around her waiting to get her headed straight into the stream and further down, near the Statue of Liberty some battleships were waiting to convoy the transport. It was an Interesting In-teresting sight. It meant so much. And I couldn't keep my Adam's apple in its place, and there was a kind of a mist before my eyes until through the tears I was trying to hold back. I saw Eb Root's boy, George, looking over the rail on the top deck. The Inst time I had seen him he was cultivating cultivat-ing corn on that ten acre piece down on the state road next to Asa Ilaf-ford's. Ilaf-ford's. Somehow when I saw that boy up there I didn't want to cry. My blood got warm instead of cold and every muscle in my body was as taut as a violin string. My heart .hist swelled in my body. In all my life T never felt so proud and so much like being able to fight, as I did then. And I said to myself. "There goer Eb Root's hoy. George, tie is only one boy tn a million and more that nrv over there now. Rut there are others like him. and the folks back home they will stand back of him. and all. everything, every-thing, that he and his comrades, and Ihe ships and the men and the flag that flies over them stood for," I could not feel and I do not feel now. that the folks back home would waste anything that might help to bring George Root back. I know .inst as well as I know my own name that George Root and the boys like him would not offer themselves as the supreme su-preme sacrifice to our cause, and those for whom they were fighting be small and niggardly about doing their part. During this coming year it will be necessary for us to spend twenty-four billion dollars. It is a tremendous sum. But Is not too much to pay for a world at peace, with us all as free as God Intended we should be. But remember that our total annual income, all of us put together, is only about fifty billion dollars, and so it Is going to take about half of all our income in-come this next year. That means that you must stop all waste. Our waste runs into the millions. You must stop that waste and then you must put this saving with other money you have in Liberty Bonds. It Is the surest, safest Investment you can make. Yon have my personal guarantee and you know I have never failed on anything I have ever attempted, and though I hardly heed to add it I never will fall. Adjust your affairs to meet these new conditions. I know I can depend upon you. Gorge Root and every boy In a U. S. uniform knows that you will do vour part, and so do the mother's sons of Britain. France, Belgium and Italy our allies know you will do your part. Be brave-hearved about it. It is a big thing, n tremendous thing, but it has been the big things, the great sacrifices that have made us a great people and have bulUWl our great nation na-tion that we hope may ise greater still In tile eyes of the worlo and greater still to our God In his heaven. Talk It over. Help each other. I know you will all do your part. I am With love and pride for you nil, Your UNCLE SAM. |