Show AWAKE YE ISRAEL AIS more than a hundred years ago when the united states was yet only the dream of a few ardent lovers of 0 liberty israel putnam was struggling with a team and a plow among the stumps and rocks of 0 a newly cleared new england field up dashed a man on horseback who wildly told the tale of the british raid upon lox ington it was seeding time in the not overly productive new england hills and israel putnam was his own plowman but over and above all else lie he was a patriot he stop to figure the possible cost of his leaving lie he look around for a man to finish the job he stop even to tell the folks at the house over beyond the ridge where lie he was going he left the team standing hitched to the plow and hurried post haste to answer the call of his country liberty was at stake and he was oil off to the rescue liberty is at stake again today your liberty liberty the liberty of half the civilized civilised civili sed world and every aty a rural mail carrier brings the story with all its dread warning to the israel ms but they arent in the field with the plow today storing their 3 wheat and their 2 potatoes and the 2 corn and their 3 onions and all the products of the field that are worth more than they have been since the days of the civil war and better than anyone else they know in their own hearts how well they are responding to the call of liberty outraged oppressed all but throttled it was israel putnam and men of his stamp tillers of the soil the yeomanry of a virgin country that won its freedom in those days of hardship and glorious sacrifice and in this thin day of that selfsame nations great need the traditions of their forefathers will call to them with an appeal that will not fall upon deaf and ui un heeding ears eare loyalty and patriot patrici ism on the farm disappear with the passing of israel putnam when the books are closed today to subscriptions tor for the second liberty loan for 1917 thousands and thousands of farmers of this illustrious nation will have demonstrated their patriotism without having deserted the plow |