Bellefonte, Pa., June 1, 1917.
THE STAR SPANGLEDP BANNER.
Oh! say can you see by the dawn’s early
light,
‘What so proudly we hail’d at the twi-
light’s last gleaming,
‘Whose stripes and bright stars, thro’ the
perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch'd, were so
gallantly streaming;
And the rocket’s red glare,
bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag
was still there!
the bombs
CHORUS. i
Oh. say, does that star spangled banner
yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mist of
the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread si-
lence reposes,
‘What is that which the breeze,
towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half dis-
closes?
Now it catches the gleam on the morn-
ing’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines in the
stream:
CHORUS.
‘Tis the star spangled banner oh,
may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave!
o'er the
long
And where is the band who so vauntingly
swore,
’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s con-
fusion,
A home and a country they'd leave us no
more ?
Their blood has washed out their foul
foot-step’s pollution;
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of
the grave,
CHORUS.
And the star spangled banner in triumph
shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave!
Oh, thus be it ever when free-men shall
stand
Between their loved home and the war's
desolation;
Blest with vic-t'ry and peace,
heav’'n rescued land,
Praise the Power that hath made and pre-
served us a nation,
Then conquer we must, when our cause
it is just,
And this be our motto,
“In God is our trust.”
CHORUS.
And the star spangled banner in triumph
shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave!
may the
What Chemists Can Do in War.
The announcement that George A.
Burrell, chairman of the Pittsburgh
section of the American Chemical so-
ciety, formerly connected with the Bu-
reau of Mines, had returned to the lat-
ter organization to mobilize the Na-
tion’s technical forces against poison
gases raises an interesting question
as to just what services chemists ren-
der in war time. This question is best
answered by referring to the experi-
ence of chemists abroad during the
war. In a late number of the Jour-
nal of Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry, Richard B. Pilcher tells of
the work done by English chemists in
war time. Mr. Pilcher wrote, in part:
“The laboratories of our universi-
ties and colleges have became small
factories for the preparation of drugs
and medicaments, and many institu-
tions have been trusted with the ex-
amination of materials in the manu-
facture of explosives. The measures
taken in this emergency secured uni-
formly in method and the standardi-
zation of processes which would oth-
erwise have been difficult to attain.
Under the supervision of their profes-
sors, students unfit for service with
the colors have been helping the coun-
try, and at the same time gaining
useful experience. Several hundred
chemists have been engaged for as-
sistance in the laboratories and in the
works of Government controlled
establishments supplying armaments,
munitions and other materials of war.
Many of these have found an oppor-
tunity of helping the country through
the registers maintained by the Insti-
tute of Chemistry and other societies
for this purpose. In cases where the
number of men having technical ex-
perience in some branches was limit-
ed, the authorities have made ar-
rangements for probationary train-
ing, so that their services should be
available when required in new facto-
ries.
“In consequence of methods of of-
fense initiated by the enemy, such as
the employment of poisonous gases,
there arose a further demand for men
with training in chemistry for service
in the field. For the duties involved
the authorities deemed it expedient to
enlist men with training rather than
entrust them to men without any sci-
entific knowledge, and the unit thus
formed is a fighting force. With the
assistance of the universities and
technical colleges and the various
bodies interested in chemistry, an en-
tirely new force was brought into ex-
istence. The officers were mainly se-
lected from chemists who already
held commissions, while sergeants and
corporals with knowledge of chemis-
try were transferred from other units.
That they did their work well is
shown by the dispatches of Lord
French and Sir Douglas Haig.
“From the experience gained in the
campaign it is clearly advisable that
the State should have control of such
an organization of professional chem-
ists as to ensure at any time their ef-
ficient service in the many require-
ments of the naval, military and air
forces. In addition to competent
chemical advisers of undoubted stand-
ing, the following appear to be essen-
tial: Chemists to control the manu-
facture of munitions, explosives, met-
als, leather, rubber, oils, gases, food,
drugs; chemists for the analysis of all |
such materials and for research;
chemists on active service, to. assist
in the control of water supplies, in the 3
detection of poison in streams, in the
analysis of water and food, in the dis-
posal of sewage, and in other hygien-
ic matters; chemists, both at home
and in active service, to assist in de-
vising safeguards against enemy con-
trivances of a scientific nature, and
methods of offense to meet the same,
as well as for the instruction of
troops in such matters.
“It has been called a ‘chemists’ war’
and an ‘engineer’s war.” Many regard
it largely as a conflict between the
men of science of the countries engag-
ed. Our chemists have not been dis-
mayed at that, but it is impossible to
foresee to what limits beyond the ac-
cepted tenets the enemy is prepared
to go in the application of science to
warfare, and we cannot reproach our-
selves with having set an example of
frightfulness.
“To sum the matter up, chemists
have met the situation with a spirit
of true patriotism and have been
promptly organized for the service re-
quired of them. It is not too much fo
hope that, as the discoveries of sci-
ence have been applied to the destruc-
tion of humanity, they may be devot-
ed more and more to the furtherance
of the arts of peace, to the uplifting
of civilization, and the pacification of
the world.”
State Forests for Grazing Purposes.
Commissioner of Forestry Robert
S. Conklin, issued instructions to the
foresters and rangers of the Pennsyl-
vania Forest Service covering the use
of the state forests for grazing dur-
ing the period of food shortage. Ow-
ing to the fact that almost 25,000,000
trees have been planted on the state
forests at considerable cost, permis-
sion for general grazing cannot be
granted, and each application must be
treated separately. However, suffi-
cient area remains in the million acre
preserve to provide grazing grounds
for thousands of cattle, and if farmers
take advantage of the Department’s
offer, Pennsylvania’s meat production
can be materially increased within the
next two years. Lo .
Following is the Commissioners
letter of instruction to the foresters:
Applicants for grazing privileges on
the state forests are requested to
make careful note of its provisions
before making application, in order to
avoid unnecessary correspondence and
to lessen office work.
«A rule of the Department has
heretofore prohibited grazing with-
in the state forests except in the case
of milk cows. However, by reason of
the crisis through which we are now
passing, it is expedient and in accord
with Governor Brumbaugh’s desire
that certain of the State lands be
thrown open to grazing.
«You are therefore instructed that
if applications be made to you for
the grazing of cattle, you may select
and set aside such areas where graz-
ing for a limited period may be per-
mitted without serious detriment to
the forest. This would be in places
where there are no plantations, where
good young growth is well out of reach
of the animals, and where their
trampling will do no serious harm.
In the case of scrub oak, brush bar-
rens, and bracken-covered grounds,
it is probable that grazing for a short
period weuld do no damage whatever.
There are other localities where graz-
ing probably could be permitted only
after the area has been fenced, or
where the grazer will supply herders
to keep the cattle within definite
areas. ir
«Under the above conditions and on
the lands so described the Department
will permit grazing. Applications for
this privilege may be made to you
and referred to the Department. Ap-
plications forwarded to the Depart-
ment should be accompanied by a de-
scription of the land to be grazed, and
a report whether in the judgment of
the forester grazing may reasonably
be permitted. Both in the case of
grazing and the cultivation of the
soil, no charge is to be made for the
privilege. The land is free to the
first taker. The privilege of grazing
or cultivating will be construed to be
open until it shall have been modified
by further notice from this office.
«Foresters are instructed to render
all assistance in their power to per-
sons who wish to cultivate land or
graze cattle. If it be decided that for-
mal contract is necessary, the form of
contract will be prepared at this of-
fice. It is probable that nothing more
than a verbal letting may be necessa-
ry. In no case, however, will the
grazor or cultivator be able to ob-
tain any permanent interest in the
land, and the privilege must be sur-
rendered whenever the Department
decides that it no longer may be ex-
ercised.”
(Signed) ROBERT 8S. CONKLIN, .
Commissioner of Forestry.
Women to Work on Land.
London, England.—Women are now
being recruited for the land, under the
terms and conditions which were set
forth by Mr. Prothero at the great
meeting recently held at the Royal
Albert Hall. The terms include board
and lodging during training. One free
outfit (high boots, breeches, two over-
alls and hat.) Wages 18s. per week,
at least (or the wage rate of the dis-
trict, whichever is higher.) Over 1000
training centers have now been organ-
ized throughout the country. In some
cases the women will be housed in
large private houses, which have
been lent, or grouped in hostels, and
trained on surrounding farms. In
some cases houses have been lent by
farmers, who are undertaking train-
ing under the schemes. The welfare
and supervision of the girls both dur-
ing training and after, when they are
actually working on the land, will be
controlled by experienced women,
carefully selected by the local Wom-
en’s War Agricultural committees and
National Service. Thousands of
strong women are required at once to
do men’s work, and all who realize
the national importance of working
to increase the food supply should ap-
ply for terms and conditions to the
nearest postoffice, employment ex-
change, or National Service offices,
where enrollment forms may be ob-
tained.
..~——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
RUSHING WORK ON
BIG FLYING FLEET
To Turn Out 3,500 Machines
This Year.
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een.
COFFIN HEADS THE BOARD
Plans to Send a Constant Stream of |
Trained Aviators to Aid Our Allies.
Six Engineering Schools Have Added |
Aviation to Their, Courses of Instruc- |
tion. :
The Council of National Defense has '
announced the creation of an aircraft
production board, to be headed by!
Howard E. Coffin. !
This step, according to Mr. Coffin, |
marks the completion of plans to turn |
out in American factories about 3,500 |
air machines this year and double the |
output next year. They will include !
both training and battle types. The |
establishment of schools and training |
fields is also planned, with sufficient |
capacity not only to’ man these ma- |
chines, but to supply a constant stream |
of aviators and mechanics to the Amer- |
ican forces in Europe. This means the
education of 6,000 aviators this year.
Under the auspices of six of the na-
tion's leading engineering schools ca-
dets are already under preliminary
training for the American military air
service, and negotiations for three of
the nine training fields now contem-
plated have been approved by the war
department. Their preparation will be-
gin immediately.
Won't Purchase Abroad.
Negotiations on contracts for aero-
planes are under way. and some neces-
sary orders have already been placed. |
The United States will not buy air-
craft abroad.
The aircraft production board will
act in the closest co-operation with the
war and navy departments, especially
with the recently created joint army
and navy board on design and specifi-
cations.
To Urge Co-operation.
The general function of the aircraft
production board, according to Mr. Cof-
fin, will be to bring manufacturers to-
gether and help make their resources
available to the government and assist
in stimulating the production of better
types and greater quantities of air ma-
chines. .
“We have been in constant touch for
weeks with the aircraft manufactur-
ers on the problem of quality produc-
tion of machines,” Mr. Coffin said,
“and the government authorities are
already signing contracts for as many
machines as our present appropriation
permits. The United States can de-
pend on a minimum of 3,500 aircraft
of all types the first year if congress
authorizes us to proceed. The program
we now have in mind would provide
for both training and combat machines.
Engine Chief Problem.
“Only a few American manufactur-
ers are in a position to handle large
contracts, but European orders for
training machines within the last two-
years have helped in some measure to
overcome a tremendous disadvantage
existing at the beginning of the war.
In building battle planes the engine is
the chief problem. American manufac-
turers are now conducting successful
experiments with both new and for-
eign types, and we are confident that
we shall be able to develop within the
year the manufacture of motors of suf-
ficient power and endurance for use at
the front.
“Arrangements have been made with
British and Canadian officers to stand-
ardize the training machine in use in
Great Britain, Canada and the United
States, so that machines can be dis-
tributed impartially and without diff-
culty among the three nations.
Observers Visit Canada.
“The country has made progress in
developing aviators, Last month a
group of army officers visited the
training camp of the royal flying corps
at Borden, Ont., one of the four camps
established in Canada, and the avia-
tion school at Toronto, where cadets
are trained under military discipline
for the service. In these schools there
has been incorporated the latest Euro-
pean experience in the development of
this new art of the air. ;
“Qur officers were deeply impressed
with their observations, and as a re-
sult we called together here the heads
of six prominent engineering schools,
which also have military training, and
made. plans to establish a similar sys-
tem in the United States. The six in-
stitutions are the Universities of Cali-
fornia, Texas, Illinois and Ohio, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
Cornell university. Three technical in-
structors from each of these places
were sent to Toronto. They returned
on May 8, after a comprehensive study
of the course given there, prepared to
teach it themselves. On May 10 these
six engineering schools opened similar
cadet aviation schools at their respec-
{ive Institutions.”
Got a Puncture and Lost.
A Roselle (N. 1.) father told two sons
the one who got to recruiting station
three miles away first could enlist.
They raced on bicycles until one got a
puncture and lost.
Another Spring Drive.
War on mustaches begun by Hobo-
ken health department, and city em-
ployees are asked to set a good exam.
ple by sacrificing theirs first.
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FOR WARFARE IN TRENCHES
Baseball Leagues, With “World's
Series” Will Be a Feature
of Camp Diversions.
A practical method of national serv-
ball players. physical instructors and |
athletes generally can aid the govern-
ment with their special skill and!
the committee on training camp activi-
ties, recently appointed by Secretary
Baker, with Raymond B. Fosdick as:
chairman.
After study of Canadian and British
army training systems Mr. Fosdick has
: found that all athletic sports and even |
children’s games have a distinct place |
in military work and give the soldier |
the iron muscles he needs in the hand
to hand fighting of trench warfare.
Baseball will be the feature of the
efforts of the committee. Extensive
organization of divisional leagues and
championship competitions that prob- |
ably will include a world's series will |
be encouraged by the committee and |
supported by officers in command of |
the camps. Similar organization for |
other sports will be perfected, but |
American national armies are expected |
to give their greatest allegiance to the |
American national pastime. |
Men of national reputation as ball
players or athletic trainers will be as. |
signed to each camp to instruct and |
aid the soldier players. °
Another feature of the recreational |
programs will be bayonet competitions.
There is a grim purpose back of this. |
The fields in France have seen the |
greatest use ever made of cold steel. |
and it is vital that the American sol- !
diers be at least the equals in skill
and strength of their German oppon-
ents when they meet. The committee |
develop personal interest
among the men in proficiency in bayo-
net exercises through employing it as
a sport befitting soldiers.
Singing also will be encouraged
among the troops. Already theatrical
concerns are volunteering their aid in
providing amusement for the men.
Motion picture films also will be em-
ployed. The troops will be kept in
touch in this way with the work of
other camps and with conditions among
American or other forces at the fight-
ing front.
FLAG ON OUR AEROPLANES.
Secretary Daniels Adopts Emblem Like
One Now In Use In France.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
issued a general order prescribing the
official insignia to be shown henceforth
on all airplanes, dirigibles and bal-
loons of the United States navy. It is
understood Secretary of War Baker
soon will issue a similar order pre-
scribing the same insignia for army air
craft.
The emblem, to be displayed on each
wing of an airplane—on the upper sur-
face of the upper wing and the lower
surface of the lower wing of biplanes
and triplanes—consists of a five point-
ed white star inside a blue circular
field, with a red circle in the center of
the star. |
A similar emblem was adopted a
month ago by the aviators of the
American escadrille, serving as volun-
teers with the French army, their em-
blem, however, being a blue star in a
white field, with a red circle around it.
The tails of American airplanes are
to be painted in three broad vertical
bands, red, white and blue, reading
from aft forward.
ALL UNDER SIXTY MUST WORK
West Virginia Will Tolerate No Loaf-
ers, However Wealthy.
Every ablebodied citizen of West
Virginia between the ages of sixteen
and sixty must work at least thirty-
six hours a week under a law passed
by both houses of the legislature.
The measure includes persons hav-
ing incomes and no specified employ-
ment. It is to become operative in
thirty days. The penalty for violation
jg forced employment by counties or
municipalities. The bill was urged by
Governor Cornwell as a war measure.
SAVE BOTTLES AND CANS.
Old Receptacles Suitable For Putting
Up Winter Food.
Housewives are urged to save bottles,
especially wide necked ones, to be used
for preserving, in a bulletin issued by
the United States department of agri-
culture. The department points out
that there threatens to be a serious
shortage of regular jars and preserving
cans next fall. Fruits and jams when
sealed with corks or paraffin can be
kept perfectly in bottles. Fruit juices
may also be packed in small necked
bottles.
Specialists of the department are urg-
ing canning clubs and housewives not
only to can preducts, but to dry fruits
as well. Nothing, they advise, should
be canned that can be preserved other-
wise. The bulletin says: ‘
“Candy containers or other glass jars
with screw tops or glass stoppers and,
in fact, any receptacle of giass, crock-
ery or porcelain can be sealed with
cork or paper and paraffin.
“Large tin canisters or tin cans with
removable covers, provided the body
of the container is air and water tight,
will be found useful in canning certain
food products. Such containers can be
sterilized and their covers hermetically
sealed in place with solder or wax.”
SPORTS TO HARDEN MEN ©
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman”.
ema aaa~AAAansA~E
Oddities In the News
3
Indiana man has pensioned goose
that retired after twenty-one years of
usefulness.
Chinese regiment, using sticks for
guns, drills regularly at Columbus,
N. M., and is eager to fight Germany.
Butch, a fox terrier, grabbed hand of
| pickpocket before he could get it out of
pocket of dog's owner at San Antonio.
After a few days’ rest a Jersey po-
liceman who tried to break up a United
States soldiers’ recruiting meeting will
be able to return to work.
Didn’t know he had a wooden leg, al-
though she had sat on fiance’s knee for
three years, Pittsburgh girl testified in
breach of promise suit.
Overalls for housework have been
| adopted by women of Racine, Wis.
Shaving may be prohibited in Paris
because of a shortage of soap.
Weighing machine, once instrument
of amusement, has become a daily ne-
cessity in Germany because people lose
so much weight under war rations.
Sugar so scarce iv Paris the ladies
are carrying it in new fad jeweled
boxes holding two lumps.
Indiana woman found in potato note
from farmer saying he had sold at 69
i cents a bushel and asking purchaser
to write him how much was paid. She
had given $4 a bushel.
USE MORE CORN AND LESS
WHEAT AND SAVE MONEY
Department of Agriculture Says
Everybody Should Adopt
Wheatless Days.
“Begin today to eat more cornmeal
and hominy grits in place of wheat
flour and wheat breakfast foods,” is
the message the United States depart-
ment of agriculture is sending out
broadcast to housewives. “Try a
wheatless breakfast tomorrow and
then extend the wheatless idea to oth-
er days or meals,” the dietary spe-
cialists suggest.
Corn, a great natural breadstuff of
this countiy, the department's special-
ists point out, has not been used for
human food nearly as much as its
valuable nutritive qualities warrant.
This is due largely to the fact that
many persons with a wheat using
habit never have taken the: pains to
learn to use corn. There is no im-
portant dietetic difference between
corn and wheat as sources of body
fuel.
To those who wish to try wheatless
meals the department suggests the fol-
lowing for a wheatless breakfast or
dinner:
As a substitute for wheat breakfast
foods try white or yellow cornmeal or
hominy grits, served with cream and
sugar, butter, sirup or fresh or dried
fruit.
As a substitute for wheat biscuits,
rolls or toast the housewife can em-
ploy a dozen different forms of corn
bread, such as hoe cake, dodgers, soft
or spoon corn bread, hominy bread,
cornmeal and rye Boston brown bread,
Zuni Indian bread, ete.
Fried cornmeal mush, fried hominy
or cornmeal pancakes made with very
little wheat flour will be found a pleas-
ing variation from wheat cakes.
Cornmeal codfish cakes, cornmeal
scrapple, cornmeal croquettes, corn-
meal or hominy cooked with meat.
figs, cheese, eggs or milk, will sup-
ply nourishing dishes for the hearty
courses.
Hominy grits and coarse hominy
(sometimes called samp) may be boiled
and used like macaroni or other wheat
pastes to serve as side dishes with
meat. 1
For dessert Indian pudding. corn:
meal and fig or apple pudding, apple
dumplings, cornmeal doughnuts, gin-
gerbread, cake, fruit gems, etc., will
contribute variety as well as nourish-
ment to the bill of fare.
The housewife who wishes to sub-
stitute corn for some but not all of
the wheat flour can make excellent
raised or light bread pancakes. waf-
fles, muffins, rolls, graham tour, indian
bread, ete.
Wheat, rice, rye, barley, oats, corn
and potatoes are largely intercnange-
able as sources of starch in the diet.
NEW SERVICE UNIFORMS.
Army Will Get a New Style if Plans Do
Not Go Astray.
Uncle Sam’s army officers may wear
a new service uniform if a style now
being considered by the war depart-
ment is approved. The uniform is the
one to be worn by the officers who will
accompany the Root commission to
Russia.
The coat or tunic resembles closely
that worn by British officers visiting
this country. Instead of the present
collar, which fits tightly about the neck.
the new collar talls over =mith lapels,
and stripes to designate the service
branch of the officer will be suspended
from the lapels. It was explained that
the new uniform will give the officers
more “swagger.” |
The uniforms worn to Russia will be
of a cloth heavier than khaki and re-
sembling wool. They will be olive drab
and will have trench belts.
SOMEFACTSABOUT
THE LIBERTY LOAN
Faith, Honor and Total Re-
sources of Nation Back Them.
PR
BONDS ARE NONTAXABLE
There Are Two Kinds, One Payable to
the Bearer and the Registered Bonds.
It Is a Patriotic Service That Every
One Should Render to the Nation,
Government Officials Say.
A liberty loan bond is a solemn prom-
ise of the United States to pay at ma-
turity the amount of the bond to the
holder thereof and to pay interest semi-
annually each year from the date of
the issuance of the bond until it is
fully and finally paid.
The faith and honor of the United
States, backed by all of the resources
of the nation and the American peo-
ple, are the security. A liberty loan
bond is a mortgage on all the resources
and taxing powers of the government
and all of the resources of the Amer-
ican people.
There are two kinds of liberty loan
bonds. Bearer bonds are to be issued
in denominations of $50, $100, $500 and
$1,000. These bearer bonds, which are
made payable to bearer, have interest
coupons attached, which are detached
by the holder when the interest in-
stallments they represent are due and
can be cashed at any bank the same
as a United States treasury note.
Registered bonds are to be issued,
which are registered as to both prin-
cipal and interest, in denominations of
$100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,-
000 and $100,000. Checks for the amount
of interest due will be mailed out semi-
annually to the holders of these regis-
tered bonds.
Terms of a Liberty Loan Bond.
Liberty loan bonds of the first issue
of $2,000,000,000 are to bear date.of
June 15, 1917, and to run for thirty
years, except that the government re-
serves the right to pay them fifteen
years after date. If this right is not
exercised by the government fifteen
years from date the bonds will run the
full thirty years. :
These bonds bear interest at 31% per
cent per annum, and the interest is
payable semiannually, on the 15th day
of December and the 15th day of June
in each year.
One especial advantage no other
bonds, national, state, municipal or
corporate, have is that if the United
States during the continuance of this
war shall issue other bonds at a high-
er rate of interest the holders of these
bonds have the right to exchange their
liberty bonds for bonds bearing the
higher rate of interest, dollar for dollar.
They are nontaxable. If your city,
county and state taxes are 3 mills on
the dollar, a not unusual tax, these
bonds are equivalent to ordinary cor-
porate bonds or other investments
bearing 6% per cent.
In addition, no federal tax which
war conditions may later make neces-
sary will affect these bonds. The only
tax these bonds are subject to is the
inheritance tax, which applies to all
property of all kinds whatsoever.
How Are Liberty Bonds Obtained?
Blank forms of application for the
purchase of these bonds can be obtain-
ed from the treasury department, any
Federal Reserve bank, any national,
state or private bank, any express of-
fice and any postoffice in the United
States. Any bank or postmaster will
aid applicant in filling out his blank
and the other acts necessary to obtain
these bonds.
It is not necessary to advertise these
bonds to sell the whole issue, but it is
earnestly desired that this loan shall
be a popular loan, a loan by and from
the people at large of the ¥nited States
and not alone from banks, trust com-
panies and financiers. To that end
bonds are to be issued of small denom-
inations, and subscribers for small
amounts are to be supplied before the
subscribers for large amounts are
granted their full subscription.
Every American who subscribes to
the justice of the course of the United
States in entering and conducting the
war we are now engaged in should
subscribe to the liberty loan bond
issue to the extent of his or her finan-
cial ability.
Every American who subscribes tc
the belief that an American should
stand by his or her country should sub-
scribe to the liberty loan bond issue.
Every American who loves America
and is jealous of America's honor
should subscribe to the liberty loan
bond issue. The real success of the
loan is to be more determined by the
number of Americans participating in
it than by the amount subscribed. The
spirit of the nation is going to be judg:
ed abroad, especially by our enemies
more by the number of its American
men and women who support this bond
issue than by the mere amount of
money subscribed.
The $5,000,000,000 bond issue of this
year is named “the liberty loan oi
1917” because it is to be a loan from a
free people to be used in freeing the
world.
It is the loan of a liberty loving peo:
ple to be devoted to the establishment
of liberty in Europe and on the high
seas. .
It is the loan of the great democracy
of the new world to redress the wrongs
spa support the cause of the democ:
racy of the old.
“
So