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We Must Furnish the Spade —2uy sunaay By REV. WILLIAM A. SUNDAY Uncle Sam’s Liberty war chest needs filling thousand - headed, thousand-horned, thousand-fanged pirate again! of the air, assassin of the seas, despoiler of the earth and ame fill j P bassador of Hell! “ RP ala nig hem 8 a The army and navy will dig the grave, but ers we must furnish the spade. There are only two horns to this dilemma— : d you are cither a patriot or a traitor. Our boys will soon hang crape on the door of : sal . the Potsdam Palace, and the bands will play Yankee-Doodle +s «he men onthe firing ane and on the bettie. and Dixie along the Rhine. ships have turned from business, home, mother, wife, chil- ¢ F ee sd dren, and they stand ready to give sheir lives and shield with Uncle Sam is the cactus in the Kaiser’s pillow. their bodies us who remain at Roche. Our Boys have gone over to clean up on that We are unworthy to be thus protected, if we do not do our utmost to sustain them. We must be one in our determination to win this war. We are traitors to the cause for which they are iving their lives, if we do things here that make their efforts er. » ., Life is not worth living unless there is some- thing.to live for. Life would not be worth living if that bunch o Heinies should win. fool bunch of Huns and it is up to us to supply them with whatever they need to finish the job. It takes money to keep the riveters riveting—the sawyers sawing—the machine guns spitting bullets | the grub wagon always on hand with the eats. There is nothing too good for our brave defenders. Our vocabulary contains no words adequate to express our approval of the achievements of our govern- ment since we threw our hat in the ring. We are rich on top of the ground; we are rich under the ground and our rivers creep like silver serpents to the seas, bearing.our products. | That is why they cannot win. That is why we cannot lose. What a mountain of crime God has on his books against that horde of Hellish Huns. What grave is deep enough for this thousand-armed, thousand - footed, The children of England, France, Italy and Belgium are laughin once more because they are being fed from Uncle Sam’s bakeshop. One carload of meat every two minutes, one hog out of every four, nine million pounds of meat a day—all going over to feed our boys. We are in this scrap to the last dollar, the last grain of wheat, the last day. We will never stop until Germany dips her dirty blood-stained rag to the Stars and Stripes. It’s a whale of a job we've tackled, but we can and must put it over. But you must help. Don't whine. Don’t knock. You can’t saw wood with a hammer. Don’t turn the hose on the fire; add fuel. Buy Bonds! Buy Bonds! This Advertisement Contributed Through the Patriotic Co-operation of Real Estate Dealers of Seattle. Buy Bonds! W. J. MARVIN Boston Block G. KINNEAR CO. White Bldg. ALBERT B. LORD Seaboard Bldg. M’GRAW, KITTINGER & CASE Colman Bldg. H. S. TURNER Pioneer Bldg. DAVID P. EASTMAN STURTEVANT & CO. 1024 Third Ave. Boston Block WEST & WHEELER Marion Bldg. . JOHN DAVIS & CO. 807 Second Ave. LIBERTY LAND CO. 1010 Third Ave. HENRY C. EWING CO. Alaska Bldg. A. V. WILLIAMS New York Block M. R. WOOD Stuart Bldg. FRANK BUTY & CO., Inc. 507 Jackson St. BEND PARK CO. Hoge Bldg. C. 0. QUALHEIM Boston Blk. W. J. BELL, Inc. Globe Bide. CARTER MacDONALD & ap te gy aga 208 Columbia St. 1002 Third Ave. J. H. JAHN & CO. NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CO. Eitel Bldg. New York Blk. GEO. W. HILL & CO. H. E. NELSON 7300 E. Green Lake Boulevard Seaboard Bldg. A. H. REID & CO. 314 New York Bldg.