The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 4

aaa NRTA ET Ag SA ENTE Ta ETRE HI | t } | t 1 ESSE E SPEe PEPE PPS PPS ESE PEPE PS PAGE 4 | | ) i j 43 " PS Ps PSPSPS PE Ps PS PSPs PsP Es ss Ps PS PS PS PSPSPS PSPSPS PS PS PE PS Ps Ss PsP PSP PSPSPS PSS PSPSPS PS PREPS: RRR RERERER IS THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918. | eg oe BY REV. J. D. O. POWERS 7 SEATTLE, THIS is your supreme hour in history. You will never have a greater. The eyes, not alone of America, but of the world, are focused upon you; this hour the destinies of the world for good are in your hands. Never a greater opportunity or privilege will be granted you! What Answer Are You Going to Send Out to the Hopes of the World? If I Know You It Will Be Only One. Us by the Liberty Loan Committee. This coming winter and year will witness in all war- ring and war-stricken countries their supreme sacrifice in suffering and death. We cannot imagine the awful- ness of it all. Death from starvation will stalk naked and hideous in all Russia, Poland, Belgium, Rumania, Serbia and Armenia, even if the war should end now. Add to this scourge and pestilence and crime. Some one must care for it all and endgit all, and you and | are the only ones to do it. England has left over 1,000,000 of her noblest sons dead on Flanders fields. France has dyed her soil crim- son with the lifeblood of 2,000,000 of her bravest. What have you andI done? We have not spelled the first let- ter in the word sacrifice as yet. All our billions cannot match the lives of France and Great Britain sacrificed for you and me and the world. Today America has 2,000,000 of our boys on the front, other millions are following. It costs $555 a sec- ond to keep them, $33,000 a minute, $2,000,000 an hour, $48,000,000 a day. A simple barrage to protect them for one hour of battle costs a half million dollars more. Who is to pay all this? You and I, in the great army of reserve behind the army at the front. The boys can- not do it. Every man, woman and child in America belongs to this army of the reserve and we must not fail them. To fail them now with all the money needed would be worse than to send them out at first without arms or ammunition or equipment, for they are now at death grips with the most fiendish foe in human his- tory. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that this loan must “go over the top.” For every dollar of it is to be used to pay for material already contracted for and de- livered. These we must meet like men and then pre- pare for the next two years’ contracts, already placed by our government, to meet all possible contingencies. Nor must it ever be forgotten that you and I, the Let Us Surpass the Quota Set common man and woman, the laboring men and women, must meet our full share of the obligations, duties and privileges. And why should we not? The British Labor party says that the aims of this war, as stated by President Wilson, are the aims of British labor. President Samuel reaffirms this as emphatic- ally for American labor. President Short, of the Wash- ington Federation of Labor, voices the same convic- tion. In a large sense, then, this is labor’s war. It will achieve for the labor world what fifty years of peace would not. Let us, then, be unstinted in our of Liberty Bonds, for every bond spells the doom of autocracy, the triumph of a real democracy, the begin- ning of a new age for us and our children. We register our choice this week between loaning our money to the government getting it back with good interest, or hav- ing the government enact a new tax bill which will immeasur- ably enhance the cost of living. Present taxes fall heavily on the man of large income; but if a new one must be enacted by our failure to “come through,” it will fall with equal severity upon the average man and woman. Mr. Laboring Man and Woman— let us loan our‘money, every dollar we can spare, to the best government on earth in order that the still ‘deadly menace of the Hun” may have “the supreme hell licked out of it” and the earth be made safe for all time. If we fail here the boys “over there” must fail. Ponder the statement of Frank Simonds, Sun- day morning: “It seems inevitable, on the basis of things as they now a , that there will be one more campaign, and a cam- paign likely to make supreme demand alike upon the human, the material and the moral resources of the nations at war.” Let us be ready for it. Failure of this loan means victory for the Hun. Its success means the doom of the kaiser and his friends from the hitherto undreamed-of depths of hell. ~o * 8&® 8 An Armenian lad escaped from the horrors of Hunnish mas- sacre, told me that the stars of the American flag meant to the oppressed of the old world what the stars in the sky meant. The stars in the sky were placed there by God for all the world to look upon and to enjoy. They are to lift and woo and inspire to higher things. The stars in your flag are placed there by for all the world. They are to lift and woo and inspire and lead the world to higher heights than we have yet reached. Each one of our boys in the army and navy is a star in that flag set there by God for a supreme purpose. Each one of the dollars we, in the army of reserve, contribute is a star that shall help to lead the world to loftier things and to a permanent peace. Give Till It Hurts, Then Give Till It Becomes a Joy, Then Give Till It Becomes = a Radiant Star in That Flag Destined to Lead the World. Seattle Must Not Fail! This space has been paid for by the patriotic citizens who subscribed funds for the Fourth Liberty Loan publicity. 2p SWS SSS SSS SSS SSS SS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS \ SSS SSS SSS SSS .