The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 4

PAGE 4 * “| AM THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918. PUBLIC OPINION” All men fear me! I declare that Uncle Sam shall not go to his knees and beg you to buy his bonds. That is no position for a fighting man. But if you have the money or credit to buy, and do not buy, | will make this No Man’s Land for you! I will judge you not by an allegiance expressed in mere words. I will judge you not by your mad cheers as our boys march away to whatever fate may have in store for them. I will judge you not by the warmth of the tears you may shed over the lists of the dead and the injured that come to us from time to time. I will judge you not by your uncovered head and solemn mien as our maimed in battle return to our shores for loving care. — But, as wise as I am just, I will judge you by the material aid you give to the fighting men who are facing death that you may live and move and have your being in a world made safe. I warn you—don’t talk patriotism over here, unless your money is talking victory there. I Am Public Opinion! As I judge, all men stand or fall! This space paid fi the citizens who patriotically aed intend ee . Your Bank Will Help You to Buy More Bonds O INTO any bank in Seattle and ask for the Lib- erty Loan Department. Maybe you are used to borrowing money at your bank. Maybe you are a depositor at a bank, but have never borrowed money. Maybe you have never been in a bank before. Whatever your experience has been, remember that these are war times, and that banks are a vital part of the nation’s war machinery. The Government needs not only the cash you have in your pocket and in the bank today, but it needs to use today the money you are going to earn tomorrow, next month, and the month after, until the wars won. Here is where the bank comes in. Suppose you have bought all the bonds you can for cash, and you want to buy more. You go into any bank or trust company in this city, sign an application _ for as many bonds as you think you can pay for during the next six months. The bank will then buy the bonds for you. You will own them, and the Government will pay 414 per cent interest on all bonds you apply for. EVERY BANK IN SEATTLE IS PLEDGED to assist clients in purchasing Liberty Bonds and to make loans freely on bonds subscribed through them, in order that each possible subscriber, even though without funds now available, may make an adequate subscription. Such loans will not restrict the subscrib- er’s regular line of credit. After you have borrowed to buy your bonds, the Gcvernment asks you to save to pay off the loan as soon as you can, so as to be free to buy more bonds and to release for other war uses the money which the bank has tied up in purchasing the bonds for you. When you have paid off your loan, the bank turns over your bonds to you, and you have not only com- pleted your substantial service to the Government in helping’to back up our men in France, but you have also taken another step toward personal independence, based on the safest security in the world. ELAS