The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1917, Page 9

fy’ _ THE EVENING WORLD, Borrow MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 192% ° and Buy > The Time for Argument Has Passed. The Time for Action Has Arrived HE present business of the United States is war. We are in it to the last dollar, tothe last drop of blood, and we are prepared to fight it out on these lines. But whenever we can spend dollars instead of spending lives then we shall spend dollars— billions of them. We shall furnish the Government with these dollars—if not through voluntary subscription to bonds, then through higher taxes. If a man hesitates over an act which will save the life of your son you do not argue with him. It is not our heritage from the ages that we should argue and equivocate when human lives are hanging in the bal- ance. When the choice is clear and sharp between lending money to the Government and permitting one unnecessary life to be lost by our soldiers—when it is bonds or blood—when it is a simple financial arrange- ment at home or human agony on the fields of France— will any American hesitate ? We must not talk in terms of investment when we should be talking in terms of human life. The only possible question left to-day is how most effectively to act? The answer is clear. It is to borrow and buy. This is not finance. It is patriotism. Let us not mince words. Letus not temporize. Let us mobilize the magnificent machinery of the banks of America into the war-service of our Government in the most tremendous crisis in its history. Every man in the United States with a bank account must go to his bank, borrow all he can, and buy Government Bonds. Every bank must be ready and willing to lend. DELAY COSTS BLOOD-—THE BLOOD OF OUR OWN SONS THE UNDERSIGNED BANKS PLEDGE THEMSELVES to make loans on the 4% Government Bonds at the same rate of interest paid to you by the Government. line of credit. AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK ATLANTIC NATIONAL BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK BANK OF AMERICA BANK OF CUBA IN NEW YORK BANK OF THE MANHATTAN CO. BANK OF NEW YORK NATIONAL BANKING ASSN. BANK OF UNITED STATES BANK OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS BANKERS TRUST CO BATTERY PARK NATIONAL BAN’. BROADWAY CENTRAL BANK BROADWAY TRUST CO, EMPIRE TRUST CO. GREENWICH BANK COSMOPOLITAN BANK EQUITABLE TRUST CO. FARMERS LOAN & TRUST CO. FIDELITY TRUST CO. FIRST NATIONAL BANK FULTON TRUST CO. OF N. Y. GARFIELD NATIONAL BANK GERMAN AMERICAN BANK GERMAN EXCHANGE BANK GOTHAM NATIONAL BANK Such loans will not interfere with any borrower’s regular We urge every bank in the United States to do likewise. MERCHANTS’ NATIONAT RANK METROPOLITAN BANK METROPOLITAN TRUST CO, MUTUAL BANK NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE IN N. Y, NATIONAL BUTCHERS & DROVERS BANK NATIONAL CITY BANK NATIONAL PARK BANK + NEMETH, JOHN NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE BANK NEW YORK TRUST CO. PACIFIC BANK BRONX NATIONAL BANK BRYANT PARK BANK CENTRAL TRUST CO, OF NEW YORK CHASE NATIONAL BANK CHATHAM & PHOENIX NATIONAL BANK °° we fox? CHELSEA EXCHANGE BANK CHEMICAL NATIONAL BANK CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK COAL & IRON NATIONAL BANK COLONIAL BANK COLUMBIA TRUST CO. COMMERCIAL TRUST CO. CORN EXCHANGE BANK, GUARANTY SECURITIES CORPORATION GUARANTY TRUST CO, OF N, Y. HANOVER NATIONAL BANK HUDSON TRUST CO, IMPORTERS & TRADERS NATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION IRVING NATIONAL BANK LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK LINCOLN TRUST CO MARKET & FULTON NATIONAL BANK MECHANICS & METALS NATIONAL BANK PEOPLES BANK PUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK SCANDINAVIAN TRUST CO, SEABOARD NATIONAL BANK SECOND NATIONAL BANK SHERMAN NATIONAL BANK TITLE GUARANTEE & TRUST CO, TRANSATLANTIC TRUST CO, TWENTY-THIRD WARD BANK UNION EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK U. 8, MORTGAGE & TRUST CO, UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK ‘