The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 20

‘Women and ; FRIDAY, APRIL _26, 1918 By Robert I Every Liberty Bond a Blow at Berlin By Albert Payson Terhune LOT of us seem to think we can settle back in our comfort- able grand stand seats and enjoy the spectacle of this war. We feel we a s safe from personal danger on our grand stand as are the ringside spectators at a prize fight. It is pleasantly exciting to watch the. conflict while the nearest enemy is 3,000 miles away. And that is where we make the most crim- inal mistake of our smug lives. For the enemy is not 3,000 miles away. He is HERE! He is all around you. You are in as much peril from him as are your brothers on the firing line. That is not oratory, but horse sense. He is HERE! Do you doubt that? Then how about these proofs that the Boche is right at your clbow, trying his best to kill you and destroy your property? Almost every week there is a dangerous explosion in some ‘American munition plant. There are mysterious fires at docks where provision ships lie. There are fires in stockyards and grain ¢levators that are storing food for our soldiers. Troop ships and food ships meet with queer disasters. Is that just a series of acci- dents? You know very well it is not. It is the work of German agents here. There are a million proofs that the enemy is away, but that he is HERE! The murderous hand of the Berlin monster rests on this country we love. A Hand is dangerous only when it is guided by a Brain. Do away with the guiding Brain and the Hand becomes at once a powerless scrap of carrion flesh-and-bone. The Brain is in Berlin, Every Liberty bond you buy is a stunning blow at that’ Brain. Strike enough blows of that kind and the Brain will be destroyed— and the murderous Hand with it. If you knew, not 3,000 miles to a certainty, your home was to be entered by burglars to-night, what would you do? You would take out the biggest burglar insurance policy you could get. You would buy a pistol and a savage watchdog. You would spend money lavishly to save yourself and your property. If you knew, to a certainty, that your home was going to catch fire to-night wouldn't you be an idiot if you failed to insure it for every dollar you could raise? Thefi take out the greatest and most necessary insurance policy in all the world, by spending every cent you can scrape together on Liberty bonds! They are your very best insurance policy (as well as the wisest financial investment you can make). The man who tries to “save money” by not buying Liberty bonds is twin brother to the man who “can't afford” to insure his life and his home Crush ‘Prussianiam! By Henry Harmony Children First’ , Edgren “Subscription’ By Samuel M. Williams HE one vital part in war still left to volunteers i T Men are drafted to give their lives requisitioned for sea service; railroad ernment direction; industrial plants are com- mandeered to make munitions and supplies; prices are fixed and food consumption regulated. Everything that goes Into the making of war is subject to arbitrary control by the Goy- ernment, already more or less exercised, except- ing only the supply of money, without w there could be no national defense, no overthrow of German militarism. Yet the dollar is as necessary for ammunition behind the lines as bullets are in the trenches. We heard a year ago, when the Selective Draft law was er consideration in Congress, exuberant assertions and flamboyant pre- dictions about millions of Americans rallying around the flag and forming an unequalled army of freedom if only they were called to volunteer and not forced into the service, There ts a call out now for volunteers in the Liberty Loan Army and the War Saving Stamp Brigade. It is a call for dol | not lives. What is the response? Where are the boastful financial, 1 hips are are taken under Gov- Tas Why You Should Buy ‘Liberty Bonds | EVENING WORLD CARTOONISTS AND SPECIAL WRITERS CONTRIBUTE A “LIBERTY DAY’ PAGE | DEDICATED TO THE SUCCE ESS OF THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. or . . ” ‘Conscription patriots? How fast are the ranting Congressmen and blatant politl- cians and verbose editors filling up the financial ranks with contrl- butions? The volunteer system for the army was discarded at the be ginning of the war, The volunteer financial system was continued, but to-day it is having a crucial test in this Liberty Loan. If sub- scription fails, conscription of wealth is the alternativ A Government that has the power to take the lives of men can even more easily take the wealth of men. A Government that can levy an excess profit on corporations and an income tax on indi- viduals and thus requisition a smalf part of their cash can take more, even all, when, where and how it desires, European nations in years past sneered at money and called America the land of the Almigt resented fiercely the charge. This is the verdict da Possessing the greatest wealth of any nation day and holding on to it with meaner, tighter, stingier grip t! other people, the American public is inviting financial conscription, There are three opportunities offered to the American public: 1—Subscription. 2—Conscription, 3—Destruction, 080. kee love of y Dollar, We a ——— asl Be a Gaia By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | HE woman whose lover, husband, son, is fighting for Liberty | buys Liberty bonds. Having made the supreme sacrifice for her country, it is easy for her to give up the money that is so much cheaper than the happiness she has put away bravely “for the duration of t ar” Be. sides, she knows that her dollars will the bond that may save the life of her man, yman from whose threshold no Ss Liberty bonds because they 1 her to sc If with her patrioti ienc to look eye those proud, yearning wor et ' i ‘ofl ESP who each may fly their service flay The rich woman buys Liberty bonds because, for once, the velvet-lined jewel box that is her existence has stabbed , Wincing at the touch of world-agony, world-menace, her dollars for the service of her country. fhrough word, » she marshals The woman who earns buys Liberty bonds how tiny her income, her self-respect is full-s goes out washing and supports herself and a sev garet on $10 a week bought her bond and one for the only way I can help,’ id simply, she is in the war!” because, no matter 1. A widow who id Mar- RET so proud “and Margaret The woman wit because she asks the and lend America more ib Liberty bor gives her a living t Every woman by yonds because moth ¢ be’ a bondholder in an Ame re must che and a bondw ican world oman in a German Or a Bondwoman “IThe One Scrap of 7 Germany Will Recognize By Sophie Irene Loeb HE other day in passing a Liberty Loan station 1 heard some one say something about the “safety of investment” in the Liberty Loan. The man meant well, but this mercenary view sickengd me. It appalled me to think that this is the way he had to drive home Uncle Sam’s argument for borrowing money to the everyday passerby, The truth is, it is an investment for safety— safety in the soundest sense, What you are doing when you are buying ja®\' a Liberty bond is to loan your money for liberty. a8 ott In a word, it is the loan for your life. What has money value to do with it in comparison? Why talk about the investment when all, all is at stake? | The Government offers two ways of protection—two ways by which you can show patriotism or prove yourself a parasite, The one ts by battling with bullets. The other by way of your bank book, History repeats Itself. He who warmed “The gods are on high Olympus but the Greeks our doors” is crying to you to-day, “The Germans are facing MONEY IS THE WILL RECOGNIZE, ivery dollar turned into the Treasury at Washington is a afeguard against autocracy and a saving of democracy He who hesitates is bossed—bossed by the Boche. Are you an American in name only? Don't prate of patriotism, Either battle for it or b He who does neither is a patriotic parasite. eat ONE SCRAP OP PAPER THAT THEY rome at the Finish IDAY, APRIL 26, 1918 | By Maurice Ketten INEWNORK BELOW (TS QUOTA IN | Protest Against Tyranny! By Helen Rowland EXT to an American uniform, a Liberty bond is the highest and most honorable decoration that your country can be- stow upon you. A Liberty bond is a printed guarantee of your loyalty, your patriotism, your humani- tarianism—and, best of all, of your Common Sense, A Liberty bond is the only investment that you don’t have to lie awake nights worrying over, A Liberty bond is the only sort of “cake” semnee that you can eat and still have—the magic talisman which enables you to spend your money and still KEEP it A Liberty bond is a silver shield, held in YOUR hand, to stop a German bullet and save an American soldier’s life. A Liberty bond is the bandage which will bind up a brave man’s wounds, the anaesthetic that will deaden his pain, the disinfectant that will save him from blood-poisoning. A Liberty bond is YOUR fist held up in protest against tyranny, oppression, barbarism and imperialism. A Liberty bond is a safety vault into which to NOW, so that the Kaiser cannot take it away from you later and use it to pay his war debts and buy his iron crosses. ** A Liberty bond represents the most divinely unselfish and the most wisely selfish investment you can make. Buy Liberty bonds, in the name of altruism, if you like—in the name of democracy, in the name of patriotism, in the name of humanity, in the name of ju in the name of duty—but buy them, above all, in the name of COMMON SENSE! Next to Pacifism the greatest stumbling block to victouy. is PASSIVITY. If you are passive in this put your money crucial moment you are as foolish and as guilty as a pacifist. If you are blind and cannot see what will happen to YOU, if you are indifferent and do not care what may happen to YOU-— Well, then, buy Liberty bonds, anyway. So that when thls war is over you can look into the eyes of every MOTHER whose son will never come back from “over there” and say: “I did MY best to save him!” “‘Buy Liberty Bonds!’’ By Will B. Johnstone VELL, VATT YOU (Q@OiING TO Do. ABOudT IT Liberty Bond Your Fist.