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il$ls? ~ RniTIIU'Q RMI uiiiimiiu uiL.L Ooct of War to America Nol Ntarly Iqual to What English AUy Must Pay. Twenty-oa? moaths oI cm war witl Census cost the Unite* states ?*>, 351,000,0m, the treasary department calculates. Huge munitions aad othei contracts hare been cancelled. Man ufactorara are now presenting theii bills and receiving payments for ma twrials delivered monthe ago in the heat of the struggle. Included in the enormous total ol 436,356,000,000 is the sum of $7,876, 000,000 loaned to the Allies. When wc began lending to the Allies, the gov eminent contemplated turning ovei | to them about 1500,000,000 a month but actual loans oramarriy ran arounu $380,000,060 monthly. Of the total war bill abowt $18,000, 000,000 has been raised so far by the Liberty Loans. The fact that we have not covered our war debt is the rea son for the Victory Liberty Loan. Ir other words we haven't paid for the job. The coat of the war to Great Brit ain was $40,640,000,000. Germany is out $38,750,000,000 exclusive of indem nities the Allies may impose. FiiisI IIRFRTY IFfiS kl Villi f feBfeiW Limbs Blown Off by Shell, But This Hail Continues to Trip Light, Fantastic Toe to Jau Aocompaniment. 1 Lillard Evans is a colored seMier boy who had both legs blown eff Id action. He lives for the pre?at at Letterman General Hospital aft flE Presidio in San Franctoe* Jfc and does dance fox trots and one steps. How? Why? Of coarse to dance a fox trot or a one-step a fellow has to have legs? good legs. Well, Evans has them? not his own legs of flesh and bone, but his own willow legs with Joints and everything. He is going to leave Letterman pretty soon and go back to work and make his living and prob ably get married and raise children. That's the how. The why of it is?the government of the United States has gone in for leg and arm making. It is giving a specially built leg or arm or hand 01 a pair of legs or arms or hands to ev ery soldier who lost his legs or arms in the war. At Letterman in particu lar they are making Liberty legs and arms and hands in their own work shop. They are making them because they hare hit upon a better artificial limb than some manufacturers were turning out This is one phase of the reconstruc tion work that Uncle Sam is quietly ? ? t* ia aha nf tha pt< carryiug uu. n. im uu? v. ? pensive, bnt it is costing hundreds ol thousands of dollars. Remember thai when Uncle Sam comes a-knocking a* your door with the Victory Libertj Loan. Much of the money you will lend is going to regenerate these men who gave of their flesh and blooc for their country. \\ SAVING BEATS EARNING: i % . TOO BAD ESAU DIDN'T i | LIVE TO ENJOY IT ALL. j < 2 ) J If Esau and Jacob who lived J < some six thousand years ago, 1 2 were still alive, and if Esau had J T earned $10 every day, and kmi | % saved it all, he would httVO | ^ $21,900,000. On the other hand, j i > if Jacob had deposited $1 at 1 J J | per cent, interest, compounded | < every 100 years, be would have j today $576,460,752,303,423,488. J < > Can anyone figure out how J 4 \ much Jacob would have had had <j < he purchased one $5 War Sav- 5 < ing Stamp then, which paya in- <j < | terest at the rate of 4 per cent., A i > compounded four times every J 11 year? There is an idea in all 3 % this: How much would every 1 x child have if its parents should 4 |> start it out with a $5 stamp, and 5 x then encourage the younf6ters ^ || to save! ^ Liberty Loan Levity I Let the nation go dry, said Bi! Clancy, WW was fond ot his drink?ylala o Carney. Twice the price of a round Makes a payment, I've fonnd, On a bond?and there's no rew wit - Nuej. ^,j . I WHAT TIME IS IT-? Tick-tock? , It isn't much of a clock u clocks go. Just an ordinary, everyday affair, such a one mu on the wall .of almost > any office. Perhaps you'd never glance u?> at it unless you happened to be late for 1 Bach eon. It hangs In the counting-room of one j of the biggest banks in New York, and there's nothing unusual about it 1 except that it was pat up the same ' day ao Austrian princeling got himt self killed at Sarajevo?and started ' the war. It used to keep pretty good time. After ws got into the war and got '' to going good, some one put a little ! red sign across the face of it so that whenever you looked up to see what [ time it was you saw the little .sign - staring at you impertinently p ? "TIME TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS." Tick-tock? That clock was ticking off the mint uteo when the guns were booming I j along the Somme and while the Crown Prince was battering vainly. . at the gates of Verdun. It was tick, ing when the Lu! >bti' s i t a n i a went down ? when 1 /Si. Bernstor^ went iW.JLy \ / I back ? when Pershing went __ i i -_J orer. It was tickrWf^k. y y when there 1wasn't an Ame?i'yUnBHjgW can soldier the Western r<i||^K1i ^r?nt'anc^ when > m| 1 there were two million, with more on the way. It was ticking | '1 that day four months ago when the German Ar mistice Commis1 lfw aioner took out * his fountain pen 1 and signed his name on the dotted ! line?ticking at the rate of $555 a second. Tick-tock? $565. 8ixty seconds make a minute?sixty minutes make an hour?$50,000,000 a day. f&Bk ti5B? MM e> 1 ' ^T'i & ".tr%w^rT osc 1 signed. Quick! Some one! Stop the clock! Well, some one did. That day of our first Peace Celebration when we all went crazy and ' tore loese, some wag in the bank did 1 stop the clock. Took out the pendu! lum and tied a big piece of black 1 crepe on the clock itself. And everybody laughed and yelled their heads off?because the war was oyer. That was the end of it The war ; was oyer?the clock was stopped and everything. Well?almost everytnrag. Other cloclcs still went on ticking? at $555 a second! They're still ticki ing. Not at $555, to be sure?but it will run far into millions before next 1 June. We still hare a Job to finish. We t still have war-bills to Bay. And AmerI 'cans always pay their bills. ! We still have an array at the bridgeheads of the Rhine, and we've got to . keep it there for a while?if we're gor ing to get a real peace in place of an . armistice. ; And then there are the soldiers to t bring back and the wounded to care for and the crippled to make over and r jobs to find?before our job is finish I ed?before we can turn an our ener gies to making plows and automobiles I again. It's going to take money. And we're got to raise it Tkafs part of k our job?yours and mine and the peol pie's next door. | The bank with the clock cant do it t ?all the banks in the country can't do j it?if we are going to go ahead after> ward making plows and automobiles J and opening up new mines and plant> ing more wheat fields. } We're got to have CTedit, if we are i s* t&K sp > bWrtti.uo mmimm. fi?' W -3?? jpT' > credit, if the banks hare all their } money tied up in Liberty Loans. | Whenever one thinks of the pros> perity and happiness we can have in > this country, if we make good use of > the opportunities that lie just ahead. } he should think of that clock in the ) | bank with its streamer of crepe and |j its little red sign: >! And of the millions of other clocks | i that were ticking off the minutes dur? ing the war just as that clock in the | bank did and?well? [ Tick-tock? L Those clocks are still ticking. > There's another liberty loan coming. ? Tick-tock? What time will it be by your clock ! next month when the Victory Liberty j Bonds are offered? I# THIS KIND OF SPIRIT WON | THE WAR. The following letter has been X received by the War Loan Or- f ganization at Richmond, Va., X a frem Mr. A. W. Hall, manager $> f of the Sykeeville (Md.) Herald. 1 a Who could ask mere? 4 < "The Herald wDl so to the % 11 <> War Loan Organization without 7 ^ charge. Moreover, we invite f o yea to use its columns la any J r T way you see lit for the Vtetery & i^JJZJSSLSSLSt ? ties ana VErf Wl ^ IPr. \ jj ^ Please accept the free eopy. ^ . M<MHMMM<MMMMM< METHODISTS CHANGE DATE CAMPAIGN FOR *35,000,000 IN M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, CENTENARY DRIVE WILL BE HELP MAY 1&-25. The data for the Methodist Cea ( nary iuikucuu cftupaicu dm vusugou from April 27-May 4 to Ma? 18-86, official announcement of which la being made throughout the length and breadth of Methodism today. Several weeks ago it was found necessary to change the April date in order not to interfere|Wlth the Government plans for the forthcoming Victory Loan Drive. The selection of another date has been held in abeyance pending the decision from Washington which wan forwarded headquarters of the M. B Church, South, recently. The change in this date is of wide import to all Methodists who are, at this time, lining up plans of definite action regarding their part as Individ uals in the campaign. Dr. W. B. Beauchamp, Secretary of the Centenary Commission, stated today that he and other Centenary workers at headquar ters have, through Secretary Carter Glass, pledged the loyal support of all Southern Methodists to the govern ment at this crucial hour and that in setting May 18-25 as a date for the Centenary drive, he knows he will have the immediate and hearty cooperation of all conference secretaries, directors, field representatives and all workers connected with the campaign. The Methodist Centenary financial campaign is the largest religious cam palgn undertaken In the history of the world- One hundred and fifteen million dollars is the goal set?Southern Methodists pledging themselves to raise thirty-five million of that sum. chiMery IMPORTANT ROLE f PRACTICALLY ONE HUNDRED AND SITTY THOUSAND COOLIE8 MNT TO FRANCE. What optimist a generation ago would have thought that backward China would have a hand in the settlement of a world -war? But China is having a very important role in the great war that is just being brought to a close. Not as noldiera?fighting men?but as laborers behind the front line trenches. And just so many al! ?'! t.AAi>o hiva W* ralMnaH for UOU uwyo UBT? uw? * ... other dutiea. Practically one hundred and fifty thousand of these coolies have been transported by way of the Suet to France. This work has' been done under the direction of the British Government and Church Missionaries. Among these missionaries are many of i the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, | which is just finishing the details of I Its campaign May 18-36 to secure $35,000,000 tw further work of the kind that is being done in France and other places BANBIN6 TOGETHER TO SPREAD 60SPEL Nashville, Tenn.?Oae hundred and forty thousand Southern Methodists have signified their determination to pray for the success of the missionary work of the M. E. Church, South, and for the spread of Christianity throughout the world. These people have not I" ? An tkli Sir# haTA hand. UU1/ UW1WVU VV uv VMiW, wuv ed together in a league knowa as the Fellowship of Intercession each signing a small card which it is thought will make the cause for which they pray more definite in the minds of the signers of the cards. Dr. S. A. Neblett, secretary of the | Department of Intercession of the de- j nomination, stated to a reporter that j the way in which the prayer cards j were coming in was an inspiration j Mm tm thousand to five thousand ' in the mail every j morning, the number of 140,000 representing the complete total up to date. FIVE HUNDRED WOMEN WANTED Nashville, Tenn.?Five hundred young women are wanted at once by j the Women's Missionary Council of the M. E. Church, South. They are wanted for services and missionaries of the church in both the home and foreign fields and the best type of womanhood is asked for.. Women to whom the desire to serve has come very keenly, women wnom me spiru u?, the hour has gripped earnestly, this is I the type with whom the church wishes j to make connection for various forms j of missionary endeavor. The particular forms of missionary I work open to the young women of ! the South are in the medical, evange-l listlc and educational departments inj the mission fields. One hundred and fifty are wanted as evangelists andj deaconesses; two hundred and fifty are wanted as teachers and one hundred ire wanted as doctors and nurses. The call has particularly gone out for young women of college education in order that they may be able to grasp quickly the leadership in the work which the church needs. The calling of these young women is made possible through the Centenary of the church which is being obJ *hp A fund of 136.000. Iaoi *cu buio /vw. .. T-.,000 vtU be raised soon, mad tklf igV Wlkft possible tbe senitn* I e? mac? missionaries to Africa, Japaa, I China, Brazil, Mexio?, Cuba* Kw? | ' aarf in the tea* (tol4. Phi] ..' f ili M TRUE Spring Is a matter depending ownership the weave; right, look right and a have secured true val But our apparel go my, because of long manship. You will n outer apparel to the t These essentials co women's apparel. spun^^ I Watcl ADul 4 O'Npi IV A 1VI I On The! 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