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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.
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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
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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 &
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? ties ana VErf Wl ^ IPr. \
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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?
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