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, J LIBERTY LOAN I * I ALPHABET i Ky \V. F. O'DOXXELL. * ?'or AMERICA, Land of the \ w Free? warding our freedom for \ou and for me. ~'i i> for BONDS we must Buy and still Buy? Wo can Buy more if we only ' will try. re] cei ^ is for CASH?just a little Vi ^ today, lie Then smali installments the mc balance will pay. soi i 1 | is for DIG?in your pockets J 4 \ ' Dig Deep? j An Hollar on Dollar will make j th< a great heap. j of '"7 ' - for EVERYONE pulling i mc together? 1 sta I ? you stay out you will show the white feather. 17 r- i'or FRANCE, on whose soil ^ we must fight, ^ s With men and with money, ^ 1 for freedom and right. ^ ! frn ! """ ' ^ is for GIVE while you won't ai\' miss the Giving? "Robbed of jour Freedom, ^.n would life be worth living? I fir j wa ~ T is- for HONOR, for which our ! a. Slii 1 sirrs fought? j Your bit and inv bit will ?eep ! ^liat they bought. . ^ Oh - i- Tor TXTEREST paid on the j "P Loan- | '"a Never a better Investment i ; was known. j r is for JOIN with the patriots ! a ^ J true 1 Who with their money will -*01 see the war through. 1 1 " hoi is for kaiser?thi foe of man- sin -1- kind? an< Whose cruel hands we with . , shackles must bind. ' ^e1 I all T is for LIBERTY, won long j J fi?0? j (G :Slrce money can save it, j what voice will s.ny "No"? j h?! | sru i is for MUST?We Must save ?};? - and Must pay? j Money will win, there is no ! other way. i no i P0: I \ ' is for NERVE?If we have j th< * our full share, i "" We shall raise money enough and to spare. ' foi * is for ONWARD' No time jto * for delay! ! Now is the time! Get your i mz Loan Bond Today! iv^! ? j lav I ^ is for PEACE?You can help j it along? j reJ '\-;y the Price now and it j W1 won't take us long. 1 *rc ! so? \ is for QUITTER, a Queer ! ) C kind of Quack, : P?( Quick with his talk, but in giving Quite slack. a ! i an j is for ROOTERS, child, wox man and man, j na Boosting for Bonds, while j they Buv all they can. j : " ^ 1 is for SERVE, SELF-DENIAL j and SAVE? !tcM fn' Strike with your might, ana tm ? _i _.i? _x:n ! US our r iuk suau mux nwivo.) i | no ^ for TOMORROW. whose sun j i wi^l r.e'er shine? i ", Do it TODAY?Sign your j name 011 the line I l\n i : ab T * iin-ans UNITED?to stand or | js u tofa?- > rnc-le Saru nee<ls you?re- , -v spond tc the call! j ^ | TV \ 7 is for VICTORY, sure to oe * von of When every person his duty v.r has done. I , he i . i !;i _T\r is for ^ All?it is no parlor ! * ' game? i . a < Win it v.~ith more}", or i nn woakeu to shame! li* Xis for XMAS, the season of ^ olifer? ^ # ? Help Santa bring us success ? this year. IS \/ is for YOIT?not for some -i other fellow? co Show that your blood is R<d, re: not streaked with Yellow! in: W rI is for ZENITH, which means as *v the Tip-Top! ca On to the poal! Buy and to . Buv, and don't stop! "c i P1' rf"*/f5k n ?^a T?. *rc!=? UM!M! HI obody Who Has Not Beei Trenches Can 1 ossiblv Misery of War, or Ap ngnters, soiaier writ Hie letter printed below Las beei produced in pamphlet form by tli ltrai Liberty Loan committee fo rginia, and is being given -wide pub ity in the state. It is one of th< ist striking that has come from an; irce. The committee prefaces th ter with these words: 'The following letter from a younj lerican captain to his mother show I spirit, the courage and the resolv our men over there. 'Shall we not (lo our part, when the; >et death smiling? Shall we no nd behind them?" rhis is the message sent homo: France, Dec. 25, 1017. * Darling Mother: ft is all a little hopeless and use s, but here goes again as it i ristmas, and that should bring lack erv now jand then a long-looked letter arrives and then a little jo; d then silence. [ am just back from "out there (1 how good a little French room am e seem once more, and water t sh in. lots' of it, am! clean sheets rl hot food ami greatest of all th ence of a small town. [ have clean clothes once more thine: in them but me and today i ristmas and I should be thankfu' eace on Earth er^od Tvill towards al iiKinu. uuu, wnai :i juive, uui ?um v peace is obliged t-o arrive ani ngs become normal. ")on't mind if I rave in this lotto it-tie. I have so much to tell, so ver; :le I can tell, and in all probabilit; u will never receive it, so here goes. \jjes ago it seems I arrived ove re and hnvo lived about six live ce then. Wo ?0 at breakneck spooi il there will be no let up until th che is whipped, and he is a liar ril to whip. I have seen him i: his majesty, his dirt and filth, hav >n the remnant of his handiwor od help them) heard his hymn o to/ 50011 him on the battle fioh ird his cannon ronr, his machin n sputter, crone through his gra? i*e boon knocked down and cold b ; shells, watched his star-shells tur ? worM preen, have seen him rot o man's land, have seen him in al *sible forms and conditions, and al Migh he is a pood soldier we hav n whipped. lie is a fighter and od one, but he has met a bettor on in he is. T have seen my men afte ir days with no sloop, in mud almos their waist, lousy, a little hungn ry, very tired and in a place no san in would like to be, crack joke en a shell hit a little too far of lgh at death, and wounded, wonde w long it will be before they coul ' ? ?? l.ti- ?> 4- ! > ' AM /1A TH A VA TT I iirjl IU JUL Ul> Jlllll U1IIC ill VI V JL1 II never apprecinte the spirit of on >ops, for wb.it tho Boclic doesn't po; ;s lie can't understand, and the spiri our men is something he will neve ssess. There was an affair on the 13th o certain month (look at your Arm d Xnvy Journal) and be ins: on tli tli of course I was in it. The join 1 has it wrong?things {rot twiste ing from here to America, but i it little affair I saw one man go wit miile on his face into pure death an know it. What the Boehe had ir ided for a hig thing ended in a fare r them. A few, very, very few c whipped hell out. of God know w n.^nv of them. We have got thei lipped, Mother, and they will soo d it. out. Listen, no one who has not l>ec der shell fire can know anvthin fT lioT-n in nr TrVif WUl il V-* t'rt * v. C41: v?vi \.vuv v/i ?? ?*? left of it, I wish you eouM see t. f have seen my company under d for more than a ?lav of incessai ing and I have yet to see one c fin show -any signs of eowardic :ey are afraid, of course; every or afraid a little, hut when the noi? bursting shells was so great that iaid have to lean close and yell 1 heard, they always had a smile an ioke in reply. r hnve told you before that I ai viptain, and my company of 2~0 nip f just the best in the world. The :e me and I idolize them, and v rtainly pull together. God holp tl >ehe when we hit him, for we won l.iva rrivoil Vlim a STnnll SJimn V 1IU ? V/ t." V .? '? - , the meal ho ha.; yet to eat, and 1 going to strangle over it. "War Is Hell." It is hard to write of things yc aj<1 not and cannot understand. Yc :?<] songs about "shot and shell fl; ? " and it sounds pretty to musi hen you actually hear it, it soum I imagine hell feels like. Yc n't" tell about it, you simply ha^ Y<-o\ it. In America the slogan used to 1 Jontiol your anger, pcaeo at an lee." And they wcra in a w* ov uim cdidiitiV m, lilliii MIKllOl 1 in the TPront - Line Trenches Know the Horror and the ipreclate the Heroism of Our es Mother. i right, for it is peace at any price, e even If the price is life, and we are r going to pay millions of lives before - we get it. 0 Here I have written a few pages you Y may never receive, and in thinking 0 over what I have written 1 have said nothing that can give you any real 1 clear idea of what this war is like, a It is made up of a thousand little e details and the master of all is i Courage and Work. pi Work from morn;- the next t morning, and wor1- 1 you don't , know when morr' 'ally comes. T etirmnen if ic Iti il frtr Jill nt , our ancestors foug!: i I like it in spite of the hell of jwii.-e, and Gudden - death, and lingering death, and awful 3 work, and no water, and lice, and raped j women and mangled children, and j +An-nc +1inf vrni-n fjn/1 frirmiTq ti nt WPTP. y and the glorious life to go hack to ! after war. Some way it all seems as if ? I had been through it before. ] : I remember the last letter I started o to writo you about two weeks ago, in ; a dugout nearly forty feet deep, and , e almost at the start a shell hit the J i top, tmade an awful noise, put my candle out, and made me think I had q better inspect our trenches and talk !_ a little to my men, for I felt a litlte I in need of cheering. So I didn't write j e any more, but started to inspect our 3 position, woke up again in my dug- 1 ; out with a little bit of overcoat left, r'a very small and shallow hole in my r shoulder, a few gravel in my face and the hate of hell in my heart for i />_ ."? i.1. . | tiie man who urcu me sum. rj The Trenches. s i I i So it goes. You walk through trendies so black vou skin vour face c v 1 against the walls of it, curse the twistu ed shape of it, and wish to God you a could see something real to fihoot at. ? Sixteen long hours of blackness and * then a twilight twisted in fog and malformed by a hidden sun. Ther. the ' same thing over and over again. NothG ing happens in the day, hell pops '? loose at darkness. When I left the ,r A 1 T ?*?noTWr V.rvainninpr to be ' Irene-lies J. H.io H.?A.?^ o n able to see in the dark. n Mother, when you get this letter I II will be back in the line. When you I- are asleep I am awake (for night is e the time things happen) and when you a are awake so am I, a large part of the e time. Everything works fast here, life, r death, men, artillery, all are at con' i AKJI.H- +lion vm 1 <t Ceri pitca anu ^mij; v-__ can imagine; so if the Boche is lucky e and oi;c of his shells happen to hit '3 me a m I take the long, long sleep, r, you niu.->t not worry a little bit. I r chose this profession and it is the only ;1 one of the mall. If I don't come back o vhen oeace is sounded, just remem r bcr that I met it smiling and tried, and did do all you would want me to it do. ,r ; I have l>eon so fortunate in my ani costors and their fighting abilities, ,f that perhaps it is a little easier on me v than some of the rest. So help them p all you can and know that I am happy somewhere. (-j This, 1 know, from my old rememn 1)ranees of things sounded a little like 1 V..J. ij. I II1USIJ, [)Ul JL I/, Jl (-j I mean and feel. It is not easy to ^ write, but if I could talk to you for a few minutes von would understand, e * ^ you always understood. And now, dearest mother, good night. s It is Christmas and I hope this lotter will reach you. I am still wretched II that when we were together you were not as happy as you should have been, n i ..i. 1 ai.: .* i.?t? ru*T^ uui j?t*ru;i]?s una n muo. ~ Again good 11 i<rht an<l God bless you. . Your loving son. ) , * | 'i Answers Given ig ;o (Continued From First Page.) / on the back of the bond in accordance with directions there given. * Ci Rnniintn i ni'irriiwl ivnnian TviOif* ? to transfer a bond made out in her maiden name? A. She should sign herself "Mary ; Jones, now by marriage Mary Brown." ',t Q. A United States government bond is frequently spoken of as ''best seeu,e rity in the world." Why is this true? lR A. Because the promise to pay a j government bond is backed by the faith and honor of the United States ?u ; of America and by the taxing power ?u ! of tliis whole country, wmcn is tne 1 : i-hcst nation in the world. e . *i How Far Exempt From Taxes. Isj ?u i Q. Are Liberty bonds exempt from .e ' taxation ? A. The bonds are exempt both s.s to )e; principal and interest from all taxes iy j imposed by tho L'nited States, any iy; btate, or any of the possessions of the ?????????????????@ , ? Farmers Assist Loan. ? IH|?= ? ? ~ ~r ? A splendid tribute has been ? 5 YY*{ ? paid to the farmers of New York ^r_~' ? state by William Church Osborn, ~ 7. ? life member of the Xcvr York ? ? ? State Agriculturtl Society. In a ? ? statement to the Liberty Loan ? ?1 ^ ? commitee, Mr. Osborn said: ? ? "The farmers of this state have @ ^ 4Uo4- +V?nrr lryir\rrf O ( ) | w 311UW11 UJUl U1VJ I/11UV M. ? . Jfi? grain of wheat is as good a3 a ? Q{ ? grain of powder and a pound of ? ? pork as good as a pound of lead ? @ to help win the war. Short of ? , ? labor, sliort of cash, short of ? ? seeds, suffering from the discour. ? ||p|ESg? aging weather of 1917, they are ? ? opening the spring campaign of ? ? 1918 full of courage and of ? ? strength. This is particularly ? rj^ ? true of the small farmers, and ? ? my observation has been that ? /JL ? the smaller the farmer the bigger ? ? the heart. Those farmers who ? \ ? made a winning?and ther<* wore ? ? many of them last year?will put ? ? every dollar they can afford into ? y ? the Liberty Loan." ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . Ar United States, or by any local taxing outhoritv, except: ^?_r Ca) Estate or inheritance taxes. ? (b) Graduated additional income tnxes, commonly known as surtaxes and excess profits or war-profits taxes \ now or hereafter imposed by the United States upon the income or \S*j V profits of corporations, individuals, ^ j^iti i ui u^duvjiui luiis. ? | The interest on an amount of bonds " i and certificates, not in excess of $5,- x. B 000 in one ownership, is exempt from the taxes provided for in clause (bj | above. / J | Q. Does this mean fhat the bonds ' ' / ; are free from all local taxation? | A. Yes; the Wal assessor or tax \ | collector cannot assess these bonds as y'j p.)r*onai property. Q. What is the amount of the Third , Ii>.<i+y Loan? A. The secretary of the treasury is k i siting subscriptions f3r ?3,000,000,- Js & 000 and reserves the right to allot ad- ^ Ylyvfic diticnal bonds. ' How to Buy. | Q. How much do "bonds jf th( Third fji&' I Liberty Loan ccit? [ A. From $50 to $100,000, whatever j flicir face value calls fcr. The law : slates that these bonds must bo sold ! at net less than "par"; that is, tlieir j face value?100 cents on the dollar. t|p/: Wjf ! Q. How can i ouy trie oonaa 01 mc y* . Third Liberty Loan? I A. By filling out an application blank and handing it to any bank or \?* trust company, bond dealer or broker, <r/ ^ or to one of the Federal reserve banks, * v7 ^ or to the treasury department at Washington or any authorized solici Q. When can this application lor ^ ; bonils be made? A. At any time from the Cth day of April, 191S, until the sales campaign jldySfo ; Q. In what form must applications to buy a Liberty bond be made? A. On applications furnished you by . tout bank or by an authorized solici- ht/h tor, j Q. Must the full price of bonds be I paid 011 application? . . . Ml j A. ISo; it can be paid for m instal. If I desire to pay for the bonds at i the time I make mv subscription, may il.loso? Pi^if I A. Yes; you fan pay in full for any i* flll'An i bonds you subscribe for. v " / ' Q. If I pay in full for a $50, $100, "" $500, or $1,000 bond, do I receive the bond? ; A. Yes; as soon as it can be shipped \Ea , by the treasury department to the I bank through which you subscribe. * | Q. Do subscribers to Liberty bonds ?;*-i ! receive particular recognition? j A. Yes: each subscriber is given a j badge of honor in the form of an rjfjfk j official button. ^ Q. As a practical matter, will I have i J any difficulty in attending to these de- ^^yr A y A. None at all. Any bank, trust 1 i *>nmrtanv. bond house, or broker will ^ j gladly give you full instructions at i ^ ? 1 any time without charge. IIow Women May Aid. I Q. How may women aid the Lib- ^ i ertv Loan? fcZ&r t A. Fir?t?By the purchase of Lib- ? erty bonds. Second?By helping to fOjSr 1| : sel Liberty bonds to others. -*K.i Q. Can a woman own a Liberty bond ~~ r^nrcnTinl nrooerty? 4 il3 liiri * * * A. A Liberty bond is the personal 1? property of the purchaser or of the person to whom the purchaser may sell or assign it. If it is a regis- " tered bond, the record of its ownership is a matter of governmental reeord. A Liberty bond is therefore the property of the woman who buys it un- [ffir t til she disposes of it. fit |jj ! A regiment of young men?our sol- I I diers iu the making?marclied in Bal- ij | ]. timore with a banner on which was ! i I inscribed, "We have given ourselves; R! fijjtf ; what have you given?" The question -.! jljl is for every one to answer. If you |jj jffl cannot give your blood, at least giv# bread and service. _ . ?