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Anyone wishing information Published Under Anspieea about the thii 1 Liberty Loan not Prepared tLftd Printed by of contained in this Supplement, Publicity Committee ? may receive it quickly by ad- TTT]? \TT?\!i7Q T TT A XTf&Lj^rr dressing the Publicity Committee, XXaJlv 1 iII/yYO JL^-LVj Central Liberty Loan Committee ^ IV Centra) Liberty Luan Committee, For Fifth ^.strict, 1016 East Main Street, Rich- XTn mond Va. Kicnmona, VcL Richmond, \irgiiua. Answers Can Be Q. "What is the Third Liberty Loan? A. It is a loan of money by the people of the United States to their govern menr. Q. Why docs the United States government borrow money? A. Becausee vre are forced to defend ourselves against the attacks on American honor and American rights by the Gorman government, ami therefore must have money to equip and maintain our army and navy. We need money also in order to lend to those nations with whom we are making pniTiwon cause in this war. Q. Are not the ordinary receipts of our government from taxes, etc., sufficient to do this? A. No; the ordinary receipts of the government are about one and a quarter billion dollars a year, while our expenses of the war are estimated at one billion dollars per month. Q. How is the government going to raise thi3 large amount of money? A. By borrowing from the people and by taxes. What Is a Government Bond? Q. "When I lend my money to the BUY LIBERTY BONOS TO PROTECT OUR OWN HOMES | Editor Says Little Comforts for Loved Ones Are Useless if Big Danger Remains. Tn a war book written about the engagements around Malines and Cam penfiout appears tms incident: A child of two came into the street as eight drunken soldiers were marching by. A man in the second file stepped aside and drove his bayonet into the child's stomach. He lifted the child into the air on his bayonet and carried it away, he and his companions still singinsr. The child screamed when the soldier struck it with his bayonet, but not afterwards. Cnmmpittirtor rmnn tViA ~ ~ ? - ? o ",,v *"v,*?.v, Bruce Barton, editor of Every Week, writes: "I do not often aslc you to read unpleasant paragraphs. I do it nnw "because. when it comes to writing about Liberty bonds, I feel like throwing aside all the fine words and telling you the whole truth as it appeals to me. "And the truth is that I am not buy ins: a nickels worth of bonds to give Trieste to Italv or one single addrtl r-nlnrtv tn "KnrrlnriA r?r A l?r>r*r>-T nr [mine to Franco. "I buy Liberty bonds because there Is a two-year-old boy in my home ? as there was in that nameless home in Malines. "And because?so small has the world become?Malines is onlv just across the street from where T live. "Prices are high. It is hard these days for a man with even a pood income to buy food and clothcs for his family. L The Great Necessity. "But I ask myself over and over again, what good to my youngsters tf |P are food and clothes, if the spirit that fired Malines comes out of this war unrebukedf "What sort of parents are you and I if we fake care ot me minor manors, such as food and clothes, and send our children out into a world where children mny still be "bayoneted and women ruthlessly slain? "So long as they who bayoneted the child of Malinos go singing through the streets of Belgium, there must be Liberty bonds. "So I on g as the terror that stalked through Oampenhout continues to hang over my house, there must be Liberty bonds. "I do not know how it may bo with you; but, with mo, this Third Liberty Loan cuts down through the luxuries into what we used to think were necessities in our household. "And we make the sacrifice gladly, for tho sake of the great necessity. Given to A Asked Co United States government, what do \ get in reir.rni ; A. Von trot a promissory note given I by tho United States government and : bearing interest. This note is called | a "bond." Q. What, then, is a "United States government bond? A. It is the direct and nnconrlition* j nl nr.->Tii!?,-? nf Oir? TTn:fpi^ RfnffS of A:nprica tr pay upon a certain date a specified sum of money in jrold, together Tvitli interest at a specific rate, J payable at specific dates until the j ! bond matures, or is called for re-| demption. Q. In what form is this promise? | A. It is engraved upon a sheet of ! distinctive paper used only for the money and securities of the United States, and is executed by the secretary of the treasury and by the regis trar of the treasury and sealed with ' the treasury department seal, by acts of congress. i Q. Do I have to hold my bond until! the date it is due before I get my i money back? ) A. No; you can sell your bond any time you desire. There is always ' a ready market lor United states gov-, ernment bonds. Q. How can such a sale be made? ! A. Any bank, trust company, re- j liable bond dealer, or broker will be j glad to sell your bond for you at any time. Q. If necessary, could I borrow money on these bonds? A. i'es; United States government' [KAISER'S SUBSffi SHOW ABERRA1 I | ! With the Germans, Destructi Has Striven For Has Bec< stows Iron Crosses for Sicken the Mind of High' { German sermons are sound argu1 inents for Americans to invest in the : third .Liberty Loan bonds. | Those who wade through the preachments of the kaiscrized pulpits of Berlin, of Liegnitz, of Hamberge. in Ilolstein, and of other spots in the Prussianized country, will awake to this realization. The Quotations that will follow in this article have l*?en taken from ''Hurrah and Hallelujah," written by the liev. J. P. Bang, D. IX, who is a professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen, in neutral Denmark. Extracts from the sermons of four German preachers will suilice. There are scores of others that could be used. Their sermons in two instances have brought for their deliverers tlie decoration of the Iron Cross from the hand of the kaiser, the same kaiser that bestowed a medal to the man who sank the Lusitania. We stress the fact, that the Iron Cross has gone to j these clergymen, because in that case it is logical to suppose that their V I I ! ! I I ! M l il i I I I i l I f I I S I I I I THE THIR | By WALT 5 Now once again you'll have a c ^ help the allies out in France, in Bi m our Uncle Sam starts up another ] 5 to put up plunk and bone? It's liti {j armies win, but we can certainly c s When everything is said and done, = there should be a flow of mon fro asked to give a-vav or sacrifice yoi = and, say, he's surely safe to trust h fun; good interest you reccive; i s done, you'll rend your robe and g = head in shame and sound a doleful i game and get the Prussian goat. li = lie will )t buy a bond, e'en though - his cook stove pawned. Let's mar " and buy, and buy, and buy; for thi ? soak him in the eye. | s (Copyright, 101S, by Gci Ml ;i: i ? : i i i s : i i i i i ili i i i i: i i ill Questic ^ -a /r& il^&g Bliaig J bori'ls are the host security which can j bp offered in borrowing money. They j will obtain for you the best terms i possible. Ask any bank if you de- { sire to borrow money on your Liberty j bonds. Collecting Interest. . Do I get any interest on mv money while it is lonne-1 to my government? A. Yes; the government will pay you interest at the rate of 4 1-4 per! cent, a year on the Third Liberty j Loan bonds. Q. How do T collect the interest? A. Attached to each bond is an en graved sheet of interest coupons, on.e for each six months' period. When the interest date arrives, you cut off the > interest coupon of that date and take it to any bank, where it inay be cash- i ed or deposited. Q. How often do I get this interest? A. Every six months. i Q. Is there any way I can collect my interest without having to cut the , n An An O $ i , LUU|/l>iiO I A. Yes; you can pet the government j to give you a "registered" bond; that is, a bond without any coupons at- J tached and with your name written on the bond; and each six months, as the interest falls due, the treasury department will send you by mail a check in payment of the interest. t~\ Oro ffiorA fwn kinds of Lib erty bonds? A. Yes; bonds with interest coupons attached, which are called "bearer" or "coupon" bonds, and bonds which do not have coupons attached, lIZED PULPITS WN np HUN MINI) Vi UUil on of the Ideals Civilization J ome a Religion?Wilhelm Be- j Utterances of Pastors That t-Thinking- Men. i religious views cense to bo inJivMual and become the official theology of the German empire itself with the imperial mark of favor upon it. Pastor II. Francke. "One tiling, I think is clear: God must stand on our side. We fight for right and truth, for Kultur, and eivili-j zation and human progress, and true Christianity, against untruthtuiness and hypocrisy and falseness, and 1111Kultur and barbarism and brutality. "Germany is precisely?who would venture to deny it??the representative of the highest morality, of the purest humanity, of the most chastened Christianity. "They envy us our freedom, our r\ntrnr t rs /\ r\ n nr xv/>rlr in fn PY col in virtue of ability, to fulfill on:* appointed task for the good of the world and humanity, to heal the world , by the German nature, to become a blessing to the people of the eurtli. i "When we fight for victory, we (Continued on Fourth Page.) i :i i i i i g i n t a i a i i a i a i i i ! i i ; .D LOAN I 1 MASOX. | hance to buy yourself a bond, and m clgium and beyond. In April now ? loan, and are you ready, as I am, ^ le we old gents can do to help our e ome through with packages of tin. sj 'tis wealth will win the scrap, and = >m every loyal chap. You are not = ur dust; you lend to Uncle Sam? ? ! You are not asked to lend for }j f you've no bonds, when war is jjj rieve. Ah, then you'll hang your Z note; you did not help to win the 2 ut there is none with soul so dead ~ i he has to cut out bread, and see ^ ch up cheerful, blithe and quick, |j is we'll make the Teuton sick, and > 3rge Matthew Adams.) i m m b i i i b iii i i in i i iii! i n ii r ms Thai Um.\ which nre railed "registered" bonds. \jk, Q. To whom is a coupon bond payable? 1 <^kS A. A coupon tonds :s payaoie 10 Q. To vrhom is a registered bond pn y a bl c ? A Registered Bond. r A. A registered "bond is payable to r>C C x?the person whose name is written on A ^ r its face and no other person. A regis- tered bond can be transferred from L r~ Fr .c~~ one owner to another by the owner ~ writing his name on the back of the "~j|" bond in the presence of a witness au- ? n \ thorized by the United States treasury w] department. /Ms"/ Q. Shall a married woman use her / own name or her husband's? , OjM A. Her own?Mrs. Mary Brown, not Jfyyt Mrs. John Brown. \$7 Q. If I should sell my bond, how (ffflL shall I transfer it to the next owner? 1(7B A. If it is a eoupou bond, merely by ^^ ' ' fj delivery, ouat uauu ii? tv ?w? i..7, 1--1 Q. Supposing it is a registered bond? 't&j m A. You must execute the blank form gj? M (Continued ou Third Page.) BOYS OF UNCLE SAK mm WILL OPERATE ON Wgk HUNS' MADNESS gfjE Every Vestige of War Disease Hp Will Be Removed and Germ Isolated. Every once in awhile you hump into t/ some follow who declares with a considerable show of impatience that this 5 war isn't popular. He seldom goes **&???& farther than that, for he knows it isn't Cpr * i ?ii- ?i i ~ il. ? *- ^e??? iasiliouaiue jum huw m; lihu? ciujico s snt Uncle Sam. But lie leaves a -wi le ' margin for inference. And he tells you that it could have been avoided. Tt could have been avoided, possihly, but one cannot help but wonder * y^Y/vs;', how we would have stood in our own estimation, when the big fight finally ended, if we had stayed out. and how long it would have been before someone would liave kicked us on the shins, fgyffityy just to show his-contempt for us, and ' forced us into a light anyway. ^ And in such n light how many otners HWMpM would have pilel upon us if we had fpQjSx vj begun to give the other fellow the jmrlieking he merited? WiwfflffT/f All Wars Are Unpopular. jOf eourse the war is unpopular. ? u Jj. There was never a war that wacn't ??nn/mitlor if sane mortals wore waging - if. Only fanatical wars ever are pontilar, and there the popularity is usually all corralled by the fanatics. This war is about as unpopular as *[C.[ a broken lo^, but even so it will 7int '5?l/ let us go along and forget about it or neglect it any more than the broken log will. \\ e musr {five hu-h wl i..* ... t attention. Before we can walk liandily, cither individually or national!}', k W ' i we must remove tlie trouble. ft vWe have called in the doctor for this tj, war. Wc are sending him, two mil- {? lion strong, to Potsdam Palace, P,er- |> lin, to minister to a mind diseased. k\ We are hoping he will be successful in a little operation on this war mad- \ 11 ess, that he will be able to remove jS every vestige of it, and further to )??&-' M isolate its perm. lie has a big job ?&2}? t J| > - i niir (-'liipf dlltV is tO ^ *^5 nun "lii . seo that he has all the necessary instruments, that nothing is lacking that might cause a slip-up. Your individual part in curbing the >? ?? war opidomic isn't over hard. Just buy a bond. PRESIDENT WILSON OX THRIFT. IESSS 'I suppose not many fortunate byproducts can come out of a war, but if the United States can learn some- -j* pT|F thing about saving out of this war it j| jjlj Jjj will be worth the cost of the war; I f,H ,-jjj j| mean the literal cost of it in money |j. n and resources. I suppose we have sev- iij ,j oral times overwn.-i< d what 're are jj< Ji! }: now about to spend. We have not ijf rjjj j known that there was any limit t<; jij j?j] J our resources; we arc now finding out if| ! J that there may be if we are not care- M^.7 jf fui.w