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VICTORY LOAN SECTION The Barnwell **Ju»c Like* a Member of the Family” LOAN SECTION BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 1ST., 1919. NUMBER <4. HIS MHEIIH It Will Settle Nation's War Debts and Will Care for Sick and Wounded. Once in a while some one asks: “What’s the need of another Liberty Loan now that the war is over?” Revenue from taxes will not be suf ficient to all the bills, so the people will be called upon to provide the money by subscribing to govern ment bonds. This money is going to pay off the army of producers at home —the farmers, merchants, manufac turers'and others. America had just begun to fight when the Hun decided it was time to Quit. Allied leaders expected the war to last another year and the United States government was turning out ships, arms, ammunition and food to overwhelm Germany in one big drive. Treasury officials have revealed that in 1919 America would have had a tank/Ut the front for every seventy- five feet of line. We would have had ten tons of mustard gas ready for shipment for every ton Qermany produce. Thousands of battef- guns would have been in act- ^^^Epor every one America bad in 19IS. ^■Irythlng **K* being priMiuccd "I proportion This gigantic preparation brought an early end to the war and saved woada will pay for this work which bad be«m contracted for and was be ing delivered when the armistice was signed There are other purposes for which money is aeed Part of oar army of t.ddd.ddd mea mast he hept la Europe until the peace treaty In signed These soldiers must he fed. clothed sad ether wise maintained Then they meet he brought home The airh and wounded must he ear ed for In hospitals The army mast he demob!I tied There are thouse ads of maimed soldiers, heroes of the greet war. who mast ho taught eetf- supporting trades and given an oppor tnuMy to eeru their living Thin recjnjtrwrtlon work at home most ho carried on "he )oh moot ho Anlehod The American people who tarn mb >4 the money to win the war maat supply N aloe in bring the am ttaa berk »«* s pence has Is A. P. MOON, JR. Unique in the annals of war loan history is the case of A. F^Moon, Jr.. «cashier of the Cartersville Bank, Car Uersville. Va. He has already secured subscriptions for the entire allotment of his bank. This is the first bank Jn the Fifth Federal Reserve District • which has made such a record, so fat as is known. ‘T am working night and day for my town, county, state and nation,” de dared Mr. Moon. “At the close of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, I ! thought it would be a good idea tc keep the ball rolling, so instead ol .stopping I went straight ahead and continued getting subscriptions for the : Fifth Loan. Our bank sold $35,000 ol the Fourth issue, which is more than double its quota, and I was so much encouraged over that record that I de cided to start right to work on the Ffftti Loan. "VP to date, we have subscriptions 'for more than $20,000 Victory Bonds, but we are no* through yet and ex pect to go right ahead and try tc ^double this if possible. The argument I used was simply that the Victory Loan was needed by my Government and that it was up to every man tc finish the job by paying the bills for a victory which would have been cheap at double the price.” # fr. Moon said he didn’t know much •ut the terms* interest rates of er details of the Victory Loan and didn’t earn, going on the assumption that the loam would be a good apropost ■W—O Surgeons Mend Lieutenant After Fall of 2,500 Feet and He Now Flies Again and is Happy. t: t » - '> Tt There is a man in San Frr.ncisco walking around with a broken neck. He is Lieutenant Charles M. Cum mins, of Virginia. Cummins was an army ’aviator. While making a flight at Gersinei Field, La., in February, 1918. he fell 2,5{H> feet,* fracturing the fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and dis locating several ether vertebrae par tially. ' After the fa!! Tie was sent to Let- terman General Hospital at the Preal-. dio in San Francisco for treatment. Army surgeons who are working al most miracles there in the reconstruct tlon of the war wounded finally fitted a metal colar on the aviator to carry the weight of his head. It worked— and now Lieutenant Cummins is walk ing about apparently normal. Ont of Many. ' Lieutenant Cummin’a case is only one of many, hut it stands out be cause of the popular superstition that a man ean't live if his neck Is broken. The r*roa*truction surgeons at Let- termaa are working on hundred* of rase* much more <hffm«U then the fiver’s ^ — Therivu i* winr Rwr raw* dirt* from the battlefields of France, whose legs and arms haag withered and belptoa* and the* are turning these men ont. after months of treatment and patient mechanical manipulation, able In nee their arms sad legs and capable of making a living The coat, af ronme la trsmsadena when one takes into considerstten the tact that the same work la he mg carried an In many military hospitals Mem Meoey Needed. AI reedy Congmse hoe appropriated mill Isos of dollars to eerry on the mnrh and many mitliene more will have to be made available tar the mnee For tt w s renew this regeo erst too of the mea who gave thetr bodies to their renatry, Fart ef the mnaey to he from the Victory Liberty Loss win nsvd for this job ef rs construct tea meaner*tme Thtah of thm whes am making if year mmd as to much of the lean yen. person a fly am gotog to anberrtbe Lieutenant Cemmios made a flight with hie cellar an fnal to convince himself that he hadn't lost his nerve We ceo*t afford to teee m a dollar and cents proposition h face of the deeds of such WILL AID L BUYING LIVES, ONE! EOF LOAN MARN5 FISMF-S &EIIEAI) WOODS H . chateau Thierry AI&0MNE FOREST STMUtltL •AWly Ofoccu- Rural Business Men Are Well Your Victory Liberty Bond Able to Take Up Their Subscriptions Will Help Pay -Share in the "Victorious" lor Saving of Hundreds of Fifth. Thousands of "Doughboys" THE WATCH on the RHINE By Brigade Sergeant-Major Aden C Rankin. Glad to he back * Oh. key, am 1 * There's no place la all the world tike these little eld United States, and hsnvtn won't look any better then Hoboken deee from the deck ef a homeward-boned transport- Never again da I want to sea the face ef the Liberty Lady in the Harbor unless 1 go out to wash H. War will he airtk- tng but a mrmory to me nil the met ef my lift nnleas— —Inleoa the Victory liberty Folia Dews' thought af ns and the mat of world. They weren't Frueamne men ami woman af Neaweld and Trier and Coblent and ef the little villages along the Rhine They am the peo ple whom we had half-believed to be victims of Krusamwiam Hi they glad that the Kaiser hod overthrown nod hie Imbed ? They am DIO KOI LEI UP And the Nation Will Show That It Stands Behind Them in th* Victory Liberty Loan Drive. More than a million of Uncle Sam’s boys are “over there” looking after the common good of the world. And they'Will have to stay upon the Job until It is done; until things are right ed again; until order is brought out ef ehooe.. - - •— While they are oversees they must be taken care of adequately; they must be clothed and fed and lodged comfortably. Uncle Sam estimates that it costs $423.27 a year to equip and maintain a soldier in Europe. Part of the proceeds from the com ing Victory Liberty Loan will’ be de voted to caring for the “doughboys.” Part of it will go into the rehabilita tion fund for putting the injured sol diers back upon thefr feet. Part of it will go for insurance claims. The rest of It will go to meet the hundred and one other demands for this great est of world emergencies since the dawn of civilization. Every mother’s son of them did his part, helped insure liberty and justice for the world at large and restore Uncle Sam to his rightful position in tha estimation of the nations of earth. They did their duty fully, these boys who won. They fought to the end. through firg and flood. They never talked about letting up. This is no time for Americans to think of letting up. The nation must stanch by its guns, by its records; by Uncle Sam and must mike the next loan another big success. Advertise is THE PEOPLE. For. If It falU. thewTI cei» a t whsa 111 be liftlog my right| again nod saying "I de" vohntartly and all the wet ef it, and twinging kitperk and aoddUhegs, and blinking at the Jeruey short tine, and faring forward once wort on the wcetera front. If It fails, Germany la going to war again before I'm too old to get bark in the line. She's cowed, and crashed, and conquered now, but there's Are down under her ashes, and some day it's going to blase unless we keep the Are hose right in front of her rrmm uwi but her fear of the American people. , The people of Germany are Aguring today that they can bent Belgium and France and Italy and England, all to gether. They know, though, that they cgn never bully the world if the Amer ican people stand against them, but they are planning and scheming and hoping to shift the American people In that hope they are watching the Victory Liberty Loan. By its failure or its success the German people will judge if we, the American people, want to hold the victory we have won. If the Victory Loan doesn’t go across with a whiz and a bang that will prove that our country tracks the righteous ness of the war now just as it backed us while we fought at the front, Ger many is going to take heart. Ger- rfnany is going to say, “Oh, yes, the Americans came into the war, -and while they were in it, they fought to win; but now they are sorry that they went in, and they will not fight us again. The time is with us when we must pay through the nose, but the time will come when ^ we will have ended the payment. And then—.” Then will come another war, and its time will not be so far off that the crowd of Us can’t get in again. For it will be the same kind of war all over again, and we can’t, before God, keep out of that kind and hold our nation’s honor. How do I know? Since December I've been in the Rhine Valley, in the districts that the pacifists, ante-w-ar and post-w r ar, love to call “the Germany of the Christ mas tree, the Germany of Heipe and Goethe, the Germany of Bach and Beethoven, the Gertnany of legend and folk song, th* Germany of peace and beauty.r I’ve been quartered in Ger- Wttk somber eyes they watehed ue. With furtive quenee they plied us. The men wke'd fsught in the Germaa Army bad uotkiag to say. but the eld men would reme sneeklng around, al ways with seme trivial reason, hut always with the qusetinus, "What de yeur people tkmk of the war aew? Are they set divided about K? And will they trust mere Miltons and Ml- lioue to your government for another Lean now that the war Is ended ? "You bet they will," we told them. l>ey went sway shaking their heads. Why do they care about whether or not the people of the United States subscribed to the Victory Liberty More than ever^before the American One of the features of the coming farmer finds himself in the position Victory Liberty Loan is that it will* of comfort and prosperity which is i n part, pay the cost of saving the his just due. Lean years are for him lives of more than 600,000 Yanks and no longer. Last year the average of thousands of our allies, according toi farm earnings broke all records. Six Lewis B. Franklin, Director of the U» million farms in 1913 produced crops S. Var Loan Organization, worth $12,280,000,000. »The speed and bravery ^ot the This year it is estimated that a American doughboy affected the Ger- cr ' " tor u '' •“ r '' t!uin t ' V!T wil1 rr. - ns on the front line more than lb be sown. Naturally, the farmer is making the most of his opportunities, I and with guaranteed wheat prices and hi^h prices for everything he ( grows, the outlook for him is most encouraging. And Europe rvill fur nish a market for his fat hogs and steers. • H wmHtf be interesting, if possible, to assemble comparative statements of the farmers' bank accounts now and Ave years ago. and the list of mortgages that have been cancelled . And it would be more Interesting per haps to have A statement of the Lib erty Bonds now in the hands of these tillers of the soil Very soon the fanner will have fur ther opportunity to prove tkst he Is not without loyalty as well developed as aay man's. For another almost in sight, a Mas that will di upon as all* Because of his price guarantee of 12 M s bushel. Uncle Sam Blands to lose from AS to 7$ rents upon every bushel of wheat harvested nest sees os. Having gives this guarantee to the farmer, he win make It flood That In Uncle Sam's way But what Is Mr Farmer gotog Is de fur Uuafln Sam In the Victory Liberty LoaaT ta every Liberty (o date farmer as a Haas, has bought lees hoods thao mea risBaea He has hoes able mea an Is get move eager aad alee ugou which the goveruumat put a reotrtctkm. than ethers have The Mg questlun mow. uhes ho to cash ta at a upon hie wheal rrug, to what la he gotog to do oast l.lhsrty drive* Seme Liberty Loan officials are should buy a llflt baud tor such fflfl of wheat he eelU to the goverumeat He has made the prod I have se heettaacy la taktug a rant? tu psvmeet for the | between what the t gets aad what he loan la i n OTVT LIWIS a FRAN Hull War LuanJ—aa.aaaad. iluqo- we couldn't answer. Th^ Germans themselves answered us after awhile. From them we come to know that they hadn't expected, even when our government went into the war against them, that the American people would stand back of it. They thought that the Germans in America were going to be strong enough to hold the nation from real support of the war against Germany, The first Liberty Loan punctured that belief. The Third Lib erty Loan left it flat. The Fourth Liberty Loan pulled off the rubber from the wheel. For when even those cities that the Germans thought their strongholfls, Chicago, St. Louis, Cin- cinnatti, “your Milwaukee,” as / they said to me, helped to send the Loans skyrocketing, Germany knew that the people of the United States were solid against her. She knew that not only the government machinery but the money and the spirit of the United States fought her. In the knowledge that unlimited munitions "were coming to millions of men, Germany smashed. The fear of 1919 ended the war in 1918. But, with the Armistice signed, Germany waits. She must pay the piper, but payment can not take for ever. Once before, when Bonaparte conquered her, she paid, but the old men in whose homes the Army of Oc cupation is quartered today served in an Army of Occupation in France in 1871. The wheel turns, they tell each other and their sons and grandsons. “We can not win from you,” they tell us. “You are too rich, too fash, too young! But, this war done, your peo ple may not care what happens. Even now we i\ear they are indifferent. And in fifteen, twenty yean, who knows?” And so they keep watch there in the Rhine Valley, as they keen watch toll theta that the pvapM of the United States no longer car* enough for a just cause to pay with thaaksgiving the cost of their victory, then the Are under the ashes of Germany militarism will glow until the day when K may dor* to blase once more. ’Ws were on the march through Luxembourg on a November Sunday when a crowd of us loiterod beside the road, revelling in the quiet and' lovely serenity of the sheltered coun try-side. The. Second had gone through the ^venty-eighth of May at Chateau Thierry, through Soissons and the Argonne, through Saint Mi- £iel and the Argonne-Meuse We had charged up the Lookout Mountain slope of Mont Blanc under the fire of the German guns. We had fought in the last Verdun battle. From March until November we had gone forward without rest, sometimes going without sleep for seventy-two hours. Now, victorious, in the enemy’s country and in peace, we rested. Suddenly a motor car swung around the turn of a little church. In front of us it came to a sharp halt. We sprang to attention as General John Lejeunc, commanding general of the Second, spoke. “Who’s your ranking non commissioned officer?” “I am, sir.” “Why aren't you all at services?” We had no answer. No one had even thought to go. “How long have you been in this Di vision?” “Since it was organized, sir.” “I should think that any one who has gone through what you have, and come put of it, would want to thank God.” Come to think of it, we did. With out a word we went down to the little church. There, remembering the men who had started out with us and who would not go back with us, we gave our thanks. Isn’t the Victory Liberty Loan the church down the rood for the Ameri can nation; the chance to thank God femmt eTlge.qE- B. Moeeley. understand German, and know what these Germans America feels, the Victory Liberty Loan. of the If that shall la ta ask the Liberty tor the | sato aad tag whom the people ef Ai what this money did. we or* tag to And that they are patriotism ta The days gain 10 minutes m sun shine this week. . feited by our indifference? Because I can not forget the look on the faces of boys lying dead bn the field at Chateau Thierry, because 1 can not forget the bombed hospitals and the shattered villages; because I can not forget the brave, blithe wound ed who crowd the homecoming ships I am daring to sound this trumpet before the walls of Jericho. Not for us who have come through do I ask remembrance; but for those who come back to you maimed and fpr those who will not come back do I ask recollection of what the war cost. That they may not have died in vain it is our nation’s task to watch, even as the German watches. That the German may know that we are not forgetting, not faltering in our greattask, it is the first and paramount duty of the peo- ple of the United States to make this peace permanent by putting upon It the great seal of the Victory Liberty Loan. When that is set, the German will know that the American nation echoes the battle cry of the Second, “What we take, we hold.” We have taken peace. Let us hold it. For, un less we hold it now, the day will come when the great gray ships will be slip ping out of the harbors again; and it will be our fault then that dead boys will be lying on the fields of France. It's up to you, to me, to all of us here, to make this the last war with Germany. For the take of ths meu who died, for the sake of other boys who will die if v« fail, will you do your oory Liberty tmun Mi