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By George Ade We come to another big tash. This time we need not call for helpers. The volunteer worhers stream In myriad hosts along the main highway leading to victory and vindication. All patriots, by confession. The grumblers are awed into silence. If the taint of disloyalty re mains anywhere it is hidden as a shameful secret. The heads are wag ging and we hear many bold as surances* Til do all I can.- ** TU go as far as the next feUow. TU tahe aU I can afford to taha.** [ We are speahing, of course, of the i Fourth Liberty Loan and the willing-? ness of the war-bachers to subscribed Liberty Loan aupd^hovT^tt why we battle with Germany or that a war costs money. It will just about require a search-warrant to find a man who does not say that he will tahe all of the bonds he can “afford" to tahe. But, O my countrymen, we need •Jght schools and correspondence schools, private tutors and Chautavu quas and special information bu reaus to enlighten Mr. A. and Mr. B. and Mr. C. as to the real meaning of the word “afford.** Are you penciling around to find out how much money you can set aside without the slightest inconven ience to any of your pet private projects? Are you trying to decide how many bonds you will have to tahe in order to escape the charge of being a slacher? * % Are you getting ready to an swer in hundreds a country that has 4 endowed you with thousands? As you squint your eyes and try to decide upon the sum which will fairly represent your individual quota, are you acting as attorney for the United States of America or have you gone in for technicalities in order to protect special interests? In reasoning with your con science, are you trying to be gen erous or trying to play safe? 4 It W up to you * The buch cannot be passed. < It is for each man tp decide wheth er he is going to be a thoroughbred t .or a squeezer of 50-cent pieces. 4 For the sahe of your own self respect, come through to the limit If you live to be a thousand years old you never will have another chanoe to start your iron dollars upon such a noble mission. * Do you wish to deepen the wrin- 4 hies upon the brows in Potsdam? • * i Would you fortify the courage of every soldier in France? < Shall we set in such a stach that ' the Kaiser can't see over the top of it? All right 1 You are appointed a 4 Special Agent * i Don't wait for a committee to hunt you up or run you down. -Hurry to the banK and breaK through the line and order so many Liberty Bonds that the man inside . will be dazed and all of the neigh bors surprised and all of your rela tives proud. * ^pgF Buy liberty Bonds - Wholesale, Not Retail HLGHMAN LUMBER COMPANY, Dunn, N. C.
The Dunn Dispatch (Dunn, N.C.)
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