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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

September 19, 1918 · Page 7 of 8

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psirf^lflF INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS VAGE EIGHT Are you getting ready to answer We come to another b:^ tasK. This in hundreds a country that has time we need net call for helpers. endowed you with thousands? The volunteer workers stream in myriad hosts along' the main highway As you squint your eyes and leading to victory and vindication. try to decide upon the sum which All patriots, by confession. will fairly represent your individual quota, are you acting as' attorney for The grumblers are awed into the United States of America or silence. If the taint of disloyalty remains have you gone in for technicalities anywhere it is hidden as a in order to protect special interests? shameful secret. The heads are wagging and we hear many bold assurances: In reasoning with your conscience, are you trying to be generous or trying to play safe? Til do all I can." {t i£ up to you. I'll go as far as the next fellow." ci The bucK cannot be passed. I'll taKe all I can afford to taKe." It is for each man tp decide wh ether We are speaKing, of course, of the Fourth Liberty Loan and the willingness he is going to be a thoroughbred of the war-bacKers to subscribe. or a squeezer of 50-cerit pieces. This time we do not explain a For tjie saKe oi your own selfrespect, Liberty Loan and how it worKs, or come through to the limit why we battle with Germany or that If you live to be a thousand years a war costs money. It will just about old you never will have another require a search-warrant to find a chance to start your Iron dollars man who does not say that he will upon such a noble mission. taKe all of the bonds he can "afford" Do you wish to deepen the wrinKles to taKe. upon the brows in Potsdam? But, O my countrymen, we need Would you fortify the courage of night schools and correspondence every soldier in France? schools, private tutors and Chautauquas and special information bureaus Shall we set in such a stacK that to enlighten Mr. A. and Mr. B. the Kaiser can't see over the top of it? and Mr. C. as to the real meaning of All right! You are appointed a the word "afford." Special Agent Are you penciling around to find Don't wait for a committee to out how much money you can set hunt you up or run you down. aside without the slightest inconvenience to any of your pet private Hurry to the banK and breaK projects? through the line and order so mSny Liberty Bonds that the man inside Are you trying to decide how will be dazed and all of the neighbors many bonds you will have to taKe in order to escape the charge of surprised and all of your relatives proud. being a slacKer? Buy liberty Bonds Wholesale, Not Retail This Cpace CeElrSr-tzil to Winning the War by H. J. Miner