100%

Scanned image of the page. Keyboard directions: use + to zoom in, - to zoom out, arrow keys to pan inside the viewer.

Page Options

Download this Issue

Share

Something wrong?

Something wrong with this page? Report problem.

Rights / Permissions

This collection, digitized in collaboration with the Michigan Daily and the Board for Student Publications, contains materials that are protected by copyright law. Access to these materials is provided for non-profit educational and research purposes. If you use an item from this collection, it is your responsibility to consider the work's copyright status and obtain any required permission.

June 06, 1917 - Image 4

Resource type:
Text
Publication:
The Michigan Daily, 1917-06-06

Disclaimer: Computer generated plain text may have errors. Read more about this.

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Your
Needs

Country

Money Quickly to

Help
Line

the

Boys

on

the

Firing

Read following carefully:

YOUR BOY HAS GONE TO WAR! OTHER BOYS ARE ON THE WAY! YOU ARE LEFT BEHIND!
YOU CANNOT GO, EVEN THOUGH YOUR BLOOD THRILLS AND BOILS WITH THAT SAME AB-
SORBING DESIRE TO BE ON THE FIRING LINE WHICH STIRS THE SOUL OF YOUR TRUE AMER-
ICAN BOY. CERTAINLY THERE ARE BUT FEW OF US WHO HAVE HAD ANYTHING LIKE A
REALIZATION THAT OUR COUNTRY IS ENGAGED IN A WAR OF PROPORTIONS SUCH AS THE
ENTIRE WORLD NEVER DREAMED. THE FIGHTERS WILL AND MUST BE OUR BOYS. THERE
IS NO DODGING THIS FACT. YESTERDAY, EVERY MALE PERSON IN. THIS UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 21 TO 31 YEARS, REGISTERED FOR WAR DUTY. IF CALL-
ED, THEY MUST GO, AND BEFORE THIS YEAR IS OVER THERE WILL BE MANY VACANT PLAC-
ES AT THE FIRESIDE. THEN YOU WILL REALIZE THAT WE ARE AT WAR.
HAVE YOU STOPPED TO CONSIDER HOW YOU ARE TO HELP-FATHERS, MOTHERS,
BROTHERS, SISTERS? HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO YOUR BIT? THE BOYS WILL NEED ALL
THE HELP YOU CAN GIVE THEM. THEY WILL NEED BOTH YOUR FINANCIAL AND SPIRIT-
UAL STRENGTH. THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS AND MUST HAVE YOUR FINANCIAL HELP, AND
YOUR ONLY WAY TO GIVE YOUR BOY ASSISTANCE, WHICH HE IS ENTITLED TO, IS THRU
THE LIBERTY LOAN.

THEREIS NOT ONE "IF" NOR ONE "AND"-IT IS YOUR DUTY.
THE LIBERTY LOAN IS TO FINANCE THE ARMY AND THE NAVY,
BOY. YOU SHOULD NOT HESITATE TO HELP FINANCE YOUR BOY
FAR-AWAY COUNTRY.

THE GREAT PURPOSE OF
AND THAT MEANS YOUR
ON THE FIRING LINE IN A

DON'T INVALIDATE THE SPIRIT 'OF YOUR BOY. IF HE IS WILLING TO GIVE HIS LIFE, YOU
CERTAINLY SHOULD BE WILLING TO LOAN, GR EVEN GIVE THE GOVERNMENT YOUR MONEY
WITHOUT HESITATION, AS IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE BACK OF THE
BOY WHO IS FACING DEATH FOR YOU AND COUNTRY.
FATHERS, MOTHERS, YOU HAVE NOTED WITH THE GREATEST ADMIRATION THE EAGER-
NESS WITH WHICH YOUR BOY SALUTED THE COLORS AND STEPPED FORWARD TO DE-
FEND THE HONOR OF HIS COUNTRY. YOU HAVE BEEN INSPIRED AT THE FEARLESS AND
UNSELFISH WAY IN WHICH HE ANSWERED THE NATION'S CALL. BACK OF IT ALL WAS THE
THOUGHT OF YOU. IN ORDER TO WIN THIS WAR, WITH ITS ALLIES, THIS COUNTRY HAS OF-
FERED YOU THE LIBERTY LOAN. IN GOING TO WAR, YOUR. BOY THOUGHT OF YOU. NOW,
RIGHT NOW, IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO THINK OF HIM. YOU POSITIVELY MUST SUBSCRIBE
TO THE LIBERTY LOAN.
YOU SHOULD SACRIFICE UNGRUDGINGLY IN THIS GREAT HOUR-STAND BACK OF OUR
COUNTRY AND OUR BOYS. WE ARE LEFT BEHIND TO PLOW AND BUY BONDS. THE TIME
TO BUY IS NOW!

INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN AT ALL BANKS.

THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY MR. D. E. GRENNEN, E. LIBERTY AT 606.
Cop y taken from Chicago Tribune.

Back to Top

© 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan