FROM DAYS GONE BY May 17, 1918

May 17, 1918.
The line is now completely drawn between the man or woman who is backing his country and the people who are not. The Liberty Loan and the War Savings Stamps campaigns with the other war activities are doing the diving for Uncle Sam.
Those not participating in either when able to do so are being placed on the opposite side from the patriots so engaged. Uncle Sam is not asleep in this matter. He is just as wide awake in these as he is in the matter of army and navy slackers. Day by day the line is being drawn closer and it might be said that those able to buy and are not doing it are well known.
It isn't compulsory to buy. It is our duty to buy as pure red blooded Americans to support these war activities as patriots and never flinch. Uncle Sam is giving the warning in time. This war is going to be fought to a finish and to a successful termination regardless of all obstacles.
Every day the task grows harder but the government is reaching out to make it lighter and to brighten the prospects at home. This is no time for penny patriotism. There is but one kind of patriotism, that which is born of unselfishness and reared in sacrifice. We have no fear as to the outcome of either campaign. The Stars and Stripes are at stake and they will never go down in defeat.
Tonight there will be American boys in lonely listening posts far out in the desolation of no man's land, American boys in the darkness and the mud and cold of the trenches under the ceaseless thunder of guns and the scream of shells, American boys tramping along the pitch-black, shell-torn roads. Through the long, dreary hours, as they wait and watch in the dark, while dangers lurk on every hand, their thoughts turn to the homes they have left behind, homes on distant farms, in scattered villages, in great cities, and they see in imagination the pleasant home lights shining out into the night.
You, back here in the peace and safety of the homes they love, can help in the bitter struggle that our boys must face tonight, and tomorrow night, and ever day, and every night, until final victory is won. You, too, must work to keep the home fires burning, for our sons in France.
They need guns and more guns, shells and more shells, they need tanks and transports and airplanes, good food and warm clothes and medicines and hospital supplies, an ever increasing abundance of all the vital materials of war if they are to drive the ruthless German invaders back within their own borders, and establish for all time the sacredness of American liberty and the safety of America's homes, their homes, our homes.