ts, the government
called upon the people to lend their money by buying government liberty
bonds. This was an entirely new thing for the American people of any
generation, but they responded in a manner that showed the government
that the people were backing it to the last inch, and that they were
out to win as quickly as possible, regardless of cost, or other
sacrifices they were called upon to make. The government conducted
great loan campaigns. Each one met with greater success than the one
preceding it. The bonds were bought by all classes of people, and a
man without a bond was like a dog without a home. Of course the great
banks and corporations bought millions of dollars worth of bonds, but
the great number of small denomination bonds bought by the wage-earning
classes was what spelled the success of the loans. The total amount
raised by the five loans was approximately twenty-two billion dollars.

Besides these great loans, the American people contributed $300,000,000
to two Red Cross funds inside of a year. There were also enormous
contributions to the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the War Camp
Community Service, the Salvation Army, and allied funds.

Although a great deal of credit for the remarkable success of America's
preparedness program is due to the fact that she had such wonderful
resources, the true underlying reason for her success is the
magnificent spirit of the American people. Germany thought that,
because of the cosmopolitan make-up of the people and the immensity of
the country they occupied, they would not unite as one great nation.
The United States has proved for all time that she is one solid
indivisible nation with ho thought of anything but the progress and
liberty of her country and the world, of the unsullied honor and
unquestioned defense of her flag, and of all for which it stands.

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It was not his olive valleys and orange groves which made the Greece of
the Greek; it was not for his apple orchards or potato fields that the
farmer of New England and New York left his plough in the furrow and
marched to Bunker Hill, to Bennington, to Saratoga. A man's country is
not a certain area of land, but it is a principle; and patriotism is
loyalty to that principle. The secret sanctification of the soil and
symbol of a country is the idea which they represent; and this idea the
patriot worships through the name and the symbol. . . .

We of America, with