Your Unpaid Dollars 
What They Saved America 
IT IS a real American village. 
It is 20 miles west of the Mis- 
sissippi River; its population — 
about 2600. 
It gave its sons to war with an 
«pen hand and a glad heart. 
Then — 
The richest man in the village 
aged ten years in ten days. His 
only son lay dead in France. 
The village butcher boy — born 
in Ireland — smiled for the last 
time in France. He died fighting 
for America. 
The village Beau Brummel won 
the Croix de Guerre and lost his 
sight. 
One family sent three sons and 
lost two. 
Gas claimed a mere school boy 
of I9 years. 
The realities of this village are 
the "might-have-beens" of all 
America. But thank God, America 
as a whole never really felt the 
hand of war — as England felt it, 
as France felt it, as our neighbor 
across the border, Canada, felt it. 
And why? 
Because your dollars stopped 
the war. Your dollars made pos- 
sible those tremendoiLis prepara- 
tions for a long war which resulted 
in a short war. Your dollars bought 
such an array of tank^ and trucks, 
gur^s and gas, bayonets and bombs, 
planes and pontoons, shot" and 
shell, that Germany wilted — a 
year ahead of schedule. 
Half a million American boys 
were saved. 
The dollars that did it are still 
in your pocket. 
For America prepared on Faith. 
She knew that true Americans held 
their dollars cheaper than their 
sons. She knew that American 
thrift would gladly take the place 
of American blood. 
America now asks you for those 
unpaid dollars. 
Let your heart say how thank- 
ful you are that half a million 
American sons were saved. 
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Are you still glad tod^? 
