If you had to tell time 
by a Little Tin Horn 
I F you had gone to bed when a bugle blew, got up when a bugle 
blew, gone out when a bugle blew, and come in when a bugle 
blew, until you had got so that you told time by a horn 
instead of a watch— 
If you had worn khaki-colored clothes, slept in khaki-colored 
blankets, marched through khaki-colored mud and eaten khaki- 
colored beans for so long that you had forgotten what a sunset 
We 
paid 
their 
way 
over — 
we’ve 
got 
to 
pay 
it 
back ! 
looked like— 
If you had given up your home, your friends, your work, all 
the happiness you had ever known, to go half-way around the 
world and fight for your country— 
If the excitement was all over and you wanted to get back 
home, but were going to stick it out until the whistle blew just 
because it was your job— 
If you were a homesick soldier in a lonesome sentry-box 
along the Rhine— 
How would you feel if you h: ard that the people back in your 
own country—the same people who had sent you away to fight 
for them—were not eager to pay for your ticket home? 
Say! Look here, you Man with the Newspaper! 
There are a million American soldiers over in Europe. We 
don’t want them to feel that way about us. 
Those fellows have been in uniform so long that they can’ 4 - 
remember where their pockets are in a regular suit of clothes. 
They’ve lived in camps so long that they’ve got so they don’t 
use watches any more. They’ve waded through French mud, and 
Belgian mud, and German mud, until it’s a wonder they haven’t 
got web-feet. 
Look here! 
We sent those fellows over there to fight for us and they pur 
up a bully scrap. 
We’re proud of them—mighty proud of them. 
But we’ve got to bring them home. 
There are five hundred miles of Europe and three thousand 
miles of Atlantic Ocean between them and home. 
We paid their way over . 
We’ve got to pay it back. 
And we’ve got to oversubscribe the Victory Liberty Loan 
to do it. 
GOVERNMENT LOAN ORGANIZATION 
Second Federal Reserve District 
LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE 
120 Broadway, New York 
