The Coolidge Examiner

COOLIDGE IS GOING to have to make herculean efforts to meet the quota in the Fourth Loan Drive, which started Tuesday. It was difficult to raise the amount we did in the third drive but you can bet your bottom dollar it's going to be harder this time.

Two hundred thirty-seven thousand dollars doesn't grow on trees. The greater part of this is to come from little fellows like you and me, not from the big corporations.

So far, some $50,000 in Coolidge has been reported. That's still a long ways from $237,000.

COOLIDGE BUSINESSMEN can be counted upon to do their part, as they have in the past. As an example of what can be done, 30 members of San Carlos Scottish Rite club purchased $17,500 of bonds Tuesday night of this week. That's better than $580 per member. It's something to shoot at.

FEW PEOPLE STOP to think that our government is spending about $277,000,000 a day for war purposes. From May of 1940 to September of 1943, total expenditures for war exceeded 128 billions of dollars. We're told that in each 10-hour period, our government must spend more than the entire cost of the American Revolution.

This is one of the reasons we have to buy bonds and keep on buying bonds. Another is to use our purchase of bonds as a brake against inflation.

IT'S THE EXTRA BOND that is being sought. Most of the public are regular bond buyers. The government realizes this but wants all of us to dig down deeper and scrape up enough money to buy an EXTRA bond. Don't think your little bit doesn't count - it does. Just get in there with those dollars of yours and support the Fourth War Loan Drive. Show our men who are doing such a fine job on the battle front that we can do our job on the home front.