The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
April 12, 1918
Page 4, Column 2
FROM FRANCE.
An incident
has occurred in connection with the Liberty loan drive in
Atlantic, Iowa, which ought to make every Iowan consider
whether he has bought bonds to the limit of his ability. It is
described as follows in the news columns of the Atlantic
News-Telegraph:
"Among the
very first subscription to be handed in locally was one from
Harold Kjar, member of Company M, One Hundred and Sixty-eight
infantry, who is lying wounded in a French hospital. This bond
was for $50 and was bought with money sent by the young
soldier in France to his father, Jens Kjar in Atlantic. Harold
Kjar was wounded supposedly, in the same engagement in which
Cecil Conley and Fred Turner lost their lives. Joseph Fudge,
another member of the company, was also wounded at the same
time."
When an American soldier lying
wounded in France saves $50 out of his pay and sends it home
to invest in Liberty bonds, he is doing more than his share.
Who, then, can afford to do less than his share?
Harold Kjar evidently is not a
descendant of those who came over in the Mayflower. The
chances are that his father, Jens Kjar, possesses a slight
foreign accent.
What doubt
is there of the effectiveness of the American melting pot,
when such an incident as this occurs?
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Transcribed
and contributed by Eileen Reed, September, 2016
~ source:
The Des Moines Register, April 12, 1918
~ submitted by Cheryl Siebrass
Cass County IAGenWeb
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