In order to have money enough to purchase bonds, however, hundreds of thousands of people have had to make sacrifices during the course of the Liberty Loans; and it is only when they have made sacrifice, when they have given up clothes they wanted, or vacations they thought they needed, or pleasure they would have sought, that they are really doing something for the country. But so many millions of men and women and children have bought Liberty Bonds and are continuing to buy Liberty Bonds that their purchase has become one of the great patriotic movements of our country in this war. In the War of the Revolution, Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, loaned money to General Washington’s army. History has made famous his name because he had faith enough in his country and love enough for his country to loan money to her in the hour of her need. In this great war every man, every woman, every boy, every girl in the United States has the opportunity of becoming a Robert Morris. For, although the lowest denomination of a Liberty Bond is fifty dollars, the government has devised a method by which every one who has any money at all can help in the war. The treasury has issued War Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates so that any one who has money at all--no matter how little--may do his share. The stamps may be bought almost everywhere for twenty-five cents. In January, 1918, a certificate cost $4.12. In every month which followed it cost one cent more. But it will bring back to the holder of it in 1923 five dollars. The stamps may be exchanged for certificates, as soon as the saver has enough of them, with the odd amount added, to make the purchase. Since every one in the nation who has twenty-five cents may buy a Thrift Stamp, it is almost certain that every one in the United States can help the government win the war by making the purchase. And it is by the individual efforts that the money will be raised, and the war won. [Illustration: Children selling Thrift Stamps The Treasury has issued War Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates so that any one who has money at all--no matter how little--may do his share] THE RED CROSS From an auxiliary branch of a great organization the American Red Cross has become one of the great agencies of the war. Before the United States entered the conflict, the American Red Cross had been the great relief agency among the peoples of the stricken districts of western Europe. Food, clothing, a new chance at life had been given the stricken. Back of the battle-fields the soldiers, wounded in the struggles, were cared for. Even in Germany the American Red Cross had made easier the lot of the prisoners of war. With our entrance into the war the organization became one of the great factors in our country’s means of caring for the welfare of our fighters.