YAY: We have to say a quick “thank you” to the gentleman who appreciated our RTS about candy, and our willingness to be taste-testers.
A reader dropped off some truffles and chocolate-covered almonds for us. And both passed our taste tests with flying colors.
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WHOOPS: We had some eagle-eyed readers call to point out the gorgeous photo on page A-8 of Friday’s edition did indeed feature hummingbirds, but the plant from which they were feeding was not a bleeding heart. It was a fuschia.
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HISTORY: It was a far different world a century ago.
While today’s news is filled with stories of individual rights, in September 1918, when the U.S. was a few months away from the end of World War I, the talk was of the good of the nation.
We found this advertisement for the sale of Liberty Bonds and wanted to share it.
“You Count In One Way Only.
Never, so much as now, has the individual counted for so little. Individual rights, individual privileges, individual responsibilities have given way to the greater consideration, the welfare of the people as a whole.
For nations, not peoples or races, have taken in hand the destinies of the world. The individual has been peremptorily put aside. Whether liberty shall live or perish from the earth is for determination in the aggregate. It is not for any one man to say.
The Kaiser is soon to realize this. But there is one way in which you can count. One way in which you may still make yourself felt throughout this storm-tossed world.
You can make your individual contribution to the cause of freedom, of world democracy, of permanent peace. You can buy a Liberty Bond. You may otherwise be subordinated, effaced, shunted into comparative oblivion and made to feel that you no longer count.
But here you can take your place — you can buy Liberty Bonds!”
Liberty bonds were war bonds, issued in four installments in 1917-1918, as a means to finance American participation in World War I and the Allied war effort in Europe.
Appealing to the patriotism of everyday Americans, the bonds were the first experience of investing for most.
