If You Don't Buy Your Share of Liberty Loan Bonds, We'll Publish Your Name in Paper, 1918

“Slacker List,” from The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., October 3, 1918. Newspapers have published the names of contributors in the past. Now they're threatening to publish a Slackers List if you don't buy your fair share.

This space is reserved for the publication, in subsequent issues of this paper, of names of those who, although financially able to do so, persistently refuse to buy their fair share of Liberty Loan bonds.

If any citizen refuses to bear his just and fair part of the burden of the common enterprise in which our people and the Government are now engaged, that is his privilege. But if he chooses to exercise that privilege, it is only just and right that his neighbors and friends, and the public generally, know that he is a slacker and that they are having to carry his burden as well as their own.

Heretofore the slacker has been able to hide because of ignorance on the part of the public of his failure to buy his share of bonds the authorities have determined, and I have been instructed, to give the full facts to the public.

R.C. Lawrence, County Chairman

Lumberton, N.C., Oct. 3, 1918