The Mena weekly star., 1918-04-25

Humorist whose "You Know Me Al"
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 In Camp, Feb. l5. Friend Al:
 Vel Al am sorry to hear about you getting mixed out of that money but still and all you should ought to be thankful they didn't get you for the whole $1O0O0 instead of just s5O.O0 and don't see how anybody only E wit could invest E of his savings in gag like that and It a man really did invent maggot that would draw U-boats up on top Of the water they could sell it to President Wilson and Frank Daniels for a tril- lion dollars cash money and they wouldn't have to hot foot from house to house like they was trying to pedal ball-bearing potato peeler or some thing.
 But listen, Al, if l was you wouldn't go hiring no atty. and try ing to get your money back because that would be just like throwing good money after bad money as they say because by this time the guy is prob ably hiding in Russia somewhere and has growed beard so he will look like everybody else and even if you was to go over there and see him you wouldn't know for sure if it was him or Kerensky or this here Don Cossack.
 But instead of that, Al, would just forget it and if you want to keep the U-boat elevator stock or whatever you call it for a souvenir why o. K., but you better do something with that other S50.00 before somebody else comes along and sells you a season ticket to the postoffice and if was you Al I would do what I told you to do last fall and that is buy one of these Liberty Bonds with $50.00 and if you had of took my advice you would of sank the whole s100.00 in them last fall and now you wouldn't be crying over sour milk as they say, but you would have safe investment that you don't only have to think about it twice per annuam and that's when you go to the bank and coldect the int. money and the int. money is money you can spend on something you want and not something you got to have, because it comes like kind of bonus from the govt. for helping them out when they needed it.
 Buying a Liberty Bond Al is some thing like buying ticket to the ball game only they's whole lot of diff ference. When a man buys a ticket to the ball game he is helping pay the ball players their salary but he don't get no pleasure about thinking about that but all the pleasure he gets is | sitting up there and watching the 1 game and if his team has a bad day and he is disgusted with them he can't go down to the box office and get his money back and if he even asked for it he would be lucky if they didn't | bust him in the jaw. And of course if it's good game and he enjoys it 1 he don't want his money back and l wouldn't get it if he did
 But when you buy a Liberty Bond Al YOU feel good because you know you are helping to keep Uncle Sam's players from starving to death and you also know they will be up on their
 toes all the while and doing their best and you know your team is going to win, and then after the game is over no matter how much you enjoyed watching your team win, Uncle Sam refunds your money besides giving you int. on it all the time he has got it. Can you beat that Al? I'll say you cant.
 So don't be sucker Al but take my advice this time and get hold of one of those bonds before the wise alecks
 hog them all and don't throw away that other $5000 on a patent electric
 flee chaser or something.
 Il Your pal, | Taolx