The Tomahawk., 1918-05-09
Buying Liberty Bonds Aids Our
War, Our Army, Our Boys. !
now W0RkMEN DO Their BIT
9nvcstment Brings Good Returns, in
Addition to Giving Financial As
sss sistanee Every Loyal Citizen
Owes His Government.
{ey EVA DEAN of tho viailantes.)


talked loudly to be heard; they always
talked while they worked; they liked
y the sound of their own voices. 1t mat
tered not much what they said-the
same joke will do day after day in a
I factory; an old one is almost as good
\ as new one tos break the mental
monotony. When ones habitual activ-
ity is with ones fingers one isn't very
{ critical Of mental efforts.
Still, were you to ask them, any OF
I the, men would have said they pre-
ferred an argument to all other kinds
OF brain exercise. Argument is what
It they would have called any Of the YER
\ bal volleys they fired back-and forth
at one another from their inexpert
mental batteries, while their expert
fingers moved ceaselessly at their
tasks. And nowadays there is always
( enough to argue about-the war! Yhe
only trouble-though no one really
! seemed to mind that-was that there
was no one around to uphold the gov
eminent in these controversies
OF the hundred men employcd-for
, ]
one with an American-born parent,
though Il considerable number were
themselves born in America. The one
hundred were all here by choice, how
ever, and hardly one ever really cx-
pected to live anywhere else. But they
talked as though they might; and one
could imagine they expected the Unit
fp1 nff0
Inducements to stay when 1t heard OF
their intended leaving.
They Discuss Liberty Bonds.
Charles, in the lightest cOrner-a
few years ago he would have been
Karl--was always talking about the
price of food: II take q Liberty bond?
Indeed III not If the government had
kept prices down, and protected the
working man, and kept the rich man
Nrom making war profits, why, l
D might. There Is going to be trouble
In this country some day and the gov
eminent deserves all that is coming to
4 them. The government ought to do
everything 1t can to keep the good will
I OF the people. Why--beer-" Charles
can never talk long without mention
Ing beer. ~ -.
5a- Jo-whose early training was in a
protectorate-wns Il born financier.
He had actually been talking about a
bond on the dollar-a-week plan, but no
rone IN the wOrkroOms seemed to think
sst a good investment. 1t would be bet
Il ter to buy sugar or whisky and keep it
for q higher price. So 10 had simply
talked for the past two weeks; he had
anot decided. One might get ~ per
cent. or even 5 per cent laterl 1t
n would be better to wait
''The government don't feed the boys
II In calnpy' shouted the porter.
"Of course it DON'T" yelled the thin
smnn by the window. eve don't know
what goes on there. No wonder lots
sOf them commit suicide!"
"Well-rd like to buy a bond broke
in Old Bailey, courageously. Old Bal
8 aey was born among the Pennsylvania
Dutch. "But, with sixteen dollars a
week, and family, don't see how
j I can" 49,
N ..Nor do T." said the tall young man
OF whom the men said, His mother
4 was born here" fl. .- $.
All Are Buying Bonds. Il
/ & The machines hummed on, the voices
rising and falling in opposition, when
suddenly the eager face of Jo-the
news gatherer-was thrust through the
door: '"There's an italian banker in
4 the second room talking to the wOps
about Liberty bonds" he informed
{, The voices ceased. Everybody wished
he could hear. --.-
Y Hes still talking! All the wops
are in there" spread the news to every
corner Of the building; and then close
upon that: "They're buying them
\ every one of the wops are buying
tllem!" -... -, ..se.,.. E..
In a shorter time than it could have
taken man to walk through the build
fng, every one in it knew that the
wops-the lowest-paid men of them
all-were buying Liberty bonds. 1.4
Presently all the workmen who could
N understand English We're assembled
"A one room. They looked about Gu
Y rfously at one another; never before
4 Had they seen themselves en- masse. II
was n strange assembly. with its dirty
aprons, its rough. lined faces and quiet
| tongues. 1t must have seemed suci
i % the salesman : his mouth set per
eeptibly as he looked about at his au
1lence.
The Italian orator had gesticulatet
( randy; and there had been much o.
~Tfalia Italia!" But this man, aftel
Als FIRST look at the faces before him
decided not to talk patriotism. So h,
eamply stated that our government wa
at war. Very clearly he explained
vhat that meant financially; he nc
knowledged that living was high an,
6 hard, but nevertheless everyone VIII
ia not help was Stacker. And. II
convincing conclusion: "n We dom
five our money. the government is 60