The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-05

Lots of bonds mean lots of guns,
Lots of guns mean fewer Huns,
Keep on buying bonds and guns,
Till the guns get all the Huns.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
The friendship of Germany is the
shade of the upas tree.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
A man who has the money and
won't buy a liberty bond would let his
nanny go to the poorhouse.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
If that ten-mill tax amendment be-
comes law in Florida, it will not help
the schools anywhere near as much
as it viii help the tax-dodgers.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
We shouldn't be surprised If the
Turks decide to fight it out. It is not
likely that the Allies will give them
any terms except to promise to pro-
tect their lives and property.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
We will have to disagree with the
proposition Of our good friend, DIR.
Bitch, about holding up the fair un-
til the war is over. It's our opinion
that not only Marion county, but all
Florida needs it's county fairs. They
will help win the war.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS 49,
The people Of this county are not
warming up to the ten-mill tax
amendment, not to any great extent,
and every time Superintendent Brin-
son writes letter they become mort
chilly. The attitude Of the country
people toward it is well expressed by
the letter of Cracker
- BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
The Lakeland Telegram sums it up
as follows: The surest sign that the
governor has failed to measure up to
the satisfaction of anybody is shown,
not by the vicious jabs of his enemies,
but by the pitifM weakness exhibited
whenever his friends try to say some
thing in his defense.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS 49,
Editor BENJAMIN would find that "a
pair of spectacles and lead pencil)
q comfortable but not an attractive
costume. The less man wears the
worse he looks though woman may
be more attractive by leaving of q
lot of clothing heretofore regarded as
essential.-St. Petersburg Independ.
emit.
Golly, man! We quit trying to be at
tractive long time ago.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
Reckon well have to go up tx
Ocala and seek out Benjamin's file:
for his suuib about the Oklawaha pro
ject being "sily." He denies he wrot.
it.-Leesburg Commercial.
Leach is welcome to come to Ocals
and dig through our files or our trunl
or even our pockets, but we dom
know what he is talking about in this
instance. We have always favored
Oklawaha improvement and the Sta
has devoted considerably more space
to it than the Commercial. We hav,
said many times, it is one of the fines
locations in America for a system O
focal canals. If Leach referssto tn,
totally impractical idea some peopl,
seem to have of ship canal up th'
Oklawaha and down the Withlacoo
chez, we beg to inform him that w
decline to make the Star ridiculous b.
supporting such an unreasonable pro
position.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS -
For some mysterious reason tn
Huns, on occupying Tamines, in Bel
gium, declared the village green |
sacred zone. For any but German
feet to touch it was verboten. On
day on this green were twenty Ger
man soldiers and one officer. A littl
Belgian girl and her two brother
came trespassing. To sthose VIII,
witnessed the act it appeared tina
the children were only looking at tn
soldiers. They may hsve been impu
dent or haunting or threatening. The,
may have repeated things they ha,
heard grown-ups say in whisper