Cleveland County herald., 1918-04-11
HOW WORKMEN DO THEIR BIT
Investment Brings Good Returns, In Addition to Giving Financial As- slstance Every Loyal Citizen
 Owes His Government.
(By EVA DEAN of the viqilantes.


 factory; an old one is almost as good as new one to 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 the men would have said they pre- ferred an argument to all other kinds of brain exercise. Argument is what they would have called any of the yer bal yolleys 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 The only trouble-though no one really seemed to mind that-was that there was no one around to uphold the gov ernment in these controversies.
 Of the hundred men employed-for it was a small factory-there was but one with an American-born parent, | though considerable number were themselves born in America. The one 1 hundred were all here by choice, how ever, and hardly one ever really ex- pected to live anywhere else. But they talked as though they might; and one | could Imagine they expected the Unit ed States to immediately offer them 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 kar1-was always talking about the price of food: 'I take a Liberty bond ? Indeed I'll not If the government had kept prices down, and protected the working man, and kept the rich man from making war profits, why, I might. There is going tt be trouble in this country some day and the gov 1 ernment deserves all that Is coming to | them. The government ought to do everything it can to keep the good will of the people. Why-beer-" Charles can never talk long without mention ing beer.
 Jo-whOse early training was In protectorate-was a born financier He had actually been talking about a bond on the dOllar-a-week plan, but no one in the workrooms seemed to thiak it a good investment It would be bet ter to buy sugar or whisky and keep it for a higher price. So Jo had simply talked for the past two weeks he had not decided. One might get Az per cent or even , per cent laterl It would be better to wait.
 "The government don't feed the boys in camp" shouted the porter.
 "Of course it don't" yelled the thin man by the window. "We don't know what goes on there. No wonder lots of them commit suicide"
 "Well-Td like to buy a bond" broke in Old Bailey, courageously. Old Bai- ley was born among the Pennsylvania Dutch But, with sixteen dollars a week. and a family, I don't see how can."
 Nor do l." said the tall young man of whom the men said, His mother was born here"
 All Are Buying Bonds.
 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 the second room talking to the wops about Liberty bonds," he informed. The voices ceased. Everybody wished he could hear.
 He's 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 them!"
 In shorter time than it could have taken a man to walk through the build ing, every one in 1t knew that the wops-the lowest-paid men of them all-were buying Liberty bonds.
 Presently all the workmen who could understand English were assembled in one room. They looked about cu- riously at one another; never before had they seen themselves en masse. It was a strange assembly, with its dirty aprons, it's rough, lined faces and quiet tongues. It must have seemed such to the salesman; his mouth set per ceptibly as he looked about at his au- dience.
 The Italian orator had geSticulated grandly; and there had been much of .Ttalial Italia '" But this man, after his first look at the faces before him, decided not to talk patriotism. So he simply stated that our government was at war. Very clearly he explained what that meant financially; he ac- knowledged that living was high and hard, but nevertheless everyone who did not help was a stacker And, in convincing conclusion: If we don't give our money. the government is go-