Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
THREE OLD MEN -oIvG IT'LL "
HURTS SACRIFICING " or
THEIR MONTHLY S.
WOMEN INMATES BUY, TOO
Neither Of 20 Sends Two Sons TO sers-
Iee-Psralyzed KnItter Works
for "unfortunatea"
BY HUGH L. WOOD.

than $4,000. O0O. 900 OF Liberty Bond
sales is cast UP sometime after May
4 no one bond among them probably
will represent 30 much saerifice-so
much scrimping-so much real CIV
ing till IL hurts" as three $50 bonds
cold in the ST. Louis Poor House.
Those three bonds. 10 be paid for at
81 a week. will represent many little
| luxuries given up-a bag Of candy
here. a pocket knife for whiting there
by three old men alone In the world
but still partners in the great Ameri-
can nation and ready and willing to do
their humble bit" TO help BRING vic
tory home.
These men are John Crane. Joseph
Walsh and Charles Helmholt. all on
the shady side Of 20 years. They have
/ for years been inmates OF the St
Louis City lniirmary. the large instiiu.
ton topping a hill on Arsenal street.
In sight Of Potters' Fi~,j.
A dollar probably looms larger in
that structure than anywhere else In
the large city. Even nickcls and dimes
are treasured there.
Crane has for a long time been mes
senger al the institution and receives
IS every 80 days for his services.
When DIR. Charles Z. Baur, superin.
tendent. placarded the reception room
OF the lnfirmary with Third Liberty
Loan posters-more in a spirit OF pa
triotism than in the expectation Of
making sales-Crane was deeply inter.
ested He inquired II cash was re-
CURED 10 buy a bond. and when DR.
Baur informed him he might buy =
$50 one for 81 week he was over
joyed.
Il am an American" he said, "and
would like TO help my country. be-
heve could finish paying for one"
So Dr. Bsur put him down and ne il
going to give 81 every month out OF
his salary OF IS.
Crane told his crony. Helmholt. night
attendant at the telephone. about IL.
Helmholt gets IS a month for his serv-
ices and he very shortly convinced
himself that he. too. could afford to
buy a bond. He signed up for a $50
one on the si-a-week payment plan.
Walsh outranks his fellows by far In
the matter OF wages. AS the sexton OF
that cherries place-Potters' Field
he receives $40 a month. He is an in
mate OF the lnfirmary and soon f.g.
ured that he could well afford a $50
bond II his two IS friends could-and.
besides. the government needed The
money. So he. too. became a bond
owner at 81 a week.
Mrs. Clara Kersting. another inmate
OF the institution. u keenly patriotic
and is doing her share In helping TO
finance the war for human liberty.
Although paralyfed on one side. she
IL an expert with the knitting or GRO
cheting needles. She has crocheted
yards OF fancy laces and knitted nu.
merous garments. The knitted articles
90 TO the soldiers and sailors and war
sufferers even more unfortunate than
herself The laces she sells 10 inter.
ested visitors
/ She manages TO han6.e her knitting
needles By sticking one ~ them into
the sleeve Of her paraNzed arm shs
makes up for the handicap OF the use
less member through the dexterity OF
her useful one She A. s.y,n. the
money from the sale a, her ar,icias a.
buy Liberty Bonds.
Mrs. Bessie LAck.y IA anoths, m.
triotic inmate OF the institution shs
Is now employed In making A patch.
work "crazy" quilt which she hopes
10 sell In order 20 buy thrift stamps
and. perhaps. a Liberty Bond.
Another woman, mother OF 40 chill.
dren. Is one OF the busiest knitters In
the institution. Seventeen Of her chin,
, dren are dead. Two OF the three living
are in the national ssrviee-Ons in the