The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-10-11

10 Grenada County Boys in France:
In so many of your letters which
you have written home, you have ex-
pressed great interest in every step
taken back here towards prosecuting
the war, and in some of your more
recent letters about the necessity of
subscribing literally for the Fourth
Liberty Loan. that we have decided
to write you IN accordance with the
request made in one or two of your
letters and tell you how some of our
people are doing, or rather are not
doing. You are over there and hence
know the effect of any non action
at home. You know how the enemy
will view America's failure to sub
scribe literally for the bonds.
We regret to say that there are
just a few yet who are against the
war and who are "cussing" the Presi-
dent. Only a day or two ago, report
was made from one particular com
munity that citizen of this county
had said, and that just recently, that
Woodrow Wilson and Adjutant Gen
eral Crowder ought to be hanged.
These same people paid one of our
own citizens the compliment SO our
informant states, to wish that he
would be hanged with these two
great men. Now we have been in
clined to believe for sometime that
much of this talk was because of ig
norance but we have about reached
the conclusion that more of it is
through hellishness and selfishness
and a damnable don't caressness for
hol of fU
We regret that the Bonds have not
been taken as they ought to have
been. Too many who are are refus-
ing to take what has been allotted
them in bonds.
There is John Doe and Bill Self
who have bank stock and two or three
farms as well as other property that
have not up to this time taken one
fourth the amount of bonds they
should. Mary Pinchmetight sold that
oil field she had last year and got
100000 for it, yet she is taking
only few thousand in bonds. Bill
Skinemquick says he knows his own
business. He has not a dependent.
has not son or brother in the
war. yet he has only nibbled at
Bonds He could loan his money at
8 per cent and have an abundance to
live on. Then there is Joshua Side
swiper who is noted for using nail
grabbers on everybody he gets a
whack at, and is worth easily $780,
10000, still he has not bought $2O.-
600 in bonds. In one particular
case we could name you fellow
who has a prosperous business and
whose bank account shows remark
able growth during the last few years,
vet he feels so little interest in his
country and cares so little about you,
that he has not invested even 20 per
cent of what he has made in two
years in bonds. Some of these people
seem to think that they should not
buy bonds unless they have the
money, ready cash, in bank to pay
for them. They do not appreciate
that they owe something to the Gov
ernment that is protecting their
property. They do not seem to count
the investments they have made IN
land and in other things the last few
years and that this very property is
a command to them to come up 70
the help of the country.
A few who have made good crops
and are out of debt are excuslng
on bond buying by saying.
81 do not own any land and really
am not due to buy bonds. Let the
fellows who own fine homes or farms !
buy the bonds" The man of small
means can buy bonds and it is just
as much his duty as anybody else 5;
The able bodied man who has ilved
up until now and who can not come
up to the help of his Government to
the amount of fifty or hundred dol,
lars had best shuttle off this mortal
coil and give his place to somebody
else. Of course there are exceptions ,
to this rule but we are speaking
about the average.
But in truth we should say that
the small man is buying or has
bought more literally in most local:
tiles than the better to do. /
The cotton crop is turning out bet
ter than was expected two months
ago by far. The merchants are SELL
ing about all the goods they can.
Bank accounts are large, still folks
are staggering at bond buying. Is
it selfshness? Is it lack of vision?
Is it because Smith believes Brown
will do it and 81 can shirk?"
Now we hope that ere this reaches
you that folks will wake up and that
the job will be done up here as it
ought to be. The fellow at home, it
he were just given the choice of
ponying up the cash to buy bonds or
getting in the front line trenches,
would say, Tell me how much bonds
YOU want me to take and I will find
the way to pay for them" You are
over there face to face with all this
cruel war means. You went because
YOUR country said, Co." You went
because you knew that if you did not
90. that the war would come here.
And the folks at home are making
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