Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-04-17
IN PARTNERSHIP
WITH UNCLE SAM
Buying Liberty Bonds Aids Our
War, Our Army, Our Boys.
HOW W0RKMEN Do THEIR Bit
Investment Brings Good Returns, in
Addition to Giving Financial AS
sIstance Every Loyal Citizen
Owes His Government.
(By EVA DEAN Of the vigilantes.)

(By EVA DEAN of the Vigiiantes.)
1t was just another day in the fac
tory There was nothing prophetic In
the hum of the machines 1t was QUITE
the everyday hum. The werkmen
talked loudly to be heard they always
talked while they worked; they liked
the sound of their own voices It mat
tered not much what they sald--the
same joke will do day after day I'm a
factory; an old one is almost as good
as a neNy one to break the mental
honotouy. When ones habitual activ-
ity is with ones fingers one isn't very
critical of mental efforts.
STILL were you to ask them, any or
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 tney 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
orDment in these controversies
Of the hundred men employed-for
j. was small factory-there was but
one with an Amerlcan-bOrn parent.
though considerable number We're
themselves born ia America. The one
hundred We're 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 StSes to Immediately offer them
Inducements to stay when IL heard of
their intended leaving.
They Discuss Liberty Bonds.
Charles. in the lightest corners
few years ago he would have been
Karl-was always talking about the
price Of food II 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.
might There IS going 10 be trouble
in this country some day and the gov
eminent deserves all that Is coming to
them. The government ought to do
everything il 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 a
IrotectOrate-was born financier.
He had actually been talking about a
bond on the dollar-a-week plan, but no
one in the workrooms seemed 10 think
II good Investment II would be bet
ter to buy sugar or whisky and keep il
for n higher price. So 10 had simply
talked for the past two weeks; he had
not decided. One might get AZ per
cent, or even per cent later II
would be better to wait
The government dor-'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 sulciCe!"
"Well-Td Ike 10 buy a bond,' broke
in Old Bailey, couragaously. Old Bal
ley was born among The Pennsylvania
Dutch But, with sixteen dollars a
week, and a family. don't see how
I can"
Nor do L." said the tall young rnag
of whom the men said. His mother
was born here"
All Are Buying Sends.
The machines hummed on. the voices
rising and falling In opposition, when
suddenly the eager face % Jo-the
news gatherer-was thrush through the
door: There's an Italian banker in
the second room talking TO the wops
about Liberty bonds" he informed.
The voices censed. Everybody wished
he could hear.
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
themi 7"
| In shorter time than 1t could have
taken 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 Gu
| riously mt one another; never before
| had they seen themselves en- masse. 1t
was strange assembly. with its dirty
| aprons. its rough. lined faces and quiet
tongues. 1t 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
srandly; and there had been much Of
| italia 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 &C.
knowledEcd that living was high and
hard hut nevertheless everyone who
did not help was a Stacker And. in
convincing conclusion: IF we don't
! give our money, the government is go
Russian Farmers and Liberty Bonds.
Germany has taken possession Of
! several hundred thousand square miles
| of fertile Russian aud Roumanian ter