Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-06-01
STAMP CAMPAIGN
REAL MANS WORK
Time to Stop Bucking in
Circle and Start For Real
Goul if War Stamps are
to be Sold.
BY Earl Wayland Bowman-of the
War Savings Service.

1
Once, when there were COW w-punch-
ers and long-horns and things like
that, Skinny Rawlins saddled a Wild
horse that was in his string, rolled
a cigarette, frightened his spurs,
climbed on deck and bingo-nose
between his knees, back humped,
tail Hopping like dy-swatter that
mustang started sun-fshing starting
In to bucking in a circle.
The circle was about a hundred
feet across,
He was jumping sun-of-a-gun
But he jumped high and wide in
stead of out and ahead.
Bert Lilly and | were watching
the entertainment.
That blamed fool horse thinks
he's going somewhere but he ain't :"
Bert remarked, he's just bouncing
up an down"
Skinny was riding smooth, smok-
ing his cigarette, calm and peaceful
and raking the bronch in the shoul-
ders every buck he made.
Pretty soon the horse got another
idea--he stretched his nose out to-
ward the Costello Hills and away he
went, belly to ground tail straight
out Lord, he was running.
He's evidently going somewhere
now" | casually suggested land he's
doing 1t kind of sudden--that's what
call hittin' the breeze genuine
beautiful and artistic!'
Yeah Bert answered, hes got
the right idea now
The point is this: Horses or
hombres, cayuses or congresses, mus
tangs or men, none OF them. ever
do arrive anywhere till they get the
right idea-and start.
Bucking In circle doesn't count.
We've got TO hit the breeze. That's
it.
If we want to catch the kaiser
we've got TO hit the breeze!
To a certain extent we've been
"sun-flshing' been bucking In
circle on this War Savings Stamp
business.
Let's hit the breeze while Let's
get the right idea about them.
Let's get straightned out once and
start and when we start go and when
we 60 go like helllike the mus
tang Skinny was riding when he
headed for the hills.
We've been thinking, lot OF us,
War savings was kids job.
A kids job to raise $2,0OO,00O,
600 two thousand million dollars by
the first day of next January?
We sure do need d different idea!
It's a mans job. No kid stunt.
though the kiddies, God bless them
can help have helped, are helping
a lot.
But get rid of that "sun-fshing"
idea that this is Juvenile pastime.
II is not. War Savings is SER
ious, gigantic, necessary part OF
Americas war program and the
people all Of them of America
have got to put 1t through.
Think Of 1t; Two thousand mill
lion dollars!
That means its up to you and me
and Bill and Agnes and Bessie and
May and the rest OF us to save an
average of twenty dollars each from
our unnecessary expenditures dur
ing this twelve months and spend
that money for War Savings Stamps.
We've got to get the saving habit.
We've had the spending habit long
enough.
The saving habit is good habit
a habit worth having.
IL taxes nerve, II takes o man who
is all man, to develope that sort OF
a habit. Any darned fool can get
the otherkind.
ANY idiot can squander money
you've got to be wise as thunder
to keep it, to spend 1t right.
War savings sure is an adult prop
osition
There isn't any use bucking in
circle any longer.
We've got to prove we're pure
bred Americans and buy that two
thousand million dollars worth of
War Savings Stamps.
Let's fiatten out and hit the breeze
and do it,