Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-03
Communicated

Editor of JoURNAL:-I would like to
have a few lines of your space TO ex-
press my opinion aud views of the
slackers in our community. ! am re-
ferring 10 the ones who refuse to let
their dollars work to help the United
States win this terrible war now, and
for the past three years and a half rag
ing in France and Belgium. Do these
siackers think it does not cost money
TO clothe our boys, supply them with
food and ammunition in oder to keep
10 fighting form. / heard one of them
say, ssjust wait until boys get over
there and it will soon be all over with
the Germans" If all the American
people were as parsimonious as these
slackers, who not only have a yellow
streak, but are yellow all the way
through, our boys would be ready to
do battle with the Huns clothed in
fig leaves, using mud for ammunition
and could inhale a good large mouth
full of free fresh air DIETER known as
wind ~pudding) for breakfast. Where
is your American patriotism you brag
so much about during peace times; now
is the time to show it, and let your
country and the boys now fighting
"over there" know you are one of the
working units of this great Govern
ment aud doing all you d to win this
great war. As [ heard one gentleman
say in a speech, ia half hearted pa
triot was first cousin to a German"
A community is like an automobile,
and when the owner Of an auto finds
one OF his cylinders not working and
doing its share, he knows it is not eff
ficient and doing all 1t should do or
capable of doing to make the machine
go; he has it run into a shop to fix it,
and that is what every community
should do with the human cylinders
In their midst, refusing to work and do
their share in LOANING, not CIV
ING, Uncle Sam some of their money
by purchasing Liberty Bonds and War
Saving stamps. They should be fixed
and made to do their share Of the work
just the same as an auto cylinder. Some
thing should be done with these slack
ers, who evidently think by keeping
their mouth shut, they will be able 10
slip by and hold on to their dollars and
make no sacrifices but go on enjoying
themselves, and living just the same as
usual; but there is just where they are
mistaken; every Stacker on this island
is known, as a record is kept of every
u purchasing a Liberty Bond. You
are known, Mr.. Yellow Stacker.
/ heard one of them say it made his
blood run cold to think of this barbar-
GUS war. That is the trouble, their
blood runs SO cold it freezes the dollars
fast to their pockets. What Is the mat
ter with getting after these slackers
and making it SO hot for them it will
cause their blood to go tingling through
their veins and reach such a high tenn
p~erature it will thaw out the dollars
they have stored in their refrigerator
system.
Five Mile Beach has too many of
this class Of people, who get by and
show their patriotism by standing up
when the band plays the Star Spang-
led Banner, and the only reason they
do that is because 1t does not cost the a.
anything.
l would like to be one of a comm it.
tee of twenty-five to get one of these
slackers lin the centre of a circle and
whileusing no violence, just keepmoving
toward the depot and give him to un.
derstand it was a case OF doing his
share, by purchasing Liberty Bonds
or getting on the train, and If he came
back would be hunting trouble. Now,
you good Red Blooded patriotic Amer
leans. don't be a Stacker yourself, but
do your part to rid the community of
such vermin.
GEORGE w. BANKS.