The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-13
Buying Liberty Bonds Aids Our
War, Our Army, Our Boys.
HOW WORKMEN DO THEIR BIT
investment Brings Good Returns, In
Addition to Giving Financial As
slstance Every Loyal Citizen
Owes His Government.
(By EVA DEAN onthe vieiIantes.)

the everyday hum. The worlimen
talked loudly to be heard; they always
talked while they worked; they liked
the sound of their own voices. 1t mat
tered not much what they said-the
same joke VIII do day after day In
factory an old one is almost as good
as a new one to break the mental
monotony. When ones habitual activ-
fly is wieh ones fingers one isn't very
critical of mental efforts.
Still, were you to ask them, any of
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 volleys they 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 ahout-the war The
only trouble-though no one really
seemed to mind that-was that there
was no one around to uphold the gov
ernment in these controversies.
OF the hundred men employed-for
II was - small factory-there was but
one with an American-born parent,
though considerable number were
themselves born in America. The one
hundred were all here by choice, how
ever, and hardly one ever really eX-
pected to live anywhere else But they
Galked as though they might; and one
could imagine they expected the Unit
ed States TO Immediately offer them
Inducements to stay when it heard of
their Intended leaving.
They Discuss Liberty Bonds.
Charles, in the lightest corner-a
few years ago he would have been
Karl-was always talking about the
price of food 81 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 to be trouble
in this country some day and the gov
ernment deserves all that is coming to
them. The government ought to do
everything it can to keep the good will
of the people. Why-beer-" Charles
can never talk long without mention
ing beer.
iJo-whose early training was in a
protectorate-was born financier.
He had actually been talking about n
bond on the dollar-a-week plan, but no
one In the workrooms seemed to think
It a good investment. 1t would be bet
ter to buy sugar or whisky and keep IL
for higher price. So 10 had simply
talked for the past two weeks; he had
not decided. One might get Az per
or avap nor pant Iatart It
would be better to wait.
"The government don't feed the boys
in CAMP" shouted the porter.
"Of course 1t don't" yelled the thin
man by the window. 1--WE don't know
what goes on there. No wonder lots
of them commit sulcide"
"Well-rd like to buy bond" broke
I'm Old Bailey, courageously. Old Bal
ley was born among the Pennsylvania
Dutch. But, with sixteen dollars
week, and n family, 1 don't see how
j can."
"Nor do l." said the tall young man
was born here"
All Are Buying Bonds.
The machines hummdd on, the voices
rising and falling in opposition, when
suddenly the eager face of Jo-the
news gatherer-was thrust through the
door: "There's an Italian banker in
the second room talking to the wops
about Liberty bonds" he informed.
The voices ceased. 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
theml"
In a shorter time than 1t could have
taken a man to walk through the build
ing. every one in it 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
I'm one room. They looked about GU
Tiously at one another; never before
had they seen themselves en- masse. 1t
was n strange assembly, with its dirsy
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
grandly; and there had been much OF
"Italial Italia !" But this man, after
his first look ut 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 ac-
knowledged that living was high and
hard, but nevertheless everyone who
did not help was a Stacker. And, in
convincing conclusion: "If we don't