, 1918-04-11
N PARTNERSHIP
WITH UNCLE SAM
|avinu Liberty Bonds Aids Our
War, Our Army, Our Boys.
now WoRKMEN Do THEIR Bit
Investment Brings Good Returns, In
Addition to Giving Financial As
sIstance Every Loyal Citizen
owes His Government.
tsy EVA DEAN Of the vIeiIantes.)

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II was Just another day in the fac
tory. There was nothing prophetic in
the hum of the machines; 1t was quite
Ihe everyday hum. The workmen
| naked loudly to be heard they always
naked while they worked; they liked
the sound of their own voices. 1t mat
tered not much what they said-the
sane Joke will do day after day in a
factory m old one is almost as good
as q new one to break the mental
monotony. When ones habitual activ-
lty Is with ones fingers n 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 about-the warl The
only trouble-though no one really
seemed to mind that-was that there
was no M around to uphold the gov
eminent in these controversies.
OF the hundred men employed-for
II was Il small factory-there was but
one with an American-born parent,
though n 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
talked 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 ~ 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, 1
might. There is going to be trouble
in this country some day and the gov
eminent deserves all that is coming to
them. The government ought to do
everything 1t 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
protectorate-was a born financier.
He had actually been talking about a
bond on the dollar-a-week plan, but no
one In the workrooms seemed to think
1t a good investment. 1t would be bet
Ter to buy sugar or whisky and keep 1t
for a higher price. So 10 had simply
talked for the past two weeks; he had
not decided. One might get An per
cent, or wen 5 per cent laterl 1t
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. "We don't know
what goes on there. No wonder lots
OF them commit suicide! |"
"Well-Td Ike to buy a bond" broke
IN Old Bailey, courageously. Old Bal
ley was born among the Pennsylvania
Dutch. But, with sixteen dollars a
week, and a family. / don't see how
l can"
Nor do l." said the tall young man
OF whom the lei said, His mother
was born here"
All Are Buying Bonds.
Inc machines hummed on, the voices
rising and falling in opposition, when
suddenly the eager face of Jo-the
news gatherer-w was thrust through the
door; There's an Italian banker In
'he second room talking to the wops
uncut Liberty bonds" he Informed.
Inc voices ceased. Everybody wished
he could hear.
mes still talking All the wops
aFe In there" spread the news to every
of the building and then close
upon that: They're buying them /;
III u shorter time than 1t could have
,oNtii a man to walk through the build
my every one In it knew that the
NopS-the lowest-paid men of them
buying Liberty bonds.
PRESENTLY all the workmen who could
understand English were assembled
~ one room. They looked about Gu
.''usly at one another; before
."u iley seen themselves en- masse. 1t
" strange assembly, with its dirty
lprohS' its rough, lined faces and quiet
,o"Hles. 1t must have seemed such
d" lhe salesman; his mouth set per-
me Italian orator had g%esticulated
,I"nlIy and there had been much of
i'"nh! Italia !" But this man, after
nrst look at the faces before him,
's'Iu'n not to talk patriotism. SO he
'illllN stutp1 that nur unvarau,nnN x,oa