The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-05-01
IF You Are Annexed to Hunland
You Should Soon
Vs. Find It Out
Patriotism Is Asleep In Some
~ Places and Must Be
Awakened
The Teuton's View.

Il got all he talk about the war
and dose Liberty Bonds. | want to
hear any way" grunted Ben Ochs, the
butcher. at is a foolishness. For why
should l give more money so Yankee
soldiers can be kept over in Cher
many? What business We got init
dose soldiers over dere? | say let
'em come homei"
"Und." he went on warming to his
subject, II say let dem big veilers,
dem Rockefellers and dem Morgans
and dem oder big guys dake dis loan.
Let desc bankers dot run around after
us last fall and make us sign oop,
let dem dake the loan. Bah! War
IL ofer, what We care. We don't have
to buy no more. We do as We dam
please, now / guess. l got about,
enough OF dis tam Yankee fool"
Maybe If Sim Whites bull dog
all spraddled out on Jerry Keegan's
mastiff. Ochs would have gone on and
said what was in the Teuton heart OF
him and Jeffersonville would have
promptly resented II and in the act
of setting Ben Ochs right would prob
ably have set itself right. But the
dog fight drew EN- all into the half
lighted street and by the time the
two pups had been hammered apart
the gang that poured out of Jackson's
harness shop had just about forgotten
any and everything that had been
said.
II was mild winter and the folks
Of Jeffersonville were abroad good
deal. The farmers from the surround
ing coratry were in town regularly al
winter long. But In all the little
groups that formed on street corners.
in the Post Office. in the stores and
at the railway station. little was said
about the coming Liberty Loan.
Patriotism Asleep.
"Can't see the reason for it, said
Sid Price," "and l got better places to
put nay money than in any long-term.
less than ak per cent Government
loan. All right for widders and such
to buy EN-. but l want my money to
earn me somethin'"
And it was. He must have been the
man OF whom 1t was first said that
he would skin flea for It's hide and
tallow and he was currently reported
to have an armful OF per cent farm
mortgages locked up in a vault. In
the first four loans the Liberty Loan
Committees had all but used forceps
and branding iron to get any kind
of subscription out of him.
And old Sid climbed into his buck
board buggy and struck out through
the mud of late winter in search OF
another victim.
So Jefrersonvile went along that
way. The spring winds came and the
mud dried up and the young shoots
made bronze miss OF baby foliage
in the tops OF the maple trees. There
were dandellons en- the lawns and
along the board walks but Jefferson
villes attitude did not soften with
the advancing year. Jacksonville
had just about made up its mind The
war was over anyway. the boys were
coming back, things were going to be
all right and Jeffersonville was going
to hold on to its money. Hadn't il
done all right on everything else and
who could expect a neighborhood to
go right along forever, buying and Civ.
ing and giving? The townsfolk were
careful to lay lot of emphasis on
the giving"
In the meanwhile the $40 per 100
hogs and the 1925 bushel wheat was
moving to market right along with
the high priced beeves and the eggs
de luxe and all the other hlgh-priced
foodstuffs that were coming from the
country in which most of Jefferson
vile was vitality interested. There was
more money being spent than ever
before in the history of the town.
Nearly everybody had q car ordered
and the income tax paid with some
weeping and wailing and crashing of
teeth and much inward bleeding
was being forgotten. The dealers were
busy selling new pumps. new plows.
a tractor now and then and many.
many motor cars. The piano and or
gan man, who also sold talking ma
chimes. was eongratuiating himself on
record business. The milliners and
dry goods people we're pot complain
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