The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-04-23
1t You Are Annexed to Hunland
You Should Soon
Find It Out
Patriotism Is Asleep In Some
Places and Must Be
Awakened

him Harve worked at managing q
produce house and cream station.
Il don't see how I am going to find
any money for it," said Alex Karnes,
a big young farmer from up the turn.
pike. 81 would like to buy some
spring wheat seed and see IL I can't
pick up some of that $2.26 bushel
for wheat that the Governments guar
anteed for this year. I think we could
grow it around here if the season hap
pened to be just about right. Yes, I
think l will hold on to my dough and
see If can't make me a little piece
of money this fall"
The Teuton's View.
81 got all the talk about the war
and dose Liberty Bonds, l want to
hear any way" grunted Ben Ochs, the
butcher. "It is foolishness. For why
should l give more money so Yankee
soldiers can be kept over in Cher
many? What business We got NIT
dose soldiers over dere? I say let
'em come home!"
"Und," he went on warming to his
subject, 81 say let dem big vellers,
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
is Offer, 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
hadn't taken this exact instant to hop
all spraddled out on Jerry Keegan's
mastiff, Ochs would have gone on and
said what was in the Teuton heart of
him and Jacksonville would have
promptly resented it and in the act
of setting Ben Ochs right would prob
ably have set itself right. But the
dog fight drew 'em 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.
1t was a mild winter and the folks
of Jacksonville were abroad a good
deal. The farmers from the surround
ing country were in town regularly all
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 got better places to
put my money than in any long-term.
less than six per cent Government
loan. All right for widders and such
to buy 'em. but want my money to
earn me somethin'."
And 1t was. He must have been the
man of whom 1t was first said that
he would skin a flea for its hide and
tallow and he was currently reported
to have an armful Of z per cent farm
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 bdggy and struck out through
the mud of late winter In search of
another victim.
So JeffersonvnIe went along that
way. The spring winds came and the
mud dried up and the young shoots
made bronze mist of baby foliage
n the tops Of the maple trees. There
we're dandelions on the lawns and
ilong the board walks but Jefferson
lilies attitude did not soften with
he advancing year. Jacksonville
had just about made up its mind. The
var was over anyway. the boys were
coming back. things were going to be
II right and Jeffersonville was going
o hold on to its money. Hadn't 1t
lone all right on everything else and