The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-05-01
IS YOUR HOME. TOWN
IN THE UNITED STATES?
Read this Story of Jacksonville and
i Be Sure About It agaw !
Loan Talk Avoided.

not lOOkluS MUCH IuTtneT imam It's
immediate horizon-than the coun-
ters and the ledgers and the farms
and the fields, the getting and buying
and selling. Jeffersonville, as has
been noted. was trying it's best to for
get all about the war.
The Loan started All over the ma.
ton devoted men and women bent to
the task of raising the money so ur'
gently needed for the financing OF the
United States Of America in its year
after the war. The Liberty Loan post
ers anu literature sent to Jefferson
Vile were left in the express office.
The town slept placidly on. 1t seemed
to have been forgotten by the county
organization. No one disturbed 1t.
Nevertheless Jeffersonville could
not entirely forget the Victory Loan
The newspapers were talking about
it. 1t was in full swing all over the
country with the usual agonizing un-
certainties as to what district was
going to first clear the ropes with its
quota subscribed. Jeffersonville stirred
family in its sleep and few OF the
dyed-:n-wool Americans placed their
subscriptions and began to remon-
strate
However, 1t was tacitly understood
in Jeffersonville that the loan was
not subject of general conversation.
The weather was never more talked
about anywhere than it was in that
little town for few days. Then the
themselves In the otter loans, began
to feel uneasy and conscienee-strick-
en-. Men began to mention the loan,
sort of tentatively.
Then Jacksonville went through
another curious phase. 1t began to
try and persuade itself that the loan
ought to fail and that it would fail.
Teach these Smart Alexis down 10
Washington sumthin'," muttered more
than one Jeffersonville citizen to him
self.
Beginning to sting EN-.
kilograms and long distance calls
began to sting few of the citizens
but they managed 60 forget about
them in q day or so. The Loan was
moving along day by day but Jeffer-
sonville's quota was hanging fire. Ben
Ochs was chuckling to himself and
cautiously imparting his views to q
few OF his intimates. The humbling
of Germany was bitter dose for him.
He would keep still when he had to,
but he was more than pleased to see
that Jacksonville was not bothering
itself about the fool loan" 1t pleased
the Hunnish soul of him to feel that
the Yankee pigs" were Indifferent to
their loan. He could not forget that
his brother and cousins had worn the
helmets of the Kaiser's guard with
Colt Nit Uns" on their belt buckles
and he had gloated with them, in
imagination, over the spoil and the
loot that was to have been theirs In
Paris and London. So he strength
ened the determination OF his &C.
quaintances not to sign for dollars
worth of bonds and felt better for do
ing SO every night.
Then something happened that
drove Jeffersonville into hysterical
wakefuiness. 1t seemed that the
towns indifference was being rather
widely advertised and the time had
come when personal and vigorous
work had to be done by the district
loan committee. And the weapon, the
very instrument came shaped to their
hand.
He was boyish young soldier. with
deep set eyes. He wore wound
chevron and the gold service stripes
that told OF months OF overseas serv.
ice. And he hated a Stacker and he
hated Hun and he had no patience
with the mouthy . il. who loved to
carry morbid tales, who loved to hint
at troubles between the Allies And
few years before he had lived In
Jacksonville and he knew every man
and woman in 1t and most Of the chill
dren. And-he had gone into Ar
gonne Wood and the Mouse Elbow and
the barbed wire hell that the Germans
had made OF the old Hindenburg Line.
elbow to elbow with the home towI
boys from Jacksonville
Chance, aided b. some design. sent
him to Jacksonville a the Liberty
Loan drive for the Fifth and the last
OF the series was turning into the
home stretch. II was the business OF
Sergeant Colvin, late Of the tn
Machine Gun Battalion. to find what
was a,Ang the old hometown folks.