Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-04-24
IS YOUR HOME TOWN
IN THE UNITED STATES?
Read this Story Of Jacksonville and
Be Sure About It

the giving"
/ In the, meanwhile the $40 per 100
hogs ana the $22s a)bushel wheat was
moving to market right along with
the highpriced beeves and the eggs
de luxe yand all 1.-THE other high-priced
foodstufs that were, coming from the
country In which NEST Of Je6erson-
vile was vitality, interested. There was
more money being spent than over
before in tie history of the town.
iNeariy everybody had = car ordered
and the Income tax paid with some
sweepings and wailing and gnashing Of
teeth and much inward bleeding
was beingtforgotten. The dealers were
busy selling new pumps. new plows.
10 tractor now and then and many,
many motor cars The piano and or
gan man, who also sold talking ma
chimes, was congrntulatinE himself on
"a record business. The milliners and
,dry goods people were not complain
ing. thank you.
Loan Talk Avoided.
In the meanwhile the ships were
bringing thousands of young Ameri-
cans home. And Central Europe was
beginning to rumble and emit vol
canic ligftnings. Jeffersonville was
not looking much further than its
immediate horizon-than the coun-
tors and the ledgers and the farms
and the fields, the getting and buying
and selling. Jeffersonville, as has
been noted, was trying its best to for
get all about the war.
The Loan, started. All over the ma
tion devoted1 men and women bent to
the task oftraising 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 and litersture sent to jefferson
vile were left in the express Office.
The town slepti 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. Jacksonville stirred
family in it's sleep and = few Of the
dyed-in-wool Americans placed their
subscriptions and began to remon-
strate.
However. It was tacitly understood
in Jeffersonviae 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 4 few days. Then the
workers, those who had bestirred
themselves in the otter loans, began
to feel uneasy. and cooscience-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 Alecks down 10
Washington sxmthin'." muttered more
than one Jeffersonvilse citizen to him.
sa4.
Beginning to sting EN-.
kilograms and long distance calls
began to sting a few Of the citizens
but they managed 70 forget about
them in day or 80. The Loan was
moving along day by day but Jo4fer-
senville's quota was hanging ire Ben
Oehs was chuckling to himself and
cautiously imparting his views to .
few Of his intimates. The humbling
Of Germany was bitter dose for him.
He would keep still when he had to.
bat he was more than pleased to see
that Jacksonville was not bothering
tEseN about the fool loan" It pleased
H. Hunnish soul OF him to feel that
ths Yankee pigs" were Indifferent to
their loan He could not forget that
his brother and cousins had worn the
helmets of the Kaisers guard with
s0ott Nit Uns" on their belt buckles
and he had gloated with them, IN
magination, over the spoil and the
leot that was to have been theirs IN
Paris and London. So he strsngth-
eaed the determination Of bis &C
Guaintances not to sign for Hollar's
yvorfh az bonds and fAlt haffar4 for do.