The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
is YOUR HOME TOWN
in THE UNITED STATES2
Read this Story Of Jacksonville and
Be Sure About It

careful to lay = lot Of emphasis O
the giving"
In the meanwhile the so per 10
hogs and the $2-2s a bushel wheat wa
moving to market right along Wit
the high-priced beeves and the eng,
de luxe and all the other high-pr1ce,
foodstuhs that we're coming from tn.
country In which most Of Jefferson
vile was vitality interested. There wa.
more money being spent than eve
before in the history of the town
Nearly everybody had a car ordered
and the income tax paid with some
weeping and wailing and CRASHING O.
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 congratulating 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 lightnings. Jacksonville was
not looking much further than it's
immediate horizon-than the u
ters and the ledgers and the farms
and the fields, the getting and buying
and selling. Jacksonville, as has
been noted, was trying its 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 and 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 it.
Nevertheless ~Jeffersonville could
entirely forget the Victory Loan.
The newspapers were talking about
1t was in full swing all over the
country with the usual asonizing I'M
certainties as to what district was
going to first clear the ropes with its
quota subscribed. J~effersonville stirred
family in its sleep and a few of the
Americans placed their
subscriptions and began to remon-
strate.
However, it was tacitly understood
n Jacksonville hat the loan was
lot a subject of general conversation.
rhe weather was never more talked |
about anywhere than it was in that
little town for a few days. Then the
workers, those who had testirrod
themselves in the OIL er loans, began
o feel uneasy and conscience-strick-
n. Men began to mention the loan,
'ort OF tentatively.
Then J~ehersonvi1le went through 4
mother curious phase. 1t began to
~ and persuade itself that the loau
ught- to fail and that it would fail.
Teach these Smart Alexis down 10
sumthin'," muttered moro
han n J~effersonviHe citizen to him
elf.
Beginning to Sting 'Em.
kilograms and long distance calls
to sting a few of the citizens
ut they managed to forget about
hem in a day or so. The Loan was
along day by day but Jener-
quota was hanging fire. Ben
chs was chuckling to himself and
autiously imparting his views to a
OF his intimates. The humbling
I Germany was a bitter dose for him.
would keep still when he had to.
ut he was more than pleased to see
lat Jacksonville was not hothertns
self about the fool loan" It pleased
le Hunnish soul Of him to feel that
= Yankee pigs" we're Indifferent t, !,
leir lean. He could % forget that !,
s brother and cousins had worn the !.
of the Kaiser's guard With
lott Nit Uns" on their belt buckles
Id he had gloated with them, in !,
over the spoil and the
OF hat was to have been theirs IN
aris and London. So he strength :
led the determination Of his ac-j
laintances not to sign for . dollars :
orth of bonds and felt better 1se u :
6 50 every night !.