Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-20
{0ND BUCS'' ARE CAUSE OF
 NEW DISEASE
(Tom Bl0dgett.)

'a .aonv nueer ailments and diseas-
 Fortunately they seldom ever
 ,ve fatal Now that the armisticc
 been signed and the clutches of
 ;hle % nightmare have been dis
 lod M and folks are able to resume
 % avocations of life with unburden-
 hearts, we go to the other extreme
 work our American spirit of in-
 I;duality over time.
 No one argues for minuate that
 nocracy is the only ideal form ot
 rernment, but with the liberty of
 eech and action there comes with
 2 wanton license to spout and
 utter and scold everything in sight
 at does not come up to our liking.
 .Rond Bugs" is the new disease
 .t has just been matched in the
 ee of the fifth loan issue known
 the Victory loan.
 When Hindenburg stretched his
 mparts like an lmpregnible wall
 rross the continent of Europe and
 owlv backed the allies to the edge
 the sea, we went into hysteria and
 ,ssed our government officials for eing molly coddles and tore our hair hit because we were unprepared Ill pon and munitions and training, to end three million warriors across the pas to stem the tide of death and estruction of the fiendish Hun.
 Gobbled Up News.
 With pallor on our faces we went ut in the front yard in our sock eet and an overcoat slipped on over bur pajamas to get the paper and cad the latest news from the red lot battle front.
 We went back in the house with
 grouch and the kids scrambled un. Ter the chairs or bed or any where lse they could find safety from the toe of our wrath. The Germans were hopping up everything in sight and hell was to pay.
 We were right in our feverish in- terest to whip the Hun dogs at any sacrifice or cost, and the entrance of our doughboys brought the end of the war from one to two years sooner than the ablest military experts had i predicted.
 We went into patriotic spasms and l blew all the steam out of the boilers l and engines in America whist l ling our unbounded delight, we hugged the whole family including the hired girl, and dragged tin tubs and COW bells over paved streets by moon- light and sober church deacons rob- bed the family medicine chests and got as drunk as lords. Nobody cared, nobody criticized we were all drunk with happiness as we'll we might be. Even St. Peter might. have kicked a few slats out of the banisters of the celestial city with propriety for God and right had won.
 Prepared In Haste.
 When the machinery of America was run till the bearings smoked turning the implements of peace in- to weapons of death dealing destruct- ion, our boys were shipped ill droves to hastily built cantonments, and half sheltered, were hammered into har- dened soldiers with almost tighten Ing speed, water soaked ships were secured and cleaned; automobile factories, founderies, saw mills and junk yards were converted overnight into war work shops and our rail- roads, express companies, river bar seS and telegraph systems were com mandered to distribute the supplies or war equipment. True it cost a lot or 3, money to do it, billions of dollars flowed like streams of water.
 Every business industry in America was subverted to supply necessary war material and equipment, contrac- tors were taken off road building and otner forms of public construction farms and businesss houses of all M Ali'ds were stripped of their man pow cl ana every citizen of any physical strength had to double up and do the Work of two to ten men.
 ', . Wages Mounted.
 ohskilled labor was paid master nnsIlanlcs Il wages, men who could no'u a hammer were put under ordin- ,' ary carpenters and drew big wages. w. waste and extravaganza was apparent oa u every hand, but no one with pat iioIc L sense cared whoop, for we naa a Job to do and with the help of God we did it. The waste a,,u as |! extravagance was in fact economy vi ,u ene strictest business type for while we, we mad slept the hun had strangle "olu ,,n on our very life and liberty; we were sn;l told where we could sail our "ps omah. ana where we could not. We v';g vusht to have ripped the ocean bed thu M,ue open within a fortnight after ,"e ,.a. sinking of the Lusitania, but we as we're just as much prepared to do so S;,.t! sa two year old baby would be to iisht Jess Willard.
 ' was a case of act or dic--Wc s,a, the money we spent all psayeu n"i, at home and went into the pv.Ael pra !, books of American wage earn ms,, u,smthc time saved in whipping Ger y lany saved millions of lives and bil- m,, nv.s of dollars which a prolonged nla ma' would have cost. Now few peo- l", p'e suddenly discover a pain in their hond l pleXus and say they won't buy ovnu ov'.us and that the job cannot be put 0scr and the money was wasted.
 rh Sacrifice Was Small.
 j, ahe average man don't know what L L sacrifice is and no man in money