The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-05-30

they left, that you were back OF 'em
TO the finish A fellow thinks a lot
about such things when he IS 5000
miles from home"
I'VE kind O. got a notion. mister
soldier. than we did our part" piped
voice from the end OF the lobby.
as though in explanation and selfde-
Tense. p
You do, do you? You ~ re, have
your" said the man in uniform. Il
wonder II you really think thatr
You've been here at home. You
haven't been out O. Gods own country.
You never heard a bullet whistle IN
your life You never swallowed down
the gas. that burns the insides out OF
you. You never lay wounded for six
teen hours IN No Mans Land. You
never missed sleepin in a bed one
night DIV he war You were never
a Germ, @ -oncr and had your ribs
kicked j. rom your spine. won
der IL you mean that you went ahead
about your business. Wages went
up and prices went up and you bought
Liberty Bonds the first times and you
helped with the Red Cross and so on.
But it makes me sick to hear
man who never got olt Of ride shot Of
his own front d. says that he did
as much.to ho.p win his war as The
man who hopgcl over in No Mans
Land apl wre..icd with the barbed
wire. SAITH machine gun bdllets and
Bosom blyo1cs That is plain bunk.
You've cot good ways TO 80 yet,
my friends. before you can say that
! here and now call a meeting at the
Opera House this night at 1880 and
let's be there and see If we can't
keep this town from acting like an an
mex OF Hun land about this Liberty
Bond business" 1
Before noon every huns being in
Jefersonville heard about II. Some
were angry. some were ashamed, 9th
ers were enthused and the town
buzzed like a hornets nest 80
a Town Redeemed. ia
But a flag here and there began
TO make It's appearance. Men began
10 do sums in mental arithmetic They
also began to make up their minds to
get TO the night meeting. The thing
was more serious than they had
thought. Sergeant Colvin spent a
busy afternoon. When Sid Price
heard he was headed for his office he
hurried out, climbed In the blackboard
and struck out for the country TO be
gone two days. Colvin made a house
toulouse canvass of the village. lie
said some stirring things and some
Earring things. But Jeffersonville was
getting wider awake every moment.
Jacksonville didn't like to look at
its own actions, when it became fully
awake. The phones were busy that
afternoon and early evening. The
town was making up its mind. There
was much scanning of quotas past and
present There was much furtive hur-
rying TO and fro in the early evening.
Then came 1880 and the hall was
1ammed early-every seat filled. The
crowd had hardly settled when Gid
Brown rose and walked heavily up
the aisle. clambered TO the little stage
and raised his hand -
you know what We are here for"
he said. we have been a mighty
foolish little town. This day we were
reminded that we were still in the
United States. We had been acting
as though we had forgotten IT or So
ceded from Il. I'D
Now. we can make this thing short
and snappy. Blanks have been dis
tnbuted. There is no use in any
speeches. Let's put our names down.
raise our part OF this loan and do the
talking afterwardsi- ID
Oh. yes. about ever man in the
town enrolled himself. Yes, Ben Ochs.
Teutnn enough TO scent trouble for
himself II he didn't. was one OF tho
frst Subscribers. He had seen to
II that other Tentonophiles had done
the same. The quota was we'll ovrr
subscribed, the next day few strag-
giers were rounded up and Jefferson
Vile came back into the United States
OF America with a whcop. sps
And they located Sid Price on q
country phone line down IN the river
bottom country and in the hearing OF
some thirty eavesdroppers on the line
told him what his quota would be. Il
was a little bigger than it was in the
Fourth Loan. but he gave the CON-
mittee no back talk 's:s
Then something happened that
drove Jefrersonville into hysterical
wakefuln8s. II 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 shaDei TO their
hand.
lie was . boyish young solder. with
6eep set eyes. He wore wound
chevron and the gold service stripes
thai OF months Of overseas serv-