The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-05-01

about sucn tnlngs wnen ne is S,UoU
miles from home"
I'VE kind O. got notion, mister
soldier than we did our part!" pired
as though in explanation and self-de-
tense.
you do. do you? You have, have
you!" said the man in uniform. 81
wonder IL you really think that?
You've been here at home. You
haven't been out o. Gods own country.
You never heard bullet whistle In
your life. You Lever swallowed down
tho 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 on.
night durin' the war. You were mover
| German prisoner and had your rib
licked loose from your spine. l won
der II you mean that you went aheac
about your business. Wages wen;
up and prices went up and you. bough
Liberty Bonds the first times and yol
helped with the Red Cross and so on
"Hut it makes me sick to hear a
MAJ who never got out of rife shot OF
his own 'front.' door says that he die
as much to help win this war as the
mar. who hoped over in No Mans
Land and wrestled with the barbed
wire. with machine gun bullets and
Bosch bayonets. That is plain bunk.
You've got good ways to go 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"
Before noon every human being in
Jeffersonville heard about it. Some
were angry, some were ashamed, 9th.
ers were enthused and the town
buzHed like hornets nest.
A Town Redeemed.
But a flag here and there began
to make its appearance. Men began
to 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 house
toulouse canvass of the village. He
said some stirring things and some
Earring things. But Jacksonville 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 cane 1880 and the hall was
jammed early-every seat filed. 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 I'VE 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 Sc
cedcd from 1t.
Now. we can make this thing short
and snappy. Blanks have been dis
tributed.a There Is no use in any
speeches. Let's put our names down,
raise our part of this loan and do the
talking afterwardsi"
Or. yes. about every man In the
towS enrolled himself Yes, Ben Ochs,
TeutOn enough to scent trouble for
himself If he didn't. was one of the
first subscribers. He had seen to
ii that other Teutonophiles had done
the same. The quota was well ov =
subscribed, the next day a few strag-
gIeri were rounded up and Jefferson
vile came back into the United States
of America with q whoop.
And they located Sid Price on a
country phone line down In the river
bottom country and in the heayina cf
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