The spectator., 1919-04-18
If You Are Annexed to Hunland You Should Soon
 Find It Out
Patriotism Is Asleep In Some Places and Must Be
 Awakened

pTOuuce mousse ana credHl Statfon.
 q don't see how l am going to find any money for it. said Alex Karnes, a big young farmer from up the turn pike "I would like to buy some spring wheat seed and see if I can't pick up some of that $2.26 bushel for wheat that the Governments guar anteed for this year l think we could grow it around here if the season hap Dened to be just about right Yes, 1 think will hold on to my dough and see if I can't make me little piece of money this fall"
 The Teuton's View.
 '1 got all the talk about the war and dose Liberty Bonds. l want to hear any way grunted Ben Ochs. the butcher "It is foolishness For why should give more money 90 Yankee soldiers can be kept over in Cher many? What business ve got init dose soldiers over dere? I say Ls< 'em come home,"
 "Und," he went on warming to his subject, +I say let dem big vellers, dem Rockefellers and dem Morgans and dem oder big guys dake dis toan- Let desc bankers dot run around after Us last fall and make us sign cop. let dem dake the loan. Bah. War is ofer. what ve care. Ve don't have 10 buy no more We do as ve dam please, now guess. got about enough of dis tam Yankee fooi--"
 Maybe if Sim Whites bull dog hadn't taken this exact instant to hop all spraddled out on Jerry Keegan's mastiff, Ochs would have gone on and said what was in the Teuton heart of him and Jeffersonville would have promptly resented it and in the act of setting Ben Ochs right would prob ably have set itself right But the dog fight drew 'em all into the half lighted street and by the time the wo pups had been hammered apart he gang that poured out of Jackson harness shop had just about forgotten any and everything that had been said
 It was a mild winter and the folks of Jeffersonville were abroad good deal. The farmers from the surround ing country were in town regularly all winter long But in all the little groups that formed on street corners, in the Post Office. in the stores and at the railway station. little was said about the coming Liberty Loan.
 Patriotism Asleep.
 Cant see the reason for it," said Sid Price" and I got better places to put my money than in any longterm, isSS lhdu SiA pet NSht NV~Oi hihoAe loan All right for widders and such to buy 'em. but | want my money to earn me somethin'."
 And it was. He must have been the man of whom it was first said that he would skin hea fot it's hide and tallow and he was currently reported to have an armful of per cent farm mortgages locked up in vaut. Tn he first four loans the Liberty Loan Committees had all but used forceps and branding iron 10 get any kind Of a subscription out of him.
 And old Sid climbed into his buck board buggy and struck out through the mud Of late winter in search of another victim.
 So Jeffersonville went along that way. The spring winds cana and the mud dr1sd up and the young shoots made . broass mist of baby foliage in the tops of the maple trees There were dandelions on the lawns end along the board walks but Jefferson- viile's attitude did not soften with | the advancing year, Je1farsonvtlle had just abost made up tts mind. The waT was o~er anyway. the boys vere coming hsek. things were solns to bs aN right and Jeffersonvi1ls was going | b hold on to it's money. Hadn't 1t 1nae an nghs snA