The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
If You Are Annexed to Hunland
You Should Soon !.
Find It Out
Patriotism Is Asleep In Some
Places and Must Be
Awakened

Il don't see how I am going to find
any money for it," said Alex Karnes
a big young farmer from up the urn
pike. Il would like to buy some
spring wheat seed and see il l CAM
pick up some of that 1925 a bushel
for wheat that the Governments guar
anteed for this year. l think we could
grow it around here if the season hap
pened to be just about right. Yes, 1
think l will hold on to my dough and
see If I can't make me a little piece
of money this fall"
The Teuton's View.
II got all the talk about the war
and dose Liberty Bonds, l want to
hear any way" grunted Ben Ochs, the
butcher. ut is a f~oolishness. For why
should I give more money so Yankee
soldiers can be kept over in Cher
many? What business We got NIT
dose soldiers over dere? l say let
EN- come home!"
"Und." he e on warming to his
subject. Il say let dem big ~vellers,
dem Rockefeller1 and dem Morgans
and dem oder big guys dake dis loan.
Let desc bankers dot run around after
rs last fall and make us sign oop,
let dem dake the loan. Bah! War
is ofer, what We care. We don't have
to buy no more. We do as We dam
please, now l guess. I got about
enough Of dis tam Yankee fool"
Maybe If Sim Whites bull dog
hadn't taken this exact instant to hop
all spraddled out on Jerry Keegan's
mastin, Ochs would have gone on and
said what was in the Teuton heart OF
him and Jacksonville would have
promptly resented 1t and in the act
Of setting Ben Ochs right would prob
ably have set itself right. But the
dog fight drew EN- all into the half
lighted street and by the time the
two pups had been hammered apart
the gang that poured out of Jackson's
harness shop had just about forgotten
any and everything that had been
said.
1t was a mild winter and the folks
of J~enersonville were abroad a 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
Price" land I got better places to
put my money than in any long-term,
less than six per cent Government
loan. All right for widders and such
to buy 'em, but 1 want my money to
me somethin'."
And it a He must have been the
man Of whom it was first said that
he would skin a nea for it's hide and
tallow and he was currently reported
70 have an armful Of Z per cent farm
locked up in a vault. In
first four loans the Liberty Loan
had all but used forceps
a branding iron to get n kind
If q subscription. out Of him.
And old Sid climbed into his buck
board buggy and struck out through
he mud of late winter in search OF
victim.
So ~Jeffersonville went along that
way. The spring winds came and the
mud dried up and the young shoots
made = bronse mist Of baby foliage
n the tops Of the maple trees. There
we're dandelions on the lawns and
along the board walks but Jefferson
riile's attitude did moi soften with
he advancing year. Ief1ersonville
had Just about made up It's mind. The
var was over anyway. tho boys we're
hack. things were going to be
n right and. J~elfersoaville vas soinx
. hold on 10 ii noney. Hadn't It
lone an right - s~verything slee and