The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-04-23
BY c. M. MORRISON,
Of General Press Bureau, War Loan
ORGANIZATION. Eighth District.

by ~. M. MONNlOON,
of General Press Bureau, War Loan
Organization, Eighth District.
Somehow the very first mention of
a Fifth Liberty Loan left the little
town of Jacksonville cold.
And yet Jacksonville had been
patriotic enough in the flaming days
when the men of America we're set
ting their faces toward the East and
moving by train and truckload to the
Atlantic ports. Its boys had gone,
some by enlistment, some by the
slower process of the draft. It's women
had worked their fingers sore in the
Red Cross rooms over the Town Hall.
The war drives had gone through with
q whoop. The Liberty Bond quotas,
those Of the First, the Second, the
Third and the Fourth had been over
subscribed at the last minute. Yes,
Jeffersonville had been Average pa
triotic.
Maybe it was war WEAKNESS. May
be it was just Indifference, a feeling
that as soon as the boys came home
everything would fall back into the
old comfortable ways of the days be-.
fore the Kaiserlings went mad back
in 1914. and that a restful, even a
slumberous peace would again des-
cend over the old-timey brick and
frame houses and the maple-lined
streets that wandered on out into the
country and lost themselves in pleas
ant country highways through corn
fields, alfalfa meadows, clumps Of
woods and gently rolling hills.
But this time Jacksonville was
sort of resentful. The boys were
coming back one and two at time.
Jacksonville wanted them all back
at once. The oracles under the maple
trees, the loungers by the stove in
the cobbler's shop, the drugstore hang
ers on. the pool room followers. they
were all airing their views.
Jacksonville was tired of the war.
1t was tired of reading about it, tired
of hearing about it. The gentry who
backed up against the depot wall and
watched No. "a come in from the east
every afternoon were busy criticising
the Government. They were divided
about the League of Nations. some
holding that it would be mighty fine
thing, others inclining to the belief
that wall Street must be mixed up
in it somehow" but on the Liberty
Loan there was little difference of
opinion.
The Hot-Stovs League.
1t was in Jake Jackson's harness
shop that most of the under-current
of old Jeffersonville's opinion was
formed. Around the glowing stove.
while old Jake stitched on a set OF
leather tugs. the talk swung and cir
cled. TITS this way" said Glenn Jones,
s'the price is so Internal high on every
thing that ! buy, that / don't have a
dollar left. after pay my taxes. And
furthermore. I want to tell you fell |
lows that this income tax this year
gets 'em all and believe me 1t bites
deep" /
"Aint 1t the TRUTH" said Harve
Clark. "and / give 1t out that this old
Governmental have to worry along
without me buying any more bonds.
Holy Cats. have you noticed what that
luxury tax is going to do to the prices (
OF mems shoes and hats and shirts.
to say nothing OF clothes? Why, a
man1l have to go around in sack cloth
and ashes when that tax gets its
teeth in good"
Harve. il may be noted. was the
towns Beau Brummel. who wore a
shirt full two months before any
one in Jacksonville know what the
thing was and whose neckties were
never more than 80 minutes behind
those of Broadway and Michigan av-
enue. Between giving his fellow
townspeople daily treat in sdmiring