The Springdale news., 1919-05-02
If You Are Annexed to Hunland You Should Soon
 Find 1t Out
Patriotism Is Asleep In Some Places and Must Be
 Awakened

any money for il, said Alex karnes, a big young farmer from up the turn pike. q would like to buy some spring wheat seed and see if can't pick up some of that $226 a bushei for wheat that the Governments guar anteed for this year think we could grow it around here if the season hap gened to be just about right. Yes, think will hold on to my dough and see if cant make ne 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 Oehs, the butcher Tt is a foolishness For why should I give more money so Yankee soldiers can be kept over in Cher many? What business ye got init dose soldiers over dere? say let em come home!'
 Ind he went on warming to his subject, T say let dem big vellers, dem Rockefellers and dem Morgans and dem oder big guys dake dis loan. Let desc bankers dot run around after us last fall and make us sign oop, let dem dake the loan. Bah War is ofer, what ve care. Ve don't have to buy no more Ne do as ve dam please, now guess. 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 5 mastiH, Ochs would have gone on and said what was in the Teuton heart of him and Jeffersonville would have promptly resented il 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 two pups had been hammered apart the 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 1t, said Sid Price" and 1 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 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 flea for its hide and taAow and he was currently reported to have an armful of ' per cent farm mortgages locked up in vault In the first four loans the Liberty Loan Comnittees had all but used forceps and |. branding iron to get any kind of a subscription out of him.
 And old Sid climbed into his buck board buggy and struck out through another victim.
 So Jeffersonville went along that way The spr.ng winds came and he mud dried up and the young shoots made a bronze mist of baby foliage in the tops of the maple trees. There were dandeions on the lawns and along the board walks bur Jefferson ylles attitude did not soften with the advancing year Jeffersonville had just about made up it's mind. The war was over anyway the boys were coming back. things were going 10 be all right and Jeffersonville was going to hold on to it's money. Hadn II done all right on everything else and who could expect a neighbofhood to go righ along forever buying and gi'