The spectator., 1919-04-18
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 go right along forever buying and giv- ing and giving! The townsfolk were careful to lay . lot of emphasis on the giving"
 In the meanwhile the Seo per 100 hogs and the g. 26 a bushei wheat was moving to market right along with the high-priced beeves and the eggs de luxe and all the other high priced foodstuffs that were coming from the country In which most of Jefferson vile was vitally interested. There was more money being spent than over before in the history of the town. Nearly everybody had car ordered and the income tax paid with some teeth and much inward bleeding" was being forgotten. The dealers were busy selling new pumps, new blows, tractor now and then and many, many motor cars. The piano and or gan men. who also sold talking ma chimes. was congratulating himself on a record business. The milliners and dry goods people were not complain Ing. thank you
 Loan Talk Avoided.
 In the meanwhile the ships were bringing thousands of young Amer cans home And Central Europe was beginning to rumble and emit vol canic lightnings Jefersonville was not looking much further than it's immediate horizon-than the coun tsrs and the ledgers and the farms and the fields. the getting and buying and selling Jenersonville. as has 5een noted, was trying its best to for get all about the war
 The Loan started All over tho na ton devoted men and women bent to the task of raising the money so UT gently needed for the financing of the United States of America m its year after the war. The Liberty Loan post CTS and literature sent to Jefferson vile were left in the express office. The town slept placidiy on It seemed to have been forgotten by the county organization No one disturbed 1t
 Nevertheless Jeffersonvlle could not entirely forget the Victory Loan. Tho newspapers were talking about it. Ii was in full swing all over the country with tho usual agonixinS un- certainties as to what district was going to first clear tho ropes with Its quota subscribed Jeffsrsonville stirred fainuy in its sleep and . fev of the dyed-in- wool Americans plaosd their subscriptions and began to remon- strate.
 However. it was tActtly understood in Jetfersonville that the loan was not a subject of general conversation. The weather was never moro talked about anywhere than 1t was in that little town for . few days. Then the workers, those who had bestirred themselves in the oei sg loans. began to feel uneasy and cooscience-strtck- en. Men began to mention tho loan. sort of tentatively.
 Then Je1srsonvilie went through another curious phase. It began to try and persuade itsek that the lJan ought to fail and that it would fail. Teach these Smsrt Alecks down ts WAshin ston sumthin." muttered more than one Jeffersonville citizen to hin- self
 Beginning to Sting 'Em-
 Kilograms and long distance calls began to sting few of the citizens but they managed to forget about | them n . day or so. The Loan was moving along day by day but JefRer- 1 sonvilles Quota was hanging Are Ben Ochs was chucklfng 10 himself and | cautiously impa.tinx his views to a few of his intimates. The humbiing of Germany was . bitter dose for him. He would keep sttll whea he had e. but he was moro than pleased to see that Jeffersonville was not botherinS itself about the fool loan" It plsassd the Hunnish soul of him to feel tAat the Yankee pigs" were indifferent te thetr loan, He could net ferrst that his brother and cousins hoA worn the helmets of the kaisers guard with "Gott Nit Uas' on thsir belt buaklss and he had gsoatsA wtth thsa. ia ttou tA~ >~1n