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Show Augusta Travers you know, the one who runs the little hat shop down on Main Street she's always been dead set against gambling in any form. Never will forget when I was a kid and she found little Ham-my, Ham-my, her youngest nephew, playing marbles for keeps out back of the shop. Took it on herself to give him a whaling and point out the evils of gambling. She's a strict woman, Augusta," real strict. Good as gold, of course. But mighty set against the lighter things of life. Well, so you could have knocked us all over with a feather when Augusta started her gambling campaign for War Bonds and Stamps, right ou1: in the win-dc win-dc n of her shop. First she got hold of the phc- tographs of every boy here in town j who's joined up, and pasted them on a big board in the window, with little American flags at the corners. Hall the town was down there watching her do it. She left the middle empty. Then she brought out a placard she'd had printed up and put it in the middle, mid-dle, and this is what It said: "Thes are the Local Boys who have enlisted enlist-ed in America's War They are betting bet-ting that you are buying War Bonds and Stamps Hitler and the Japs ar betting you aren't Place your beta inside." My wile couldn't wait to get herself her-self down there and inside Augusta'i shop to see what in the wide world had happened to her, turning right around about gambling like that You know my wife. She kind of likes to talk. She went right up to Augusta and said, "Augusta Travers, seems like something's come over you. Why, I never thought I'd see you running a gambling campaign in your own shop." Mean to tell me it's a gamble whether this country buys enough bonds to win this war?" Augusta sslcsd I forgot to say. Wasn't just a hat my wife brought home. Was a hat and a $25 bond. (Story from an actual report tn the flies of the Treasury Department.) Depart-ment.) Remember: It takes both taxes and War Bonds (and more War Bonds) to run the War and combat Inflation! V. S. Tretuurj Department |