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Show OH LORD! HIT US ALL! I N Former Secretary of the Treasury William Q. McAdoo Is telling this story to get buyers for tho Victory Liberty Loan: "A pastor In a New Jersey village," vil-lage," ho said, "dovoted n halt hour one prayer meeting night to a loan appeal. HJs appeal was forcible. It even .touched the rich old deacon, who hadn't subscribed to the loan hitherto on the ground that ho could get a better rato of interest elsewhere. else-where. "T1I take $0 announced the deacon solemnly from his pew. "Then, as ho sat down, a piece of nlaster fell from tho colling, striking strik-ing him a pretty hard blow on tho head. He rose again hurriedly. He, had a Beared, awed look. '"I mean l&OO', he said. "Then Brother. Jimmy Conner shouted luBtlly from the nmen corner: cor-ner: "'Oh, Lord, hit him again!" |