Show augusta travers you ou know the one who runs the little hat shop down on main street always been dead set against gambling in any form never will forget when I 1 was a kid and she found little hammy her youngest nephew playing marbles for keeps out back of the shop took it on oil herself to give him a whaling and point out the evils of gambling ashes 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 el tf feather when au I 1 gusta started her Q gambling campaign i j I 1 for war B bonds 0 n d s a and n d stamps right out in the window of her shop first she got hold of the photographs of every boy here in town chos joined up and pasted them on a big board in the win window dov with little american flags at the corners halt half the town was down there watching her do it she left the middle empty then she brought out a placard shed had printed up and put it in the middle and this is is what it said aid these are the local boys who have enlisted in americas war they are betting that you ore are buying war bonds and and stamps hitler and the japs are betting you vu arent place your bets inside my M wife wait to get herself down own there and inside augustas 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 some things come over you why I 1 never thought id see ning a gambling campaign in your own shop mean to tell me its a gamble whether this country buys enough bonds to win this war augusta asked I 1 forgot to say just a hat my wife brought home was a hat and a 25 bond story from an actual report in the files of the treasury department remember it takes both taxes and war bonds and more war bonds to run the war and combat inflation U V S nir |