Show as P J WITH UNCLE SAM buying liberty bonds aids aid s our war our army our boys HOW DO THEIR BIT investment Invest me pt brings good returns in ad addition to giving financial As sleta sl stance nce every loyl loyal citizen owes his government by EVA DEAN of the vigilantes it was just another day in the factory there was nothing prophetic in tile the hum of the machines it wits was quite the tha everyday hum tho the workmen talked loudly to be heard they always talked while they worked they liked tile the sound of their own voices it mattered not much what they said the the same joke will do day after day in a factory tin an old one Is almost as good as a new one to break the mental monotony when ones habitual activity Is with ones fingers one very critical of mental efforts still were you to ask them any of the men would have said they preferred an argument to all other kinds of brain exercise argument Is what they would have called any of the verbal volleys they hey fired back and forth at one another from their inexpert mental batteries while their expert fingers moved ceaselessly at their tasks and nowadays there Is always enough to argue about the war I 1 the only trouble though no one really seemed to mind that tha t was that there was no one around to uphold tho the gov orn eminent ment in these controversies c of tile hundred men employed for it wa a dinall factory there was but one with an amerlean american born parenti parent though it considerable number were thein selves born in america Ameri cn theone the one hundred aundre 1 were were all here by choice however and hardly one ever really expected to allye anywhere else but they talked as though they might and ono one could imaging they expected the unit od ed states slates to 6 immediately offer them tea inducements to stay when it heard beard of ut their intend intended cil leaving they discuss liberty bonds charles in the lightest corner a few years ago he hb would have been narl karl was always talking about the price of food 1 I take a liberty bond indeed ill not I 1 if the government had kept prices down and protected the man and kept tile the rich man from f i nin making war profits why I 1 bagh 1 agh there Is going to be trouble in th tills country some jay day and the government deserves all that thatis Is coming to has everything it can to keep the good will of the people why beer Clu charles irles can never talk long without mentioning beer jo whose early training was in a protectorate was a born financier ile he lind had actually been talking about a bond on oil the dollar a week plan but no one in the workrooms wor krooms seemed to think it a good investment it would be better to buy sugar or whisky and keep it for cor a higher price so jo had simply talked for the past two weeks lie he had not decided one might get 4 per cent or even 5 per cent later I 1 it would be bettor better howalt to wait walt the government dont feed tile the boys in camp 1 shouted the porter of course it dont yelled the thin nian man by the window we dont kno know what goes on there no wonder lots of thorn them commit suicide I 1 well id like ilke to buy a bond broke in old balley bailey courageously old balley bailey was born among the pennsylvania dutch but with sixteen dollars a ft abek and a family I 1 dont see how can nor do I 1 said the tall young man inan of whom the men said ills his mother was born here all are buying bonds the machines hummed on the voices k rising rind nna falling in opposition when suddenly the en eager ger face of jo the news gatherer was thrust through the door theres an italian banker in the he second room talking to the hout liberty bonds he In forme formel the voices ceased everybody wished lie ae could hear hes still tal talking kingl I 1 all the tire are in there spread the news to every corner of the building find and then close upon that buying them every one of the are buying them 1 I in a shorter time than it could have taken a man to walk through the building every acry one in it knew that thy the the lowest paid men of them all were buying liberty bonds presently nil all ali the workmen who could understand english biere were assembled in one room they looked about curiously at one another never before had they seen themselves them selves en maisee maee it was a strange assembly with its dirty aprons its rough lined faces and quiet tongues it inest have seemed such stich to fo the salesman his mouth set perceptibly as lie he looked about at llis his au an i ferice the italian orator had gesticulated grandly there had been much of italic t Jt I alfa but this man after ills first look at the faces before him decided not io fir talk patriotism 0 6 he simply our government was of at war very clearly he explained what that meant financially he tic ac that living was high and hard but abor nevertheless everyone who did not help was was a slacker and in convincing acif if we dont don t jre re pur our money wo ney th tbt government Is go inato taka it anyhow it if lias has to fia hava it it will make us ua pay it in taxes and then we not only will ivill not have any interest but well have nothing to disbow for the ibe money in iii the ilie second room they nil all helped how many of you are going to help how many here want bonds par partnership with government evidently the factory considered it ft i good argument a and then the walls with their despised salaries had subscribed ever everyone yond was thinking about that the frands bedan began to go up and a line of applicants was quickly quickly formed the tall young man shoso whoso mother was an american had stood lie hesitating it a t until ho he saw old baileys gray head bend over the signature bench and then smiling he slipped in behind lilai muttering if lie he can J can call now the machines were bumming again and argument began once more the thin man by the window was waa the first to speak well he commented weve got to do something for the boys I 1 when I 1 get this paid maybe have a 5 per cent bond said jo the financier america and italy we gotta make kill alla alia do kings alin alia no good ill nod ded one of the contributors from the second room with approval it was the same everyday hum of the machines but the factory was different it was atis no longer a critical skeptical spectator of the struggle of civilization bitterly suspicious of its own govern government ment it and the government ivere now partners the war no no longer the governments war it was ya our war our rimmy our boys an and the factory was doing its bit betl I 1 the bond salesman perhaps added up tho alio result of ills his work wit with somo som satisfaction but by far the greater and most important part of it he knows nothing about |