Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-12 | Page 4 | Just Plain Cheap Skates

JUST PLAIN CHK.1P SKATES When war broke out thousands of American citizens found themselves suddenly stranded in Europe be cause of Inability to realize on their lines of credit, and were unable to get out of the war zones. They set. up a mighty howl and eventually I he. United States government govern-ment advanced to them funds necessary neces-sary to get them tacit ro America. j In each case the government exacted from the tourists a written agreement agree-ment lo pay hack to the government the sums advanced. Since then the treasury department depart-ment has used every honorable means to collect the money thus loaned its citizens abroad. Some of this has been repaid, but much of it has not, and now the government has been forced to the extremity of publishing pub-lishing in the press of the country the' names and adresses of the dead beats. Whenever you see such a list just remember that they borrowed from Uncle Sam the funds necessary to pull them out of the jaws of death and now are not honorable enough j to repay the loans. Catalogue them in your minds as deadbeats of the first water, jut plain and unadulterated cheap skate That's all they are even if some of them are high in commercial circles, cir-cles, pillars of the church, and even, ministers of the gospel. j II!