Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — Liberty Loan Notes [ARTICLE]

Liberty Loan Notes

Patriotism knows no home, no geographical limit. Rita Woods, an actress, bought a sllO Liberty bond in the recent campaign from J. R. Buck, one of the captains in Chicago’s Flying Squadron of bond salesmen. “I live in St. Louis,” said Rita. I buy the bond in Chicago. I will pay for it in Pittsburg. I will probably spend it, when I get it paid for, in New York. But I love my coufitry everwhere. Her subscription was made payable through a Pittsburg bank. “I’ll dig for the price of that bond, stranger,” said a big dark man in a Chicago cigar store to C. H. Connell one of Uncle Sam’s bond salesmen. “Well, when do you begin to dig?” asked Connell, after a little time. “I’ve been wating sos you to dig down into your jeans. But you don’t begin.” “Great totem pole!” exclaimed the big dark man. “I can’t dig here, stranger, I’m John Gray of Dawson, Alaska, —miner. I’m going to begin digging the minute I get buy now, but I have only 64’ cents more than I need for my ticket back home. But the minute I hit the old stamping ground I’ll sure make the pay dirt fly. Give me your card, stranger, and I’ll mail you a draft.” All his life Paul Hoison, 1939 Emerson avenue, Chicago, had been looking for something safe. “Banks blow up, he always said; “Stocks and bonds turn bad; mortgages are not paid; your' pocketbook is lost, and if you put your money under the bed, the house burns down. The only safe way is to keep your cash in a safety-deposit box.” But that was before he bumped into B. H. Oliver, a Chicago Liberty bond salesman. “Safe!” cried Olvier, “Why, Paul Hoison, the Liberty bond is the safest thing in Whe world. If you don’t believe in those Government bonds, you can’t believe in the Government itself, or in the sunshine or in the rain, or summer or winter or heaven or anything else. If Liberty bonds aren’t good and safe, nothin’s good and safe.” “Well, if you feel that way about it,” said Paul Hoison, “I’ll try a SIOO bond. I’ve been looking for something safe all my life and it looks now as if I’d found it.”