THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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if Subscribe now to the Vic- if
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SOLID PATRIOTISM
Tomorrow the Victory Liberty loan
—the last of the Liberty loans—closes.
Do the residents of Cordova realize
this fact? Evidently not from their
lethargy in making subscriptions to
the present call of the government,
which is the biggest bargain the
United States has ever offered to the
American people. It is more than
that. It is a cold test of every Ameri
can citizen’s patriotism. It is going
to sift feverish, wartime “Americans”
out of the great mass of quiet, think
ing, really patriotic Americans who
are solidly for America first, last, and
all the time—Americans who know
and value their citizenship and are
every ready to answer its demands.
To the real American the 4% per
cent interest and tax exemption fea
tures of the Victory notes are minor
considerations. The big thing is that
the country needs the money—$4,500,
000,000—to settle pressing war costs.
These are the same kind of Ameri
cans who, when we declared war two
years ago, didn’t stop to consider
whether we were right or wrong or
whether they would be maimed or
wounded, but quit their jobs and an
swered the call to arms.
To these kind of Americans the gov
ernment of the United States comes
for the Victory Liberty loan, and Cor
dova has still another day in which
to "make good” in raising its quota of
$90,000, which can and must be done.
IlfcKMII JIMS LAo I SAl/HIULL
No one ever knew where Hermit
Jim Hudson came from.' None knew
his story.
One day ho was discovered in a
little shack built of refuse lumber
from the dump down by the river.
And there he lived for forty years.
In summer he fished, worked a little,
but never talked of himself. In winter
he hibernated, so to speak.
He was a big, up-standing two-fisted
fellow, capable of much, but utterly
indifferent to all about him. He was
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an enigma, a mystery, a town char
acter.
As the years passed Hermit Jim
lost his robustness of figure and what
remained of his ambition to work.
Finally, at seventy, the sheriff took
him in charge and carted him off to
the poor farm. Hermit Jim was a
mere skeleton, his clothes In tatters,
and his feet bound In burlap in place
of shoes. His cupboard was almost
as bare as Mother Hubbard’s, yet
right there he voiced the only com
plaint he had ever been known to
make. His shack was his castle, he
declared, and should be reepectd.
Finally, however, he capitulated but
without protest. “I’m not objecting
to having more to eat or a better bed
sheriff,” he conceded, in English quite
out of keeping with his condition,
“but I don’t like the prospective fin
ish. It’s a poor climax to my early
training and ambitions.” Then, des
pite the sheriff’s efforts to draw him
out he became a clam again.
Only once more he discussed his
case. They were then in sight of the
poor house. “My life has been a fail
ure sheriff” he declared, staring
blankly ahead. “Which oesn’t partic
ularly matter. I’ve been captain of
my soul for sixty years, but a poor
pilot, maybe,” he chuckled mirth
lessly. “I had a better start than most
men, but things broke wrong. I lost
ambition, interest in life, care for the
future and regard for respectability.
I’ve been a lone wolf.”
Suddenly he straightened and his
eyes flashed with a new light. “God,
sheriff, how I might have died had
this war come half a century earlier!
Maybe in a fight with a birdman three
miles in the air! Maybe going over
the top in the gray of the morning!
Maybe hand to hand with my fingers
digging into a Boche’s throat! And
maybe far behind the firing line from
a biff on the head from a bit of
shrapnel! But anyway any time any
where, gloriously! For humanity!
Democracy! Liberty!
“What a death sheriff; what a
death!”
■ “Jim,” said the sheriff, with a new,
strange softness in his voice, “I’ve
been told that you bought a thousand
dollar Liberty bond last October.
I’ve never believed it. But, old fel
low, somehow now I do. Did you?
Hermit Jim chuckled. This time it
echoed the glee of the thrush singing
in the haw bush by the roadside.
"Yes, sheriff, I bought it. And this
morning, knowing that you were com
ing after me, I used it in kindling the
fire to cook my breakfast. 1 reckoned
I probably would stay here the rest of
my life.
“It was the only way I could do my
bit toward finishing the job.”
“BOBBlfc. hunvco i n c. ounw,.
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Last evening the good people of
Fairbanks were astonished to see
some one “rushing the season” by
openly wearing a new straw hat on
the streets. Immediately below the
brim of the hat could be seem a coun
tenance that appeared familiar. The
features of the wearer of the hat
have until lately been adorned with
a good crop of whiskers but through
the offices of one of the local tonsori
alists the “camouflage” has been re
moved. On close scrutiny Bob Shel
don, the new road commissioner, was
found to be under the new “lid.” Bob
is still popular.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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