I Lauder, one of our well-known pioneers, to B. T. Byrns, chairman of the Latah county Liberty loan committee, is self-explanatory, now on his daughter's homestead, at Clem, Oregon, where he and Mrs. Lauder will remain until June. His letter follows:
My Dear Mr. Byrns: From the reports that I have been reading in the Mirror and Review it seems that good old Latah is not showing up as well as her neighbors in the third Liberty loan campaign, and it makes a fellow feel ashamed of his county when he looks over the columns of the papers and sees so many small towns going way "over the top" and nothing from Moscow or Latah county. I have often wondered why we did so well in Red Cross drives and Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. work and are so slow in responding to the Liberty loan. Personally, I do not think that a man who has thousands of dollars either loaned out at 8 or 10 percent or lying in the bank and afraid to loan it out for fear he might lose some of it is much of a patriot even if he does take a few bonds and I believe such people ought to be smoked out and let the public know who they are, and it was with much pleasure that I read in the Mirror of the decision of Mr. Lauder.
The county council to do that very thing, but it still makes one think why one of the richest counties in the state could not have come forward and given voluntary subscription to the Liberty loan. 