LITTLE JACK HORNER DESTROYS $5000 WORTH OF LIBERTY BONDS
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) According to a front-page story in the Sunday Star of April 9, 1922, little Jack Horner*, a resident of the Windy City, found a jar of pretty papers in a neighbor's ash heap and brought them home where he took his mother's scissors and proceeded to "spend a quiet hour cutting pictures out of the papers he had found."
This all sounds innocent enough, but when Jack's father came home he discovered that those pretty pictures were from Liberty Bonds**. Little Jack had destroyed about $5000 worth. The Associated Press reports that recently $25,000 in Liberty Bonds had been stolen.
*Little Jack Horner is a popular English nursery rhyme which was first documented in Mother Goose's melody (1791). The rhyme goes...
"Little
Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie. He put in his
thumb & pulled out a plum, & said what a good boy am I."
**Liberty Bonds were war bonds issued 1917-1918 to finance U.S. participation in World War I.
SOURCE
"Jack Horner Beats Mother Goose In Slashing Up Bonds," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
