The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-03
Great Drive in Thrift Cam
paign Receive Impetus
From Boys and Girls.
SPECIAL APPEAL TO
"YOUNG AMERICA"
Stamps Go on Sale Today at
Postofhce, Later at
Banks, Schools, Etc.
BY Assoc1ArED pREss.

Washington, Dec. "A great drive
to make every school child in America
buy at least one 25-cent thrift stamp
during the first week of the war saw
ings campaign which opens next Mon
day was announced by the National
War Savings committee. which made
public a special appeal by Secretary
McAdoo addressed to Young Amer
ica."
Saving stamps and certificates. by
which it is planned to raise two bill
lion dollars within the next year. will
go on sale at every post office Mon
day morning, and at banks. schools.
stores and other institutions later In
the week.
A special pamphlet has been pre-
pared suggesting boys and girls may
make money by BE- e7g carpets, wax
ing floor, sifting Shes. helping par
ents, cleaning 66lars. washing win
dows. cleaning silver. quitting wood.
vanishing chairs, tearing down old
chicken coops and cutting up fire
wood, caring for neighbor s baby. act
selling maxazines, working in stores
Saturdays, and{ waiting ON tables
Secretary McAdoo's message to
young America said:
"Nations have their childhood and
their days Of hsA Lessons just as chill
dren do. On a-'dred and forty
years. ago, wha + o first American
army. marched \S-Sle. our nation
was younger am Is .sions than you
are among your your moth
ers and their friensl.A Our army had
drummer boys in those days, real
boys of 10 and IL, who marched as
bravely and as proudly into cannon
fire as their great chief, General
Washington, himself. Our nation had
little girls, who laughed and cheered
and loaded muskets for, their fathers
who fired through loop holes in their
cabin homes, when the painted In
dams charged TO the very doors.
today, American boys and girls may
have helped to fight and TO defeat the
enemy when our nation too, was
young. -
eve are in the greatest war of the
worlds history and we must win this
war. We can and shall win if the
boys and girls of America say so. and
mean it and feel it, and live it, as the
boys and girls of '76 lived and felt
and helped.
.sThe nation needs that sort of boys
and girls today. Not to beat our
drums, nor to load our muskets. but
to start a great work which must be
done. It is the part of boys and
girls today to give an example of
self-denial and sacrifice, to teach the
grown people of the l.ation, that we
still have in every young heart the
spirit of '76 when boys led our SOL
diers into battle and girls fought be-
side their fathers at the cabin walls.
The lesson is 'thrift'-saving to the
point of sacrifice-self-de of
everything unnecessary.
eff every boy and girl says at home
tonight 4 will fight in this war, / will
save every penny and loan it to my
government to help save the lives of
the big brothers of America. l will
try to zach every American I see to
do the same'-then twenty million
homes, the homes of all America. will
be filled with the spirit of '76. the
spirit of the drummer boys, of the
brave girls, of those days.
america will win the war again,
as it has always won, through the !
splendid strength. courage and sacri-