Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-12-07
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
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tificatc On the installment plan. Thrift
stamps wiIl be sold at 25 cents each
When l6 stamps worth 81 are past
ed on the card, the owner can pay
II cents additional, surrender the
card and receive thrift certificate
redeemable at 50 on Jan. /, 1923.
After Jan. 81, 1918, the price Of
the trift certificates will be advanced
one cent each month during the cal
cndar year 1918. For instance in
February the certificates will cost
$4.13, and in March $4.14.
Postmasters, rural carriers, city
carriers and all other employees of
the postal service have been instruct
ed BY Postmaster General Burleson
to make every possible effort to pro
mote the sale of war saving certi-
ficate stamps and thrift stamps.
They have been instructed to ex-
plain the plan under which the stamps
are sold and to emphasize their adj
vantage not only as means of saw
ing, but also of patriotic assistance
to the government.
The allotment for Carroll county
Amounts to nearly $40 per capita. The
state Of Tennessee has been allotted
$40, 100000. A vigorous campaign
viii he waged all over the state, and
it is believed that the proposition will
appeal to the people in such way
as to insure It's success.
In Englsnd, where the war saving
certificate stamp campaign has been
waged vigorously the government de-
rived more than $5,OO0,000, 600 for
the war fund.
1t is planned to raise $2,000,O0O,-
600 in America within the year 1918,
and every man, woman and boy and
girl is expected to do their part. The
must have money and is
willing to pay Interest Tor this money
and offers this opportunity to the
small investor. The children of our
schools are appealed to in this crisis
to do their bit for liberty.
Secretary McAdoo sends the fol-
lowing message to young America.
"Nations have their childhood and
their days Of hard lessons just as chill
dren do. One hundred and forty
years ago, when the first American
army marched to battle, our nation
was younger among nations than you
are among your fathers, your mothers
and their friends. Our army had
drummer boys in those days, real
BOYS of 10 and ~, who marched as
bravely as proudly into cannon fire
as their great chief, Gen. Washington
himself Our nation had little girls
who laughed and cheered and load
ed muskets for their fathers, who
fired through loopholes in their cabin
homes when the painted Indians
charged to the very doors,
where many schoolhouses stand
today, American boys and girls may
have helped to fight and to defeat the
enemy when our nation, too, was
young.
ave are in the greatest war of the
worlds history and we must win
his war. We can and we shall win,
L the boys and girls Of America say
80, and mean it, and feel it, and live
Il, as the boys and girls of '76 lived |
md felt and helped.
"The nation needs that sort of
Boys and girls today. MOI 10 peat
,ur drums, nor to load our muskets,
,ut to start a great work which must
,e done. 1t is the part of boys and
yirls today to give an example Of
and sacrifice, to teach
he grown people Of the nation that
We still have in every young heart
he spirit of rs when boys led our
soldiers into battle and girls fought
,eside their fathers at the cabin
walls. 'Phe lesson is thrift saving
o the point Of sacrihce-self-denial
# everything unnecessary.
Carroll county must ''go over the
op" on this proposition, as she has
lone on every proposition submitted
" the government so far.
Buy your certificate, lay it away
ia q ,1,o1,o money vyhiln Won 1