The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-06-05
CITIZENS OF WINNFMUCCA
RESPOND TO COUNTRY'S CALL
RED CROSS BALL AT
THE NIXON LAST EVENING

The ball given by the Winnemucca
Red Cross Society at the Nixon opera
house last evening was well atte.-ded
1 by all classes of local society, giving
evidence of the popular interest in the
movement Dancing was commenced
at $3.50 o'clock and kept up until
about 1910. to the strains of excel
lent music supplied by Gardner's or
! chestra.
The hall was profusely decorated
with the national colors and Red
Cross emblems and practically every
| lady present wore the badge of the
| society on her left arm. Red Cross
flower girls circulated among the
crowd. selling boutonnieres. and were
extensively patronized.
Rev. Ross Turman, seated at table,
received applications for membership
to the Red Cross Society, and more
than seventy ladies enrolled their
names.
About $3.50 was realized from the
entertainment, which will be devoted
TO the work of the society in the cause
of humanity.
The affair was in the hands of a
committee composed of Mrs. l.. {.
Campbell, chairman; Mrs. w. G. Ad-
amson. Mrs. f "A. Stauffer. Judge J.
A. Langwith, w p. Stephenson, II. c.
oastler. L. G. Campbell and Mr.. Pitcn-
er The floor was in charge of II. c.
Oastler and l.. G. Campbell. The use
of the opera house was donated by
Messrs. H. C. Oastler and c. w. Null
Ter, and the music by Gardner's or
chestra.
Liberty Bonds
At 1920 o'clock NJ. Reinhart, presi-
dent of the Winnemucca State Bank &
Trust Company, made the following
! explanation of the Liberty Bond issue.
This is not any joking matter; we
are in a campaign that means either
safety or danger to the United States.
The whole world is looking at us now
to find out how strong we really are.
| Whether we are going to be able TO
show them that the coming of the
| United States into the war means
what we all hope that it means or not
win largely depend on the success or 4
the failure of this Liberty Loan; and,
without being pessimistic. up to the
present time the citizens of the United
States have not shown the enthusias-
tic support toward their government
that they should have shown.
Everywhere you go, some one says
to you: Il want to do something. /
am too old to enlist in the army" OF
! II cannot go into the army, but there
is something / want to do. What can
| | do?" And when you tell him that
the one thing he can do is to help
| Uncle Sam with his money, sometimes
| his enthusiasm and patriotism are not
so strong as they appear on the sur
| face.
THE one thing which we must inn
| press on the people who are going TO
| take this loan is that the People
with a capital P-have got to take
| these bonds, and not the banks. Tie
banks are only dealing with the peo-
| pies money. and in order to have it
in such shape that the people can
have it when they want it, they are
| going to do all that they safely can
do; but what they can do is limited
by safety.
"A man taking one of the new Lib
| erty Loan bonds does not even need
| to turn it in on his tax statement. Not
only is it exempt from taxation, but
/ il does not need to be included at all.
| 1t is a matter between him and his
| government. and no one else; and in
/ reporting to his government, the gov
ernment does not require him even
to list it, This matter seems probably
at first blush to be more important TO
the capitalist than 10 the man who
| is going to take $50 bond. The in
come tax has been lowered to include
incomes of $1,000 for single men and
$4,000 for married men; and when
you realize that every street car con-
ductor and every laborer who has
steady employment is getting $1,000
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