The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-06-14
MISSOURI EXPECTED no RAISE,
HER FULL QUOTA ON THAT
PATRIOTIC OCCASION.
FIFTY MILLION TO BE RAISED
President, Governor and Mayor Of
Every Municipality to Issue
Proelamationc for This
Event.

The President of the United States
has proclaimed June % as National
War Savings Day. Governor Freder'
ick d. Gardner and the Mayor Of
every community in Missouri already
have or will issue proclamations ask.
ing that every Missourian on June rs
pledge themselves to buy War Saw.
ings Stamps between June rs and
December 81, 1918.
Missouri's quota in this patriotic
campaign is $71,c00,000. OF this
amount practically s21, 100000 already
has been subscribed and the money
forwarded to the United States Treas
ury In Washington. On our Pledge
Day, June rs, we are to secure $780,
000, 900 in pledges for the purchase vi
War Savings Stamps.
The majority Of the County War
Savings Committees have completed
their plans for June 2S. Meetings
will be held on the afternoon of this
day in every school house and town
hall, courthouse and moving picture
theater In our state. Missourians
on this occasion will again demon.
strate their patriotism and put our
state "over the top" in this patriotic
drive.
The Four-Minute Men of the local
communities are expected to give
wide publicity to Pledge Day.
The State of Nebraska in one day
obtained enough pledges for its en-
tire quota 1t is the Nebraska plan
that occasioned the President of the
United States to designate June %
as National War Savings Day. The
plan that worked out successfully in
Nebraska will be carried out in every
State in the Union. It resolves it.
self around complete canvass of
every man, woman and child In every
county. The tillers of the soil proba-
bly, will be busy on June %, but they
have been asked by the President
and the Governor of our state to at.
tend one Of the local War Savings
meetings on June 2S and make a
pledge to help finance our Govern
ment in this crisis.
The gravity of the war situation
has now reached every home. There
is not a community in Missouri that
Is not represented in France or In
the various cantonments of the Unit.
ed States. The casualty lists already
are causing vacant chairs in the
households, and heroism of our boys
is being chronicled in the daily news
papers.
Festus ]. Wade, State Director for
the War Savings Committee Of Mis-
souri,, feels confident that Missouri
is going to oversubscribe its quota
on Pledge Day.
In an interview, Director Wade
says: n
1.-THE liberality and patriotism
shown by Missourians during the sec
ond Red Cross campaign only evil
dences the unseIfishness of our loyal
Americans.
tits win the war at any cost, and
all of us are willing to sacrifice our
lives and give our limit financially
to achieve the greatest of all goals,
perpetual liberty. The oversubscrip-
tons for the Third Liberty Loan and
the secord Red Cross campaigns are
but a f2rerunner of what we can
expect on June rs.
Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker officially announces that we
are sending on an average of 10000 |
men to France month. These
heroes and the hundreds OF thousands
of others who will be fighting our
battles are asking very little when
they request us to furnish them with |
food and clothing and ammunition
In order to eliminate autocracy.
Many of us showed an apathy in |
helping to finance the war when we
began our War Savings campaign in
Missouri. 1t was not because Of the |
lack of patriotism on our part but |
an underestimation Of the strength
Of the Huns.
Our optimists thought the war
would be of short duration, and that
sufficient money was in the Golfers
Of Uncle Sam to insure victory, The
awakening has come. and WEI must
all help TO pay the $so,ooO,ooo a
day 1t is costing the allies to con
duct this war.
missouri 10 going to oversub.
scribo its quota Of War Sayinks
at xssv.~ -. vs.~. % 80. -. L