Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-08-10
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SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1918.
WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE FOR
ILLINOIS.


War Savings Stamps are selling,
both in Illinois and in the nation as
whole. at a rate which indicates that
the state and the country will attain,
before the end of the year, their full
quotas OF $50 worth, maturity value,
for every man, woman and child.
This statement is based on figures
just compiled for Illinois at the state
headquarters in Chicago, and given
out for the nation as a whole by the
treasury department at Washington.
The compilation just completed for
Illinois sales in June-the month Of
the big national drive-show stamps
to a maturity value of $12,646,572.50
were actually sold, in addition to
pledges Of something like $4,000, 900
being taken. Sales prior to June 1
were s22943,240.50 making the total
for the first half year 1876 ,5s9, 1922. q
II the June rate can be kept up for
the next half year. and the volume OF
pledges indicates II can II all the
people will maintain their interest In
the welfare of their government, the
sales for the last half of the year will
be s75,s79, i35, and the total for the
year will be Sill, 469,257.
The years quota for the state, how.
ever, Is s125,0OO,O00. To attain It an
extra squirt will have to be made, and
the June rate of sales will have to be
exceeded. Cook County has sold only
little more than 20 per cent Of its
quota during the first half year, and
Chicago is to be called upon to make
a big effort for the next six months
II is confidently believed Chicago will
live up TO it's Il Will" spirit, and that
the remainder of the state will do its
duty, so that Martin A. Ryerson Is
much encouraged in the belief tina,
Illinois will go over the top.
Treasury department figures show
actual receipts from War Savings
Stamps for the first seventeen days oil
July OF sl03,4l3,9l7. These figures dc
not represent maturity value, but only
the money turned into the treasury
The receipts consequently, are run
ming at the rate of s6,0S3,171 a day
there remains 1s4 days in the year. II
the rate is kept up, the receipts fol
the last six months will be S1l9,305,
464 Receipts prior TO July ] were
5000, 100000, in round figures, so tina,
the end OF the year will show, If the
July rate is maintained, receipts OF
sl,4l9 ,305,465.
The years quota for the entire
country is s2,OOO,OO0,0O0, maturity
value. The ictual money receipts
from this issue OF 1900, 900, 900, should
be about sl,675,0 100000, with a varia
ton OF a few million dollars according
10 the month in which the stamps are
sold.
Il will be seen, therefore, that If the
July rate is kept up but not increased
the nation will fall about s250,000, 00C
below attaining its quota. II is real
ICED, too, that the July figures repre-
sent the results, in a large measure
of the June drive which was conducted
nationally, and that constant effor
will have TO be made 10 keep the sales
at the level set in the early days o.
July.
The standing OF the states on Jul!
J. which is 10 be issued by the Ma
tional War Savings Committee a
Washington, is eagerly awaited a
Illinois headquarters. Despite thu
fact that a great part OF the June
sales will not show until July 1t Il
confidently expected that Illinois viii
show an improvement in position
On June ! the state was eighteenth
in per capita sales, and during May
alone IL ranked seventh.
Except for the last few days OF the
month the June sales OF the nation a.
large were small, so il is though
that Illinois will show an even better
ranking during that month than i
did In May.
James r. Bucney, Chief Clerk In
the Criminal Court Clerks once. Il
always adding to the sfnciency OF the