The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-09
SALE WAR SAVINGS.
 STAMPS OVER STATE SHOWS B|G INCREASE
Statewide Campaign Is Be- ing Actively Waged and Good Results Are
 Reported

Reports received at state headquarters
 of the War Savings campaign commit
 tee yesterday indicate that the people of
 Alabama have fully awakened to the fact
 that these bonds are not merely for wcm-
 en and children, but for men as well. and
 that the government expects everybody to
 buy at least one. The result is that the
 bonds are being sold rapidly all over the
 state and the committee feels greater
 assurance than ever that Alabama will
 "go over the top" in this move, as she
 has in all others since the war began.
 Field Agent F. P. Raiford of Selma
 reports that in Washington county the
 people are buying the 5000 bonds, the
 will sell.
 The rapidity with which the county
 organizations are being completed and
 the results of the work already done by
 some of them has caused feeling of optimism to pervade state headquarters LUSITANIA SURVIVOR Next Wednesday at Il o'clock a m Miss Rita Jolivet, moving picture star and survivor of the Lusitania, which was sunk by U-boat, will sell War Savings
 bonds at Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's store, and make a tour of the city in a car in the interest of the sale.
 Miss Jolivet is making a tour of the country, appearing at the picture houses where her plays are being shown, and in each city she visits she insists on being permitted to aid in the efforts to help along In the war work. She rendered i'm portant services in the third Liberty
 Loan campaign and in the recent Red Cross campaign.
 | J. Mercer Barnett, War Savings drec- l tor for Jefferson county. will hereafter work in the county outside of Birming-
 ham, except in Bessemer, where J. E, Hafner is director, and Wylam. where , Dr. w. Nj. Mcdonald is director. BOOTHS INSTALLED | Forty booths win be installed tomorrow at street corners and in stores and ho- | tels in Birmingham by the women's com mittee of the War Savings campaign | The booths will be decorated with at | tractive posters, and beautiful girls will | sell bonds.
 /! The space committee is working hard | to interest the advertisers in their cam l paign. They expect every newspaper ad- vertisement appearing on June T to con l tain matter about the War Savings Stamps and they hope to secure dou- bling up of the space usually taken by advertisers on that day.
 | A new set of War Savings slides is be- | ing distributed among the moving picture houses. They contain such expressions as 1 You applaud and cheer. but what are l you doing?' June 2S is national War l Savings day. Save and lend your money ! to Uncle Sam, or fight-that is the kind | of patriotism that counts"
 C. F. Hamilton, chairman for Butler county, reports that postoffice sales of istamps in May almost equaled the total l sales for all months prior to that. Of the I 300 children in the schools In Greenville 1 all but 20 now own bonds.
 MERCHANTS COMMITTEE 1 State Chairman Robert w. Ewing of l the Retail Merchants committee of the I War Savings campaign has appointed the following county chairmen Of re- tail merchants committees:
 Autauga A. K. Cooper. Prattville, Barbour. c. A. Locke. Eufaula; Bibb. iJ. w. Hunnicutt, West Blocton; Bull lock, H. c. Ellis, Union Springs; But | Ter, l.. H Smith, Greenville; BIount, w. | lJ. SOWQtIft obCcHtat >~AbtONiit Nff ~'- Ory, Admission: Chambers, c. E. Col lins, Lafayette; Chiffon, I. H. Rey- l holds, Clanton, and w A. Reynolds of the county; Clarke, J F. Chapman. Grove Hill; Coffee. J. T. Benson, En- terprise Colbert H. Pery, Tuscumbia; Conecuh, W. F. Ivey. Evergreen; Coosa, Rockford division, B. E. Kilgore. Weo- gufka; Covington, Joseph Shreve. An dalusia: Cullman, c. Stiefeimeyer. Gull man. DeKaib. H. B. Brook. Fort Payne;
 Fillmore. w. E. Lacy, Wetumpka; Eto- Mah l. Loveman. Gadsden: Franklin