Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
RAISE FUNDS DOING CHORES
suggests Children Chop Wood, shovel
enew, Wash Dishes or Sell
MaaazInss 70 Earn
War Money.

Washington. d. GA great drive
70 induce every school child In
America to buy at least one ascent
Thrift Stamp 10 now being launched
for the month OF January war savings
campaign.
In opening the campaign, the first
OF December. Secretary Of the Treas
ury MoAdoo appealed to young Amer
ica," aakins their cooperation in the
Thrift Stamp and War Savings Stamp
and Certificate campaign. by which II
is planned to raise $4,000. 900. 900 with
in the next year. Secretary McAdoo
appeals to the boys and girls to earn
this money and make personal sacri-
flee by saving their spending money
and earning money by beating carpets,
waxing floors. sifting ashes, helping
parents, cleaning cellars, washing win
dows, cleaning silver, cutting wood,
vanishing chairs. tearing down old
chicken eoops and cutting up for fire
wood, cariug for neighbours baby, act
ing as messenger for drug stores. SELL
ing magazines. working In stores Sat
urdays and waiting on table.
Secretary McAdoo's message to
Young America" said:
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 IL, who
marched as bravely and as proudly
into cannon fire as their great chief,
Gen. Washington, himself
Our nation had little girls who
laughed and cheered and loaded mus
kets for their fathers, who fired
through loopholes in their cabin
homes when the painted Indians
charged on them.
where many school houses stand
today American boys and girls may
have helped to fight and defeat the
enemy when our nation, too, was
| young.
| We VIII Win.
I'VE are in the greatest war of the
worlds history and we must win this
war. We can and we shall win, II the
boys and girls Of America say so, and
mean II, and feel 1t, and live 1t as the
boys and girls Of '7s lived and felt and
helped.
1.-The nation needs that sort of boys
and girls today. Not to beat our
drums, nor to load our muskets, but
to start a great work which must be
done. It is the part Of boys and girls
today to give an example of selfdenial
and sacrifices to teach fathers and
mothers, to teach the grown people OF
the nation that we still have in every
young heart the spirit Of '76, when
boys led Dug soldiers into battle and
girls fought beside their fathers at the
cabin walls. The lesson is thrifty say
ing to the point Of sacrifice-self
denial Of everything unnecessary.
"If every boy and girl says at home
tonight, I will fight in this war; viii
save every penny and loan It to my
government to help save the lives o.
! the big brothers of America; will try
, to teach every American I see to d.
the same then 100000 homes, thu
homes Of all America. will be fillet
with the spir of '76, the spirit Of thu
: drummer-boys, Of the brave girls o
those days.
America will win the war again, a
it always has won, through the splen
: did strength, courage and sacrifice II
: the hearts Of youth, that today will
A teach the nation the lessons Of savin
and serving which 1t must and vii
j. learn, through the message which 1t
l. school children will carry home.
! Through saving your pennies, nicl
@ els, dimes, quarters, and buying Thrift
Stamps and then War Savings Certif
u Gates you will help your country an
5. its gallant armies to win the war.
n Il know you will help"