The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-20
". S. S, LEADERS
OF STATE MEET
LOCAL WORKERS
We Must Do Willingly Wha,
the Government Asks
They Say.

The sum Of $4,000 was subscribed
at the luncheon. OF this amount, Jack
son township subscribed for s45,-
600, jefferson $4,000, Harrison $5, 900
and Center $4,000.
Fourteen thousand doIIers in thou
sand, dollar subscriptions were pledged
in less than ten minutes following the
appeal Of Frank e. Herring, vice chair
man of the state thrift stamp drive,
for support of the government secur-
tiles. The subscription. of T. 3. Jen-
kins, who was unable, because of ill.,
ness, to be present, was the first to
be reported. Others subscribing the
full quota were: William F.. Book.
hoff, Gurney Hill, John M. Lontz,
Swayne-Robinson. company. Albert
Gayle, Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley FouIke,
Ernest Calvert, A. T. Hale. Omar Hol-
Iingsworth, the Indiana Piston Ring
company and Charles A. Thomason.
Two hundred representative busi-
ness men, manufacturers, farmers
and bankers of Wayne county attend
ed a luncheon at the Y. NJ. c. A.
Thursday noon, given in honor of Jo-
seph D. Oliver, and Frank E. Herring,
of South Bend, director and vice-di-
rector of sales for Indiana in the Ma
tional War Savings campaign.
The luncheon was primarily for the
purpose of interesting the people gen.
orally in the need for immediate re-
sponse to the governments call for
the full subscription of the county's
thrift stamp quota of $1,0O0,000.
The need of a complete victory over
Germany to insure safety for the
United States, was emphasized by
Frank E. Herring, vice-director Of sales
for Indiana, in his talk to the thrift
stamp workers.
Must Win Now.
"If we do not defeat Germany now"
he said, within ten years we will be
fighting her in South America, Mexi-
co o. even North American soil, and
we will be without the support of the
allied armies, for economically and in
military preparation, the allies will
be unable to aid us in any struggle
after this war is over.
Belgium will not be able to place
man power on the field for twenty
years after this war is over; France
cannot recuperate her man power for
twelve years and England for ten
years. America would be required to
bear the entire burden of the war that
would inevitably follow when an I'M
defeated Germany, with 100000 YES
sells acquired through the war, throws
her army on the field, and tries for
fresh victories.
That is one reason why we must
not consider a peace by negotiations.
reason is that Germany must
be forced to disgorge all the territory
which she has acquired by force. in
Russia as well as on the western |
front"
The war will be won as far as men
and numbers is concerned, Mr.. Herring |
stated, but the morale of the people at |
home must maintain the high standard |
Of confidence of the men at the front. |
The war will last for at least two !
and possibly five years more" he said. !
There can't be business as usual. We /
must change in every phase of life /
with the idea of conserving material,
labor, man power and woman power.
We must do what the government asks
us to do. Now we are asked to absorb /,
the full quota of the thrift stamp issue
by June %. We are expected to sup
port these loan issues-the thrift
stamp issue and the Liberty loan; as
we have supported other patriotic
If the government can
men for the army, food
;tuffs. steel and railways, we may be
sure that it will not hesitate to COM
nandeer wealth, if it is necessary to
10 so to win the war"
]. H. Mills, county chairman of the
var savings campaign, presided at the
meeting.
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