The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-06-26
PRESIDENT CALLS
ON ALL LOYAL men
LET NONE BE UNENLiSTED ON
DAY SET APART FOR
STAMP SALE
FRIDAY, JUNE TWENTY-EIGHT
Great Opportunity Offered to Help
Win the War BY Signing the Pledge
in Response to Wishes of Our Leader
in Great Struggle for Democracy.

The President of the United States
has called upon the loyal men and
women of America to pledge them.
selves to save for victory. He has
issued an earnest appeal to all Amer.
leans to buy War Savings Stamps as
regularly as possible, investing in this
form of security the money saved
through avoiding needless expendi.
lures.
"The 2Sth of June ends this special
period of enlistment in the greatest
volunteer army of production and saw
ing here at home. MAY THERE BE
NONE UNENLISTED ON THAT
DAY"
What loyal American will refuse tc
respond to this appeal issued by the
executive head of this nation and the
commander-in-chief of our armed
forces?
We have the opportunity to enlist
III llllS NOluAICCl VI
and saving" In Germany it is a mat
ter Of cOmpulsion. The iron hand OF
the German autocracy forces it harshly
upon the German people, deprivine
them not merely of Injuries, but of the
barest necessities of life. We are ask
ed in America to voluntarily postpone
our needless luxuries so that our sol
diers and sailors may not lack theiT
necessary equipment. What the Ger
man nation does under rigid cOmpul
sion, certainly Americans will do in a
mild way voluntarily. 1t is unthink
able that there is a man, woman OF
child in America who will refuse tC
sign the pledge to save and to invest
a portion of the savings in War Saw.
ings Stamps.
We must respond to the Presidents
solemn appeal-we must sign the
pledges, not because we feel forced to.
but because it is an opportunity for us
to help win the war. The pledges
should be signed cheerfully, willingly,
gratefully.
When the war is over and the period
of readjustment sets in, then will the
wisdom and the soundnesSof the War
Savings movement become strikingly
apparent to all. There is now more
money in circulation than ever before
in the history of the world, and this
condition is likely to prevail after the
war is over. But it is not the nation
which has merely money that will have
the advantage in the coming days of
reconstruction, but rather the nation
which has the most available supply of
goods and material of all kinds.
When an individual invests in War
Savings Stamps he is not merely saw,
ing money. He is saving, in reality,
the material which he would otherwise
have bought. 1t is not lack of money
that worries Germany-it is the lack of
necessary materials. A government
can practically create money, but it
can not create material.
When the war is over it is predicted
that all nations will compete in South
American and Oriental trade. II
America-at present the nation of
greatest resources conserves her re
sources-she will naturally be in a po-
sition after the war to dominate inter
national trade and maintain the ma
tional prosperity. But if we continue
to squander goods at the same time
that we double our demands by sup
plying the Government for war pur.
poses, we are wasting labor and mate.
rial of which we will be in sore need
after the war.