Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-11-15
War Savings.

AT a meeting OF the County War
Savings Committee, held in Macon on
November l, the following actions
were taken concerning the redemp-
ton of pledges on Var Savings for
1918, and the sale of these stamps
during 1919:
l.. AS Mississippi has redeemed
approximately only o%ne-fourth of her
allotment in War Savings, and as
there remain only two more months in
which Mississippians may make good
their pledges to the Government in
this matter, the Committee on War
Savings desires to call to the atten-
ton of the people of the county this
fact, and to urge those who have
signed pledges to redeem them by
taking the full amount of their sub
s~cription during November and De-
cember. Complete victory may come
before the first of the year, but the
Government will continue to ask US
to buy it's securities. We must see
our soldiers safe home again. To do
this will require practically the same
expense for at least two years hence
that the Government has had for the
time we have been at war. These
pledges must, therefore, be redeemed.
Noxubee County has done her full
duty in every demal.I made upon
her by the Government. She cam
not afford to fail now.
1t is suggested that all planters
urge their tenants who subscribed for
these stamps to take the full amount
of their subscription. 1t is absolutely
necessary that this be done if the
county is to keep faith with her sons
now in the service.
1t is further suggested that every
school in the county keep Thrift and
War Savings Stamps on sale two con-
secutive days in each week, and that
children be given an opportunity to
buy these stamps to be credited on
the parents pledges. Teachers are
asked to make their schools 100 per
centin weekly, ~bi-weekly, tri-weekly
or monthly savings. The committee,
following the plan of the National
Committee, urges the teachers to EN-
phasize not quantity but the habit
of saving and buying regularly
among the pupils. Certainly this plan
has an educative value in the teach
ing of thrift, and no one would say
for a minute that thrift should not
be taught in the public schools. 1t
cannot be urged too strongly that the
teacher provide herself with stamps
to be sold at the school. This is alb
solutely necessary in the rural schools
and it is the opinion of those who
have tried it that this plan is much
better for the town schools also.
2. The Government has announced
that VA Savings Stamps and Thrift
Stamps will be on sale during 1919,
and that the same amount-$2, 0O0.-
000, 000-will be raised by the sale e.
these stamps. Mississippi's allotmen
will be the same as in 1918, approx.
mately $40, 900 900.
Now that stamps will be on sale !
during 1919, the question has been
asked if Thrift Stamps purchased
1918 cannot be exchanged for
War Savings Stamps during 1919.
The Government has made no an
nouncement in regard to this ques-
tion, but it is the opinion of this
committee that stamps bought in 1918
cannot be exchanged in 1919. There
is a statement on the Thrift Cards to
the effect that Thrift Stamps must be
exchanged for a War Savings Stamp
during 1918. Respectfully,
GEO. RICHARDSON,
JAS. G. CHANDLER,
W. B. JONES,
J.. |. DABBS,
c. Y. SCROGGINS,
County Committee for War Savings. |