The Parker post., 1918-06-29
PLEDGE FOR
BABY BOND

During the month, ending June 28,
! throughout the country there will be
a special drive to form War Savings
Societies and to secure cards from the
entire population pledging themselves
to save constantly and buy regularly
government securities. We appeal
to all to enlist through purchasing
War Savings Stamps in the great
volunteer army Of production and
saving here at home.
No movement which our govern
ment has started is as important and
inclusive as the War Savings cam
paign. The greatest need in any
national movement is an opportunity
for all to participate, and the govern
ment, through the War Savings cam
paign, offers this opportunity to every
individual in the nation. 1t goes en-
tirely beyond any economic advan-
tages, however great, as 1t tends to
create national attitude of MIND
and to amalgamate our population,
drawn originally from many nation
alities. 1t tends to inculcate thrift
as an attitude of mind and under
standing which leads to fixed habits.
By such plan as this France paid
off her debt of 1870; by such a plan
as this France was far more ready
than the rest of the world believed
for the struggle in which we are en-
gagged; by such a plan as this, Eng
land in the midst of her struggle,
brought the entire nation to the sup
port Of the government Here In
this country it is an absolute neces-
sity to blend into American citizen
ship the many groups of people of
foreign birth or of recent foreign
ancestry. They must be brought to
point of confidence in their govern
ment and sense of responsibility to
their government. Lincoln's great
phrase, Government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,"
must be a living conception of de-
mOcracy in their minds.
Where all the people rule, all
the people must participate in the
responsibility of the government.
Nothing can do more to bring about
this result than the opportunity OF
direct help to their government
through purchasing War Savings
Stamps and learning through that
act the great truth that the war will
be won, in the words of Kipling, ''by
the everlastin' team work of every
bloomin SOUL
Without doubt, the millions Of
our people who own Liberty Bonds
or War Savings Stamps today have an
increasing consciousness of loyalty
and responsibility to the government
The secretary of the treasury has Of
fered, through the War Savings plan,
a wonderful opportunity for the en-
tire nation to group itself into War
Savings Societies or Thrift clubs, and
be of immediate and direct service to
the government One road to nation
al unity and national force In this
war is through thrift-cheerful, gen
erous thrift, which starts from an
attitude of mind and ends in an in
creased production in every field, and
conservation of those things which
are so generously needed for the
winning of the war. The conscien-
tious thrifty man today will conserve
food as requested by the food admin
istratiOn; and he will conserve to
the best of his ability the labor and
materials which the government
needs by not purchasing any of the
non essentials, and thereby using up
materials and labor needed by the
government. He will, by purchasing
government securities, entrust the
spending of his money to the govern
ment until after the war.
If now, in this War Savings cam
paign, enough people see the vision
of it's field and the great result Of Its
success, then our nation of one hun
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