El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-27
Ell PASO is ABOUT $4,000 SHORT
MAKE STAMP PLEDGES GOOD TODAY

TELESS Fl Pzsoans buy $4,000 worth of stamps in the
y nezt days the city the savings stamp
ezzPEiEu By failing to the quota which is 1885,
ca
The money Is all pledged and more than that is pledged
Upward Of $4,000 outstanding pledges IS on the books
he trouble hes In collecting the pledges
The VA being over, many who have subscribed to the
ent Of promising to buy certain anotments Of stamps
before the end Of the year have evidently lost interest
" t;ur of the war Is gone. They believe the govern
ent does not need the money and they prefer the cash
70 the stamps though the latter first class, in
terest bearing security Many Of them DO not come out
and say they believe government longer needs their
money II they did, the committee workers could con-
vince the contrary very quickly. Usually the Tea-
they give for not validating their pledges IS sickness
CT lack Of ready cash Some who known to be able
20 money readily If they really short Of cash
gre the alleged lack The committee has
received all kinds Of excuses, many Of them volumnous
Usually written Some Of these, unfortunately, have come
people who have pledged large and who are
generally Supposed to be in easy financial Circumstances
An effort vas made employers who give Christ
mas bonuses to those IN theft employ give stamps instead
Of cash The committee estimated there were about 200
employers who would give bonuses and an these
er Tren in stamps the total would help very greatly IN
reaching quota Only five responded faToraby the to-
tai Of their bonuses to employees amounting to about
5000 Others while expressing appreciation Of the sug
gestion said they believed their employees would greatly
prefer cash 70 stamps
With the record E PasO has made in the past in the
ater meeting and exceeding quotas this is no time to
ian It Is time to pat black marx On record
he sovsument does need the money. Expenditures
zr.ouut OF the stamp While actual hosthtles
have stepped there still big American army IN France
Belgium and Germany and another IN the United States
and there big American navy, much larger than IN fo
sr psscs tines to be taken Of The army IN this
country Is being demobzed large expense and troops
are beng brought from the other side at large ex
euss also Then there thousands Of wounded under
frsstsnt At hospitals To the newspaper reader VINO re-
fes At all On the cost Of the many activities he reads
about it should be apparent at that the United States
= stiH under expense almost equal to that Of wartime
and which goes far beyond the ordinary revenues Of
the government.
This is that the treasury department IS even
LAYING plans for another stamp issue and for another
sae Liberty bonds These extraordinary finance meas
aes usud resorted TO unless the need actual
II this present stamp issue is not fully met, what
rancs Is there fer the Of the next The an
Is that tkis issue must be met to the dollar.
n planning for the next issue the department acts on
ire assumption that the people sufficiently acquainted
With the good investment feature Of stamp purchases to
Be ready take them up gladly The safeness Of the
rta1E their interest bearing feature and their ready
gotability ought 70 be appealing
Any business professional ought TO want to have
coupls fhoussnd dollars worth Of stamps hand as