The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-21
DAILY REPORT OF
WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE

Savings Campaign was neld III Ih0
park last night and in spite oil sew
eral handicaps in the way OF lodge
meetings and the attraction at fort
Meade which kept a good many cl
our people away, there was a me
crowd to listen to the speakers VINO
opened the campaign.
The local chairman opened the
Injecting and introduced Dr. Stacy
who made splendid address and an
earnest appeal to our people to take
advantage of the governments plans
of savings-not only for the good 10
themselves, but also in order to help
win the war.
Captain E. Lucas Guest, a British
army officer, who has been wounded
FIVE times and is now supposed to be
recuperating his health, was the next
speaker. and he was listened to with
rant attention on the part OF the au-
|tdjence, as he recited his own personal
experiences and passed from serious
to lighter subjects with splendid force
and Judgment. He is big up-stand-
ing fellow, but in close contact one
easily sees that he is still suffering
more or less from the effect OF
wounds and casing, and his efforts TO
bring home to our people the abso-
lutte need of every ounce of co-opera-
ton on their part under these cir
cumstances is but another evidence
of his heroism and devotion to the
cause, because the average man would
easily excuse himself, and perhaps be
excused from such efforts as he
gladly makes from day to day in the
campaign which he has undertaken
OF behalf of our people by permission
of his government He makes from
three to five engagements, in as many
different towns every day. and he
does il with the same old smile which
characterizes the allied soldiers on
the battlefield
1t is now up to our people to meas
ure out to the full limit Of their pos
sibiIties, as we'll as the limit of faith
in themselves, as we'll as the cause
for which the appeal is made, to an
swer this last request of the govern
ment, and so far as Lakeland is con-
cerned, go over the top with our
quota in the sale of these War Say
| ings Stamps between now and the
2Sth. 1t is big job, unless the full
est measure of cooperation is secured
on the part of every citizen, but with
this cooperation it is only one of
similar jobs which so far we have met
to the full.
Day by day we are to be reminded
that convenience, comfort and person
lal consideration are to give way to
II the highest possible degree of sacri-
flee which we are able and ought to
be more than willing to make. As our
distinguished guest told us last
might: I'VE shall win this war sooner
or later if sooner, and with less hor-
ror, agony and bleed-shed, by the
Fquick and complete response on the
[part Of our people, or the help which
they alone can give in order to
achieve that result. Less Of our men
will be required to 60 across, and less
OF our money will be called for to
back them up if the response is full
and complete now. On the other hand
the war will be WON'T later, because
of our lack to appreciate the absolute
necessity for this quick and ready re-
Spouse at this time, in which case il
will be longer deferred and the agony
and awfulness unnecessarily dragged
out. We know that sacrifice is neces-
sary and that the sooner it is made
the sooner the awful conditions in the
world will come to an end"
For Gods sake and for humanity's
sake LET US GO OVER THE TOP