The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-13
MUST MAKE COOP:
Many People are Not Carrying Out
Pledges to Buy War Savings Stamps
Editor Daily Item.

Editor Daily Item.
Will not you please give me your
| assistance in my efforts to urge tie
people Of Sumter county to fulfill the
! obligation they undertook in giving
War Saving pledges? The people OF
this county so far are very far from
carrying out the promise OF support
that was made to the National gov
ernment during the summer.
The government asked US to come
to the aid of the general cause by
| promising to buy during 1913 $780,
$4,000 worth of war savings stamps.
The county responded less than nan
| way, promising only $370.0oo. VI
this amount 100000 is yet unpuf-
chased, and the year is almost gone.
Our government, our land, our
selves are engaged in war, and We'll
! be until the peace terms are s1gnea
by every com batant nation, and tnat
will not be for yet many months:
Hostilities may cease for the hour, or
for the month, but until the final
agreement comes the same prepared
ness must be maintained, the same
support must be given to the f1ghtlng
arm of the nation. Most exceHently
has that fighting arm performed,
and we must perform, not as wei
for we cannot hope to, but as well as
can.
| Armies win battles and nations win
wars. We have that now so thor
oughly impressed upon us. Our ar
! mics have done as they should have
done, and it seems that their battles
are over Our country has done mob
ly, but it's efforts are not yet over
AS the men at the front have done
their duty without hesitating, so must
we here continue to do ours.
Mr.. Editor, Sumter county must
buy the stamps i promised to buy
and there is not a day to be lost al
doing it. To fail to do so, to fail to
k = a promise of that sort is to pui
rand of an odious nature upon
ourselves I ask you to show to the
people that they must buy as the.
promised to buy. ask of every min
lister that they show this to thei;
people; I ask it Of every teacher;
ask it Of every leader, no matter what
kind or what sex, whether II be
leader among his fellow WORKERS II
the field, or a leader among his Tel
low high business men iE 9 cry OF
fee. T ask every man and every wo-
man who has in his or her hea
pride for his county and love for his
country, to keep foremost among HI,
fellow men the fact that what wa
promised to the national treasur..
through the channel of war saving
stamps, must be sent to the natlona
treasury. Stamps must be bought tt
the extent Of an additional $2OO,o0e
before the end Of this year, and ever!
man who helps his neighbor towarf
the buying Of his quota is contrrbut
ing to saving the country's honor
This aid can be given by having
stamps where his neighbor will be re
minded Of them, by seeing that the.
are sold at all public gatherings, b.
reminding the people of this work, b!
ai1ing to make it a public work to b.
carried out by each and all. If al
determine that every one who made
| a pledge must keep that pledge, the
promised, amount will be bought
The few hundred who promised t.
purchase stamps in large quantitle;
have mostly done so; some have no
but the majority have. 1t is tn
many thousand of small pledgers VIII:
have not bought Their preachers
their teachers, their leaders Their
friends should all help to see tha'
they do not by violating their pledge
soil the good name Of the county.
Herbert A. Moses,