The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-06-08
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10 the People Of Grant Parish

Cash and cooks might be termed the provenders of
army and navy Nature has urnss the cooks but peo
pie will have to supply the money The ceaseess grind of
the has not prepared them any trenches either
The Stacker dollar will have out to the firing ne
Enated National Thrift Day. By such proclamation he will
likewise give additional impetus to the effort of the
the sale Of War STAMPS and Thrift Stamps The daily de-
and for food and has made necessary the develop
the proportion of the above allotted the parish Grant
through the sale Of stamps the almost staggering of
total OF all previous Liberty Loans Red Cross and kindred
contributions The basis which the quotas of counties
and parishes in the American union fixed by the Ma
hona Treasury Department twenty dollars each for every
white and child and five dollars each for every
colored man, woman and child Estimated total population
of Grant Parish 49, 100 population thirty per whom
are negroes
the plan that will be adopted by the War Savings Com
mtee in Grant parish will be the one prepared through the
National Treasury Department and adopted by every parish
and county in every state in the Union brief
Although the above quota is based the population of
the parish, the allotment to communities will have to be
based population and wealth The parish will necessarily
have be subdvded into units and stipulated allotment
placed each using basis the parish collectors
and the citizens thereof with the help Of the Parish War
Savings Committee will endeavor make an equitable pro
ration OF such allotment according the ability ofach
divdua to purchase The that any indiga would
expected subscribe could not be large for reason
that thousand dollars worth is the maximum amount
that individual can legally The committee will put
forth every effort to reach every household the parish
Ali previous sales of Liberty Bonds absorbed to great
degree by the wealth of the land although fifteen
million people subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan The
present War Savings Drive appeal popular subscrp
and manifestation of that patriotic desire of President
Wilson that every individual in the American union
supporter.
The operation of the plan consume the month of June
IN campaign OF organization and the 18th day of June
National Thrift Day, proclaimed by President Wilson,
there will assemble every school church the citizens
in each unit and then and there their quota by pledge
of subscriptions 1t will not be the endeavor of the commit
tee at that time tose and collect for stamps its duty
will be to take pledges of subscriptions payment in full to
be made throughout the remaining months of the year
suits the convenience of the purchaser complete list of
property will be in the hands of the committee
assigned the above duties such date order the
work may be nteigenty and equitably DONE One copy
will be in the hands of the National War Savings Committee
Washington in order that that department may see that
each community has done its full duty of fact
the savings drive starts in Washington City ends in
Grant parish The plan comprehensive and with proper
popular support will succeed
The War Stamp she prime any of the war
securities offered by for sale date 1t
in truth Liberty Bond of five dollar denomination backed
and secured by the full fan and credit of the American
union and non-taxable The maturity short only five
You buy them at discount hold them five years.
and in effect they automatically become five dollar bills In
this transaction the profit made by purchaser greater
than four and oneuarter per interest the rate at
which the last liberty bond issue was sold.
To sell the above quota is man-sized job and while the
Parish Committee will put forth every energy do So
be accomplished without patriotic enlistment of
every Grant parish If the national effort of the
War Savings Committee is doomed failure in this under
taking let the first wall from other county or
parish than Grantwe in the habit of going over the
top Respectfully submitted
EARL ROBERTS,
PARISH DIRECTOR.