Oxford eagle., 1918-07-04
LUXURIES,
BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.

MlSsissippi's largest war-task viii
De tackled on June Is, set apart by
PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson as Ma
uonal Thrift Day, when an effort
Will be made to sell and have SUI
Sefloed for forty millions of dollars
worth of War Savings Stamps.
Liberty Bond, Red Cross and y.
NJ I. A. campaigns are dwarfed IN
comparison with the magnitude OF
TINS task. BuG the men who have work
ed faithfully here for weeks are Ger
tam the goal will be gained.
Many of the busiest men in the
State of Mississippi have laid aside
their personal duties entirely for
weeks that the work of organizing
tms campaign, and getting the need
Tor Its success before the people
might be thoroughly done.
And it has been well done. Every
county in the state has been organ
lzed so that the most remote corners
Will be reached. Meetings will be
held at every school house in the
State, where subscriptions will be
taken for the Stamps.
In the cities a house-to-house can
vass will be conducted, and the aim of
the city committees is for every man,
woman and child to possess one or
more Thrift or War Savings Stamps
before the sun sets June %.
1t Is necessary that Mississippi put
this campaign across-necessary, first
OF all, because the government has
asked that it be done. Whatever the
government wants done during this
war period must be done cheerfully
and willingly.
The United States Government
needs the money that will come from
the sale of the stamps. 1t sounds
bit queer to think our wealthy Uncle
Sam needing our quarters and five
dollar bills, but he does, and if we
don't give them up, he'll have to CON
script them.
This war is costly business.
kngland's expenses at present are
about thirty millions of dollars a day.
In other words, all the money Missis-
sippi raises for War Savings Stamps
would just about pay the expenses of
the war for one of the largest Allies
twenty-four hours.
Perhaps that brings home to you
the need for you to lend the United
States your money.
There are other reasons why Missis-
slppi must put this drive over.
II the people of the State
pledge themselves to buy forty
millions of dollars worth of the
stamps. they must. of necessity.
eliminate some of the luxurics
they are buying now. and elimi-
nate luNuries at present mean in
creased man power for essential
Industries.
In other words, the government
needs the forty millions. but more
than that, it needs the habit Of thrift
ineulcated into the people Of this
State. If it is not inculcated we will
lose the war. Europe knows all about
thrift; we are beginners in the science
So, when the time comes for you to
pledge yourself 20 purchase tho
Stamps, don't promis to buy those
you can afford only without reducing
your unnecessary expenses some
where.
In Red Cross drives. the
motto has been: Give. and To
the limit" In this drive. il is:
BUY, and TO the limit"
And remember while YOU are
bpying that you are not giving
the country your money, as you
should be mighty glad to do. but
you are lending il at four per cent
interest compounded quarterly
more interest than you could get
on a similar investment anywhere
in the world.
When we lave bought, or promised
to buy, our forty millions of dollars