The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-06-06
WAR SAVING STAMP
MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT
To Be Held at The Grand Opera
House Tomorrow neutrality-suspicious.
Will be Howard Bryant And Viii
liam Purnell Hall.

The date of the big War Savings
Stamp meeting for Cambridge has
been changed; the meeting will be
held in the Grand Opera House to-
morrow CFriday) night, starting al
s O'Clock, and the speakers will be
Hon. Howard Bryant, of Baltimore
county, one of the big men of the
Maryland Legislature for the past
three sessions, and Hon. William
Purnell Hall, member of the Sessions
of 1916 and 1917, and recognized as
one of the readiest debaters and
public speakers who ever sat in the
Maryland Legislature.
The War Savings Stamp Campaign
in Dorchester county has already
progressed quite nicely, but there are
still a great many left who have moi
come across" To take for instance
200 of War Savings Stamps costs
during the month of June, 1884, anC
is worth 5 900 at maturity, Janu
airy /. 1923. so that the investment
is not 81 900, but 1884, and this
1884 earns $166 for the investor
during that time.
But Supposing that Mr.. One Hun
dred Per Cent. Loyal American Citi
zen figures it another way, namely;
if he borrows the money to carry the
investment and pays 6 per cent. OIL
it, the interest per year will amount
to $1,000, while the interest he will
receive from the Government of his
country, amounts to $685., differ
ence Of $14.70 on the $1,000. In
other words, if he really wants to
show his real loyalty to his country
he can do so by standing a loss OF
$1.22 IL a month in order to lend
the Government 1000, and that
really constitutes test of loyalty.
There are plenty of men who will
talk one deaf, dumb and blind whose
protestations OF loyalty would fill an
ocean liner, whose mouth never stops
upon the subject of winning the war,
but who when it comes right down
to the question of lending their dol
lars to their government, that is to
the point of where their loyalty may
cost them something in the matter of
little interest money, or something
of the kind, are as dumb as rocks.
Their patriotism is of the lip kind; it
does not reach to their pocket books,
and incidentally it has no genuine
ness to it, it rings hollow and false
to everyone but themselves; the
public knows just how to measure il
and knows that if the Germans were
to land in Cambridge or anywhere
near them they are the kind of pa
triots who would meet them at the
landing place and tell them that theiI
sympathies have been with them al
the time, and that they are glad tC
see them; in other words, they love
their money better than they dc
their country. their families or theil
God.
When man who is able TO take q
$1,000 Liberty Bond or that amount
in War Savings Stamps, CT who is
able 10 give 500 or more to the Red
Cross or the y. NJ. C. A., takes out d
$50 Or 500 bond, or SIS or $40 in
War Stamps, or gives SIS or $50 TIC
the Red Cross and the Y. NJ. C. A,
that man is just as much of a slack
er as the man between the ages OF
q and 81 years who attempts to
avoid service by not registering or
by making false representations
about dependents, ETC., and the treat
ment accorded him should be identi-
their money and their own personal
comfort above everything else in the
world, and, so far as they are con-
cerned, the men who have gone into
military service to fight the battles
of this country and its allies, will be
left to depend upon their own re-
sources.
1t is a fortunate thing for this
country that this class of people rep
resents but small proportion of the
inhabitants, the majority of the peo-
pie are One Hundred Per Cent Loyal,
they are One Hundred Per Cent. Red
Blooded American Citizens, and are
willing to stand fairly and squarely
behind the men who are fighting the
battles of the country; they are will
ing to subscribe to the First, Second
Third, Fourth, Fifth, and up to the
One Hundredth Liberty Loan Bond
issues if necessary; they are willing
TO do the same for the Red Cross, for
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, for the War Savings Stamps and
for everything else in connection
with the successful prosecution OF
this war.
The time may not be far distant
when the Government will require
every man to register what amounts
he has subscribed to Liberty Loans,
to War Stamps, to the Red Cross, the
Y. NJ. C. A., and when that time does
come, the vengeance of an aroused
people is going to fall, and fall heavi-
ly, upon money slackers, whose mot
to of service thus far has been How
Little Can l Do" instead of the real
patriotic American slogan, How
Much Can T Do2"