The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-08-22
ANOTHER DRIVE FOR
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Florida Far From Quota. Patriots
Must Arouse
SEPT. 9TH TO 14TH rs DATE
This County Asked to go Over
Top" and Help Counties That
Cannot Raise Their Quota
Buyers Lend These Small Sums
and Get Good Interest.


Buyers Lend These Small Sums
and Get Good Interest.
Another intensive period for
the sale of War Savings Stamps
has been determined on at a con-
ference of all the county chairmen
in Florida held on the 18th at
Jacksonville. The drive for the
taking of pledges and making of
actual sales of stamps will begin
on Monday, September 8, and con-
tinue through Saturday, Septem-
Der Is. The quota assigned to
DeSoto county has not yet been
raised. In fact, there is only one
county in the state that has sue
ceeded in raising its quota and
that is Dade county This coun-
ty has about $55, ,S58.06, and the
WAR Savings organization here is
already laying plans to see that
this county discharges its full OBJ
litigation in this instance, as it has
done in all other calls made by
the government during these crit
ical times.
A new feature of this campaign
will be the delegation of authori-
ty to every person in the county
to constitute himself, or herself,
into committee to spread the
propaganda of thrift and savings
and to encourage every individual
in the county to purchase at once,
or pledge to purchase during the
remainder of this year War Saw
! ings Stamps to the limit of his a
, bility. While the quota assigned
!, to this county is only twenty dol
lars per capita, there are a large
, number who are absolutely not a.
o bic to purchase twenty dollars
, worth of any kind Of securities,
which will make it necessary for
those who are able to purchase a
8 sufficient amount to help out the
weak brothers.
, To Win We Must Sacrifice
1t is pointed out by the state di-
rector for the Florida War Saw
ings Committee that the people of
the United States and of Florida
must come to the final realization
, that if America is to win this war,
we must sacrifice-and keep sac
rificing. That is, we must go
f without things we do not abso-
lutely need; that we must curtail
+ the enjoyment of our luxuries and
$ cut down very sharply in the pur-
I chase Of necessities, for no coun-
D try can successfully prosecute
. war unless the armies at the front
receive the united backing and
support of the army of non-com-
batants at home.
4 The national government, when
lit inaugurated the plan of War
: Savings, believed every man, wo-
p man and child in the United
o States could save and lend to the
f government twenty dollars dur
O ing the year, AS a theoretical
O proposition, there is no reason to
charge this view of the national
administration, but it is an actual
II fact that, in many counties in this
q state, less than one dollar per cap
Iita has been loaned to the govern
v ment, although the citizens have
g been importuned most earnestly
. during the last eight months.
o War Savings as a means of con-
? tributing or lending to the gov
Il ernment is the first example Of
democracy. 1t is in marked con-
trast with the methods employed
y in autocratic governments, where
the people are commanded to give
q their money, and, if they do not
, give it, it is taken from them. It
is Just this form of government
and means of raising funds thar
the United States wishes to avoid,
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