Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-11-25
'TEN million NEEDED TO
MAKE STATE QUOTA OF
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Redemption Of Pledges Made
in June Necessary to Prevent
First Failure in War Enter
prises From Being Registered
Against West Virginia
....asMY COUNTIES ARE SURE
or EXCEEDING ALL0TMENTS

Huntington, w. va.-Ten million
| collars is needed for the purpose OF
redeenng West Virginia War Savings
Stamps pledges before the end of the
year. From the $10000,000 may be
deducted The amount of November
sales, for the present estimates are
based on sales up to the beginning OF
Ills month. fhe sum specified will
put West Virginia over the top with
her quota of $2S,400,000, more than
a1S,00O00O having been subscribed up
20 the first of November.
With the war council drive out of
the way, the business of cleaning up
the states war savings pledges Is to
occupy central position among war
on postwar activities for the re-
rl1inder of the year. The money which
lie government set out to raise by the
sale of War Saving Stamps is essen
the war department. 1t is needed. 1t
has been pledged and State Director
Robert L. Archer, Of this city, Is
stresslng the urgence of the keeping
Of the pledges made in June
Il has been pointed out from the
hegi.. ming that the learning of the
thrift lesson might help to offset in
some degree the evil effects of the
war That it has not sunk deep
enough yet is indicated, in the opin-
ion of economists, by the failure OF
the country to absorb the war saw
ings issue. Especial emphasis is,
therefore, to be laid on the necessity
for thrift as preparation for the re-
organization following the final peace
adjustment, and of the extraordinary
attractiveness of the War Savings
Stamps method of saving when CON.
dered from this point of view.
Has Fixed Value.
The War Savings Stamps has a
fixed value and is redeemable at any
time upon ten ,lavs' notice. Money
has been SO n.eH'f'l in these war
days that few ln> sfors have found
it necessary to have their stamps re-
deemed. 1t may be different after a
while, the stamp p.rmotefs explain,
and in time Of ssrn&s the possession
Of several filed War Savings Certifi-
Gates would pro.e a highly comforting
circumstance.
The state d'''nctor has sent letters
to all clergyman, women's organiza-
tions and county war savings commit
tees to get busy at once and push
West Virginia over the top by the
first Of the year.
are in reach of their War Savings
quota and sure of going over the top.
Lewis, under the enthusiastic and ca
pable leadership of Chairman Frank
r. Yoke, is already over the top. On
October Kanawha had reached S1S.Is
in per capita sales and there is little
doubt but that figures up to November
L will show that she, too, has gone
over.
Harrison, too, is near the top, with
S19.1S; Taylor has S1919; Wetzel has
5000; Gilmer has $685. Marshall
s15O3; Mngo, S12s7: Cabell, Sl1.21 !
Mercer, $11.23; Wood, S12.19; Ohio,
1856.
Mcdowell county, from which one Of
the best reports was expected at the
beginning of the year, is far down the
line, with per capita sales of less than
ave dollars.
The war savings work Is not to be
stopped with the present year. Sec
rotary of the Treasury McAdoo has
announced that no matter what the
result of the peace negotiations may
be, there will be another Liberty loan.
To use his expression, "We are going
to have finance peace for IA while,
just as we have had finance war;
So, too, it has been decided, the war
savings campaign must go on. Pledges
must be redeemed. The war savings
campaign for the coming year will he
q matter to be planned later.
While the armistice was awaiting
signature there was released for pnb-
LEGATION the following statement by
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo:
The secretary of the treasury has
determined upon the issuance of a new
series of War Savings Certificates ana
Stamps to be placed on sale early in
| 1919, and to be known as the series OF
1919 The new series will have a ma
turity date of January l, 1921, and IN
practically all respects will be issued
on the same terms and in the same
manner as the present series of 1913.
A new S. War Savings Stamp, blue
in color, bearing the head Of Benja-
! min Franklin, the apostle of saving,
and former postmaster general. Is
in preparation. The new stamps will
be placed on sale early in 1919.
The same Thrift Stamps and Thrift
Cards now in use will be continued in
1919 and will be exchangeable into
new series of 1919 War Savings
Stamps payable January 1, 1924, in the
same way as the exchange has beer
made during this year into the series
Of 1918 War Savings Stamps.
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