St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-06-15
MUST RAISE HUGE
SUN IN SALE OF
war SAVING STAMPS
"Man-size Job" to Secure Two Bill
lion Dollars Invested in Uncle
Sans Baby Bonds
LoUtslANA's SHARE $s7,ooo,ooo;
ST. LANDRY NEARLY $1,000, 1000
Intensive Campaign Now on and Peo.
pie Expected to Do Their Duty
to the Cause as in the Lib
erty Bond Drives

Right now the interest of the en-
tire people Of the nation is directed
to the campaign in the interest of the
sale of War Savings and Thrift
Stamps. Heretofore there has been
quite bit of interest stirred up in
these small securities Of Uncle Sam
but the work Of pushing their sale
has been somewhat overshadowed by
the big drives in the three Liberty
Bond ISSUES and the two Red Cross
war fund drives These are now out
Of the way and it is the purpose of
the present move to raise two billion
Of dollars in the war stamps sale.
OF the total sum above mentioned,
Louisiana is called on to furnish
thirty-seven millions OF dollars and of
that immense sum ST. Landry's quota
is s953,820 and patriotic people in
this parish have already gone meth
odically to work laying the initial
plans tu secure this sum in order to-
not oilig aid the government and show
that our peopls are not
but Impress rLpon the people.
ere eeaalty of conserving
our wealth. The slogan adopted for
this campaign is somewhat to the
point and reads: II resolve that no
American boy shall die over there
because | failed to do my full duty
over here"
The work in this parish, now well
under way, was further pushed to
full fruition by big meeting held at
the high school building last Wednes-
day afternoon At this meeting were
present the ehairmen of w. S. S.
committees at Arnaudville, Melville,
Leonyille, Whiteville. Big Cane, Plat
sance, Bristol, Opelousas and Shutes-
ton. The meeting discussed the cam
paign in many of its phases and a full
course of procedure was mapped out
and it was resolved that nothing
would be left undone to make the cam
paign a success from start to finish.
The chairmen for the various COM
munities are:
L. j. Larcade, Opelousas; Dr. O. p.
Daily, Shuteston; O. A. Durfo, Plais-
ance; Dr. Ben Guilbeau, Sunset; DIR.
c. A. Gardiner, Bristol; Father
Charles, Leonville; DR.. ]. R. Melan-
con, ArnaudyilIe; DR. Gordan Morgan,
Melville; R. o. Marsh, Port Barre;
r. Lee Hawkins, Waxia; DR.. Garnett
Hawkins, Palmetto; Henry LoWery,
Morrow; Judge Frank Vannoy Big
Cane; L. G. Hicks, Rosa; DR.. James
T. Mary, Washington; Theo Doucet,
Cataro; Jno. P. Swami, WhitevilIe:
A. w. Dejean, Church Point; James J,
Lewis. Eunice; DR.. Paul Foster, Law
tell
The following is the list of the six
police Jury wards, their population in
both races and the quota each ward is
expected to raise:
First ward-6765 whites; 1898 col
ored; total, 12.75s; quota, $255,160.
Second ward -267S whites; 1856
colored; total, 5O44; quota, $100,8S0.
Third ward 1854 whites; 22S2 col
ored; total, 1855; quota. $97,S2o.
Fourth ward-3117 whites; 2754
colored; total. 5s71; quota, $117,42o.
Fifth ward-428 whites; 378S col
ored; total, So77; quota, s161,54o.
sixth ward -5sS1 whites; 5194 col
ored; total, 11,075; quota, s221,500.
war Savings Societies have been or
ganized under the following names at
the following places in the parish;
opelousas: Woman's w. s. s., Mrs.
w. ]. Sandoz. president; Miss Daisy
Edwards, secretary. Do Your Best,
Mrs. a. A. Anding, president; Miss
Dee Anding. secretary; Presbyterian,
Mrs. Allen Dezauche, president; Miss
Carrie Price, secretary; Liberty Low
ers, Mrs. Sadie Navi, president; Mrs.
s. r. Garbo. secretary; Lillian Jacobs,
Mrs. NJ. Winsberg. president; Mrs
Aaron Jacobs, secretary; Anti-Kaiser,
Mrs. Goldman Lassalle, president;
Mrs. Percy Dunbar. secretary; Wood
row Wilson. Miss Eleanor Littell,
president: Mrs. R. NJ. Littell, secre-
1ror4irnea an pace Eour.l