The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-06-22
WAR SAVINGS DAY MUST BE BIG SUCCESS

The National War Savings committee, which is carrying
on, through its state and local committees, a nationwide CAM
paign to get all the people on or before June % to pledge them
selves to save to the utmost of their ability and to buy War
Savings stamps with their savings, has given out the following
statement:
"Those of us who remain at home while others do the fight
ing have an ever-increasing number of opportunities to do def
mite and highly important work for our country. we wish 10
do this work as an expression of the gratitude we feel in being
privileged to continue at our national tasks, to enjoy the loving
companionship of our families, to meet freely with our FRIENDS
and %neighbors, to enjoy all the security of life and most II Inc
pleasures of the economic privileges of peace times while otner
men, who have had to put aside all these things, are fgntihS
our battles for us on the sacred soil of France and on the hlgh
seas.
Our new opportunity to serve comes as a result of desig-
mating June % as National War Savings Day, a day on which
all men and women and all children of sufficient years to APP
preciate the days significance are called upon to pledge them
selves to save to the utmost of their ability and to conserve all
possible labor and materials for the government, and to BUY
War Savings stamps with their savings. Our part is to do ev-
erything possible to make this day stand out among the great
days of this period of the war.
"Could any of us be asked to do less than this? Gould any
one of us refuse to do so little a thing to win a wal for the
worlds freedom? Could any one of us put aside this plea for
saving while all Europe is crying out in its agony to be released
from the clutches of the monster that is befouling all it touch
es? Could we refuse so simple a thing and at the same time
ask other men to give their lives that our own precious lives DC
spared and our firesides be kept safe from the terrors OF the
Hun?
sour duty is clear, our privilege is great, our sacrifice is
little. our work is important.
National War Savings Day is to be the great ralyng day
on which everyone in our country is expected to pledge himself
or herself to save and economize. This saving and economic
ing will first of all leave in the markets a greater supply of Ia
Dor and materials for the use of the government with which to
fight the war. And then the money savings of the individuals
are to be invested in War Savings stamps.
What the government asks us to do is to pledge ourselves
to buy at definite periods with our savings a specific amount of
War Savings stamps. The thing to be accomplished is to get
subscriptions which will take care during the balance of the
present year of the unsold portion of the $2,OOOOOO,OOO of War
Savings stamps authorized by congress to be sold during 1913.
when one stops to think Of the matter, it is really a small
thing to raise $2yOOOO0O,OO0 in a country of more than 100000
900 people. If everyone would do his share, it would be nee
essary for each person to subscribe to only 500 worth of stamps.
"The duty of us at home is to see to it that the entire
amount is subscribed. We must work to that end. We must
add to our already great army of war savers. We must make
more sacrifices ourselves and urge sacrifices upon others. Ma
tional War Savings Day must be made the great success all of
us hope for"