Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-18
NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS DAY

| State and local Committees, a Nation
wide campaign 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 fighting have an
ever-increasing number of opportuni-
ties to do definite and highly impor-
tant work for our country We wish
to do this work as aon expression OF
the gratitude we feel in being privi-
legged to continue at our usual tasks,
to enjoy the loving campanionship OF
our families, to meet freely with our
friends and neighbors, to enjoy all the
security of life and most Of the leas-
uresp and the economic privileges of
peace times while other men, who have
had to put aside all these things, are
fighting our battles for us ON the
sacred soil of France and On the high
seas.
"Our new opportunity to serve
comes as the result of designating June
% as National War Savings Day, a
day on which all men and women and
all children of suffiient years to APP
preciate the days significance are
called upon to pledge themselves to
save to the utmost of their ability and
to conserve all possible labor and ma
terials for the government and to buy
War Savings Stamps with their saw
ings. Our part is to do everything
possible t0>make this day stand out
among the great days of this period Of
the war.
Gould any one of us be asked to
do less than this? Could any one Of
us refuse to do So little a thing to
win a war for world freedom Could
any one of us put aside this plea for
saving, while all Europe is crying out
in it's agony to be released from the
clutches of the monster that is befoul-
ing all it touches? Could we refuse
so simple thing and at the same time
ask other men to give their lives that
our own precious lives be spared and
our firesides be kept safe from the ter
rors of the Hun?
"Our duty is clear, our privilege is
great, our sacrifice is little, our work
is important.
National War Savings Day is to
be the great rallying day on 1iewh
everyone in our country is expected to
pledge himself OF herself to save and
economize This saving and economic
ing will first of all leave in the mar
kets a greater supply of labor and
materials for the use of the govern
mentment 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 bug at
definite periods with our savings a
specific amount of War Savings
ONoAlpo' hG l1IhS W US 1CG']tB tJllSiIcO
is to get subscriptions which Will take
care during the balance of the present
/ year of the unsold portion of the
! $4,000, 100000 of War Savings Stamps
authorized by Congress to he sold
! during 1918.
/ when one stops to THINK OF tbs
matter, it is really a small thing t c
/ raise $2,OOO,OOO,OOO in country o I
! L,ore than 1OOOOO,OOO people. II
every one would do his share, it would
lie necessary for each person to sab
scribe to only $40 worth of stamps.
/ THE duty of us home is to see
TO it that the entire amount is sub.
scl;bed We must work 20 that end
/ We must add to our already great
a. my of war savers. We must rake
more sacrifices ourselves and urge
sacrifices upon others. National Wal