The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1918-06-20
National War Savings Day
Must Be Made Big Success,

ullttet, WHICH Is CdIFylig on. tnrOugf
its State and local committees, {
Nationwide campaign to get all tn,
people on or before June % tc
pledge themselves to save to the
utmost of their ability and to buy
War Savings Stamps eth their say.
ings. has given out he 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 an expression OF
the gratitude we feel iE being privi-
legged TO continue at our usual tasks,
to enjoy the loving eonpanionship
OF our families, to meet freely with
our friends and neighbors, to enjoy
all the security of life and most of
the pleasures and the economic
privileges of peace times while other
men, who have had to put aside ale
these things, are fighting our battles
for us on the sacred soil Of Francl
and on the high seas.
Our new opportunity to serve
comes as d result 81 designating
June % as National War Savings
Day, a day on which ell men and
women and all children Of sufficient
years to appreciate thesiay's signifi-
canoe are called upon to pledge
themselves to save to the utmost Of
their ability and to conserve all
possible labor and materials for the
Government, and to buy War Saw
ings Stamps with their savings.
Our part is to do everything possible
to make this day stand out among
the great days of this period of
the war.
Could any one of us be asked to
do less that this? Coass.. any one
of us refuse to do so little a thing
to win a war 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 touches?
Could we refuse so simple a thing
and at the same time ask other
men to give their lives that our
own precious lives be spared and
our fresides be kept safe from
the terrors of the Hun?
Our duty is clear, onr privilege
is great, our sacrifice is little, our
work is important.
National War Savings Day is
to be the great rallying day on which
everyone in our country is expected
to pledgerhimself or herself to save
and economize. This saving and
economizing will first of all leave in
the markets greater supply of la
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 bf War Savings
Stamps. The thing to be accomp-
lished is to get subscriptions which
will take care during the balance OF
the present year of the unsold por-
ton of the $2,000,O00,O0O of War
Savings Stamps authorized by the
Congress to be sold during 1918.
When one stops to think of the
matter, it is really small thing to
raise$2, 900 900 ,0000 in country of
more that 100,000,O00 people. If
everyone would do his share, it
would be necessary for each person
to subscribe to only $40 worth of
stamps.
The duty of us at home tasee
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. Nation al
War Savings Day must be made the
great success all of us hope for"