The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-04-11
Valley City Has New Kind Of
Patriotic Parade, a Winner, Too

In these days of raising money 70
help win the war many devices for
separating the coin from the dear peo-
pie are INDUCED in, every ore Il
whom are truly laudable Efforts to
help the government in it's gigaHtE
task Of financing the war, but two II
our wide awake business men pulle1
off stunt Friday afternoon that waE
perhaps, one of the finest adyerhGisg
schemes for selling Thrift Stamps
that we have heard of, and if The gan
tlemen would allow us we shouA EkE
very much to give the people their
name and themselves the credit for
the laudable idea, but they are xst
looking for glory or notoriety, but
ply want to do something worth Eh1o
and they did it last Friday afternOon,
so we will pass them up and proceed
with our story. The idea was to have
parade of school children carryin9'
banners with appropriate texts or
questions printed thereon, and forty
children were secured. On some II
the cards and banners were these and
similar words: "We buy thrift staMpx,
do you?" 1--WE plant war gardens, d.
you?" and various patriotic sayings
of like nature. Each child was given
a thrift stamp, purchased by these
patriotic business men, and this has
caused these children to take an in.-
terest in the purchase Of these stamps
and the good work will go on and on
like an endless chain. It will be the
means of them saving their money
and buying these stamps and maybe,
that this idea, born in Valley City.
may be taken up in other cities zsa
thousands Of dollars raised this way
for Uncle Sam. The children were
formed in parade form at the Nor
NAL school grounds, and headed by .
snare drummer, marched through the
principal streets of our city. They
were in charge of three young ladies
from the Normal school, and we
doubt if any parade, and certainly
none more patriotic in it's nature.
has ever paraded the streets of Valley
City, or any other city in this state
Now here is thought worthy of
attention for our good Commercial
club to take up. We have approx
mately 1900 school children here
Suppose this club bought a thrift
stamp for each of these children, and
then these children caught the light
OF liberty and freedom in the Thought
and went out and bought stamps to
fill the books started for them. Then
you can perhaps imagine how i'm
mense the sale Of thrift stamps wouA
be and what great help to our gov
eminent this little but certainly
worthy idea would be. If the Com
mercial club cannot afford to do this
suppose every business man in The
city bought stamp or two for 4
school child, the travelling men whs
make their home here do the same.
the stamps would soon be secured ami
the good work 60 on and on. Then
suppose again that other cities in the
state took up the idea and boosted
along the glad refrain of "buy thrift
stamps" creating an endless chain,
as it were, what a tremendous fund
could be raised with little effort. TAI
oaks from little acorns grow" And
readers, great sums of money can b
raised from this simple but sensible
and patriotic parade stunt as was m
augurated and pulled off by these TIVE
Valley City business men yesterday.
We take off our hats to them and saXx
"well done.''