The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-11-29
MONTANA LAGS IN
w. S. S. PAYMENTS
State Director Turner Urges People
to Make Good Their Promises
Made to Uncle Sam.


The good news received about the
signing Of the armistice will be graf
flying to every one in this state and
in this nation and particularly will it
be gratifying to those who have done
their duty, either with their money
or with the application of their per-
sonal efforts.
And if there are those now whose
conscience tells them that they have
not contributed as much time OF as
much money as they feel they ought
to have done in order to put them
selves at rest with their con-
science, when they meet our return
ing heroes, let them remember that
they have yet a month in which to
make good.
Under no circumstances should the
fact of the signing of the armistice
be permitted to affect the intensity
of the war savings campaign for the
balance of the year.
Our government expects that Mon
tana will do as she promised to do on
the June 28th drive. 1t would be far
better not to have pledged this sum
than to have pledged it and default
ed. Every state in the union and every
county in every state has identified
itself in permanent ways with this
a Every state and every county
has created a record for itself-a per-
manent and everlasting record which
will be read along with the military
events connected with this war and
no state and no county can afford to
have that record show that they prom
ised to do some worthy and patriotic
thing to help win the war and failed
to make good.
Notwithstanding the signing Of the
armistice, there remains much yet to
be done by our country and much
need for money with which to do it.
We have got to help the nations of
Europe police the defeated countries
in order to guarantee that the terms
of the armistice are kept by them.
We must continue to furnish food in
greater quantities than ever. We must
contribute to the immediate rehabil-
itation of France and Belgium, as no
doubt any indemnities imposed for
that purpose will not be Immediately
available.
We must send over soldiers month
ly to relieve those veterans who have
so justly earned the right to return
to their homes and to their business
affairs. We have many thousands of
wounded soldiers at home and abroad
who have so loyalty made great sac
rifices for US, and these heroic boys
must be taken care of; conserved and
educated into those occupations for
which their physical conditions now
permit. All of these things pre-
sent a patriotic demand upon the peo-
pie of this country and no person
should consider that he is no longer
under obligation to respond to the ap-
peal of u country for the further
purchase of war savings stamps.
AS previously written, Montana was
third of all states in the union in
pledges on the June 28th drive; that
is, the third in promises; and with re-
gard to the actual purchases of stamps
as of October LIST, according to the
statement from Washington, Montana
stood fourteenth.
Third in promises and fourteenth
in performance.
Montana, through her pledges, is in
the position of having signed a prom
issory note due December 31st. Mon
tana has the means with which to
meet it. Will she do it or will our
great state default it's solemn obliga-
ton? 1t is up to county directors
and their organizations to furnish
the answer.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY W. TURNER,
CA-Az D:nno4oo