The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-06-28
WHAT THE WAR STAMPS
CAMPAIGN MEANS
(By o. F. LAWRENCE)

continue to tell us that most seri
Gus situation confrOnts our Country
The situation is serious not becaus,
of any lack of courage or patriotism
upon the part of the American peo
pie, but because they just can mo-
be made to believe that any natior
is big enough or powerful enough t.
do any violence to the integrity OF
the Government of the United States
And further the people of the United
States have been willing to let alone
and have only asked to be let alone
this has been so thoroughly grounded
into the character and the life OF
Americans that they somehow are
slow to believe that any country 81
600 miles away can seriously inter
fere with their own Government.
There is never any trouble about
what the people of Mississippi will do
about any matter when they have the
facts properly in mind. If our State
has ever erred, it had been because
the people did not put themselves to
to the trouble to properly inform
themselves about the proposition at
hand.
To tarry now in the face of the
warning of the Government, in the
face of the warning of the Church
organizations of the Country and in
the face of the warning of the fra
ternal organizations of the land,
would be like the man lingering at
social function where he was en-
joying the luXuries of ease after be-
ing urged to return home to the bed
side of his child who was dangerously
i'll. The trouble with too many of us
is that we do not regard the call as
personal.
We are reminded, when thinking of
the cry going up and down the land
that we must beat back the German
militariat of the warning Noah gave
the people of his day and generation
the approaching destruction of all liv-
ing upon the earth but they laughed
and went about their way. Possibly
it was to give those people another
chance and yet another chance that
Noah was allowed to consume so much
time in the building of the Ark. We
are not altogether unlike the people
of Noah's day and generation in that
we are slow to believe and slow to
wake up to danger.
A people who have been rocked in
the very lap of ease and plenty as the
people of the United States have, and
a people who have allowed so much of
what they have so easily made to slip
away from them as easily as has ours,
certainly need to turn their minds to
thoughts Of saving. 1t startles al
most to think what we spend.
No people in all the world handle
money with such free hand. 1t
comes easy, and is spent with
thoughtless care. Fifty years ago,
we used only eleven pounds of cotton
to make the clothes we wear, while !
today we require thirty-fve pounds |;
of cotton for the same purpose. Our
people have not failed to display the
greatest energy. but they have failed
to display the wisdom Of the bees and
the ants.
For every soldier that engages ac-
lively in the war; fifty people must re-
main at home. The question then
should be with those who stay at
home. What is my duty, and how
can l best show my appreciation for
the boy that is fighting for me?" The
American that asks this question in
earnest it seems would naturally look
to those at the head Of the Govern
ment for an answer, and the answer
has been given. One of those an
swers is. Buy War Savings and
Thrift Stamps Shall Mississippi do
her part? Are the fifty Mississippians
sincerely asking the question as to
what to do? The record will tell,
and let every man remember that by
the record he will be tried
The War Savings forces in Missis-
sippi have spent a great deal of time
in getting working organization in
every county in the State. Happily
every effort seems to have struck a
responsive chord and nobody had thus
far refused to aid in the patriotic and
home protecting work. The word
"home protecting" is used for the
reason that all who have stopped to I
study conditions in the devastated re- 6
gions Of Belgium and France, realize |
that there has been nothing sacred to 6
the Germans. 1t has been their pol Y
icy to debauch womanhood, to mutt f
late children, and render male chill \
dren impotent to ever draw sword !
against Germany and thousand 9TH v
er things that will hardly bear putting r
into print. These things make the n
American realize that he I
is not only loaning fore or funds to e
make the war a success for the Unit b
ed States, but that he is "planking v
down" of what he has for his own life, s
and for the lives of his wife and his S
children. q
When all these things are thorough e
" riveted upon the attention of the b
people there will be no trouble in get O
ing a response for the war needs. t.
All that is necessary is for the people c
% stop and think. The Government a
has made no demands; it has not said n
Thou shalt" but has been persuasive a
n every step taken. The policy has b
,een to show the people whatever Fl
las been done needed to be done, and n
@ get the public mind to travel with r.
hose entrusted with the duty and a
obligation of managing affairs. il
Naturally the railroad centers were
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