The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-12-06
The DEEP SIGNIFICANCE
OF POPULAR MOVEMENT
ONLY "a MORE DAYS TO MAKE GOOD WAR saw.
INGS PLEDGES MADE LAST JUNE: SIGNING
OF ARMISTICE NOT TO EFFECT SALES.
(by Harry w. Turner, State Director
for War Soy;,rs for Montana

(By Harry w. Turner, State Director
for War Savings for Montana.)
The winning of the war will be
gratifying to everyone in the state
and in the nation and particularly will
it be gratifying to those who have
done their duty-either with their
money or by the application of per-
sonal efforts, and thus won the right
to meet honestly and unflinchingly
our returning soldier boys who were
willing to make the supreme sacrifice
and to meet the loved ones of those
boys who did make that sacrifice.
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 bal
ance of the year. We have approx
mately $4,000 wounded soldiers
abroad and home to take ar of and
educate for those occupations for
which their physical condition now
permits. We have got to help the ma
tons of Europe police the defeated
countries in order to guarantee the
performance of the terms of the ar
mistice. We must continue to furnish
food in greater quantities than ever
to help stabilize the enemy govern
ments and to prevent a reign of an
archy and Bolshevism. We must for
the present send over a large num-
Der of soldiers monthly to relieve
those veterans who have so justly
earned the right to return to their
families and to their business. We
must contribute to the immediate re-
Mobilization of France and Belgium,
as no doubt indemnities imposed for
that purpose will not be immediate
ly available, so that under no circum-
stances should the fact of the sign
ing Of the armistice be permitted to
affect the intensity of the wal savings
campaign for the balance Of the year.
If war savings stamps are a good
thing for u people during war, they
are a good thing after the a From
among 35 million savers and purchas-
ers of war savings stamps throughout
the country, innumerable requests
have come to u government that the
war savings stamps campaign be con-
tinued in compliance with which and
in the belief that war savings stamps
are a good thing in peace times as
we'll as in war times. Our govern
ment has determined to issue a 1919
series substantially along the same
general lines as the series of 1918.
No other war activity has develop
ed so much of the latent patriotism
in the American people, as has the
war savings campaign. The impor-
lance of a loan directed to the SOCIAL
led common people, cannot be estimat-
ed in dollars and cents.
The money subscribed to this loan
is represented largely by day-to-day
savings. Our government, therefore,
not only received the money, but at
the same time had released for it's
urgent need, an equivalent amount in
materials and labor.
If a millionaire generously buys
81 ,00O, 900 of government securities
he may, and probably will, continue
to keep in his employ three or more
chauffers; continue the upkeep of
three more autos; probably keep up
the practice of purchasing new ma
chimes and so down the line of his ex-
pensive domestic establishment. He
buys 81, 900, 900 worth of securities,
but still unconsciously keeps in COM
petition with the government, bidding
against them for material and labor.
Now, by way of contrast: If
81 900, 900 worth of w. S. S. are pur-
chased, it would represent the COM
bined effort of many people, who, if
they average $1,000 each, would rep
resent 10000 people who presumably
were able to make purchases by rea-
son of applying their day-to-day
savings to the purpose. Thus the
government in the latter case not only
received the one million dollars, but
at the same time had access to and
received the benefit of the materials
and labor which were released to it by
the savings of 10000 of those of the
latter class who instead of continuing
in competition with the government
for those things so essential, neces-
sarily retired from that competition
and ceased to bid against the govern
ment for what it so urgently needed.
Furthermore, these 10000 people
were s~elf-taught the valuable lessons
of thrift and savings, which exerts a
far-reaching benefit, the extent and
value of which is inestimatable.
The war savings movement tends to
create a thrifty nation out of a no.
| toriously extravagant one.
! The events of the val have shown
! that a nation to be strong must needs
be a thrifty nation. Witness the en-
durance of France, always regarded
as the most thrifty nation in the
world. Had it been otherwise, France