The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-19
Employes of Great Depart ment Store Are Organized Into Savings Clubs.
 Prizes Offered
THRIFT MOVEMENT
 BIG ASSET OF NATION
 WHEN WAR IS OVER
Lumbermen of State Organize for Active Work-Crawford John son Makes Address at
 Tuskegee Institute

The initial movement in the great war
 savings and thrift drive to be conducted in Birmingham was made yesterday afternoon at 5:45 when Joe Loveman of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb also chairman of the city war savings committee, called a mass meeting of his employees to or ganize them into six large war savings clubs. A complimentary thrift card with stamp was given each employe free by the company. Practically every member of the force was present, and more en- thusiastic or a more deeply interested audience could not have been desired by the speakers.
 .'It was not so much the desire of the
 government to raise the s2.o00. .00o,o0O asked for in this issue, as 1t was to get your co operation, your personal interest, and your whole-hearted support of the admin istration, that this loan is asked Tor, said Joe Loveman. The value of it, how ever, even in a strictly pecuniary way, IS not to be scoffed at. If everys person in America should buy thrift stamp to- night, just one single stamp each, II would mean that tomorrow the United States government would be in possession of s25. .0o0, GOO not now in the treasury or
 at direct work for the government. WILL PAY SALARIES Tn order to conserve the fuel of the
 country for the fighters it is going to
 be necessary for many of us to make sacrifices. It is thought now that this store, Nike many others, will have to re- main closed all day every Monday, be- gir ming next Monday. Fortunately we are able to do what many, many of the stores and industries that are obliged to close cannot do-all of your salaries will continue to be paid you as if you were at work as usual" Prolonged applause followed this last statement.
 T have arranged to have this store divided up into six groups, each of which will constitute war savings club. Each of the employees of the company will be presented, gratis, with a thrift card, with one thrift stamp attached, Monday morning.
 "As an added incentive to saving among our employees, we have decided to offer rewards for thrift, given according to the extent to which it is practiced. The company will give as a prize $50 baby bond to the group whose total mem bership shall, according to the company's s audit, have accomplished the greatest percentage of individual savings out of salaries, as soon as all six groups have not less than two members each with a full war saving certificate saved. This prize is to be distributed to the winning group. as follows: First prize, $25 to the member with the highest percentage sav- | ings of salary; second, Sl00 to the member heving second best percentage; third, so each to the members with the three next best percentages.
 NATION OF MEANS
 l Crawford Johnson, state director of the national war savings committed, next made short talk to the employees gath cred below on the ground floor.
 When the war is over this thrift move l ment will be one of the greatest move ments in the nation. We will be a better nation and a better people because of 1t. l We will be a people of means and not a nation of means. If we have a prosper 1 ous people we have a prosperous nation, because the nation is no stronger than l the people that go to make up the nation. '.I am glad to see Mir Loveman start l ing with his own employees in his cam paign to organize the city, for the fellow l who says. Come on, boys. let's go at l themr will receive much greater re- l sponse than the fellow who goes out and shouts, Go on, boys, and do your best; I m for your MT. 1oveman can now go 1 out and ask every merchant in Birming- ! ham to Come on and help. and expect l them to respond to a man.
 1 John Sparrow, who is conducting the d. 4s,, cfa ,,rrattf de 1 a short talk heartily indorsing the state i ments of the former speakers and giving | the employees his best wishes for sue cessful thrift year.
 LUMBERMEN ORGANIZE 1 The lumbermen and wood workers oi 1 Alabama are also being organized foI 1 the thrift campaign. John l.. Raul of the | Raul Lumber company, has been ap- l pointed chairman of the state committee I in charge of this branch of the work | MT Raul has already actively entered the l campaign, and the national headquarters | received notice from him yesterday that he had already appointed committees | over the state to handle the various branches of the lumber workers. About 25 GOO men in Alabama alone are in some manner engaged in the lumber business and it is thought by State Director Craw- ford Johnson that this IS going to prove to he very productive Drancn or lHe | work. The committees appointed by MT 1 Raul are as follows:
 l MANUFACTURERS DIVISION
 E. L. Moore. River Falls: w. T. Neal | Brewton; J. G. McGowin, Chapman; Mir Fitzgerald, Miller-Brent Lumber com pany, Foley; J. D. Henderson, Fox; pr s. E. Deal. Buhl; J. A. Reid. Selma; w D. Harrington, Fulton; E. F. Allison I Bellamy; A. F. Bell, Gordo; MT. Black
 sher, Mobile; w. s. Harlan. Lockhart; H | H. Patterson Atmore; w. F. Lee Man
 chester; J. M. Stevenson, Alexander City J. w. Oden, Birmingham; F. H. Lathrop Birmingham; Albert Russell. Jasper; D
 H. Marbury. Wadley M. c. Rumley l Hull; N s. Curtis, Coalfire; Harrl
 Stover, Crichton Lumper company Mo
 bile: Peter vredenburgh, Vredenburgh J. L. Cruikshank, Autaugaville; c. F
 Wilcox. Flatwood; John B. Rider. Rider wood.
 RETAILERS DIVISION
 Caspar Arnold, Cullman; J. F. Ar mold. Ensley; A. E. Swanson, Gadsden H. F. Horn Greensboro A. M Booth
 Huntsville; c. w. Griffin, Lafayette
 R. E. Christenberry, Marion: w A. An
 drews, Opelika; F. M. Byrne, Selma
 R. l.. Rumsey, Sylacauea: $. G. Clark
 huff. Tuscaloosa; W. B. Dozier, Unio
 Springs; w. T. Estes. Rirmingham; H IJ Wallace. York; F. E Miller. Athens