The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-17
Florida Far From Quota and Pa
triots Are Called on to Help
Encourage Purchase.
SEPT. 9 TO Ia
CAMPAIGN DATE
Escambia Asked to go Over
Top" and Thus Help Counties
That Cannot Raise Quota.

Another intensive period for the
sale of war savings stamps has been
determined on at conference of all
last Monday in Jacksonville The drive
for the taking of pledges and making
of actual sales of stamps will begin on
Monday, September 9, and continue
through Saturday, September 10. The
quota assigned to Escambia county
has not yet been raised. In fact, there
is only one county in the state that
has succeeded In raising it's quota and
that is Dade county. This county has
about $259,171.48 and the war savings
organization here is already laying
plans to see this county discharge it's
full obligation in this instance, as II
has done in all other calls made by the
government during these critical
times.
new feature of this campaign will
be the delegation of authority TO every
person in the county to constitute him.
self, or herself, into committee to
spread the propaganda of thrift and
savings and to encourage every indi-
vidual in the county to purchase at
once, or pledge to purchase during the
remainder of the year, war savings
stamps to the limit of his abkgitA
While the quota assigned to this coun-
ty is only twenty dollars per CAPITA
there ara "A large number who are abb
solutely not able to purchase twenty
dollars worth of any kind of securities,
which will make it necessary for those
who are able to purchase a sufficient
amount to help out the weak brothers.
To Win We Must Sacrifice.
Il is pointed out by the state direc-
fnp he
mittee that the people Of the United
States and of Florida must come TO the
final realization that II America is to
win this war we must sacrifice-and
keep sacrificing. That is, we must go
without things we do not absolutely
need; that we must curtail the enjoy
ment of our luxuries and cut down
very sharply in the purchase of neces-
stiles for no country can successfully
prosecute a war unless the armies at
the front receive the united backing
and support of the army of non-com-
batants at home.
The national government, when 1t
inaugurated the plan of war savings,
believed every man, woman and child
in the United States could save and
lend to the government twenty dollars
during the year. As a theoretical
proposition there is no reason to
change this view of the national. ad-
ministration. but It is an actual fact
that in many counties in the state OF
Florida less than one dollar per capita
has been loaned TO the government,
although the citizens have been inn
portuned most earnestly during the
last eight months.
War savings as a means of contrib
uting or lending to the government is
the first 0f y t.
in marked contrast with the methods
employed in autocratic governments
where the people are commanded to
give their money and if they do NOT
give it it is taken from them. It is
just this form of government and
means of raising funds that the United
States wishes to avoid and if it can be
brought sufficiently to the minds and
hearts Of the American people it will
never be necessary TO revert to auto
cratic methods.
Not Opposed TO Liberty Bonds.
The war savings campaign is no
wise designed TO effect or detract from
the necessity of purchasing Liberty
bonds. War savings is a short term
loan, carrying liberal rate of interest
with a provision that in the event the
purchaser needs his money before ma
turity it will be returned to him by the
government. This attractive feature
was incorporated in this form Of loan
for the benefit of those NOT able to
purchase Liberty bonds and leaving
their money in the hands of the gov
ernment for period of twenty years
II is important, however, that people
who purchase Liberty bonds also pur-
chase war savings stamps. thereby
creating the habit of small invest
ments Systematically and in such mea-
sure that II will not embarrass them
and. at the same time, will stop actual
competition with the gove~-nent in
the purchase OF non essentials. -
Another new feature TO ~ intro
duced in the September campaign will
be the pledging of citizens generally
to substitute war savings stamps for
any other small present they may in
tend to give during Christmas The
giving of war savings stamps will not
only encourage the recipient 70 begin
to save and accumulate. bur will slelp
the government ar time when there
IS competition for labor and material
which the government SO vitality needs.