Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-06-28
June % Fixed As Ate When All Wiz.
ginians Who stay At home viii
Have Defia;.,s Act OF Patriot
Ism To Perform.

The National War Savings Commit
tee Of Virginia Is carrying on, through
It's county and city committees, its
portion Of the great nationwide cam
paign to get all people on or before
June % to pledge themselves to save
to the utmost of their ability and to
buy War Savings Stamps. The follow.
ing statement has been issued by the
National War Savings Committee at
Washington:
"Tnose Of us who remain at home
while others DO the fighting have an
eyer-ncreas;ng number of oppor-
tunities to do definite and highly I'M
portant. work for Our country. We
wish to do this work as az expression
Of the gratitude we feel in being
privileged to continue at our usual
tasks, to enjoy the loving companion
ship of our families, to meet freely
With our friends and neighbors, to en-
Joy all the security of life and most
Of the pleasures and the economic
privileges of peace times while other
men, who have had to put aside all
these things, are fighting our battles
FOR us On the sacred soil of France
and on the high seas.
"Our new opportunity to serve
comes as a result of designating June
% as National War Savings Day,
day on which all men and women and
all children Of suf1cient years to ap-
preciate the days significance are call
ed upon to pledge themselves to save
to the utmost Of their ability and to
conserve all possible labor and ma
terials for the Government, and to buy
War Savings Stamps with their saw
ings. Our part is to do everything
possible to make this day stand out
among the great days OF this period Of
the war.
Duty Is clear.
Gould any one Of us be asked to
do less than this? Could any one Of
to win the war for the worlds
freedom, could anyone of us put
aside this plea for saving while
I'll Europe is crying out in It's agony
to be released from the clutches Of the
monster that Is befouling all it's
touches? Could we refuse SO simple
a thing and at the same time ask
other men to give their lives that our
own precious lives be spared and our
iresides be kept safe from the terrors
Of the Hun?
"Our duty Is clear, orr privilege Is
great, our sacrifice is little, our work
8 important.
National War Savings Day is to be
the great rallying day on which every
one In our country Is expected to
pledge himself or herself to save and
aconomize. This saving and economic
:ng will first of all leave in the mar
;ets a greater supply of labor and ma
:erials for the use of the Government
nth which to fight the war. And then
he money savings Of the individually
ire to be invested In War Savings
stamps. :,
What the Government asks us to
10 is to pledge ourselves to buy at
lefnite periods with our saving a
.Decifc amountof War Savings Stamps:
rhe thing to be accomplished is to get
subscriptions which will take care
or the balance Of the present year
If the unsold portion of the $2,00O,o00,-
700 of War Savings Stamps author.
'zed by the Congress- to be sold during
1918,
when one stops to think Of the
matter, It Is really small thing to
raise $4,000 100000, in country OF
more than 100000 people, If
everyone would do his share, it would
be necessary for each person to sub
scribe to only $40 worth Of stamps,
"The duty of us at home Is to see
to 1t that the entire amount is sub
scribed We must work to that end.
We must add to our already great
army Of war savers. We must make
more sacrifices ourselves and urge
sacrifices upon others. National War
Savings Day must be made the great
success all of US hope for"
w. S. S.
Save for your country's sake.