Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-11

Thrift Stamps for the best compost
ton at a patriotic meeting held at St.
Mary's Hall on Liberty Day The fol-
lowing is the composition.
rs woodland Avenue.
Annapolis. Nd
Dear Cousin Bertha:
"A War Saver is a Life Saver, l
have adopted this as my motto for the
next ten months. Liberty Day al St.
Mary's was spent in a most patriouc
way last Friday when we all assem-
bled in our Hall for the purpose of
forming a Junior War Savings Society
under the direction of Miss Walton,
who is Chairman of the Anne Arun-
del War Savings Committee. The rea-
son this Committee has been formed
is because our country needs every
penny it can get to feed clothe, arm
and equip the soldiers and sailors of
America TO help them win the war.
Father Warren gave the opening
address. He used the following com
parison TO show how both young and
| old can help win the war; Suppose
| YOU saw a house that had wide cracks
through which the rain could come
| and destroy everything inside. am
sure you would not like TO live in
. house like that But suppose you saw
| beautiful house with the stones fit
| ted closely together to keep out the
| Indictment weather. am sure you
| would like to live in that house This
latter is the kind of home We must
| make our United States The big
| folks supply the large stones by buy
| ing Liberty Bonds, but the children
! can supply the little stones which are
| lust as important by buying War
Savings Stamps" Then Father add
ed that above all we should pray TO
God to help us win the war, for I'm
| less the Lord build the house, they
| labor in vain that build it,
Miss Walton next introduced Pro
| fessor Gum, who gave US an interest
ing address on education. lie told us
| that he considered education the most
| necessary part of our young lives. He
| reminded us that we shall be the men
| and women after the war and urged
| US TO study diligently. He tried to
| make it plain to US why the United
| States entered the war. He gave us
| the following example: Suppose some
| robbers were going to attack a city,
| would it be right for the neighboring
| city to say, 1t is not our quarrel, and
| refuse to help the people in distress?
| No, t would not This was the case
| with Germany. In her greed for more
money and territory she decided that
she would attack Belgium, capture all
that she wanted and make slaves of
the people. Then she was going to
France, but the other countries came
to the rescue. This was partly why
the United States entered the war
The chief means by which countries
communicate are transportation and
commerce. Germany prescribed a Ger
;ain war zone from which she pro-
hibited all vessels. This was the prin-
ciple reason why the United States
entered this great war against Ger
many.
Professor Sturdy, being next intro
duced gave an address on War Saw
ings Stamps He urged us to save
me IIOHGy JudJ We WOuiu Spbuu LOT
candy and buy the Stamps. We should
do without all we can and help win
the war. He also told us to pray to
God to direct us and help us to give
ell we can to Uncle Sam for our boys
Over There
Il forgot to tell you that our Ma
tional Songs, the Salute to our Flag,
and a dialogue given by some of the
younger pupils. helped TO enliven the
program.
Now, do you guess why l chose
War Savers are Life Savers for my
motto? Fall in line with me and help
the good cause.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
am,
Your loving cousin