The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-06-14
Proclamation By
Gov. Stewart

imbued with the determination +
leave nothing undone that wi
contribute to a final and conclu
sive victory for America and he
Allies in the battle against auto
cracy and its demonstrated atten
dant evils and dangers, the cal
for the observance of the twenty
eighth day of June as Nationa
War Savings Day comes will
peculiar insistance. We are rap
idly becoming, if indeed we have
not already become, a solidifiec
Nation with respect to the wal
and the necessity for the success
of our arms.
'TiS not all of war to fight
Each time we send a host to the
front to fight for a government
the very life of which is at stake,
we at home must be prepared to
make some further sacrifice in or
der that those men may be main
tanned on the fighting line at the
highest possible point of efficiency.
When we reflect upon the sacri-
fees to which the people of
Europe have schooled themselves
in the four blood-red years just
passed, we have forced upon us
the conviction that we of Amer
lea as yet have little realization of
what sacrifice really means.
Incidental TO the contemplation
of Thrift Day is the thought of
economies that may be practiced
every day in order that the sinews
of war may be provided speedily,
steadily and adequately. If by
denying ourselves some of the
things that have come to be re-
garded as necessities in our daily |
life We may conserve our financial
resources to the point where we
may devote still more of our funds |
to the maintenance of the govern
ment's war activities, surely we
owe it to our fighting men, 10 our
country, and above all to ourselves
and our loyalty and our self-re-
spect to make such self-denial ef-
fective. II must never be said |
that a loyal American refused or
to make any sacrifice
that would result in increased eff !
ficiency for our forces in the field.
At this hour of crisis in our
Nations affairs, to waste any
hing that may add an ounce of
'orce to our blows for liberty and
democracy is nothing short of a
crime. AS a people we should be
proud to conserve on every hand. /
There are, no doubt, many in
tances where by refraining from /
ndulging ourselves in the pos +,
ession of some slightly needed i
epuirement we refrain from en- t
ering into competition with our \
government and thereby make it {
for factory and workshop ,
0 more speedily fill orders that
emand immediate attention in .
the war work. !
Our government has provided :
0rms of securities that are within {
ne purchasing power of every :
itizen-either Liberty Bonds,
Var Savings Certificates, or the
umbler but none the less effec- \
We Thrift Stamps. Perhaps be- :,
auSe of the small denomination
f the latter, an impression seems :
, obtain thai these securities are
tended peculiarly for purchase Z
y school children, by little ones ?
no may transfer their pennies y
ON their coin banks to the i
amps. This is an error that I
lould not persist. The govern u
ent has asked for a maximum y
lie of these stamps. and adults -
lould not hesitate to add their ~
lrchases to those Of the great
md of loyal school children of y
e United States, in the hope y
at the maximum may be largely d
'er purchased. u
Therefore, |, S. v. Stewart, as q
oyernor of the State of Montana NJ
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