Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-06-21
National War Savings Day Must
Be Made Big Success.

The National War Savings Committee,
which is carrying on. through its State and
local committee, Nationwide campaign
to get all the people on or before June rs
topledge themselves to save to the utmost Of
their ability and to buy War Savings Stamps
with their savings, has given out the fol-
lowing statement:
Those Of us who remain at home while
others do the fighting have an ever-in-
creasing number Of opportunities to do
definite and highly important work for
our country. We wish to do this work as
an expression Of the gratitude we feel in
being privileged to continue at our usual
tasks, to enjoy the loving companionship
Of our families, to meet freely with our
friends and neighbors, to enjoy 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 28 as National
War Savings Day, day on which all men
and women and all children of sufficient
years to appreciate the days significance
are called upon to pledge themselves to
save to the utmost of their ability and to
conserve all possible labor and materials
for the Government, and to buy War Saw
ings Stamps with their savings. Our part
is to do everything possible to make this
day stand out among the great days Of
this period Of the war.
Gould any one of us be asked to do
less than this? Could any one Of US refuse
TO do so little thing to win a war for the
worlds freedomH Could any one Of us put
aside this plea for saving while all Europe
is crying out in its agony to be released
from the clutches Of the monster that is
befouling all it touches? Could we refuse
so simple thing and at the same time ask
other men to give their lives that our own
precious lives be spared and our firesides
be kept safe from the terrors of the Hun
Our duty is clear, our privilege is great,
our sacrifice is little, our work is important.
National War Savings Day is to be the
sreat ralIying day on which everyone in
our country is expected to pledge himself
or herself to save and economic. This
saving and economizing will first Of all
leave in the markets a greater supply of
labor and materials for the use Of the
Government with which to fight the war
And then the money savings of the in
dividuals are to be invested in War Saw
ings Stamps.
What the Government asks us to do is
to pledge ourselves to buy at definite
periods with our savings specific amount
of War Savings Stamps. The thing to be
accomplished is to get subscriptions which
will take care during the balance of the
present year Of the unsold portion Of the
$2.000.000,O00 of War Savings Stamps
authorized by the Congress to be sold dur
ing 1918.
when one stops to think Of the matter.
II is really small thing to raise $4,000
100000 in country of more than l00.-
100000 people. II everyone would do his
share, it would be necessary for each per-
son to subscribe to only $40 worth of
stamps.
1.-THE duty of us at home is to see to il
that the entire amount is subscribed. 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 sue
cess all of US hope for. "