Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-05-25
BIG JUNE DRIVE
FOR WAR SAVINGS


zion To Mako Certain Quota OF
$45,ooo.ooo In stampo BY
January I.
With tho passing OF the Third Lib.
orty Loan drive to glorious finish the
great nationwide War Savings Cam
paign again has a clear field, and In
Virginia an intensive effort will BIO
made In June to make certain that the
pld Dominion will reach It's goal of
$Ae,000.000 invested in War Savings
stamps Mt tho close of this year
The great wave Of patriotic sent.
ment which swept the country from
North to South and East to West is ex.
Dected to engulf Virginians in Ito tide
and carry thom forward as earnest be.
levers in the security OF Unole Sans
"baby bonds"
Colonel Thomas B. McAdams, State
director In Charge OF the War Savings
Campaign, 10 now getting his city and
county directors into line for tho huge
OFFENSIVE next month. In all parts of
the State simultaneous effort will be
made, and details Of the plan will be
made public through the local leaders.
Vlrsinia's schools have done splen.
didly In support of the work, but they
are NV At the CLOSE Of their session,
80 It 10 not Anticipated that tie boys
'and slrls viii be able to participate in
8 further concerted effort until next
fall. However. most of tho patriotic
ho,y hat
that they will not be idle during the
vacation months but will continue
their labors to help the boys in Eu-
rope. D.: ,.r
Why not organize bunch of live
young follows who will agree to put
ten Thrift Cards with stamp at
tached to each in his pocket every
morning and sell them during the day.
He stops a friend or stranger and
says, Loan Uncle Sam a quarter"
gets the quarter and hands over the
IsD Card with tho stamp attached
f1V 1t yourseH-it Is simple. Any man
who really wants to stand by the Gov
eminent can start ten War Savers q
day with very little trouble.
W. 8. S.
The Virginia War Savings Commit
tee Is not going to overlook the sum.
mer resorts this season. Director J.
T. MoAllister, Of Bath county, has an
nounced that a booth for the sale OF
Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps has been opened ut the War
Springs Hotel.
W. 8. s.
These are days OF enlarged spheres
OF usefulness. Hven the hon feels 1t.
Formerly 1t was tho hons, chief bust
ness to lift the mortgage off the farm.
Now many farmers wives are using
their egg money to buy War Savings
Stamps.
w. 9. S.
Two thousand boys and girls OF the
John Marshall High School. at Rich
mond participated in Thrift Parade
at the opening OF "School Thrift
Week."
Has the War Savings habit caught
you YETI
w. S. S.
sAVINaa SOCIETIES INCREASE.
War Savings Societies are on the
snorease In Virginia. so II is quite nat
ural to assume that the sale OF War
Savings and Thrift Stamps Will In.
crease
Once in q while It is found that
some men and women are rather hard
TO persuade 10 join one Of these so.
oieties, but once they are in, they are
found to BIO the most enthusiastic
savers In the society. Not all socte-
tics are organized In the same way
they arc organised according to the
communities OF which their members
arc part. In some seotions OF the
State. the societies are so enthusiastic
that they hold weekly meetings, and
make full report OF their progress for
each seven days. In othor communi-
ties, particularly the farming commu.
mites, meetings are not held oftener
than once a month, because Of the Dis
tancos to the courthouse or wherever
the meeting 10 to be held.
Besides the cid to Uncle Sam In
the purchase OF Thrift and War Say
fngs stamps. there Is the benefit which
acorues to the purchasers Of the
stamps-the idea of saving and thrift
which has never before been brought
actively before many people OF this
country. The idea OF thrift Ia an en-
tirely new one to many Americans
they, for the most part. have never
felt the necessity OF being thrifty and
therefore, have spent their money free
BY. Now 10 the time when the mos,
caretree are going to feel what II
means to be thrifty--ln Families whers
the wages have been small. necessity
has made thrifty people --- but now
the free spenders are going to looh
"a their pennies. quarters and dollars
several timer before they invest them
.~-and In nearly every case a portio1
Of this. at least. will 90 invested IN