The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-06-15
To the People Of Grant Parish

Cash and cooks might be termed the provenders OF our
army navy Nature has furnshsd US the cooks but eo
pie will have supply the money The ceaseess grna Oh
the war has prepared them rest trenches either
The Stacker dollar will have to out to the rlng me-
By proclamation of President Wilson June 18th Will De des
gnated National Thrift Day. By such proclamation ne VIII
likewise give additional impetus to the effort OF the govern
ent the of two billions dollars through
the sale of War Stamos and Thrift Stamps The daily de-
mand food and has made necessary the develop
ment of every financial of the federal government and
the proportion of the above allotted the parish OF Grant
through of stamps the almost staggering sum o
total of ali previous Liberty Loans Red Cross and kindred
contributions The basis which the quotas OF countes
and parishes in the American union was nxea D sne ma
white and child and ve dollars eacn Tor every
coored woman and child. Estimated total popuauon
of Grant Parish H. 100 population thirty per cent OF wnom
negroes
rue plan that will be adopted by the War Savings Com
mttee Grant parish will be the one prepared through the
National Treasury Department and adopted by parish
and county every the Union. brief announce
ment of the plan follows.
Although the above quota is based the population of
the parish the allotment to communities Will nave 10 De
based on population and wealth The parish will necessarily
have to be suodvided into units and stipulated allotment
placed EACH using basis the parish tax collectors
assessed valuation of the total OF all citizens living therein
and the citizens thereof with the help of the Parish War
Savings Committee will endeavor to make an equitable pro
ration of such allotment according the ability of each in
dyidua to purchase The amount that any individual would
be subscribe could not be large for the reason
that an individual can legally own The committee will put
forth every effort reach household IN the parish
All previous sales Of Liberty nds absorbed TO great
million people subscribed the Third Liberty Loan The
present War Swings Drive appeal for popular subscp
and manifestation of that patriotic desire of President
Wilson that every individual in the American union be
supporter.
The operation the plan the month of June
in campaign of organization and the 18th day of June
National Thrift Day. proclaimed by President Wilson,
there will assemble at school church the citizens
in each and there raise their by pledge
of subscriptions 1t will be the endeavor of the commit
tee that to sell and collect for stamps but its duty
will be take pledges of subscriptions payment in full to
be made throughout the remaining months of the
suits the convenience of the purchaser complete list of
property will be in the hands of the committee
assigned the above duties such date in order that the
work may be intelgenty and equitaby DONE One copy
will be in the hands of the National War Savings Committee
at Washington order that that department may that
each community has done its full dutyas matter of fact
the war savings drive in Washington City and ends
Grant parish The plan is comprehensive and with proper
popular support will succeed.
The War Stamp the prime investment of of the
securities offered by government for sale to date is
in truth Liberty Bond of five dollar denomination backed
and secured by the full fan and credit of the American
union and taxable The maturity is Short only five
years. You buy them at discount hold them five years.
and in effect they automatically become five dollar bills In
than four and onequarter per cent interest the rate
which the last liberty bond issue was Sold
To sell the above quota man-Sized job and while the
Parish Committee will put forth every energy to do So
cannot be accomplished without the patriotic enlistment of
every man in Grant parish If the national effort of the
War Savings Committee is doomed to failure in this under
taking let the first wall from other county
parish than Grant-we in the habit of going over the
'0p N''p'''''"' '''' EARL ROBERTS,
PARISH DIRECTOR.