The Washington herald., 1918-02-21
Subscribers Buy.

SuDcrlDers buy.
James O'Donnell, Harry Gardman,
Col. Robert n. Harper and William
F. GUIDE have not only subscribed the
1900 gold fund which will be given to
the thirty winning contestants IN this
contest, but are also making large
purchases OF war savings and thrift
stamps from contestants.
Through an error, The Herald yes
terday stated that the first contest
which sold war savings and thrift
stamps to the amount Of $107, 40, dis
posed Of one-fifth OF all stamps thus
far sold since the campaign was in
augurated in December.
1t should have made it plain that
this amount, so. $50, represents lit
tie more than one-fifth OF all war
savings and thrift stamps sold dur
ing the two official war savings stamp
weeks and one-tenth. not one-fifth, Of
all the war savings and thrift stamps
sold in Washington since December.
Policemen Of Washington. gathered
in their eleven precincts heard stirring
war savings stamp addresses yester-
day afternoon when eleven official
speakers of the District campaign ex-
planned to them the rich oportunity
opened to them through The Herald's
second contest and urged them to be-
come active contestants for the thirty
substantial gold prizes. Following are
the speakers who made talks and the
precincts they addressed:
Those Who Spoke.
First precinct, F. Edward Mitchell;
Second, Robert E. Mattingly; Third,
r. Preston Shealey; Fourth. Sidney
f. Taliaferro; Fifth, Thomas NJ.
Baker; Sixth. Thomas P. Littlepage;
Seventh. Roger ]. Whiteford; Eighth.
Rosa F. Downing! Ninth, Harold
E. Warner: Tenth. H. winship
Wheatley; Eleventh. Frederick J.
Rice.
William w Bride. chairman of the
speakers committee of the District
w. s. S. campaign, has arranged for
eleven more speakers to address the
policemen at the same time tomor-
row afternoon.
Henry Richter. letter carrier No.
l3, and winner of the first grand
prize In The HeraId's first contest,
unfortunately will be severely han
dicapped in striving for one of the
thirty prizes offered in the one now
in full swing. Richter has the
mumps.
Miss Mamie E. Gusick and Miss
Emma Binnix, the two young wom-
er who have charge of the distribu-
ton Of the stamps at the City Post
office. admitted yesterday afternoon
that they scented another big
stamp-selling drive such as the first
contest provoked"
Small Buyers Interested.
Misses Gulick and Binnix point
out that while there are consider
able more sales being made by con-
testants in the second contest than
those in the first they are, in the
majority, sales for small quantities
OF stamps. In the first contest it
was a common occurrence for the
contestants to sell $500 and $1,000
worth Of stamps at one clip.
D. ]. Callahan. director of the
District War Savings Stamp Cam
paign, was exceedingly pleased to
hear of these small sales as it is
the prime object Of the campaign
to get the mass of the people head
ed "thriftward" in preference to
giving a few fnanciers opportun-
ity to invest. Proof of this fact is
found in the rule which forbids any
one person from purchasing more
than $1,000 worth of the war saw
ings stamps for his personal use.
supply of new War Savings
Service buttons have been received
at the office of Director Callahan.
These buttons will be worn by those
actively engaged in the war saw
ings work. The button bears on
the outer edge the inscription, War
Savings Service-W. s. S." over a
dark brown background and the
torch of Liberty rests in the center
OF the button over a background of
blue. These insignias were distrib-
uted through the district chairmen
at the weekly meeting of the execu-
tive committee in the Federal Re-
serve board room of the Metropoli-
tan Bank Building yesterday after
noon.
Surprises Coming.
There will be several worthwhile
surprises for contestants in the sec
ond contest and no one of them will
regret having worked in the con-
test.
Tomorrow, George washington's
Birthday. should be banner one
for contestants. It will be well for
each man to get an unusually gem
erots supply OF. stamps today. as
he will be unable to purchase fhem