The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-06-07
ADOPT KANSAS PLAN
/ TO SELL WAR STAMPS
N MAURY COUNTY
JUNE 20 TO BE DECLARED HALF.
HOLIDAY FOR WHiRL WIND
DRIVE COMPLETE QUOTA.
100000 IS ALLOTMENT
Clarence w. Tucker and John N. Pigg
Attend District Conference in Nash
Vile Where They Get Dose of En-
thusiasm.

/ Tennessee is preparing to make a
clean sweep of her allotment of War
Savings Stamps on June 20 when the
Kansas Plan" Of sales will be. ap,
piled, according to Clarence w.
Tucker and John N. Pigg, represent
ing the Columbia committee, who at.
tended conference Of county and
! district war savings directors Sun
day in Nashville. More than 100 men
and women attended the conference,
which was called by T.. r. Preston,
state director. The closing session of
the conference was held at a lunch
con at the Hermitage hotel, when
Richard Hardy, vice state director, ex-
planned the plan in detail
The plan entails more of the man
datory spirit that any other campaign
in the state has had. Each county
will be required to arrange for com
munity meetings to- be held at each
| school house between and o'clock
on June %, which the head of each
family in every community will be di-
rected to attend. Governor Rye will
be requested to proclaim half holt
day for the state and the mayor of
every town and city also will be asked
to declare the afternoon half holt
day.
In each community there will be a
chairman with three assistants who
will be directed, not requested, to
conduct the campaign. At the com
munity meetings on June % pledges
will be taken from the head of each
family for his proportionate share of
the county's allotment, which in
Maury county is 100000, to be paid
for within the following six months.
All persons who fail to purchase as
large a quantity Of these war savings
stamps as he is believed to be able
to purchase, will be required to sign
card stating his reasons for not
buying them. The ,county's quota will
be allotted to the various districts,
with the understanding that stamps
already purchased will be credited to
the respective districts.
n Messrs. Tucker and Rigg STATED
that notables feature Of ythes confer
ence was the announGeneht that the
campaign will get away from the
word thrift" that word having Gre
ated the idea that the movement is
one only for children and the very
poor They stated that far from be~|
ing child's- work, II. is mans size
job and one that is going to require
as much effort and enthusiasm to put
over as a Liberty Loan drive. Maury
county's quota for these stamps is
double that of any Liberty Loan
quota that has been assigned 1t was
calculated on basis of $40 for every
inhabitant Of the county. Although
the little 25 cent Thrift stamps will
continue to be sold, they will be
kept in the background, with the
more important War Savings Stamps
and War Savings Certificates occupy
ing the sole attention of the workers
No person will be permitted to buy
more than $1,000 worth of the stamps,
but it is planned to secure large
number of buyers to the limit.
1t is probable that the organization
of the County Council of Defense,
which has recently been put on a war
footing, will be utilized to some ex-
tent in making the drive in Maury
county. H. o. Fulton, chairman of
the county War Savings Committee,
will be asked to present the matter at
the important meeting of the council
Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at |
the War Work building.