The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1918-06-22
WAR SAVINGS STAMP CAMPAIGN
FOR BAY ST. LOUIS AND HAN
COCK COUNTY.

misslSsipplS largest War-task will
be tackled on June 28, set apart by
President Woodrow Wilson as Ma
tional Thrift Day, when an effort will
BE made to sell and have subscribed
for forty millions of dollars worth of
War Savings Stamps.
Liberty Bond, Red Gross and Y. NJ
c. A. campaigns are dwarfed in COM
parison with the magnitude of this
task. But the men who have worked
faithfully here for weeks are certain
the goal will be gained.
Many Of the busiest men in the
State of Mississippi have laid aside
their personal duties entirely for
weeks that the work of organizing
this campaign, and getting the need
for its success before the people
might be thoroughly done.
And it has been we'll done. Every
county in the State has been organ
Zed so that the most remote corners
will be reached. Meetings will be held
at every school house in the State.
where subscriptions will be taken for
| the Stamps.
In the cities a house toulouse can
vass will be conducted and the aim of
the city committees is for every man,
woman and child to possess one or
more Thrift or War Savings Stamps
befor the sun sets June %.
1t is necessary that Mississippi put
this campaign across-necessary. first
of all, because the government has
asked that it be done. Whatever the
government wants done during this
Tar-period must be done cheerfully
and willingly.
The United States government
needs the money that will come from
the sale of the stamps. 1t sounds a
bit queer to think of our wealthy
Uncle Sam needing cur quarters and
five-dollar bills, but he does, and if
we don't give them up, he'll have to
conscript them.
This war is costly business. Eng
lands expenses at present afe about
their millions of dollars a day. In
other words, all the money Mississippi
raises for the War Savings Stamps
would just about pay the expenses of
the war for one of the largest Allies
tWenty-four hours.
Perhaps that brings home to you
the need for you to lend the United
States your money.
There are other reasons why Mis-
sissippi must put this drive over.
If the people of the State
pledge themselves to buy forty
millions of dollars worth of the
, stamps, they must, of neces-
sity, eliminate some of the lux
uries they are buying now, and
eliminated luxuries at present
mean increased man-power for
essential industries.
In other words, the government |
needs the forty millions, but more
than that, it needs the habit of thrift |
inculcated into the people of this
State. If it isn't inculcated, we'll lose
the war. Europe knows all about
thrift; we are beginners in the science.
So when the time comes for you
to pledge yourself to purchase the
Stamps, don't promise to buy those
you can afford only without reduc-
ing your unnecessary expenses some
where.
In Red Cross drives. the
motto has been: Give, and to
the limit" In this drive, it is:
Buy, and to the limit"
And remember while you are
buying that you are not giving
the country your money, as you
should be mighty glad to do,
but you are lending it at four
per cen. interest compounded
quarteriy-more interest than
you could get on similar in
vestment anywhere in the
world.
When we have bought, or prom
ised to buy, our forty millions/of dol
lars worth of stamps June %, we'll
not be that much poorer, but that
much better off financially, and that
much better patriots.
Buy until it hurts; only it shouldn't
hurt, no natter how much you buy.