Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1918-06-14
WAR SAVINGS DAY
TO Be JUNE 18TH
MISSOURI EXPECTED TO RAISE
HER FULL QUOTA ON THAT
PATRIOTIC OCCASION.
FIFTY MILLION TO BE RAISED
President, Governor and Mayor Of
Every Municipality to Issue
ProclamatIonc for This
Event.

The President Of the United State
has proclaimed June 2S as Nations
War Savings Day. Governor Frede,
b lex d. Gardner and the Mayor O
. every community In Missouri alread,
: have or will issue proclamations ask
: ing that every Missourian on June q
1, pledge themselves to buy War Saw
: ings Stamps between June 20 ant
, December 81. 1918.
Missouri's quota in this patriotic
campaign Ia $71.c00, 900. OF this
amount practically $21, 600, 900 already
has been subscribed and the money
forwarded to the United States Treas.
ury In Washington. On our Pledge
Day. June 20, we are to secure $50.
10000 in pledges for the purchase of
War Savings Stamps.
The majority Of the County War
Savings Committees have completed
their plans for June 2S. Meetings
will be held on the afternoon of this
day in every school house and town
hall. courthouse and moving picture
theater in our state. Missourians
on this occasion will again demon.
strate their patriotism and put our
state "over the top" in this patriotic
drive.
The Four-Minute Men of the local
communities are expected to give
wide publicity to Pledge Day.
The State Of Nebraska In one day
obtained enough pledges for its en-
tire quota. 1t is the Nebraska plan
that occasioned the President of the
United States to designate June 2S
as National War Savings Day. The
plan that worked out successfully in
Nebraska will be carried out in every
State in the Union. 1t resolves It.
self around a complete v of
every man, woman and child In every
county. The tillers OF the soil proba.
bly, will be busy on June %, but they
have been asked by the President
and the Governor of our state to at.
tend n of the local. War Savings
meeti6gs on June IS and make y
to help finance our Govern.
ment in this crisis.
The gravity Of the war situation
has now reached every home. There
Is not a community in Missouri that [
q not represented in France or IN |
The various c~antonments of the Unit. s
States. The casualty lists already
ire causing vacant chairs In the |
households. and heroism of our bows :,
$ being chronicled in the daily news. !,
,apers. a
Festus J. Wade, State Director for Il
ne War Savings Committee OF Mis-. q
feels confident that Missouri =
going to o%versubscribe it, quota
n Pledge Day.
In an interview, Director Wade
The liberality and patriotism
by Missourians during the sec.
nd Red Cross campaign only evi.
ences the unselashness of our loyal
ITS win the war at any cost, and
II OF us are willing to sacrifice u
YES n give our limit financially
achieve the greatest Of all soaIs
erpetual liberty. The oversubscrip-
ons Tor the Third Liberty Loan and
10 second Red Cross campaigns are
u q forerunner Of what we can =
tpect on June %.
Secretary Of War Newton d G
aker officially announces that we
. sending on an average Of 90, 900
en- to rance a month. These
'roes and the hundreds of thousands Az
others who will be fighting our TIT
titles are asking very little when
ey request US to furnish them with
cd and clothing and ammunition a
order to eliminate autocracy. gr;
Many OF US showed an apathy IN Pr,
iping TO finance the war when We Mi
gan our War Savings campaign in T.,
ssouri. It was not because Of the
X OF patriotism on our part, but
characterization Of the strength sal
the Huns. tho
Our optimists thought the war ves
uld be Of short duration, and that
ficsent money was in the Golfers
Uncle Sam to insure victory. The mt
akenins has come, and we must not
help to pay the $50. 900, 900 the
: 1t ID costing the allies to con. a..
It this war. lice
Missouri h going to oversub-
it, quota Of War savinss
mps on June 20. and my forecast Att
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