Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
TAzEWELL WILL co OVER
IN WAR STAWP DRIVE
j.. ID. Boyd, District Manager,
Visits County and Boosts the
WOrk-R. D. Crockett Will
Assist County Manager.

MIR. l.. ID, Royd, of Grundy. chair
man OF the ninth district War Snv
lhEs stamps committee. was here
yesterday IN conference with the
county workers of the War Savings
stamps Committee. In the afternoon
nlr. Boyd addressed an nudiG.cc in
the court house. Barns Giltespir. oC
Iazewc'l, was chairman Of the meet
ing.
Mr. Boyd was introduced and alnt- -
ed how he put Buchanan over The ion,
ana what he expected from the work
ers OF Tnzewell county. lie said H.,
didn't come To Tazcwcll to make a
speech, but ito get the goods" To see
tnat EnHewcl' cnmo up with its quota
III the stamp drive. BY standing
vote the audience unanimously plcdC-
ed nm thcnr support in seeing that
i;,"ewcl' county subscribcs the sum
allotted it by the government.
Mr;; Boyd said he had more respect
ior, the men who are hiding in the
rocks OF l'ickcnson and Mingo coun-
ties To cvadc army service than ro,
the man at home who fails or refuses
to 10 nil ~ his puwNr to holp win the
war, Virginia is llth of the Statcs
of the Union in stamp aalos and sub.
scriptions. Tennessee, our ncighbor.
and alisslssippi have gone over the
top already. What will the Virginia
boys in France have 10 say TO the
tennessee and Mississippi bays when
they find that their old State hns rnil-
cd to back 'cm up? Will thev bc
ashamed to own that they are from
Boyd told Of one citizen of Buch
nnan who refused to subscribe To
any OF the war causes, and also told
what hnppcncd 10 that citizen. H.
now owns bonds and stamps. and re
cciptS fc" subscriptions to the Re!
Cross and Y. NJ. c. A. funds.
Director Boyd suggested that Tazc
well people get behind this stamp
sale and pu:h it over taQ lcp by
Septem!cr 10th OF earlier.
j. w. Chapman made II short tnlL
in which nc SAID that TazcwclI had
gone over the top in all the various
war activities, Red Cross, Y. NJ. G.
a. and Liberty Loans, and that the
county would do the same in the w.
5. Drive. He said the county never
has failed to measure up to iis re-
quirementS.
MIR. w. il. Wcrlh was called on to
speak, and he responded in IL brief,
fiery address. He said he would feel
very much like Mr.. Slcmp said he
felt if Tazcwcll failed To subscribe
its quota in the w. S. S. Drivc-I
would feel like leaving the county"
"1f we would 70 after this thing"
said MIR. Werth, "likc we do in no-
liticai campaigns, we would go over
The top with premium Any po-
litical campaign of recent years is
insignificant in importance when COM
pared with the w. S. S. Drive. This
is no time for soft-pcddlng. | favor
the separation of the sheep from the
goatS-lind out who are true citizens
and who are not. If man refuses
to do what he ought and can do, his
name ought to be printed in yellow
type and published to the world.
know Of Il number Of men in Taze-
wei county, wealthy men, who have
never bought a liberty bond or II
war stamp. Such men are nothing
less than slackcrs and traitors to
their country"
ii. Claude Pobts placed in nomua-
ton r. o. Crockett, who success
fully conducted the last Red Cross
campaign in the county, as assistant
to the county director, j. b. Boyer,
and Mr.. Crockett shouldered the bur
den without a murmur, and will help
push the work in the county. Mr.
Crockett begged the people TO stand
behind him and aid him in putting
the country in the first class.