Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-06-14
FIFTY MILLION TO BE RAISED
President, Governor and Mayor Of
Every Municipality to Issue
Prooiamations for This
Event.

has proclaimed June 2S as National
War Savings Day Gov. Frederick D.
Gardner and the Mayor of every COM
munity in Missouri already have or
will issue proclamations asking that
every Missourian on June 20 pledge
themselves to buy War Savings
Stamps between June 2S and Dec. 81,
1918.
Missouri's quota in this patriotic
campaign is S71,OOOOOO. OF this
amount practically $21,OOO0OO 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 $780,
$1,000 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 thea
ter in our state. Missourians on this
occasion will again demonstrate their
patriotism and put our state "ovnr 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 entire
quota. 1t is the Nebraska plan that
occasioned the President of the Unit
ed States to designate June 20 as Ma
tional War Savings Day. The plan
that worked out successfully IN Ne
braska will be carried out in every
state in the Union. 1t resolves itself
around a complete canvass of every
man, woman and child in every coun-
ty. The tillers of the soil probably
will be busy on June 28, but they have
been asked by the President and the
Governor Of our state to attend one of
the local War Savings meetings OH
June % and make a pledge to help
finance our government in this crisis.
The gravity Of the war situation has
now reached every home. There is
not a community in Missouri that is
not represented in France or in the
various cantonments of the United
States. The casualty lists already are
causing vacant chairs in the house
holds, and heroism of our boys is be.
ing chronicled in the daily newspa-
pers.
Festus j. Wade, State Director for
the War Savings Committee of Mis-
souri,, feels confident that Missouri is
going to oversubscribe it's quota on
Pledge Day.
In an interview Director Wade says:
"The liberality and patriotism
shown by Missourians during the sec.
ond Red Cross campaign only evi.
dences the unselfishness of our loyal
Americans.
It's win the war at any cost, and
all of US are willing to sacrifice our
lives and give our limit financially to
achieve the greatest of all goals, per-
petual liberty. The oversubscriptions
for the Third Liberty Loan and the Sec
ond Red Cross campaigns are but
forerunner of what we can expect on
June 20.
Secretary Of War Newton D. Baker
officially announces that we are send
ing on an average of 10000 men to
France month. These heroes and
the hundreds of thousands of others
who will be fighting our battles are
asking very little when they request
us to furnish them with food and cloth
ing and ammunition in order to elimi,
nate autocracy.
Many of us showed an apathy in
helping to finance the war when we
began our War Savings campaign in
Missouri. 1t was not because OF the
lack Of patriotism on our part, but an
underestimation of the strength of the
Huns.