The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1919-01-04
PREPARED MANUAL.
To Be Used In Promoting War Saw
ings Societies.

Arthur III. Ham, director OF the War
Savings department OF the War Loan
Organization OF the u. S. Treasury
Department, has just prepared man
ual on War Savings societies to be
used in promoting the work through
out the nation.
The manual contains fifteen ques-
tons and answers relating to War
Savings societies, their purposes, OBJ
| jective, plan and method OF organiza-
ton and means for making them a
useful factor in the fotation OF gov
eminent war loans.
Excerpts from Mr.. Hams manual
in part reads as follows:
What is a War Savings Society,""
1t Is group OF patriotic citizens
men, women or children, who are US
ing team work" to secure systemat-
ic wartime saving. Organization
means power-numbers give courage
the crowd follows the leader. A
War Savings society is regiment OF
war savers that goes over" for war
savings in body and with vim.
Its purpose is to bring every one in
TO a relationship of personal respon-
sibility and of personal service for the
winning OF the war--a relationship
mucn more vital than the service OF
selling War Savings Stamps to other
people. 1t seeks TO create communi-
" sentiment for saving; to effect a
change in the standard OF living OF
the Individual members OF the group
through group action; to cultivate
habits" in saving; TO decrease the
enormous amount of convention In
spending; to enable people TO save
more easily and save more through
team work.
The objective is TO get people to
worK harder, buy more intelligently,
use more carefully, save more system
atlcaily and lend their savings to the
government in order that victory may
como quickly and without ayoidable
loss CT life. There are collateral BEN
eflts Involved in the War Savings So
ciety idea such as the educational,
moral and social uplift, the increase
of industrial efficiency. domestic con-
tent, Americanization and the crea-
ton OF habits OF thrift resulting in a
permanent market for government Sc
curties after the war; but the CEN
tial and immediate objective Is the
financing o. the government during
the remainder OF the war and the
expensive rehabilitation period
Because 1t was believed at the start
and now realized by the experience OF
the first eleven months OF the cam
paign that, great as have been the
savings CT the country in the past,
government war loans cannot be float
ed on past savings without serious
results TO industry and commerce;
that the financial program must be
based on present and future savings,
that sufficient saving will not result
from appeals and exhortations direct
ed TO the Individual; that the maxi
mum OF saving with the minimum OF
efforts results when the idea becomes
part OF the life OF a group brought
together for common cause.
When properly organized, War Saw
ings societies constitute a steady and
increasing market for government OBJ
, legations, obvlating the necessity for
street solicitation and sporadic drives
Everyday sales are healthier than
, drives and more sure. The war saw
ings society provides, as no other
method does, the constant reminder
the incentive and the required sug.
gestion for saving.
With the best OF intentions man
> will forget to buy his war savings
} stamps regularly. but the secretary OF
, the War Savings society gives him
the weekly reminder.
The War Savings society named
for a soldier overseas. who formerly
r worked. lived or played with the
Q members OF the cosiety. may set out
!. to provide that man with all OF the
things which are necessary to main