The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-05
THRIFT DRIVES
SET IN MOTION
BY W..S.S. HEADS
Postmaster Beck Returns
From Meeting of State
Workers in Indianapolis.

A definite thrift campaign in Indi-
ana was set in motion yesterday by
zoo county chairman, women direct
ors, and postmasters and thrift work
ers from all parts Of the state, who
men in conference at the Claypool
Hotel in Indianapolis. Postmaster c..
B. Beck, director of the War Saving
Stamp campaign in this district, at
tended the conference.
Fred Bates Johnson presided at the
meeting and urged thrift as one of
the most necessary parts of Americas
after-War work. War saving stamps or
thrift stamps have taken, a place in
this country and the admirable habit
of saving should not be allowed to die
down, he urged.
Postmaster Beck explained this
morning that the general sentiment of
the conference was the permanent es-
tablishment of the war savings idea.
Agency Week Set Aside.
A number of travelling war saving
stamp statesmen will go out from In
dianapolis next Monday to solicit
sales until June IA. This will be
known as agency week. The plan is
to establish war saving and thrift
stamp agencies wherever money
| passes over the counter
1t is the idea of the conferees gath
cred yesterday to convert this country
| from the most extravagant nation on
earth ito one of the most conservative
through the saving plan," said the
postmaster.
/ Boards of education over the coun
try are passing resolutions for the in,
corporation of courses in thrift in the
public school curriculums. On April
| 5 the board of education of Indiana
UNANIMOUSLY adopted such resolution
This state is therefore to fight the
campaign all the stronger, Beck re
minded.
Students of finance in this country
have been asked to prepare books anc
booklets on the subject Of thrift an6
these are being used in the public
schools of America generally" sale
Mr.. Beck. ANY educator, teacher, OF
other persons interested in the move
ment may get some of this materia
by writing the state chairman of thu
war savings stamp campaign in Indi
annapolis"
William Mather Lewis of the saw
ings division of the treasury depart
| GRCdh1AS DOAO1S LhO NoAASASAS
yesterday, said:
Our Progress Slow.
mo nation is freer than the individ
uals composing it, and most of us ar
not free. We are weighed with tn
I shackles which make our progres
toward the goal of success painful ant
slow. Unmet obligations, fear of oil
age, monotonous toil-these thing
hamper US; these things keep u
strangers to freedom. Longfellow'
village blacksmith typiies persona
freedom. He looks the world in tn
face for he owes not any man Amer
lea had always stood for personal an
governmental independence.
) "The man who hords his monty, VIII
: depriyes himself of the decencies G
life in order to accumulate it goin
counter to the declaration of indepeI
dence. He is narrowing his life, re
. stirling his liberty and shutting hin
self away from true happiness. H
who spends his money wisely, who al
: portions his dollars Intelligent
) | against the needs of today and tn
needs of tomorrow, who, in othe
Y words, is practicing thrift, is inves
f ing in liberty and happiness, is secu1
ing life more abundantly,' said Levi!
"A nation whose citizens measur
: up to this standard is a stable, indt
2 pendent and dependable nation," sal
2 he