The Washington times., 1919-06-29
! WASHINGTON
WHAT,
THE CITY STANDS
FOR
(contlauea dom First 20

(c6ntihueA from First Psge.l
eoys did get TO camp, some OF them
tgok French 4eAve and were 4 W.
o., L luueifla charge of de9ertioh was
checked against them.
DO you knoy that Washington had
aBout the lowest record on deseRtionsf
| THAT kind Of stun h the stut( that
tells what's in q city. More than
what you can see In the way Of
IpSttlcoats on Saturday afternoon
on any Main street in any burg IN
Then you'If Mar 'enn. tell you about
The kind Of money they have IN
those ,mysteTious cities where they
are always making 80 much OF. spend
ing 90 much. ~
! Ask the chap that's doing 80 much
Boosting how much his city contrib
nted to lick the Kaiser in War Saw
ltpgP Stamps. There you have him.
l&4lled to the mast.
This little old Washington Of yours
and mine has the cute little record Of
standing right up among THREE
SIG STATES when u comes 70 lick
Ing Germany By saving little sums.
IN the whole United states the aver
age, savings stamp purchase for
every human being from ETanddad
down to the latest nuisspce that
hasn't begun, TO- save anything mot
aysen his dinner). was 3s.el,. up 70
the time / had q chance 20 set into
the mess Of hgures AZ the Treasury
Nine sfxty-four. That's what
eteTybody n the countFy had u yup
adA 1t ali up ana divide By Ioe.oee. oee
odd folks thai 50 to make up this
American people.
Hers's the Answer. =
well, do you know what We fell
IoHB In this city OF 'WashinEton have
~ the way Of W. s. 81
\ We have 1893 apiece in W. s. s.
1 guess BIZ this minute We have ..
little more than that. but, as say,
/ had frOuble IN getting the real M
side dope on this because TIE clerks
are too busy selling stamps TO add
up the totals, but At the time the
WARE EW tcods ins Wash gtop, ard
I guess that going some sfOr ! town
Of smaIl-saleried folks.
At any rate, Il suits NE. When
you know that washington, D. ca |
heat New York In Thrift stamp sales /
! gpeaa were not such pIksr town. |
aftor all.
Then they'll tell you abodt some
chap that bought 20 many Liberty /
bonds that he couldn't carry them all
away In q potato sack.
Produce him. please. We would
have speech with him.
+. Hov Ahout, ThiSs i
: I am not going to bother you folks
with lot OF Asures about Liberty i
loans and the. like OF that, but just !
Jet me get away with the remark I
that on ALL the loans we did more
than Uncle Sam, asked US, but. 50
help me, Bob. have perfect right
to exhibit here before you now the II
PRIZE RECORD OF THE WORLD, Il
and thatss Washington, d. C.'s,
achievement In the Fourth loan drive.
{ This. let me say. Is the Jim Hickey II
record Of the. entire series. the prize
bantam. the Welkerweight champ, the ii
blue ribbon, or anything else you
want to say.
Get onto this. folks. because this
shows you the ealiksr, OF the town. Il
When they ask you to DIG INTO
YOUR JEANS and produce money
after three loans and half. q dozen
sharity drives have stripped you
lean, you feel as II you had been
deprived. OF all power 70 move. And
Tie way they divide the country on
his f. between the boys that came
lcross on the Fourth loan and the
'pys who laid down and cried, Exam
rad"
Net So Had.
New York city dld fairsy well on
ne fourth loaa-thirty people out OF
very hundred subScHbed Baltimore
Id pretty well-tWenty-si= out OF a
hundred came acFoa8 In Cleveland
L IL 81 A.