The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-07
SOCIETIES PLAN
WILL PREVAIL
War Savings Bodies to Be Or
ganized in Ninth District Week
of Feb. II to "a.
REEOIFFERENTTYPEs
Model Organizations for Schools
Rural Communities and Business
Establishments Outlined to
Teach Thrift.

Minneapolis, Minimize, week OF
February II to "a will be Savings So
ciety week in the Ninth Federal Re-
serve District
This time was today fixed by a. R.
Rogers, chairman of the Ninth Dis
trict War Loan Organization, as the
period in which every community In
the Ninth Federal Reserve District
will organize the War Savings Socie-
ties which are to be the nucleus OF
the 1919 campaign for Thrift, Ameri-
canization and War Savings Stamp
buying. Centering on the society plan
by which scores in each society and
millions throughout the district will
have q common point of contact
through weekly or semi-monthly meet
ings, the District War Loan Organiza-
ton aims to have Thrift written large
on the minds and hearts of every man,
woman and child in the district. A d.
rect appeal will be made for the pur-
chase of w. s. S. with the money
saved.
Three Types.
Three definite types of War Savings
societies have been worked out at
headquarters by John H. Meyering,
director of the w. 8. s. division, Dr.
Geo. N. Bauer, head of the depart
m snt of mathematics at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, who Is on leave to
devote himself to War Savings Or
ganization, and the other workers un-
der Mr.. Rogers. They are:
l. A model society type for schools.
2. A model type for societies or
ganized in rural communities.
8. A model type for industrial or
commercial establishments.
On the last mentioned plan War
Savings Societies will be formed in
stores, factories, mills and in railroad
and other Offices, wherever in fact
there is an establishment employing
ten or more persons. The school So
cieties, many of which are already
running successfully, will be greatly
increased in number and revivified
and hundreds of new societies will be
added to those which already are
fourishing in so many rural communi-
ties.
Actually, there is hardly any limit to
the number or nature of groups which
can organize War Savings Societies.
In giving the models such names as
school" Community" or industrial"
the directors mean merely to indicate
the general nature of the plan. Any
group can organize choosing the type
that seems best suited to it's needs.
Every group will be urged to organ
lie. Farmers clubs, commercial clubs,
fraternal orders, woman's clubs, clubs
Of boys and girls, mutual cooperative
associations Of all sorts, every gather
ing where the message of thrift,
Americanization and the purchase Of
Government securities can be placed
before a number of persons, will be
utilized
Americanization work Is to be close
ly linked with the War Savings Socie-
ties, especially in communities where
q considerable proportion of the popu-
lation is not yet fully alive to the
American spirit and the benefits de-
rived from living in the United
States. 1t is the opinion of the CEN
trail committee that ownership of w.
8. s. and other Government securities
will be distinct help to Americaniza-
ton. 1t will increase the interest Of
the individual in his Government
when he knows he owns a part of the
nations public debt
Speed Up Organization.
County chairmen of War Savings
Stamp sales have been advised by Mr..
heyering to get in touch Immediately
with all workers In their territories
and to make preparations for form
Ing the societies during the week Of
February II. There also will be
meetings Of county chairmen at vari-
Gus points in each state of the Ninth
District, at which the information of
each will be made available for the
others. At each of these meetings a
worker from headquarters in Mime
apohs will attend with information
and advice. A Speakers Bureau is
being worked up which will be able to
supply speakers to the societies, eth
er at the time of organization or at
subsequent meetings.
Working on the fundamental idea
OF the value of Thrift, we intend also
to convince every person in the dis
trict that the purchase of War Saw
ings Stamps will make savings do a
better, bigger and more valuable work
than any other use Of the money" Mr..
Meyering said today "At the same
time, OF course, the money saved and
invested in stamps will be perfectly
safe and will yield an interest return
between per cent and s per cent.
each year
Save And Invest.
For more than four years the world
has been spending. Now the world
must either start saving to make uu
the loss and waste or it must fall
back into stagnation and sink to q
standard of comfort and happiness dis
tinctly below that of 1914. But 1t Is
not necessary for the American PEG
pie to fall back If they are thrifty
and save. We have the best oppor
tunity to save of any of the worlds
nations. We have food, clothing and
money-an the good things In life.
But we must make the basis of this
prosperity secure. Saving makes the
future prosperity of the individual
safe. At the. same time It supplies
money to the Government with which
the whole national structure can be
30 strengthened that we will not have