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Show WAR SAVINGS AND THRIFT CAMPAIGN The 1919 War Savings and Thrift campaign is to bo taken up with renewed vigor for tho remainder of the year through--out-thp Twe1ft)tFerfdRe-servo Twe1ft)tFerfdRe-servo District by the reorganized reorganiz-ed War Loan Organization, of which Root E. Smith is direct- or and C. A. Farnsworth, for- merly manager of the General Publicity Committee in the Victory Liberty Loan, is associate assoc-iate director. Success or failure of the Thrift movement In the West rests to a great extent with you and the .other editors of this district It Is you who must cany into the homes of your community the Government's message of Thrift and Americanism, Ameri-canism, even as you did with such unfaltering patriotism and lack of Belflnterest throughout tho war. No set of men has a more profound appreciation of the value of newspaper space than tho men in charge of tho War financing work In the Twelfth Federal Reserve District They realize that space Is the stock on an editor's shelves. They would buy it If thoy could, hut tho tremendous national scope of tho Thrift and War Savings movement prohibits them." In its essence the Thrift movement in America today is tho Country's protection aglnst ,a threatened invasion of the political and economic experiments experi-ments now sweeping Europe. "niFHoWry tWT5Trtyfivo eemV Thrift stamp, offering, as it does, the wage earner the opportunity of economic inde-' pendenco by regular investment of his savings In United States securites, promises to bring America back ,to tho hardy thinking and independence of the men who built the Republic. The thrifty, saving, Independent man has no patience with those who would tear down America. |
