This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...and fraternally yours, Order Of Railway Conductors. C. E. Whitney, A. B. Garretson, Grand Secy-Treas. President. Note.--The Order donated the use of a large room, heated, for ten months, on the first floor of its office building in Cedar Rapids, and the local Chapter of the American Red Cross is fully appreciative, as will be seen in the above correspondence.--Ed. Individual S It is noticed that there is a tendency of organized bodies of individuals to appropriate money from their treasuries to purchase War Savings Stamps. There have been numerous instances in which such bodies have purchased $1,000 worth of War Stamps, and such instances have been given wide publicity as indicating the popularity of the War Saving idea as well as showing proof of the probable success of the War Savings plan. It is commendable and praiseworthy that associations of men and women should be patriotic enough to vote such sums from their treasuries for the purchase of War Savings Stamps, and it is to be hoped that the practice will be continued. But the War Savings campaign will not be a success unless it is adopted and practiced by individuals. ving Needed It is individual saving, individual thrift, and individual patriotsm that our country needs at the present time. Association treasuries or union treasuries are small in proportion to numerical strength. Suppose a union with a thousand members votes to invest a thousand dollars from its treasury in War Savings Stamps; then suppose the members of that union assume that they have done their duty to the War Savings campaign. What have they in reality done? They have simply invested one dollar apiece in the war, and this indirectly. They have not in reality become War Savers at all. The War Savings campaign is...