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ISSUED BY THE |
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I The President of the United
States by Proclamation
The Governor of Alaska by
Proclamation
HAVE DECLARED
FRIDAY
I JUNE 28, 1918
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I War Savings
I Stamp Day
I On that day you will, if you
I are a LOYAL AMERICAN,
I pledge yourself to buy
■ not less than
$20 WO ITH
I of War Savings Stamps
■ Before December 31st, 1918
I Do Your Duty as a WORTHY
B American Citizen
I DON’T BE A SLACKER
I For Sale
I AT THE POSTOFFICE
I For Sale
I AT THE BANKS
I FRIDAY, JUNE 28
I Remember the Date
MUCH DAMAGE IS
DONE IN MANY j
LONDON, May 18 (by mail).—It
takes a long time for a building to
heal from war-wounds in these days
of labor shortage, but considering the
number of bombs that have been
dropped on London, there are few out
ward signs that the metropolis has
been under 100 bombardments from
the air.
Once a Zeppelin dropped a huge
weight of high explosives smack in
the middle of a place made famous
by the song "Tipperary.” It was one
of the heaviest blasts London ever ex
perienced, and two miles away it
sounded like the roar of a great pile
of lumber fallinfe down. For a block
the faces of buildings were gashed by
chunks of steel, and there wasn’t a
I whole pane of glass for several hun
dred yards.
Two Englishmen who were in New
York at the time heard about this
bomb from some Americans just over
from London. Three months later
they returned here and took the first
oportunity to go down and look over
the ruin.
Same Old Stores Here
Their information seemed to be
wrong, however, for the same old dry
goods store and the trunk-store and
the tea-shop which were reported to j
be badly smashed looked just the same
as they looked a year ago. The cus
tomers were filing in and out and the
street crowds were ‘window chopping’
as of old. Even the signs on the
buildings seemed to be the same.
There was a slightly different look
about the corner but it was hard to
put your finger on the difference and
say “There it is.” If you studied it
a while you could see that all the
stores had a new appearance, and that
the old signs had lost that dinginess.
Deep wounds in the masonry had
been filled as a dentist fills a tooth
and shapes the filling to represent the
contours of the original. Where the
damage had been more serious the ar
chitectural surgeons rebuilt the dam
aged portions in exact reproduction of
the originals. The old signs were
copied.
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Today that corner looks the same
as it did a year ago, before the bomb j
dropped there, except that there’s an
unusual freshness in the architectural
complexion.
It may be pride and perhaps it is
just expediency that causes the Eng
lish property owner to heal wounded
buildings as he does. Some think
John Bull wants to be able to lead
Fritz the Boche around by the rough of
the neck some day after the war and
point out that London was not reduced
to ruins—wasn't even altered—by the
raids.
I Of course there are some places
where you can seek and find air-raid
damage—pitiful wreckage of the work
men’s homes where the early morning
rescuers braved escaping gas and
scorching flames to drag out wounded
and screaming children or dazed old
grandmothers who could only groan
and pray God to take them out of
this world of kultur and suffering.
Cottages Wrecked
In some places there are whole rows
of wrecked cottages. It seems appro
priate that German bombs should find
such targets—the little dwellings are
so fragile and the wrath of the ex
plosives so powerful. The mighty Ger
mans smashed the little Belgians. Yet
the bombs are not nearly so effec
tive against the massive strength of a
big office building; while the Boche
army is held and battled to a stand
still by forces of equal size.
One old building of historical im
portance has not been repaired where
a Zeppelin bomb smashed up some
ancient stone railings and carved fig
ures. The copper on the corner says
he thinks the government intends to
preserve this building In this condi
tion as a war relic.
“And I think that they will be using
it as evidence to show to the Germans
and neutrals after the war,’’ said the
. cop.
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TEA IS A FOOD
LONDON, June 26.—Tea, which a
recent court deoision said was not a
food and therefore was not affected
by the British anti-food hoarding order,
has now been specifically included in
an amendment to the ministry of foods
order, along with coffee and cocoa.
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Quality talks. Smoke an El RaTTan
Cigar and be conrlneeo; they are
mild.
A single strand in the cables which uphold the Brook
lyn bridge is not very strong, but thousands of these
strands uphold one of the great thoroughfares of the
world.
When our fathers, sons and brothers were called by our
country to take up arms in her defense you did not hear
an individual soldier refuse to serve because his service j I
alone would not win the war. EACH MAN WAS |
READY TO DO HIS PART. |
If we are to win this war each and every one must do I
his part. The savings of every man, woman and child h
are necessary if we are to hasten the victorious ending of
the war.
JUNE 28th
has been proclaimed by the President as WAR SAVINGS
STAMP DAY- On that day he asks EVERY AMERI
CAN to pledge himself to buy not less than TWENTY
DOLLARS’ worth of WAR SAVINGS STAMPS before !
December 31, 1918. |
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