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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1917)
bsf!l Jr. THE EEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1917. Give O me 9 ay To Save a. Soldnef Jin - HJl in Pay K Give one day's pay to save a soldier! How little to ask! How little to give! ,Yet, what wonders it will work! It will go out beyond the firing trench, and, in cover of darkness, bring back a wounded boy save him for his mother. ONE DAY'S PAY! Refuse it and that boy dies! Dies of His misery and thirst! And back in the States perhaps next door to your home his heart broken mother must mourn. He did his duty for you and YOUR HOME and WHAT DID YOU DO? You pinched your purse and let him die? Not that! No not that! You GAVE gave cheerfully gave your mite, however small and did the best YOU could to save him. You gave your one day's pay and HE LIVES! ONE DAY'S PAY! One cent out of every three dollars you earn! How, little! How little to pay for the blessing of staying at home! How much it will do for those at the front! So, tomorrow, or Friday, or next day, you may give YOUR one day's pay. For tomorrow, or Friday, or next day, eight hundred Boy Scouts will call at every home in Greater Omaha sp that every one may givef his or her share without even leaving one's home. Eight Hundred Boy Scouts Fighting for the Flag These eight hundred clean, bright, manly, upright little (men have volunteered to call on every one of these 40,000 homes. They are loyally doing the only things left for them to do. vThey are too young to fight with rifles at the front. So they are bravely, sturdily, trudging toward their self-set-goal EVERY SCOUT TO SAVE A SOLDIER! Be ready for the scout when he comes he has many calls to make-r-help him by saving his time. First, discuss the amount of your con tribution among the members of your family. One day's pay means one day's earnings of your home the combined income of every earning member of the family. , That decided upon, you are ready for the Scout. When he comes to your "floor, with his bright and hopeful smile, meet the little fellow in the same, cheerful, patriotic spirit. He will present a pledge card. You merely write your name and address and the amount of your donation in the proper places. Hand it back to him. If You Don't Get This Sign for YOUR Window, You Have But Your Own Conscience To Fight We Have Helped! Y " " lave Yoe? No Money DownFour Months to Pay GIVE THE SCOUT NO MONEY he hasn't time to keep books. The Scout will then give you, for your window, the sign shown on this page. Hang it up facing the street that other Scouts may know you have already done your part that your neighbor may feel out of place without one. Your contribution may be paid for in four monthly installments one-fourth on July 1, another on August 1, September 1 and Octo ber 1. Eemember, this is not a Red Cross Member ship campaign. It is a pure and simple money raising campaign for a $100,000,000 War Fund. That amount is needed and needed AT ONCE. President Wilson has designated the Red Cross to provide it for Field Hospitals, Base Hospitals, Ambulances, Surgeons, Physicians, ' Nurses, Stretcher Bearers, Drugs, Instruments, Band ages. It will be expended by the Red Cross under Government supervision, but free from the necessary Government red tape. . What This $100,000,000 War Fund Will Purchase It will be expended for rescuing the wound ed, dying and dead. For nursing the wounded and sick back to health. For providing many of the accustomed comforts of home to the men in the trenches. For the family left at home, struggling for the lack of the bread-winner. For the invalid soldier's support while he awaits his pension grant. Contributors have no other responsibility than to pay the amount they pledge they will not be called upon for any Red Cross service be cause of contributing. So, be ready to pledge YOUR ONE DAY'S PAY when the Boy Scout comes. Watch for the Boy Scout This Advertisement Prepared by and Donated Through THE OMAHA AD CLUB r. re "SI i lit t Ml t , i -i