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EXPECT TO COLLECT siofjspiao SOUTHERN METHODISTS OUTLINE PLANS FOR HANDLINC GREAT J CENTENARY FUND. i w Organization Will Collect Largest Amount Ever Handled By Any rdlfilAi^ Ho w ^ m * r* *5 ^ I r n I1VI I J I VUO Any A/here. The Centenary Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has announced Its plan for collecting the $53,000,000 00 which was pledged for the missionary work of the church in the recent eight-day drive. The plan was prepared and will be directed by Colonel John E. Edgerton, of Tennessee, the general centenary treasurer and the director of the department of finance for the Centenary Commission. Colonel Edgerton is a well known business man. He is president and manager of the Lebanon Woolen Mills, president of the Tennessee State Manufacturers Association, and during the war he was a memb-r of the executive comm'tee of the war industry board appointed by President Wilson. "Our slogan is no shrinkage, b-t an Increase," said Colonel Edgerton recently. "Just as the Southern Methodist church has surpassed all records in securing pledges for benevolent purposes and has raised the largest sum ever given to any church at one time in the history of the world, so do we expect to set a new record in the collection of these pledges." An Extensive Organization. The organization through which these pledges will be collected baa four centers of responsibility. The first is a general finance commission with headquarters at Nashville, headed by Colonel Edgerton. This commission has prepared the standard plan and will direct the entire movement handing down to the various bodies throughout the church detailed plans for their guidance. There will ako be a conference cabinet in each annual conference of the church, about forty In number. These conference cabinets will be composed of the Conference Missionary Secre r tary, Conference Campaign Director, the Lay leader, and the Conference Centenary Treasurer. Each of these officials have certain specific duties, and will direct the work of collecting all the pledges in each annual conference. " In each of the four hundred districts of the church there is a similar cabinet composed of the Presiding Elders, the Lay leaders, Campaign Directors and the Chairman of the Methodist Minute Men. The Conference Missionary Secretary is an ex-officio member of all district cabinets The work of collecting in the districts will be supervised by this district cabinet. Twenty Thousand Churches. In each of the 20,000 local churches there will b9 local cabinets composed of the pastor, the centenary treasurer, the campaign director, the lay leader, the chairman of the minute men, the Sunday school superintendent and the president of She Woman's Missionary Society. This cabinet will do all the actual work of collecting the it-dividual pledges. The persons who made subscriptions will be divided into lists of twenty-five and the lists will be placed In charge of a certain member of the church cabinet who will collect all pledges as uiey come aue. One f<?ature of the standard plan ts that the local church will be responsible for collecting the full amount of Its subscription. If any subscriber dies or meets with misfortune ouch as to render it impossible for him to pay his pledge, it will be the duty of the church cabinet to secure ano'her pe:son to take tbe place of the one thus become delinquent. It Is also proposed that every new member who comes Into the church Bhall also be asked to make a contribution to the Centenary fund. The Centenary fund of $35,000,000 will be used for the church in an extension of its missionary work throughout the world. Several million will be apont in the devastated re nf PmnoB Belaium. Poland and S i4"""' ' Russia. Other millions will to thf seven foreign fields occupied by th? church?Mexico. Brazil, Cuba, Africa China, Japan and Korea Other mi! lions will bo spent in the Industrie sections of the great cities, in th? rnounta'ns, among tho immigrants, tht negroes "-.id the Indians, and in build ing churclu? in the missionary terri tory of the United States. SOHIHEHS RJW"' fiEGONSTRUGTiONi IN EUROPE?WORK IS TO BE I OPENED IN BELGIUM AT ONCE. ; I Ccmmlcsion Abroad To Study the Situat.cn.?Extensive Program l? Planned?Church Busy In Other Lands. Nashville Tenn. (Special Correspondence)?On August 2iUli a commission composed of Bislup James Atkins, of North Carolina, John R ' Ponr\9 TonnoccOa T\r Pul la U j , vi i V1J11VOOV.V, x/i j; nv 11. j Bennett, of Kentucky, and Mrs. Luke ! G. Johnson, of Georgia, sails for Kurope to arrange for the opening of extensive religious and philanthropic ' work is Belgium. France and other j war torn countries. They represent the Centenary Com- i mission and the Board of Missions of : i the Methodist Episcopal Church. L ' South, which have set aside $5,000,000 ' of Centenary funds for religious re- ! ' construction in Europe. | They go with authority to purchase j I property and open work at once in i I Belgium and to make a careful survey \ of the needs in other countries and ' recommend an adequate program, i Orphanages, schools, social centers, 1 religious literature and direct evangei lism will be the methods employed I In some of the coun'ries to be en- ] tered the work will l?e conducted In j co-operation with t.he Methodist Epls- ! ' copal Church, which is already opent | j ing in France, Italy and the Balkans, , and is planning to expand its work greatly as a result of the Centenary, which In the two churches brought missionary pledges aggregating more | than $150,000,000. ilETHOllSMIIIIIE i ANCIENT CUSTOMS I TWO AND ONE-HALF MILLION MEMBERS TO OBSERVE DAY | OF FASTING AND PRAYER. ;J Centenary Commission Starts Movement To Establish 100,000 Family Altars?Following the Plan j of Old Circuit Rider*. Nashville Tenn.?The Ceatenary Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has named August i 29th as a special day of fasting and | I prayer for the two and a half million j | members of the church. The Cominia- | eion has also started a movement to establish 100,000 Family Altars, by ! having that many homes pledged to 1 observe daily devotions. This is the revival of ancient cub- J , toms in the church. It is the part of an intensive campaign which the ( ! church has launched in connection with the spiritual side of the Conser- j vation program of the Centenary j Movement, through which the Metho- j I lists raised 153,000,000 in an eight-day , drive last May. The object of the present campaign, ' ar stated by Rev. R. A Neblett, Sec- j retarv of the Department of Spiritual | Resources. Is to enroll at least 40% j of the church members in the prayer 1 league known as the Fellowship of ! Intercession, to establish 100,000 Fam- ! ily Altars, and to assist in finding a | ! thousand young peopie to go abroad as . missionaries. I August 24-31 is known as Enlist j I nnt U'nalr "Tinfiner thie nprinrl tliA , seven thousand pastors will urge theii J , members to join the Fellowship of In- j tercession, to establish Family Altars, ind to obeserve the day of fasting and ( prayer. JAPAN TO MODIFY KOREAN RULE. I So Predicts Dr. S. E. Hager, 25 Years a Southern Methodist Missionary In The Orient. Nashville. Teim.?That Japan win moderate her rule In Korea Is the prediction of Dr S. T. Hager. recently | returned missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Dr. Hager has spent more than a quarter of a century in,Japan doing religious work. "Japan Is learning that h?r success In giviug good government to Korea Is fraught with difficulties, and that tolerance and good will must take the place of harsh and severe methods. "The military leaders aim mainly at making their rule thorough and permanent, and naturally there Is great temptation to the man of the sword to make his rule severe. "But democratic ideas are growing in Japan, and more temperate treat- : ment of the subject race will come 1 about." Dr. Hager says the Christian missionaries in the Orient are elated at the success of thp Centenary movement through which the church raJsed $53,0* 0,000.00 for missionary worn m all lands I Millions of this -will be spent 1* the Orient. Hundreds of new missionaries will ve c?*nt and there will be a great 1 ad van re movement in medical education and evangelism. -J /r's. average amee ' (v.zet mr saving w yoo two ought t? kmciv each othe BETTgR. fr/wv f,k\\ y Loyal Americans! Get Togethei WAYS OF EARNING MONEY DURING SUMMER VACATION Many Opportunities Open to Children Who Wish to Encourage Habits of Thrift and Saving. A groat many questions about how children may earn money in order to purchase Thrift and Wax Savings Stamps during the summer vacation period have come into the War Loan Organization *t Richmond, and it is to answer tnese inquiries mai. uio present article has been prepared. The suburban or country child probably has the best opportunities for making money, though selling papers and magazines, running errands and doing chores offer several ways for the city child to earn tke wbere-withall for Thrift Stamps. In the country there is first of all the garden, and at this time growing food stuffs should receive special attention. It is not too late to plant fall crops which may be marketed with profit. Lettuce and radishes are easily grown and always find good markets, especially in the late summer and fall. There will probably be more of some kinds of vegetables In the garden than can be eaten or canned. These should be sold. | On almost every farm there is a time when much of the fruit ripens at once, and the .problem of disposing of it arises. Some of it is eaten, some preserved. A quantity of it not infrequently rots. This should be sold if there is a market near enough, but if such is not the case the children can put it up and sell the canned stuff In the fall. Pigs, chickens, turkeys or rabbits are easily raisea in me summa ratation, and all of them will bring in large returns for the time and labor. Berry picking is another way of making money that children should enjoy, and this year there is a plentiful crop. Many mothers and fathers will be glad to pay the children for taking care of the yard, cutting wood, running egrands or doing daily chores. In fact there are so many ways of earning money during the summer that the list might be indefinitely lengthened. But of course the object of any and all of these ways is not simply to make money, but to make and save money; in olher words, enough to buy War Savings Stamps which will bring in four per cent interest, compounded quarterly. You can do this, every boy and girl In this big country. A. B. C. OF IT AGITATORS and BOLSHEVIKI howl CONTINUALLY, DENOUNCING EVERYTHING they FIND in the GOOD qld System, HANDED down to ua, INTACT JUST as our KIND forefathers LEFT it, Ui ' ' _ MAKE the young NATION OPULENT and Free, PROTECTOR Of all la QUEST of Liberty, RIGHT and Equality! SMITE down THESE rile efforts to UNDO our Blessings! VINDICATE AMERICA! WAR SAVINGS STAMPS EXTERMINATE "Reds!" YOU can help. Put ZEST into your WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY. HOW ABOUT IT? Someone is saving the money you waste. wno is? il-jjmhh-, ?uu. lara? Save them and deposit them yourself. Sing a son?: of Stv'ves Stamps. The cost of living'.-- high. Hut have you counted all the things 'hese Savings Staihps w'll buy? > \ f O YES. I t^NEVV ^ A6*T. / ^ _ k^ I V-'JR CRANOF/WiHER. fej ^ I VERS well. fe ^ .? U>k^ J- s fcJ^*^?C&-v -?ic^"im r on National War 8avlng? Day. > BEN FRANKLIN EARLY LEARNED FRUGALITY Great American Examplar of Thrift Knew Value of Regular and Systematic Saving For Future. Thrift is not stinginess. In fact it is more often than not that the thrifty man is the one who is truly generous. Benjamin Franklin, our national ex| omplar of thrift, was, from boyhood up, always liberal and unselfish. Rene Bache, his great-great-great grandson, gives an instance of this characi teristic of his ancestor in a stcry he tells: | "The price of bread two centuries ago was a penny a loaf. Thus it happened that Benjamin Franklin, a boy jof sevenfeen, on arriving in ^Jhiladelphia, was able to buy three loaves for j ! three-pence; and with them he walked iup Market Street from the wharf, holding one under each arm and eat1 ing the third. An hour later he gave i two of them to a woman and her J child who had been fellow voyagers up the Deleware." Rene Bache goes on to say of Franklin: "Where his own expendi| tures were concerned he was always ! frugal, saving what he could out of his wages as printer, while his feij low-workers spent theirs as fast as j they got them, or faster. In this way I it came about that, while a mere youngster in a printing office, he lent j them money every week. . "Though the earnings of most of i them were greater than his, he was capitalist. By the middle of each week they were penniless, and came to j him for loans to carry them over until payday. He would accJpt no Interest, but each Saturday, on getting their money they gave back to him what they borrowed?only to repeat the borrowing a day or two later." The secret of Franklin's success was systematic and persistent saving, i from the time he first began to earn; i money. And always having a savings j ! fund he was ever ready to grasp his! 'opportunities?those of lending a, ' helping hand as well as those of solfi betterment. i Let Benjamin Franklin be your rxemlpar?start saving today. Thrift ^ Stamps are an easy beginning and pave the way to a certain future. THRIFT Without me no man has ever achieved success nor has any nation evor become great. I have been the bedrock of every successful career, ami cornerstone of every fortune. All the world knows me and most of the world heeds ray warning. The poor may have me as well as the rich. My power is limitless, my applies^ tion boundless. He who possesses me has contentment in the present and surety for the future. I am of greater value than pearls, rubies and diamonds. Once you have me no man can take me away. I lift my possessor to high planes of living, increase his earning power, and bring to realisation the hopes of hie life. I make a man well dressed, well housed and well fed. I insure absolutely againet the rainy day. I drive want and doubt and eare away. I guarantee those who possess me prosperity and success. t tlinoo ,\t low riarraa 1 UOTC CA? * VMV0V ?/ ? and those of high decree have found me a helpful friend. To attain me you need put eut no capital hut j>ersonnl effort, and on nil vou invest in ma 1 guarantee dlvi, lend* that last through life and after. I am as free us air. I am v'virc f you will take me I am TIT.IKT. War Savinpa Hurt pa ar? O'-ttor t'\ moppv because tlipy pan mora mp'i ((CLE SAM BAG /;? ( ) r After finishing his job across th< profiteers and others who are rcspons sword is keen and he is shielded with a WORKING AND SAVING WILL REDUCE PBIC? Governor of Federal Reserve Board Te'| How Living Expenses May Be Cut Down.?Why Everything Went Up. Vv'hat Is the best way to reduce the high cost of living? "Work and save" is the answer given by the Fe<*eral Reserve Board in a ietter written by its governor, W. P'. Q. Harding, to the "Hanking Committee of the United States senate. The committee had under consideration the proposal to reduce the volume of noney in circulation. Governor Hard,ng opposes this plan, holding that it wiy not afford the relief expected. "The Federal Reserve Board believes" says Governor Harding in his letter, "that any currency legislation at this time is unnecessary and undesirable, and would suggest that whether viewed from an economic or finan rial standpoint, the remedy for the present situation is the same, namely, to work and to save; to work regularly and efficiently in order to produce and distribute the largest possible volume of commodities, and to exercise reasonable economies in order '.hat money, goods and services may be devoted primarily to the liquidation cf debt and to the satisfaction to the demand for necessities, rather than to indulgence In extravagances or the gratification of the desire for luxuries." During the last two years there has undoubtedly taken place a certain amount of credit expansion, Governor Harding shows, and this in the circumstances connected with the financing of the war was inevitable. But it will be corrected as the securities issued by the government for war purposes are gradually absorbed by investors. This expansion of credit is equal to the difference, Governor Harding says, between the total war expenditures of the government and the to#iI amounts raised by the government through the medium of taxation and from the sale of its bonds and other obligations bo far as they were paid for out of the savings of the people. He does not believe that any reliable estimate of this difference can be made, but he is positive that, whatever it is, it will be gradually absorbed through future savings for the reason that banks are lending and may always be expected to lend freely on the government bonds deposited as collateral. The principal cause of price advances Just before and during the period of the war was the need of the governments of the allied nations for all kinds of commodities and for immediate delivery in large volume, and the "competition of this buying by governments with purchases by private individuals who failed to contract their expenditures at a rate commensurate with the growing expenditures of those governments." One of the features of the post-war neriod. through which the nation is now passing and which has been marked by rising prices, is the general relaxation of war-time practice of personal economy. This has resulted in an increased demand for food and clothing and other commodities by many persons who during the war practiced a more or less rigid economy in their personal purchases. Also, it mint be borne in mind that they are not only buying at market prices but are buying in competition with the export demand. In addition, large-1 ly Increased wages and incomes dur-1 lng the last five years have developed a demand for many commodities which are not of real necessity. This nat-1 jrally has diverted labor and raw and manufactured materials from essen- j Mais to non-essentiafs, contributing no ' small part to tbe trend of Increasing' cost#. , 1 / Gil EE WARPATH ' 1 9 1 '*>*> Sfc, , \ *~-, y^'" ' tz 2' 1 c ' *u S 1 n 9 If iLjfe; . 1 ?5sbv .9 e water Uncle Sam is now after the lible for the hight cost of living. Hie i strong device. TELLS HOW OTHER nr/>mr .ort i?rr?*i\ . j Fill/iLi. Vui RlliLhV Pamphlet Issued by U. 8. Treasury Answers Question "How Can I i,ave Money." As an answer to the question, "How Can I Save Money?" the Savings Division of the Treasury Department has compiled an interesting and helpful pamphlet entitled "How Other leipie Get Ahead." For individuals and families whose < incomes are less than $5,000 a year this pamphlet offers a number of en? , lightening suggestions as. to the disbursement of incomes of various amounts from -115 a week upward. Not only does the material furnish a ready answer to the problem of expenses, but it affords an authentic source of information as to living costs. The figures were compiled from records of official government investigations into the several subjects and may be regarded as up to date and accurate. This material makes possible a new attack In the movement to make thrift a national characteristic and to foster the habit of "Save First?Spend Afterward." It will Interest people In saving more money by showing ;hem how much other people find it possible to save and also by showing them how they can cut down the cost of living comrarir.2 their costs with average costs at the same income. 1 The Savings Division suggests that i an excellent way to drive home tht truths of the budget system is to have the schedules discussed at school and taken home by the children for con- j sideration by the families. Another method is to organize a house-to-house canvass through committees of women who will bring the budgets to the attention of families and secure their agreement to study their own situation. . S Saving and spending budgets have been prepared to meet !c-ml conditions at. a number of points, and much interest in the application of the budgets to the campa'gn is being r<anl- fested in sections of the country where the National Thrift Campaign is being carried out successfully. * ' LEPERS SET SPI1NDID EXAMPLE IN SAVJNGJj Colony of Unfortunates In Farawajj Hawaii Buys War Savings Stamps ! At *62 Per Crpita. M Recent reports from Honolulu con- *> tain an Interesting and unusual les 4 son in thrift which may be considered I a record for the states to attempt 1 Sales of War Savings and Thrift 1 Stamps among the inmates of the Pen' ] ikese Island Leper Colony during July | amounted to $62 per capita. Alto I gether 32 purchasers of these securi- | tie* took a total of $1,934 of stamps. 1 When it is considered ' that this I amount is far more than the per capi- I ta quota for the United States it iSj 4 Apparent that the optimism of these J lepers, despite their station in life, Is | little less than remarkable. I Up to date the total sales of War 1 Savings and Thrift Stamps in Hawaii "i is more than $2,020,000. or more than M "$20,000 in excess of its quota." J thr>f mountains il J the faith that gets a steam shovel instead of an old >e. Labor saving is what you want. It means money saving, too, for War Savings Siamps. Spend a little less than yon earn? it's a sure road to success. Put your savings in War Savings Stamps. ThriW helped to win the vrar. It will unable us to snjcv th? trait# of victory also.