Frank A. Vanderlip to Woodrow Wilson
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I have just returned from the West and South where I have been on War Savings work and I find your letter of May second with the interesting memorandum regarding the effective work which the Postmaster at Anaheim, California has done in promoting the sale of War Savings Stamps. It may interest you to know that exactly the plan followed by the California postmaster has been the one which with a state-wide application has enabled Nebraska to sell $33,000,000 of War Savings Stamps against its total quota of $26,000,000. The work has been so tremendously successful in Nebraska that we have secured the services of Mr. Ward Burgess who was the State Director of Nebraska, and in his company a number of us have just completed a tour in which we have met every state director in the country and laid this plan of a pledge campaign before them. It is our hope to see many other states apply it as successfully as it has been applied in Nebraska.
The intention is to have a nation-wide pledge campaign in June and if the matter is entirely approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, whom I hope to see Monday, it may be brought to your attention later with a request that you by proclamation designate as War Savings Pledge Day. I have strong hopes that it will be possible by that date to secure pledges of at least a very large part of the whole $2,000,000,000 authorization. As the pledges contain the promise that the signer will save and invest we are not in the least losing sight of the saving propaganda which we all believe is even more important than the sale of the stamps.I have seen every state Director but one in the last ten days, together with others active in each State organization, having brought them together at a number of convenient points, and the devotion which they are showing to the work and the enthusiasm which they have for applying the Nebraska plan gives me great hope as to the measure of success the movement is to meet with.
Very truly yours,F A Vanderlip
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