The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-11-30
WILL YOU LOAN J. 5. 25 CENTS
 ON THRIFT CARD?

Washington, D. C., Nov. 25.-Mr. Mrs. or Miss or Master American citizen, have you 9 cents.
 If so, Uncle Sam wants you to lend it to him to help whip the Huns. That is the meaning of one of the
 most gigantic financial plans in the world, which will be launched on December 3, and extend over a year. The government has raised hugs quantities of money in two Liberty
 loans, which appealed to every citi-
 zen who had $50 or $1OO or more to spare.
 The campaign to sell war savings certificates is designed to raise $2,- 0O0,0O0 from people who did not feel they could afford $50 at a time, and Iyet are anxious to prove their
 Americanism.
 The method is simple: on and after December 3, at any postoffice, bank
 or trust company, and at many rail- | road offices, stores and factories, THRIFT STAMPS and War Savings Stamps will be on sale
 Here is how it works out: Little Mary Jones, milliner, wants to help .her government win the war. When she draws her weeks wages she feels she can spare p cents. She goes to the postoffce and buys a
 thrift Stamp. At the same time they give her thrift card, which has spaces for 16 thrift stamps She pastes her thrift stamp on the thrift card and writes her name and
 address in ink. Then. if she loses it, the finder can drop it in any letter box and the postoffice department l will return it to her. As soon as
 Mary has bought 16 thrift stamps, . at 9 cents each, her thrift card is i filled. t'.'t tf r~& .. War savings stamps sell at differ ent prices. During December, 1917,
 and January, 1918. they will sell at s4.1 each; in February, 1918, at $4. 13; in March at $4 IA and so on,
 increasing regularly one cent each
 month. Now if Mary Jones com.
 pletes her thrift card in March. 1914,
 she trades it in to the government,
 the owner of war savings stamp.
 She gets with this a war savings
 certificate, which has spaces for 20
 war savings stamps. If she buys
 just one stamp, at the end of five
 years January. 1923, instead of get
 ting back her original $4.14, she
 gets back from Uncle Sam S5. In other words, her money has paid : her percent at compound interest. The moment Mary pastes her sav- } ings stamn on the war savings certi- : ;ficate she has something that is safe t from thieves or fire. She can take 1t
 to any postoffice and have it register
 ed in her name free of charge. No
 one else cen then cash in on it, and , If it is destroyed, upon proof. she 3 gets a. new: oiie ss ;; l.. Each person must register his owh , certificate. Married women must register in their own names, not Mrs John Jones. hut Mrs. Mary Jones. When 8 war savings certificate is !, registered it is payable only to the : owner, and at the postoffce where ir was registered.
 II If Mary Jones becomes hard m f next yefr and needs money she can surrender her war savings certificate } and get her money back. plus 3 per
 icent interest. However, the govern ment hopes every buyer. will hold tn , certificates until they mature in 1928 , The price at which war saving stamps were to be sold was determin ed for each month by taking the number of dollars and cents which at per cent interest compounded . quarterly, will on January l, 1923, , equal 8.
 Ii The 24-cent thrift stamps are . green and little larger than a post age stamp. The war savings stamp , Ialso green, are about four times the size of postage stamp. On each
 iside is engraved list of the months during which they will be sold, and
 the price during that month.
 AS often as Mary Jones buys
 war savings stamp she pastes this on } her war savings certificate until , she has 20. This fills the certif- , tcate. and she can then start on an | other purchasae ara limited to sim } maximum at one time, and to $l,0o0 ! to any one person. If a person , bougt 20 war savings stamp next December or January he would pay : $S2.4o and set back $1ea on Janu-
 ary l. 1893. making $17. so interest.