The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06

preparing plans for the active work.
The Government plans to raise 80
900, 1000, 600 through the War Savings
Fund Campaign. 1t offers an unusually
fine opportunity for persons of limited
incomes to lay aside money at excellent
rate of interest, with both principal
and interest secured by the creCit of the
United States Government, the best Sc
curitY in the world, and at the same
time truly serve their country fnan-
cially.
How Investment VIII Be Made
How is the way the investments will
be made: Postofiices, banks and other
places designated by the Government,
through the directors, will be made
agencies. They will have on hand War
Savings certificates and War Savings
stamps. A man or woman or child NAV
purchase a certificate for as much as
500 at any one time, and may purchase
from time to time an aggregate of
C1, OOOs II 10 llOI NECESSARY " pay lUt
entire sum at once. For a 500 certi-
fcate there may be 20 payments, made
through the purchase of stamps, over
a prolonged period.
Assuming John Jones to have decided
to start the purchase of a 500 certifi-
cate, he may begin by purchasing one
War Savings stamp. The cost to him
when the campaign begins and up to
February, 1918, will be $4.l2 When he
buys the first stamp, the certificate is
issued to him, and the stamp is affixed.
1T will be seen that if he buys 500
certificate at the rate of sap for each
of the 20 stamp payments, he will have
paid $82. 40 for the 500 certificate.
The gain represents the interest at
the rate of 1 per cent, compounded quar-
terly, between the present time, and
January /, 1928, when the certificate
reaches maturity. Each stamp pur-
chased at SAP becomes worth S. by the
time of maturity. If he buys part Of
his stamps after the SAP price has
passed, his stamp still will be worth SIS
at maturity, on January /, 1928
Price Advanced February l.
The sap price per stamp lasts unit!
the first of February; in that month,
the price goes up one cent; and it goes
up one cent each month; until it reaches
$4.23 in December, of next year. But
whatever the price paid for the stamp,
it becomes worth S. at maturity. The
prices have been calculated to yield s..
when interest is COMPOUNDED at 4 per
cent.
If John Jones is not allie to lay down
IS at time for War Savings stamps to
be affixed to bis War Savings certificate
but is able to save Is cents or more at a
time he may take advantage of the Gov
ernment's offering of an absolutely
safe investment at 4 per cent compound
interest. He may do this through the
Thrift Card System, which is an adjunct
to the War Savings Fund. So to say
this leads up to the War Savings Fund.
1t is particularly good for children and
Tor those very poor people who want to
save little and help their country at
the same time.
This is the way the thrift card system
works: Postoffices and most of the
other places which will have war savings
certificates on sale also will have thrift
cards and stamps. john Jones may 90
to one of these places and purchase g
25-cent stamp. He will be given a
thrift card. That card will have places
for Is Of the 25-cent stamps. When
ever he can, John Jones will buy one of
the 25 cent stamps and affix it to his
card. When he has purchased and
affixed 16 of the stamps he will have a
total of 81 worth of the stamps on his
card. He then is ready to make his
first purchase of the war savings stamps.
Cashing in Thrift Cards.
Say that be has filled his thrift card
in the month of February. His card
will be worth 81; the war savings GER
tifcates in February will cost So. Is.
John Jones will go to one of the places
where war savings certificates will be
on sale and will hand in his thrift card
worth 81, with 10 cents in cash. Then
he will receive his war savings STAMP
and war savings certificate, to which