Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-22
THRIFT STAMP DRIVE
STARTS DECEMBER 3
Uncle Sam Plans Gigantic Campaign
To Raise $4,000, 600, 900
For War Purposes.
fBv MUTTON BRONNER !

MI MIS- MISS OF A4GSkEE
Citizen. have you 25 cents?
II so. Uncle Sam wants you to
lend il to him 10 help whip the Huns.
That is the meaning OF one of the
most gigantic financial plans in the
world. which win be launched on De-
cember 3, and extend over year.
The government has raised huge
quantities of money in two Liberty
Loans. which appealed to every citi-
zen who had 80 or 100 or more to
spare.
The campaign TO sell war savings
certificates is designed to raise -
000.o00.000 from people who did not
feel they could afford $50 at a time.
and yet are anxious to prove their
Americanism.
Stores win Sell Stamps.
The method is simple. On and
after December 3, at any postoffice,
bank or trust company, and at many
railroad Offices, stores and factories,
thrift stamps and war savings stamps
viii 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 % cents. She goes to
the postofice and buys thrift stamp.
AT the same time they give her a
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 Postofiice Department
will return it to her AS soon as Mary
has bought 16 thrift stamps, at %
cents each, her thrift card is filled.
Sell At Different Prices.
War savings stamps sell at differ
ent prices. During December, 1917,
ad January, 1918, they viii sell at
SALE each; in February, 1918, at
S413; in March at S414, and SO on,
increasing regularly one cent each
month. Now, if Mary Jones completes
her thrift card in March, 1918, she
trades ii into the government, giving
with it IA cents, and then becomes the
owner of a war savings stamp She
gets with this war savings certifi-
cate, which has spaces for 20 war
savings stamps If she buys just one
stamp, at the end of five years-Jan-
uary, 192S-instead OF getting back
her original $4.f4, she gets back from
Uncle Sam So
In other words, her money has paid
her 4 per cent at compound interest.
The moment Mary pastes her war
savings stamp on the war savings
certificate, she has something that is
safe from thieves or fire. She can
take it to any postofIice and have
registered in her name free of charge.
No one else can then cash in on it,
and il it is destroyed, upon proof, she
gets new one.
Each Certificate Registered.
Each person must register his own
certificate. Married women must
register in their own names; thus not
Mrs. John Jones, but Mrs. Mary
Jones.
When a war savings certificate is
registered it is payable only to the
owner, and at the postofllce where it
was registered.
If Mary Jones becomes hard up next
year and needs money, she can sur
render her war savings certificate
and get her money back, plus per
cent interest However, the govern
ment hopes every buyer will hold the
certificates until they mature in 1928.
The price at which war savings
stamps we're TO be sold was determin-
ed for each month by taking the num-
Der OF dollars and cents which at 4
per cent interest, compounded quar-
terly, will on January l. 1923, equal
$500
The 25-cent thrift stamps are
green and little larger than postage
stamp. The war savings stamps, also
green, are about four times the size
of a postage stamp. On each side is
engraved a list of the months during
which they will be sold and the price
during those months.
As often as Mary Jones buys war
savings stamp she pastes this on her
war savings certificate until she has
20. This fills the certificate and she
can then start on another. Pur-
chases are limited to 500 maximum
at one time, and to $1,000 to any one
person. If person bought 20 war
savings stamps next December or
January he would pay sS2.4O and get
back 500 on January I, 1928, making