The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-03
BABY BONDS HERE
Topeka Institutions Put Them
on Sale Today.
. War Saving Certificates Within
the Reach of All.
PAY S4.23 FOR A COUPON
Twenty Coupons Make Card
Worth 500 in 1928.
School Children May Buy War
Saving Stamps.

Baby bonds were on sale at all the
leading financial institutions of the
city this morning. The baby bonds"
are technically known as war savings
certificates and are issued in the
amount of $4.12 until February 1,
1918. After this time the baby bond
increases in value at the rate of one
cent each month. The highest price
for the year 1918 will be S42S in De-
cember.
The baby bonds or certificates are
issued in the form of stamps which
are to be affixed to a card laid Off in
twenty spaces. AS each certificate
stamp is purchased it is pasted in one
OF the numbered spaces on the card
When twenty such stamps are in
place the bond Is complete and is re-
deemable at any bank or money order
postoffice for 500 on January l, 1928
The plan followed is great deal on
the order of the trading stamp and
trading stamp books that have been
Used in Topeka for some years gu
buy a stamp for S4.12, paste it on
your card and when you have COL
lected twenty of the stamps, the card
is redcemable for its face value plus
interest at 4 per cent for the time you
hold it. If you present the filled card
for redemption after January l, 1928,
you receive 500 in cash for it. A
wa savings stamp purchased in De-
cember of 1922 for $4.71 will be
worth IS on the first day of January
1929.
Smaller Savings Plan.
In connection with the war-savings
certificates a system of partial, pay
ments on war savings stamp has
been ipaugurated. By this method one
purchases a thrift stamp for 20 cents
and at the same time receives a
thrift card laid cat on the same lines
as the war-savings certificate card, eX-
cept that it has only 6 spaces for
stamps This card, when filled. can
be exchanged for one war savings
stamp. You pay in 81 for complete
thrift card and on exchange for war
savings stamp you must pay the diff
ference between the 81 represented by
the thrift card and the current valua-
ton of the war-savings stamp.
The thrift cards will be offered for
sale to the school children of the city
thru their teachers if the local school
board sees fit to fall in with the plans
Of the treasury department.
The thrift stamp offers an ideal
way to teach the growing generation
the habits of saving systematically,
and at the same time teaches them the
dependence of the government on its
people for financial support in times
of national crisis. - 2 sa-- 5-- e.sF
Wilson -aises Plan.
In speaking of the plan this morn
ing. superintendent Wilson of the city
schools said that IN his opinion the
plan was ideal, and should receive the
fullest support from the students and
teachers. The matter will probably
receive the official sanction of the
board of education at their meeting
tonight.
c. S. Elliott of the Capitol Building
& Loan association. said this morning
that the local men behind the Topeka
campaign expected to dispose of at
least one certificate of the thrift
variety to every child of school age in
the city. He said: Saving small
amounts by this method will be of the
greatest benefit in instilling ideas of
patriotism and thrift in the minds of
the children. They will get some