El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-12-06
THRIFT STAMPS 0FFER
EASY v AZ TO SAVE;
" on SALE At.
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UNCLE SAM WANTS YOUR TWO
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HOW MARY JoNEs CAN HELF
HER GOVERNMENT WIN war
Thrift stamps and war savings
stamps now are on sale at the post
office here. They become today i'm
portant factors in Uncle SANS plAr
to raise billions Of dollars to prose
cute the war and TO raise the amount
by little savings of every man. WON
an. boy and girl in the country will
ing to lend 4 small coin now and then
to his government.
The method by which this is done
is thus described by Milton Rronner,
Of washington, D. g.:
MIR, Mrs. Miss or Master American
Citizen, have you rs cents?
IL 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 was launched December
3, and extend owe q year.
The government has raised huge
quantities OF money In two Liberty
Loans. which appealed to every citi-
zen who had $50 or 800 or more to
spare.
The campaign to sell war savings
certificates is designated to raise 81
900, 100000 from people who did not
feel they could afford $50 at a time,
and yet are anxious to prove their
A~mericanism.
The method ia simple: On and
after December 3, at any postofiice.
bank or trust company, and at many
railroad Offices, stores and factories.
THRIFT STAMPS and WAR saw
INGS STAMPS will be on sale.
Here is how it works out: Lit
tie Mary Jones, milliner, wants to
help her government win the war.
When she draws her weeks wages
she feels she can spare 25 cents. She
goes to the postoffice and buys a.
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 the postmaster writes
her name and address In ink. Then,
If she loses 1t, the finder car drop
1t In any letter box and the postof-
flee department will return 1t to her.
As soon as Mary has bought .16 thrift
stamps, at rs cents each, her thrift
card is filled.
War savings stamps sell at differ
ent prices. During December. 1917,
and January, 1918, they will sell at
$4.12 each; in February, 1913, at
Sab: in March at $4.14; and SO on,
increasing regularly n cent each
month. Now if Mary Jones COM
pletes her thrift card in March, 1918,
she trades it In to the government,
giving with it IA cents, and then be-
comes the owner of a war savings
stamp. She gets with this a war saw
ings certificate, which has spaces for
20 war savings stamps. II 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 IS.
In other words, her money has paid
her 4 per cent compound interest.
The moment Mary pastes her war
savings stamp on the war savings
she has something that is
safe from thieves or fire. She can
take it to any ~postoffice and have it
registered in her name free of charge.
No n else can then cash in on IT,
and II it is destroyed, upon proof.
she gets 4 new one.
Each person must register his own
certificate. Married women must reg
lister in their W names, thus not
Mrs. John Jones. but Mrs. Mary
Jones.
When a war savings certificate is
1t is payable only to the
owner, and at the ~postoffice where 1t
was registered.
II Mary -Innes becomes hard up
next year and needs money she can
surrender her war savings cefti-
cate and get her money back, plus )
per cent interest. However. the
government hopes every buyer will
hold the certificates until they ma
ture in 1929.
The price at which war savings
were to be sold was deterunin-
cd for each month by taking the num-
Der Of dollars and cents which at 4
per cent interest compounded quar-
terly, will on January |, 1928, equal
IS.
The 24.cent thrift stamps are green
md little larger than q postage
The war savings stamps, also
green, are about four times the size
Df a postage stamp. On each side 10
engraved a list OF the months during