The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
WAR SAVING STAMP PLAN
is NOW IN OPERATION
LeavenwOrth Must Buy $500 Worth
of Government Stamps Inside
of The Coming Year

The war saving stamp plan by
which the United States government
will raise before the end of 1918
| two billion dollars in small savings
from all the people, including chill
dren for the war to establish DEM
ocracy thruout the world, is now in
complete operation in this state.
County Committee chairmen have
been appointed for each county in
the state. Mr.. F. w. Schultze, pres
ident of the Commercial Bank and
Trust Co., of Wenatchee is chairman
for this county. The government
has set the amount, according to
population and wealth, that each
state shall raise This is $31, 100000
for the state of Washington. A pro-
rata share of this sum has been as
signed to each county in the state,
the sum for Chelan county being
S465, ,220.
The plan includes Thrift stamps,
War Saving Stamps, and War Saw
ing Certificates. These may be OBJ
tained at any postoffice and at other
agencies appointed by the War Saw
ings committee for this state Of
which Daniel Kelleher, chairman of
the board of directors of the Seattle
National Bank is the head.
Anyone who can save $4.23, twen-
ty five cents at time, before Dec.
31st, 1918, can have a real part in
the winning of the great war. Any
one may save as high as $1,000.
and the sooner you make each saw
ing and the larger you make it the
more you earn, as the government
itself will pay four per cent interest
compounded quarterly, on each War
Saving Stamp from the time of its
purchase.
A Thrift Stamp costs 25 cents,
and may be used to purchase a war
Savings Stamp. The latter costs
S4.12 this month or next and cent
more each month thereafter until
the sum becomes $4.23 in December
1918. The war Savings stamp is to
be attached to a War Savings cer-
tificate supplied you by the govern
ment free of charge and containing
spaces for twenty stamps. On Jan.
21st 1923, the government will pay
to the holder of filled war saw
ings Certificate, 500, or SIS for each
stamp in it. A war Savings Certifi-
cate filled before February next will
cost SS2.40. Redeemed on Jan. 1st.
1923 it viii pay 500. profit to the
patriotic saver of $3.50
War Savings Stamps are the an
swer of a great democracy to the
demand for a government security
that is democratic in form. They
are baby bonds. Like the Liberty
Bonds, which have been purchased
by ten million Americans, they have
behind them the entire resources of
the government and the people of
the United States. They are the di-
rect promise of the United States
government to return your savings
to you with four per cent interest
compounded quarterly, and an in
vestment surprising in the factors
of safety and income any that could
have been obtained by the shrewdest
capitalists few months ago.
War Saving Stamps vii be used
for thesame purpose as Liberty
Bonds-to furnish food and the
means of fighting to the men who
are facing the fiendish devices of
the Germans. The better our men
are supplied the sooner they will
win and the fewer of them die.
The Government does not wish
savings Withdrawals from banks,
and by the War Savings Stamp plan
has made it possible for each one to
be war lender to his country out
of his current income.
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