Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16

MIMI to launch the war savings
W\Y campaign just a convenient
" space before Christmasi
Whatever the answer be to that ques-
ticn. no better Christmas gift could be
made than war savings stamp-cost.
"a plus some cents; value five years
hence. straight hve-dollar bill.
The United States for the past six
months has been teaching its citizens
TO pay and they have learned their
lesson we'll The two liberty loans
have been oversubscribed generously:
the Red Cross attained more than the
requested hundred million. No great
war call for funds has gone un-
answered in fullest measure. The peo-
pie have learned how to open their
purse-strings, and they will keep on
paying the war bill
Now the government is attempting
a new task. 1t is setting out to make
America thrifty nation through its
war saving campaign, begun on De-
cember . Here is what President
Wilson has had to say on the subject:
Il suppose not many by-products can
come out of a war. but II this country
can learn something about saving out
of the war it viii be worth the cost
of the war; l mean the literal cost of
it, in money and resources. 1 suppose
we have several times over wasted
more than we are about to spend. We
have not known that there was any
limit to our resources we are now ind
ing out that there may be if we are
not careful"
II is again the task Of the Secretary
of the Treasury TO set on foot the new
campaign for dollars with which 10
win the war. Again he calls on the
people of the United States to be no
more tender with their dollars than
with their sons. Again he implores
them not to send their boys 70 war
without the backing Of the country $
wealth. the surest sign that the folks
at home are with them heartily and
generously in their great fight for lib
erty.
To carry on the war savings cam
paign Secretary McAdoo has called 10
his side as members of the war savings
committee Ave men and one woman
They are Frank A. Vanderlip. New
York, chairman: Mrs. George Bass OF
Chicago. Frederick A. Delano OF Chi
cago, Henry Ford OF Detroit, Eugene
Meyer, ir. Of New York and Charles l.
Baine of Boston. The man who will
keep the public posted on the details
of the campaign from day to day il
Oscar A. Price, who performed the same
Office in connection with the secont
liberty loan.
Congress has authorized the issue Of
81, 0e0, 000, 900 of these war savings Ger.
Iificates. Their purpose is to bring e
The man and the woman of the smalles
means the opportunity of joining II
the great work of supplying the gov
ernment with the necessary money I,
carry on the war.
War savings certificates are securet
by the purchase of war savings stamp
bearing face value of IS each an,
purchasable for $4.12 or over. accord
5nE to the date Of investment. Eacl
war savings certificate holds twent,
IS war savings stamps, and each stam
bears interest at the rate of per cen
from the date of its attachment to tn
certificate. Thus twenty war saving
btamps. purchased today for $3.50, ar
worth in ave years 500.
The convenience Of the purchaser o
war savings st&mps Is considered an
the contingency OF unlo0ked-for neces
pity provided for by the privilege q
&urrendering . certificate, and upon