Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-15
URGE PEOPLE TO INVEST
IN WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
F. A. Vanderlip and Col. Roosevelt
Preaching the Doctrine
of Thrift.

| Preaching the Doctrine
of Thrift.
| by the Associated Press
| KANSAS CITY. December f5.-Buy
war savings stamps now when they
arc cheap and Injuries, which are high.
| later when they are cheap. was the
! plea today of Frank \. Nanderaip.
chairman of the war savings commit
tee. in an address at luncheon here.
war savings stamps are a security
everybody can invest in, he said.
Never before In the history of the
country have all the people had a
chance to invest small sums in gilt
edged security.
You know the main principle on
which wise investors. as we'll as wise
shoppers, act is to buy when things
are cheap. And the wise shopper just
now is not buying Injuries. because
luxuries have more than doubled in
price. Now. among the ancient Greeks
there was class of philosophers call
ed epicureans, whose philosophy was
to get as much pleasure as they could
out of life. And so ! would say to you.
be a wise epicurean and a wise investor
at the same time Invest your money
now-in war savings stamps while they
are cheap and buy yourself double OF
treble the amount of Injuries when
luxuries become cheap again
Addresses Omaha Audience.
Speaking in Omaha. Neb.. last night.
Mr. vanderlp said: store up your pleas
ures as you would store up money in the
bank. You will enjoy them tenfold later.
at the right time. and with clear con-
science.
store up your pleasures as you
would store up money in the bank"
pleaded Mr.. Vanderlip. You will enjoy
them tenfold later. at the right time,
and with clear conscience.
These war savings stamps are the
most practical aid that could be
imagined in helping you to store up
your pleasures. Instead of buying that
theater or movie ticket. you. buy a
thrift stamp. Your money goes direct
to the war Golfers. you have the salts
faction of feeling that you have help
ed win the war, and you have stored
up great pleasure for the future.
Instead of buying that new over
make the old one do a little longer. By
doing this. you have done three dis
tinct services to the nation: You have
left the material untouched. SO that
there is somewhere material for one
more overcoat for a soldier lad. You
have left labor free, to be used by the
government in making the soldiers
coat. You have placed the money in
the governments hands to pay for the
soldiers coat. And you have saved
up money that you did not really need
to spend, as insurance against rainy
day.
Col. Roosevelt's Fervent Appeal.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, December l5.-In
a war time speech at a patriotic niece
ing here last night former President
Theodore, Roosevelt made an urgent
appeal for the purchasing of thrift
stamps and war certificates, as well as
for the Red Cross.
Germany has said that the noneyed
people of America were backing this
war; said Mr.. Roosevelt. Let every
man, woman and child of us get into
this thrift stamp buying habit and
throw this stab:ment back into the
faces of the Teutons, by letting them
know that every man. woman and child
in America is back of this war
In asking you to back UP the Red
Cross ! ask you to make sacrifice,
but oh. what a glorious sacrifice 1t is
Gov James NJ. Cox of Ohio, introduced
Col. Roosevelt by saying politics make
strange bedfellows, but this vast as
senfblage tonight in front of me shows
plainly that politics has been forgot
ten
"In introducing the speaker of the
evening we all agree as to his Ameri-
canism. But l want to say that what
pleases me most is that | am introduce
ing a man who has four sons at the
front. three of whom have been under
fire"
President Buys Savings Stamps.
President Wilson has become the
owner of war savings stamps to the
amount of $1,000. the limit allowed an
individual purchaser. The President
made his subscription at the recent
Gridiron Club dinner. but there was no
public announcement until yesterday
when his check was received at the Of
flee of Director Callahan. Sale OF war
savings stamps was one Of the features
of the Gridiron dinner. and 2oT of the
diners pledged themselves to the pur
chase OF Sl23.S484o worth.
Assistance of the clergy of Washing
ton i'm the stamp selling campaign was
pledged yesterday afternoon at
meeting in the board room at the Dis
trict building. William Knowles Coop
err of the Y. NJ. G. A. presided and there
was an address by J.. G. Kavanaugh.
Insurance Company. The ciergymen
decided to urge the giving of savings
stamps as Christmas presents and the
matter of sermons on the subject is to
be decided later.
Committee Is Appointed.
Mr. Cooper appointed the following
committee to work for the sale of
stamps and to decide upon the date
for another meeting: Rev. Charles W
Wood. chairman; Rev. J. j. Muir, Rev.
L. e. b. Pierce Rev. John Weidley
Charles ID. Shreve. Rev. Earle Wiley,
Norton L. Little. president of the Dis
trict Sunday School Association; II.
r. Otterman, president of the Christ ia
| Endeavor Union: Ashley Jump, presi-
dent OF the ID. G. Epworth League
| North; Harold +. Ramsey. president OF
| the d. c. Epworth League South; Hans
| Kammerer of the Luther League, Louis
/ d. Bliss president Of the Mems Bible
1 of District aud II NJ i.tabi-