Evening journal., 1917-12-17
UNCLE SAM OFFERS
YOU BOND FOR S4.12
VIII be Worth SIS in 1923,
Individual Sales Limited
TO $1,000
MAKE ACCEPTABLE
CHRISTMAS GIFTS

A Christmas present from opolo
Saml
Five dollars for a Government Aond
whole Government bond for only 50 {
In fact. II won't cost YOU dat much, I
Tor YOU can walk into any postoillce
,r bank and pay Sii2 ard you will be-
some the proud posscssor Of 50 Gov
.rnment bond. That is 10 say. the Gov
arnnent will pay you - for your - y
Investment m January 1923. But,
meanwhile. If YOU should suddenly de
side :tat YOU need the money more
Thar Uncle sam, you can have 1t back,
,lus interest.
And 10 and behold. If in these days
of general prosperity you can't spend
Jour whole dollars and twelve cents
even 10 turn IL into five dollars why
Uncle sam says you can pay for II
txenfv-1ve cents down and twenty-five
,onts al a time. You Will receive
thrift stamp each time you do. and
these thrift stamps are TO be pasted on
thrift card until you have sixteen OF
lhem. which, with a few additional
eents, will buy you a war-savings Ger
tlncate stamp worth s., or. IN other
words. a real Government bond.
That is The Christmas announcement
Uncle sam makes to the American peoS
nle 10 the wage earners and the schooI
,hildren for who in this broad land
ant have a Government bond when 1t
anly takes twenty-five cents at time
OF course, millions Of Americans
houeht $50 Liberty Bouds. but there
are millions to whom $50 IS too much
10 tie up. so that is why our Govern
mert has thought out this plan and
IONS to all this trouble so that every
single one of our lO0O0O0OO people,
which. remember. counts in even the
hables one year old, can become part
owner Of the Government sharing IN
IS benefits as well as its troubles.
And the man who has thought out
his war-savings> plan Is Frank A. Van
derlip. president Of the National CITY
Bank Of New York, the largest Danh
In this country. No doubt u woulu
have been much simpler Tor MN 10
have appealed TO the banks ana Dig IN
dustries TO subscribe in Dig lots tlls
Y2.O0OO00OOO which he hopes TO rals,
out OF the thrift stamps you ana WI
buy. but no, he wanted each person j
ibe nation 10 feel that he, too, wa
helping the United States OoNerhiheh
and had become a partner IN 1t. MI
NNnUtIllU SAYS EVNNAAAt'hAN f'---
he mlly democratic until II become
sxervhodv's business, and that Is WI
sven the babies Of the land are wante
so become a part Of the Government.
Of course. babies can't buy eve
f,ventv-0ve-cent thrift stamps, bl
What IS simpler than tucking thri
card (Which can be obtained at an
nostofnce> or bank into its stocking
ar IL one can afford 20 give the
var-savings certificate stamp outrlgh
Uncle sam Will give it to you Tor a !
No one may buy more than sl,V'
worth of these stamps. or cOuIs
several members of a family may eac
huv that much But even that amour
v,iii have TO be subscribed in SiOO lot
each costing $50 40, because no one
sno,yed 10 buy more than twenty
~ sfamns at time The law allow
sscb nerson 20 own $1,000 worth
Nvar-ssyinps certificates, and the large
ntantity that any one may purchase
any time is 500 worth.
0f course, this Christmas present
f-ncie Sans is such q good investme
mai perhaps many would like to bt
more for YOU see, on Sii2 you set
In aye years or your SS24O Will p'
500 a net profit of ST GO, or Ss2l w
turn into $1,000 in five years whi
looks like easy money
However, the Government VIII \
obiect-in fact, would welcome J.
business or employers giving these WI
savings certificates to their employ
instead of the usual cash presents
Christmas time and many are plannl
TO do so.
In addition TO getting all the SIN
cash that Is lying around loose IN
land, the Government, as PERSONNEL
Alr. Nanderlip, who calls lhls wars
inrs scheme his baby" believes q
this war should teach each and eN
one to become thrifty. and thrift me-
saving the nickels and the pennies.
The school children are being pres
into service. and no one need be S
prised to have a boy apply for sn'
shoveIing these wintry days. Ma
clear your sidewalk" they VIII
so as TO earn a quarter to buy tn
stampq" And he will keeping past
In the twenty-nve-cent stamps until
has his card filled out with the
teen, which Nyith.a few cents added
make him the possessor OF o real
Government bond lie and eyeryb
else has a whole year in which 10
TOR them.
SO this Is Uncle Sans Christ
present, an offer 10 pay s. in flve y
II you will give him 81 plus few c
any time within a year. OF course
hopes that those who can afford TO
buya few more. because he is plan
to raise 5000, 100000 in this way. "
means $40 for each and every one
iO0.O0OO0O persons, including the b,
Already stamps or certificates
be bought at any bank on post
and soon even the postmen will 9
agents, so that with your letter:
may expect polite requests TO pur
thrift stamps Appeals will be
10 the kitchen as well as to the dr.
room.
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