The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-12-19
THRIFT STAMPS
ARE NOW HERE
Your Odd Quarters May, Now Be Put
to Work at Four Per Cent Com 4
pound Interest. : Ef
THRIFT STAMPS COST IS CENTS
When Gard IL Filled It Has Cost You
$4-You Can Then Add IL Cents
and Get IS War Savings Bond.

The thrift stamps and the war saw
ings certificates are here. Put your
odd dimes and quarters into them, and
let your money work for yourself and
Uncle Sam, at 4 per cent compound
interest.
Here is the A, B, C Of the thrift
stamp and war saving certificate plan.
A thrift stamp costs rs cents at any
post office. When you buy one or more
Of these stamps, you get a thrift card
which is arranged to hold sixteen
stamps. When the thrift card is full
of stamps it has cost you 81. You
then put twelve cents with it, making
your investment $4.12, and exchange
it at the post Office for a IS war saw
ings certificate or bond. The reason
why you get a IS bond for $4.12 is be-
cause the bond is not due for five
years, and you are paid the SS cents
for carrying the SAP as an investment
until Jan. l, 1928.
= There are three extremely notable
things about these S. war savings GER
tificates:
First. You can cash them at any
time for what you paid for them with
accrued interest. The government re-
serves the right to take ten days time
to pay you, but this Is simply protect
ing themselves against the chance that
some post Office might be temporarily
short of money. ." e &c.. 81.
Second. The security is awfully
good. The bond is better than first
mortgage on an Iowa farm, or any 9TH
.er absolutely reliable investment you
can think Of The only earthly posi-
bility Of loss would be for the Ger
mans to take possession OF our coun-
try, in which case none of our proper
ty would be worth much.
Third. Although these certificates
are practically the same as money,
in that they are absolutely secure and
you can cash them at any time, still
they draw interest. II you take $4.12
in money and lay it away, it will new.
er become any more: but put your
$4.12 in these certificates and the mon.
ey works while you sleep and will soon
become IS.
When you get your first war savings
certificate stamps you get with 1t
certificate upon which your name will
be written. This certificate has places
on it for twenty of the SIS stamps. When
it is full of stamps it has cost you
$824O, and it will be worth 500 on
Jan. /, 1923, which is five years from
next January.
Listen particularly to this. Nobody
but yourself can cash your certificate.
You cannot pass it over to anybody
else. If anybody else cashes it, he
commits forgery. If you lose 1t, it is
made the duty OF the finder to drop it
in a mail box and it will come right
back to you It is no good to any.
body else. The reason for these pro-
visions are that the government con-
siders this wonderful investment for
the people Of limited circumstances,
and they do not want the rich to COB
BILE it up. Therefore they make it a
crime for any one person to own more
than $1,000 worth of these certificates
at any time. or course each member
of the family is entitled to their
thousand. If the financiers of the
country were permitted to buy Ger
tificates which bore per cent COM
pound interest and which could be
cashed in at any time, they would buy
UP the whole issue over night. The
government does not want them tol
do this.
In case you wish. you can have
your certificate registered. without
cost. Registered certificates can on
ly to be cashed ut the same postotiice
where registered, which is added pro-
lection against loss or theft. un-
registered certificates can be cashed
at any post office, and it would be pos
sible to forge the name of the owner
at strange office and get away with