Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-12-29
United States Government War
Savings Stamps.

and secure investment.
What they War-Savings
Stamps are the answer of a great
democracy to the demand for a dem
ocratic form of government security.
They are little baby bonds" Like
Liberty bonds, they have behind them
the entire resources of the govern
ment and people of the United States
They have the additional advantage
that they steadily increase in value
from the date of purchase until the
date Of maturity. and this increase
is guaranteed by the Government.
These stamps are issued in two de-
nominations, the 25-cent stamp and
the SIS stamp.
For the convenience of investors
Thrift Card" is furnished to all
purchasers of 25-cent stamps. This
card has spaces for / 6 stamps When
all the spaces have been filled the
Thrift Card may be exchanged for a
| SIS stamp at post offices, banks, or
other authorized agencies by adding
II cents in cash prior to February
| l, 1918, and l cent additional each
month thereafter.
Those who prefer may buy So
stamp outright. These will be on
sale from December 3, 1917, until
January 81, 1918, for SAP. They
automatically increase in value
cent a month every month there
after until January l, 1928, when
the United States will pay SIS at any
post office or at the Treasury in
Washington for each stamp affixed to
a War Savings Certificate
When you purchase a So stamp,
you must attach it to an engraved
folder known as a Wars Savings
Certificate' which bears the name
of the purchaser and can be cashed
only by the person whose name APP
pears upon the certificate, except in
ease OF death or disability This
certificate contains 20 spaces, If
these are all filled with War-Savings
Stamps between December 3, 1917,
and January 81, 1918, the cost to
the purchaser will be $82,40, and on
January 1, 1928, the Government
will pay the owner of the certificate
$100--a net prifit to the holder of
$780, This is based on an interest
rate of per cent compounded quar-
terly from January 2, 1918. The
amount of War-Sayings Stamps sold
to any one person at any one time
shall not exceed 500 (maturity
yalue), and no person may hold
such stamps or WarSavings Certi-
fcate to an aggregate amount ex-
ceeding $1,000 (maturity value).
If the holder of a War-Savings
Certificate finds it necessary to
realize cash on it before maturity,
he may at any time after January
2, 1918, upon giving 10 days writ
ten notice receive for each stamp
affixed to his certificate the amount
paid therefor plus l cent for each
calendar month after the month OF
purchase of each stamp. A regis
tered certificate may be redeemed /
however, only at the post office
where registered.
In other words, the plan is sim
pIe straightforward, and certain.
The holder of the certificates can not
lose and is certain to gain. He is
buying the safest security in the
world in the most convenient form
in which the security of a great |
Government has ever been offered |
to its people.
Why should you buy them. The
main reason for the purchase OF
War-Savings Stamps is because your
country is at war. Your country
needs every penny which every man,
woman and child can save and lend, I
in order to feed, clothe, arm and I
equip the soldiers and sailors of /
America and to win this righteous |
war in defense of American honor and /
the cause of democracy throughout |
the world.
If we are to win the war, we must /
win it as q united people. The |
savings of every man, woman and |
child are necessary if we are to hast
en- the victorious ending of the war.
War Savers are Life Savers.
A single strand in the cables which
uphold the great Brooklyn Suspen-
sion is not very strong, but thou
sands of these strands bound together
uphold one of the great thorough
fares of the world.
When our fathers and sons and
brothers were called by our Coun-
try to take up arms in her defense
you did not hear an individual soldier
refuse to serve because his service
alone would not win the war. Each
man was ready to do his part. The
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