Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-07

habit" of economy and saving. If you
love your country, come TO its aid. It's
pcril is real and NOW.
J. b. BOYER,
Director w. S. S. Tazcwell county.
Today, for the glory of America
and the service of humanity, the
"small" man is called into action. His
name is legion. His power is the con-
qucring and unconquerablc power of
the American nation.
Big capital, big business and the
big men of the country already have
been called into service. and have TAX
en- up the big tasks assigned TO them.
BY the new plan put into operation
this month by the United States gov
eminent the vast power of the small
savings, the small business, the citi-
zen Of small affairs is to be employed
for the winning of the war. The new
plan will be welcomed wherever it
becomes known. The bare announce
ment of it has aroused enthusiasm. 1t
is Il plan for all the hundred million
free citizens of America. The task as
signed to each is very easy, but very
great i'm its effect upon the successful
prosecution of the war and upon the
future welfare of America. The per-
Torrance of the task brings imme-
date profit to every person who does
rate for it than for the service of big
capital.
Liberty bonds are beyond the reach
of many whose patriotism is very real,
and who are eager to do their bit for
I. ,l,.,, lat rl,A
mulate their savings in small amounts
has devised War-Savings Certif-
Gates" and Omitted States Thrift
Cards" to enable these people to in
vest their small savings profitably in
securities of the United States.
A War-Saving Certificate has 20
spaces, upon each one of which n
Government stamp costing about Sd.12
may be ailixt. These stamps will in
crease in value at the rate of four
per cent compound interest, so that
in five years, ut maturity, they will
be worth five dollars each. The full
certificate, costing SS2.40, will be re-
deemed in five years by the United
States Government for 500 in cash
But any one Of the stamps, or any
part Of an incompletely filled certiii-
cate, vii be redeemed in cash, at any
time, on ten days notice. for more
than its original cost. The stamps
and the filled or partly filled, War
Savings Certificate arc better even
| than currency-better than their face
value in money itself, and available
for use ut any time of need. For en-
ample. If you were to carry afiyc-dol-
lar bill in your pocket for six months
| it would be worth at the end of that
time, not one cent more than five dol
lars, bat il you carry in your pocket
Il War-Savngs Stamp. or . WARSAW
ings Certificate with the stamps af-
iiXt, it is increasing in v@lue every
minute of the time, and you can use
it as money whenever you wiSh.
The United States Thrift Cards are
planned on the same principle as the
War-Savings Certificates. The total
value is only five dollars. however
and the twenty PAGES for WARSAW
ings Stamps provide for saving as lit
tie as twenty-five cents at Il time
The whole plan is simplicity, conven-
| fence, profit end service to the high
est degree. 1t gives to every class of
Americans, even those of the smallest
means, the opportunity to save money
and to lend it to their own govern
ment at four per cent. compound in
tcrest, nj any time. 1t brings to every
ma n, woman, and child, q strong in
ducement to economic in food, cloth
ing, and personal indulgence, and to
use his savings to increase his own
fortune, to strengthen his Govern
ment and to support the gallant SOL
diers and sailors who are giving their
lives for us.
War-Savings Ccrtificate5. United
States Thrift Cards and the WARSAW
ings Stamps to fill them, will be on
sale in every postoflice, every bank,
and thousands of other places thruout
the nation. Full information will be
everywhere available. Every facility
in buying them will be given. Nobody
will. have amy reason for overlooking
or ncgiecting them; but they are not
to be dumped on the market without
restriction. They are too good for t,at
No one subscriber will be allowed to
own more than $1,000 worth of the
War-Savings Certificates. They are
for the small man, whose savings ne
cesarily are small. not for tie big
man, who can buy Liberty Bonds to his
hearts content.
The challenge of this new oppor-
tunity tc save and to serve for Amer
ica ond for humanity must be heard
and heeded by all who share the bless
ings of this greet free land and who
owe allegiance to it's flag. America
has taken up the Grerteat burdens
that can come to the richest, strong
est nation on earth. All of us. bust
ness men. professional men. officials.
and llhOrinP mol women hnuS and