The Holly chieftain., 1918-12-12
Permanent Feature Of Ma
iional Finance.
HAS BEEN DIG SUCCESS
DURING fHE PAST YEAR
Name Nay Bs Changed to q. 3.
Savings Stamps or oovernmsnt
Savings stamps-Issus for 1919 A.
ready fer Distribution Jan. I.

Washington. Die. War savings
stamps are to be made q permanent
feature of the country's national
financial policy.
So great has been the success Of
the 1918 stamps that the treasury
department is making plans to
continue the issuance Of saving
stamps after peace is signed.
Their name may be changed to
u. S. Savings Stamps or Gov
ernment Savings Stamps" but, in
other respects, the plan now EN-
pl0yed in issuing and selling them
will not materially be altered.
The fact that w. S. s. are not ne
gotiable, that they bear no bother
some interest coupons, that they
pay practically the same rate of In
terest rs Liberty Bonds, make them
peculiarly adapted to fill the pop
lllar demand for q government saw
ingS investment of q nature suited
to the small investor
For this reason, treasury officials
believe they will prove almost as
popular after the war as they were
this year. In addition to forming
steady government income for
peace time, they will represent an
excellent investment, bringing ap-
prOximately AZ per cent interest.
The 1919 War Saving Stamps are
now in print, and will be placed on
sale all over the country on Jan. l..
The treasury department is swamp
ed by requests for information
about them. Here is everything
you want to know about them.
The 25-cent Thrift Stamps will be
the same as those now in use. If
you have thrift stamp card which
is not full on Jan. l, you can buy
the new STAINS to fill it.
The IS War Savings Stamps, how
ever. will be different. They are
about twothirds the size of the
1918 issue, blue, instead of green,
and bearing q portrait of Thomas
Jefferson, to distinguish them from
the old stamps.
The certificate on which the
stamps will be pasted is also diff
ferent, and much handsomer than
the 1918 certificate. Instead of be-
ing double folder, like the 1918
certificate, it is single folder and
smaller in size. 1t is handsomely
engraved in blue, with a decorative
frame, which, when it is filled with
IS stamps, makes handsome blue
certificate.
Do not paste the old green IS
stamps of 1918 in the new folder. If
you do, you lose years interest,
for the 1918 stamps mature in 1923.
while the new ones will mature in
1924. II you have certificate part
ly filled with 1918 War Savings
Stamps, either fill it with the old
stamps or save it as it is and get a
new folder for the new stamps.
The national War Savings Stamps
committee is planning a new depar-
ture for 1919 This is to issue fully
paid-up certificates in denomina-
tions OF 500, $500 and $1,000, to be
issued without stamps, for sale to
those who wish to invest larger
sums They will be sold on the
same plan, the 500 certificate sell
ing for from sS3 to $84, depending
VII tuC HOlCH III Wlllcn IL Is pur-
chased, the $500 certificate for from
S415 to $42O, and the $1,000 certifi-
cate for from $3.50 to $84O.
This certificate will have all the
advantages of Liberty Bond and
none of the disadvantages, such as
coupon-clipping. AS the War
Stamps and certificates will pay 4
per cent interest, compounded
quarterly, the total income from
them vii be about the same as that
of Liberty bond-4A per cent.