The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1918-06-27
VOLUME xxxIv NO. 43. IUKA I
Lend Your Moncy to the Gov
eminent and Help Win
the War.

Mississippians are going to be ask
ed on June 2S to lend the United
States government forty millions of
dollars, to be paid between that date
and January /, 1919.
This is the purpose of the War
Savings Stamp campaign now under
way in every nook and corner in
the state.
Many persons have the idea that
citizens of the state are going to be
asked to purchase forty million OF
dollars worth of the government Sc
curities on June %.
This would be an impossible task,
even for people so patriotic as Mis-
sippians.
All Uncle Sam wishes you to do is to
agree on that date 10 purchase between
June 28 and January /, 1919, your
share OF the states quota.
You will have from June 28 until the
end OF the present year to pay tor the
stamps. If you wish you may pay Tor
your share by tic month, or you may
wait until the fall crops are in, and buy
the whole amount at that lime;
The United States government is
offering, in other words, the choicest
investment in the world--that is
what q War Savings Stamp is-to
he paid for at your leisure.
War Savings Stamps pay four per
cent. compounded quarterly. They
as safe as the government of the
United States itself, they are inn
mediately convertible into specie or
currency at any postoffice, and their
purchase helps the laudable work of
banishing the House of Hohen-
zollern forever.
Here is concrete example of the
purpose of the War Savings Cam
paign: Suppose you are asked to
pledge Yourself to purchase ST. ,0C0
worth of the Stamps. That is all
you can buy, because the govern
ment considersthe investment too
choice for the nations millionairs
to gobble it all up.
You can buy the stamps in the
month of June, pay paying 1884 for
the $1,000 worth. In 1928, the
States government pays you 81 600
for the Stamps, a profit of S166. In
the meantime, your money has been
perfectly safe, and if at any moment
you had needed it, you could have
got it back, and with interest for
the time Uncle Sam kept in.
Could anything be fairer or more
generous than that?
If you have not the cash to buy
the Stamps in June, you may wait
until October, when the crops are in.
At that time, each S5 stamp would
cost $4.21. If you decide to wait
until the last month in the year,
you would pay only $4.23 for each
$5 stamp.
June % has been set apart by
President Woodrow Wilson as Thrift
Day for the nation. 1t is dedicated
to the dual purpose of guaranteeing
the sale of millions of dollars worth
of the Stamps, and at the same time
intoxicating the habit of thrift into
the American people, without which
the war cannot be won.
The United States wants your
pledge so it can know how much to
count on from the War Savings
Stamps. That is the chief reason
for asking subscriptions. Congress
is soon to work upon new war reve-
nue. bill, and the amount to be de-
rived from the sale of war securities
will play large part it the framing
of that measure.
If we buy, or pledge ourselves to buy,
large amounts of War Savings Stamps,
it will not be so necessary to increase
our taxes. If we hold back, up go the
taxes.
The government must have the mon
ey to fight the war through, or perish,
and when this government perishes,
civilization passes from the earth.
After all, it is simple enough
proposition.
Can you as an American citizen,
hold back from such an opportunity
to help your government, and YOU
self?