Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-06
No ABATEMENT IN
THRIFT STAMP DRIVE
1t is Expected That i Will be
Stimulated by the Liberty
Loan Activities

The opening OF the Liberty Loan drive
Is expected To increase the sale of " ar
Savings Stamps In this country. This
vas the history of the two similar move
mcnts in En- gland Whenever national
loans were offered there the patriotic
impulse was stirred and the sale of war
savings certificates were increased great
". Recoc~izlng this fact the national
war savings committee has sent out
notices from Washington TO the cam
paign managers asking them 70 make
special preparation for meeting this
expected demand
The authorized sales agencies m Del
aware have been notified Of this effect
Ohrough the following letter sent out by
oscar W. Shegler, secretary 10 the State
rector:
Henry p Scott. State director, has
requested me 10 report TO you that
our advices from Washington state
hat they expect very large demand
Tor war savings stamps during the
Liberty Loan campaign
People who can not buy Liberty
Bonds viii be urged to buy war saw
Ings stamps and the general en-
thusiasm created by the Liberty Loan
drive is expected To create large
OtlAlEh4itA 4CA " al flAAs-C SNshAAAf aAAAN-
thrift stamps
In order to provide fer this increas-
ed demand may urge that you keep
yourselves we'll supplied with stamps
during the remainder Of this month
The British campaign and its relation
n the national loan over there Is ex-
planned at length by Basil p BlaCkett,
the special representative Of the British.
treasury now Ii this country. Over
there they had the same problem 10
face and he offers the American people
the benefit OF greatest experience.
In the first ten months Of the war
savings movement" he says, the trea-
sury received 81, 10000 pounds i$I5S,-
600 600 from the sale Of our One-pound
certificates In the first three months
OF 1917, under the stimulus Of the Victory
Loan. we doubled this amount Ia one
month we sold as many certificates aS
during the whole five months Immediate
~ preceding / cite these figures a. All
indication Of what the American War
Savings Societies may hope 10 do during
the third Liberty Loan
More than $50 600 900 pounds fS1,-
00,000000j of small savings has been
raised In the English thrift campaign,
OF this amount 81 l25, 600 900, or 85 per
cent, has been raised SINCE the war say
ings movement started Receipts from
the sale of the onc-pound certificates
are now above $3.50, 900 900, while the
fve-pound bonds have brought in the
other 10000 600 These five-pound
bonds are best compared with the $50
Liberty Bonds, while out one-pound War
savings certificates are similar 10 the
United States IS war savings stamps
''The national war savings committee
in their organization have refused to
regard themselves as being wholly, or
even mainly 3 bond-sellng institution
They have regarded IS their first func-
ton the task Of encouraging saving. They
have, of course, encouraged people 10
lend their savings to the nation, but
provided the savings are effected they
do not much care how the savings are
kept safe, 50 long rs they are not boarded
at is q remarkable fact that in spite
of the special attractions Of the war
savings certificate, and Of the large sums
invested in them, the savings campaign
has given an impetus 10 every one Of the
older institutions for encouraging savings.
"The postohice savings bank the other
savings banks, the building societies and
other cooperative societies, all show rec
ord increases in their deposits, and those
responsible for them have in consequence
nearly all been hearty workers for the
war savings movement"