Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-02
AS TO US POOR FOLKS"

| II is a patrlotc u0tE ana Setpnu 'e
cause il is one of the best methods Of
! laying ny something for a rainy day.
Buy as many as You can. But buy
stamp. Get into the war that far
| anyway.
| Now stop and think about 1t. Maybe
there are some who can not buy even
one; but are you one OF those Is 1t
impossible for you to invest si.lS cents
| IN the war? Especially when that S4.lS
will draw interest compounded quarter
y and earn s. cents If you permit it TO
so to maturity. Somehow or other
every person should save somethinS
every month. Now how many OF us
arc there who couldn't by strict econ
omy buy thrift stamp a month: or
four in year. Getting riSht down TO
the bedrock isn't 1t true that to save
s. a month or $50 a year is an i'm
pe-ative duty OF the poorest person.
Heretofore we poor folks" have
thought OF government bonds as
rich mans investment. We found out
that there are such things as $50 ana
500 bonds when the bond drive came
Lots O. us poorer folks bought one or
more Of them and have been paying It
of by !nstallments. It's a grand and
glorious feeling now to know that we
are just that much ahead. Seemed
like We simply couldn't spare that s.
o.. $40 a month but we did spare ii and
having spared It we've got ii in the
cooping box right now. We've discover
ed that We We're helping ourselves quite
as much as helping the government.
We have the satisfaction OF feeling that
money in the bank gives the person
who has Il there.
Now the thrift stamp makes II even
easier and brings opportunity right
down 10 the smallest income. Anybody
and everybody can buy a stamp: If
your neighbor were TO tell you that"you
couldn't invest s4.l3 cents IN anything
you'd be mad as hops. You can. 1t only
requires a % per cent piece at time.
You know you can. Then Go Il.
Do you know we need something like
this. The honest fact IS that we
salaried men and wage earners OF al!
kinds and classes have been acting like
drunken sailors, spending all We could
get and letting the future take care OF
itself It will not do It Either we take
care OF the future or the future takes
care Of U.s. Somebody must look after Us
in old age and in sickness II we haven't
anything OF our own to do It with.
Seems like we haven't considered that
sufficiently OF late years. We have
lost the habits OF thrift that our
fathers were forced into. We've been
looking for a good time now Arst and
refusing to look on ahead to the Zine
when we can't earn. And sly as you
keep 1t we've needed jolt something
to set US thinking. There isn't
anything that does the average man as
much good as to have the scare that
hes liable TO starve TO death thrown
into him
Buy thrift stamps, as many as you
can. Thrift stamps Will always bring
the cash and some interest with IL
Some day an operation. some day
sickness, some day death. some day
one 0: the many desperate emergencies
Of life shall come 10 Your and yours.
And then a handful o. thrift stamps
VIII feel like a plank under drown
ing man.
4 thrift stamp means less thar
thin dime week for year. a quarter
a week means three thrift stamps A
dollar a week invests $50. saves il right
there and salts It down and lets i
simmer and FIVE years afterward walks
up 10 the captains office and d-ags
down something like 5000. Gets his
money back and eight odd dollars.
Why FIVE years hence that sixty odd
will be Just like an inheritance, like
money from home.
Take young fellow. Five years
hence he's likely to have lost that care
free devil take everything idea. Like
as not he'll be wondering where the
money IS TO come from 20 pay the
nurse and other expenses attaching TO
an interesting event In his own person
al family. And the young woman VINO
just now boards at home and has
clothes til YOU can't rest will wish
she had somethink like sixty odd when
the invitation comes to visit an old
school friend. Mother would keep little
John and Mary all right but there's
new clothes and--well, If she had
thrift stamps falling due shed get the
rest and vacation she needs badly
enough and have the good time she has
been craving. for the past four years.
OF course It doesn't seem that any such
condition could exist at present from
his and her outlook. Every girl Is GO
ing to have O. ricn husband and every
young man is going TO be prosperous.
But you take It from an ancient and
observing person that four or five yeare