The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-31
WAR SAVINGS STAMP
 CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
Chairman Board Has Appointed His General C0mmittee-Minor Pipkin Explained the Workings of the
 Movement to Win the War.

The meeting called by County Chairman R. B. Board and held al the court house Friday afternoon for the purpose of organizing for the War Savings Stamp campaign was attended by twenty or more representative citizens from various sections of the county, tho there would have been many more had it not been for the disagreeable weather.
 Chairman Board in opening the meeting announced that his effort had been to appoint on the general committee a representative from each bank in the county, each post master, representatives from the fraternal and beneficiary orders and woman's clubs of the city, and a representative from the ministerial union. His plan of organization is that each of these representatives in his particular community or or der take up the organization or sav- ings societies and the sale of Saw ings Stamps and Thrift Stamps, an- nouncing that the campaign would he continued thruout the year.
 Minor pipkin, who had attended a recent meeting in Fort Smith of the county chairmen of the seven counties under the direction of w. J. Eehols, was called upon by Mr. Board to give more fully the pur- pose of the thrift and savings cam paign He begun by pointing out that men of big business were giv- ing their time without remunera- ton to this campaign which had for it's object dual purpose, the first being to furnish the government the money so urgently needed to win this war, and the second, to edu- cate the American people in thrift and saving. He gave in brief the spirit of enthusiasm and earnest ness that prevailed in the meeting in Fort Smith, and impressed 1t upon those present that they must return to their homes with the de- termination to awaken the people to the crisis that is confronting our country. Following his suggestion, those in attendence pledged them selves to arrange for meetings in their respective communities, push the organization of savings societies, and to continue the War Savings campaign turnout the year.
 Thru this campaign the govern ment expects to raise S2,000,000,000, most of which is to come from the result of saving that which has heretofore been recklessly spent or wasted. There are two kinds of stamps: War Savings stamps and Thrift stamps. They may be bought at any postoffice, bank or other au- thorized agency. The savings stamp &i2 in January with an increase of one cent per stamp for each suc- ceeding month. They bear interest at the rate of f per cent com pounded quarterly, and will mature on January i, 1923. when each stamp will be worth &. Twenty of the stamps will make a baby bond, redeemabIe on January 1, 1923, at Si00 Tho Unfit stamps are worth 9 cents each. do not bear interest, but when 20 of them have been bought they may be exchanged for an interest-bearing savings stamp. During this and next month it is expected that meetings will be held m every community in the county, so that every man, woman and child will be fully informed on the War Savings campaign, and that all in this small way will help to accom- plish the big thing for which we are all devoutly hoping the winning of the war.