Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-09
WAR STAMP SALE
SHOWS INCREASE
Girls selling "Stickers" IN Booths Mt
Local Banks Have Melted
Nearly 500.
CAMPAIGN LASTS L0NG AS WAR
Expect School Children VIII BE One
OF Greatest Factors In the Dis
pOsal Of Them.

That the thrift stamp campaign IS
going ahead with a lot of punch is evil
denced in the splendid showing made
bv the Young ladies who have been
selling thrift stamps at the banks.
Friday, Miss Helen Kreli and Mss
Kathryn Larkin sold $3.50 worth
IN the booth in the Central Trust
& Savings bank Ali of the other
booths are likewise reporting splendid
sales and Postmaster Harry Simpson
announces that the sales at the post
office are averaging nearly SSoo
2 day. The drive is to bring
this up 10 $1,000. The Boz
Scouts start their drive today
and it is expected that before they are
through the helm will be taken out
of Wilhelm"
The Boy Scouts are going out with
The slogan. 1T may be wheatiess or
neatloss but don't let il be thrttiess
and are asking people to make their
dollars American dollars by putting
them in the front line scrap in Europe.
During the last week the school
children have all been talking thrift
STAMPS W tlIClI pdltDtS hiiS VIZ
reports for Friday are not in as yet
everything indicates that the little
chaps have made good. One of them Ii
is stated created an uproar in tlc
school room by rising TO the teacher
appeal for investment in thrift stamps
and saying Three buffalo nickels
and one thin dime will help to break
he Hindenburg line
County Chairman Ilallgren calls the
attention of the public to the fact that
The thrift stamp campaign does not
end with the close Of thrift week. The
drive for thrift stamps must continue
lay after day, week in and week ont
throughout the year and the interest
and push which has been manifest
curing the past week in the placing
Of thrift stamps must be continued
and if possible increased every month
The county committe plans on get
ing ont into the small towns and
rural districts just as soon as Inc
roads are passable and the real big
drive Of the thrift stamp campaign
probably will take place Immediately
following the next Liberty loan cam
paign The committee handling the
placing of thrift stamps are deter
mined that Rock Island county shall
curing next year absorb its 81 800 ,00'
md If the present interest NANTES
in these little thrifts is continued there
is no question but what Rock Islam,
will do its share.
Ask Church Help.
Churches and fraternal societies o
aTery character should take advantag
this opportunity to advance the in
rest OF these war savings stamps b.
'Orning thrift societies. Let it be sal
that there is not a fraternal or socia
organization in the county which ha
rot its thrift stamp club
u has been repeatedly shown tina
the government offers no better in
Vestment anywhere than presented i
thrift and war savings stamps. Par
ocular attention should be directed t
he fact that thrift stamps are re
eemable at any time for the amount G
he investment paid in. This redeem
able feature is evidenced in non
other of the governments investment:
il enables the family who are savin
var stamps to turn them into liqui
cash at any time the occasion arise
for so doing.
Learn to Save.
1t is pretty we'll agreed that thi
matter OF thrift saving is the most NJ
'ional and rational in the world.
would have come without the war. a
Tough more slowly. for it is a nece:
tary part of our national life that W
should change our habits of extravf
gance and learn to save. The emer,
ency created by the war has simpl
furnished the initiative and the mo.
convenient and the soundest method ,
turning small savings into profitab
investments