Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-22
sALAR|ED MEN SHORT ON
THRIFT STAMP BUYING
Many People Who Have Received
Big Advances Seem to Prefer to
Invest In Luxuries.
SOME HAVE BOUGHT AUTOS
When 1t Comes to Buying Thrift
Stamps, They Are Taken With
Hard-Iimcs Crnmp-How Rich
mond's Quota Could BE Raised.

Richmond, and all Virginia. for that
matter. Is yet behind expectations IN
the matter OF Investment in war saw
ings and thrift stamps The drives
nave rot panned out altogether rs
well ms ii was expected they would.
and the wo-k between the drives has
not resulted in awakening as much en-
thusiasm ana increasing sales as
largely as the good people in charge
of the work had hoped for.
Just what extraordinary steps viii!
he taken 70 overcome the lethargy
doth not yet appear. possibly none. but
that quiet business methods and per-
sonal canvassing will continue to be
the order OF the day from now until
the end o: the year set apart for the
work Of disposng OF the thrift stamps
allotted to Richmond
IT Is known that manufacturers and
other employers Of large forces OF
men and women have been appealed
10 TO help i'm the matter OF canvass
ing. They have been asked to talk
THRIFT stamps to their employees and
10 institute some means OF getting
those employees to invest in the
stamps.
one "t the largest concerns that
has been thus appealed to has made
a reply which opens up world Of
thought. The manager told the agents
that they would be welcomed at his
establishment at any time and as many
times as they rn!ght desire 10 come and
that they were 1T liberty TO consume
all OF the time they liked in CANVASS
Ing among the employees. but for rea-
sons that he gave and considered good
nc declined TO do the canvassing him
self This employer took occasion to
say that every one OF the large pay
roll In his establishment had hao
healthy increases made in their salaries
from time to time since the beginning
OF the days Of the high cost Of living
ana scarcity Of men and women work
ers. There was not an execution. from
the salaried clerks. bookkeepers ana
statesmen down TO the most insight
icant weekly envelope opener" among
the laborers and messenger boys; that
al of them. from the salaried folks
down, were investing more largely IN
lu%urlcs aSi pleasure producing side
!.hes man they were ever known u
40 before. that some of them had be-
come owners Of automobiles; others
mad Joined clubs they never before
could aHord to belong to, and every
one from the greatest to the least.
dressing letter than ever before, but
mat SO far as he had been able to
ascertain only a very few-tust one or
Two here and there--had invested IN
either Libcrt" bonds. war savings or
thrift stamps. lie was quite sure tha;
the canvassers had an open field -
work IN at his shop, but he was little
dubious as 10 the crop likely to be
gathered.
some other propre,ors OF large cs-
ADJUSTMENTS full OF we'll paid en-
p!"yeeS have made somewhat siaIl-
lar reports. and so Uncle Sans thrift
stamp agents have most naturally
reached the conclusion that the sal
aried people OF Richmond are the ones
who are tagging behind in the good
Work OF making UP Richmond's ex-
Dectcd quota. 1t has been figured out
that If the salaried people and IN.
Hase-earners generally OF this city who
nave had regular advances made 10
them would invest one-tcnth OF the
increase they have received in nav
"!thin the last twelve months in thrift
stamps, R!chmond's quota would b..
made up long before the stamp selling
campaign expires by Imitation