The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-28
THRIFT DAY TO
Be OBSERVED IN
hoOSIER STATE
Governor Goodrich Issues
Proclamation Asking the
Churches to Help.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2S.-Thrift
Day, this year. is to be made a spec
ial occasion for the distribution Of
stamps among the young and among
thrift certificates and war saving
persons of small means.
Feb. g. celebrated annually as Thrift
Day, falls this year on Sunday. In q
proclamation just issued Governor
James P. Goodrich of Indiana, asks
the people of the state to give Febru-
airy to expounding the religious
phase of true thrift and that Monday.
February 4, be employed in the vigor-
ous practice of the doctrine preached
the previous day.
Every letter carrier is an author
ICED agent of the United States gov.
eminent in selling war thrift certifl-
Gates and war savings stamps to the
people. Under the plan it is expected
the government will raise a war loan
of s2,0o0000,000, and OF this loan. In.
diana is to provide some $5S, 900, 600.
Oliver at Head.
J. ID. Oliver of South Bend is at the
head of the state organization which
is pushing the sale OF the thrift GER
tiflcates and saving stamps. Certifl-
Gates are offered for sale in the IS
size The small investor, or the child
seeking this high grade investment
of small savings pays the postman
s412 for a certificate which comes in
the form of a stamp pasted on
sheet which will carry twenty such
stamps in all.
At maturity, In 1923. the SAP in
vested Will bring IS. The stamps can
be cashed at any time for the sum
invested, plus interest accrued to date.
Saving stamps are sold for % cents.
each and are pasted on card holding
sixteen stamps. When the. card is
filed, by adding few cents the In
weston gets another IS thrift certif1-
cate and starts new 0Ajd OF saw
ings stamps drawing 4 per cent inter
est, and at the time forming the habit
of saving.
Governor Goodrich follows:
The Thrift Day proclamation OF
In an effort to encourage and pro-
mote savings and investments, partic-
uIarly among the children and people
with small incomes, the third day OF
February for two years has been gen.
orally observed throughout the nation
as Thrift Day.
Authority is Bible.
THE idea has been advanced that
Thrift Day for 1918 be utilized in the
patriotic distribution of war savings
certificates and thrift stamps. As
February 3 this year falls on Sunday,
| recommend that on this day in the
Sunday schools and churches there
be expounded the religion of thrift,
abundant authority for such teaching
being found in the Holy Scriptures.
81 suggest, further that the econo-
mic observances be made Monday,
February 4. and the subject be taken
up in the sch ools. Children and adults
should make Monday day for buying
thrift stamps and war saving certif-
Gates. Bankers, merchants and en-
ployers of labor should devote special
effort to awaken interest in and fur
nish opportunity for the purchasing
of thrift stamps.
Now, therefore, I. James p. Goodrich
Governor of the state of Indiana, do
hereby proclaim and set apart Sun
day, February 8, as official Thrift
Day, to promote the federal saving
plan and encourage thrift among the
people Of this state, and do recon-
mend that there be an economic OBJ
servance OF the day on Monday, Feb
ruary A."