The Brandon news., 1918-06-20
The Duty of Every
True American.

United States government IOrCy
millions of dollars, to pc bald
between that date and January
l, 1919.
This is the purpose of the War
Savings Stamp campaign now
under way in every nook and
corner of the state.
Many persons have the idea
that citizens of the state are
going to be asked to purchase
forty millions of dollars worth of
the government securities on June
28.
This would be an impossible
task, even for people so patriotic
as Mississippians.
All Uncle Sam wishes you to
do is to agree on that date to
purchase between June % and
January /, 1919, your share of
the states quota.
You will have from June 28,
until the end of the present year
to pay for the stamps. If you
wish you may pay for your share
by the months, as you are yay-
ing gor your Liberty Bonds, or
you may wait until the fall crops
are in. and buy the whole amount
at that time;
The United States government
is offering, in other words, the
choicest investment in the
world-that is what a War Saw
ings Stamp is-to be paid for at
your leisure.
War Savings Stamps pay four
per cent, compounded quarterly.
They are as safe as the govern
ment of the United States itself,
they are Immediately convertible
into specie or currency at any
postoffice, and their purchase
helps the laudable work of ban
ishing the House of Hohenzollern
forever.
Here is a concrete example Of
the purpose of the War Savings
Campaign: Suppose you are asked
to pledge yourself to purchase
$1,000 worth of the Stamps. That
is all you can buy, because the
government considers the invest
ment too choice for the nations
millionaires to gobble it all up.
You buy the stamps in the
month of June, say paying 1884
for the $1,000 worth. In 1923,
the United States government
pays you 81, 900 for the Stamps,
a profit of S166. In the mean
time, your money has been per-
fectly safe, and if at any mo-
ment you had needed it, you
could have got it back, and with
interest for the time Uncle Sam
kept it.
Could anything be fairer or
more generous than that?
If you have not the cash to
buy the Stamps in June, you
may wait until October, when
the crops are in. At that time,
each SIS stamp wonld cost $4. 81.
If you decide to wait until the
last month in the year. you
would pay only S4.23 for each 80
stamp.
June 28 has been set apart by
President Woodrow Wilson and
Governor Theo. G. Bllbo as
Thrift Day for the nation and
state. 1t is dedicated to the dual
purpose of guaranteeing the sale
of millions of dollars worth OF
the Stamps, and at the same
time inculcating the habit OF
thrift into the American people,
without which the war cannot be
won.
The United States wants your
pledge so it can know how much
to count on from the War Saw
ings Stamps. That is the chief
reason for asking subscriptions.
Congress is soon to set to work
upon a new war revenue bill,
and the amount to be derived
from the sale of war securities
will play a large part in the franz
ing of that measure.
If we buy, or pledge ourselves
! to buy, large amounts of War
Savings Stamps, it will not be so
necessary to increase our taxes.
If we hold back, up go the taxes.
The government must have the
money to fight the war through,
or perish, and when this govern
perishes, civilization passes from
the earth.
After all, it is a simple enou gh
proposition. Can you, as an
American citizen. hold back from
such an opportunity to help your