Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-12
PEOPLE URGED
 ID AID SALE OF
 THRIFT STAMPS
$12,OO0 Worth Purchased by People In District; Chance for Children to Start Saw ings Account.

More than SI2.0G1 worth of Thrift stamps and War Savings stamps have been sold in Bisbee despite the handi- cap under which the campaign has been carried on the past Several days with the city quaTantined-
 Postmaster L. R Bailey reports near ly S6G00 worth Of War Savings stamps and over 5000 worth of Thrift stamps sold by the postal authorities while J P Connolly reports ever 5000 worth sold at the Bank of Bisbee. The Min CTS and Merchants bank has sold about s10O0 worth. while figures could not be obtained yesterday from the Citizens Bank & Trust company They are. however. doing their part in pushing The sale of the stamps
 Is Good Investment
 Even greater activity is asked Of people in this district in purchasing these stamps to aid the government in raising money with which to fight the Germans
 This campaign is not a donation campaign as every cent paid in is an investment. and a sound one, as it has the United States government as back ing and 10 assure investors that their money will be returned with interest
 Probably no movement in years has done as much to make the American people pause and realize their many extTsvagances which they can curb and by so doing invest money that will be useful to them some day and which will aid in the prosecution of the war.
 Not only that but the campaign is instiIling the plan of saving among the coming generation and is teaching children the advantages of thrift
 Boy Scouts to Aid
 IL is the plan of the Bisbee commit tee. comprised of J. C. Ryan. C. A Mcdonald. J. P Connolly, l. r Bur gess and M- F. Cassidy. 10 make drive among the school children sO0a while the aid of the Boy Scouts Will be secured ia house 70 house can- vsss Of the district
 February fl, LincOln's birthday, has been decaierd a special day fer push- ing the sale Of Thrift and Was Savings stamps all over the state and the com mittee in charge of Cochise county urges that all OlcaI committees assist in making that date a red letter day in stamp sales.
 The thrift stampsp sell for twenty five cents and when one has purchased 16 or these they may be turned in and by paying the difference, which this month is thirteen cents, can OUy q War Savings stamp which win be re deemed by the government for S5. payable January 1, 1929. The War Savings stamps will cost one cent more each month
 To Raise Two Billion
 The government hopes to raise S2 000. .000. .000 by this method and the campaign is second only in importance to the Liberty Loan bond drives Not only that, but it gives the little fellow and after all many of us are Of that type. WnO cannot afford to buy Liberty Loan bonds a chance to do their hit
 The man. woman or child whO call- not buy Liberty Loan can help ard also make a safe investment and fur thermOre one which E-iIl pay better in- teTest than a Liberty Loan bond
 War Savings stamps pay four per cent compounded interest and the OWn- CT has the privilege of esshing these in at par and three percen. accrued interest any time before maturity.
 It requires but twenty-five cents IC make a start and il is had to believe that there IS even boy or girl in Bis bee and district who csnnO. start a thrift card at that price It is espe- cially desired to sell the thrift stamps tO as many different individuals as possible and everyone is urged 70 start a thrift card savings account Stamps may be purcbaseu at the vari- Ous local banks and at the pOstofflce.
 Cardinal Gibbons Plea
 A big church man. Cardinal Gibbons. issued the following statement. urging all to purchase the war savings stamps
 To my fellow oountTylnen
 The door Of opportunity 10 serve or country is flung wide open for practically every man, woman and child by the sale Of war savings stamps. There can be few people whose circumstances will not permit them tO buy at intervals the 25-cent