The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-08
BIGGEST SELLER
OF ". S. S. WILL
RECEIVE HONORS
Special Diploma for Agent
Who Makes Largest Re-
turn for Week.
FOUR-MINUTE MEN
READY FOR DRIVE
Will Be Heard in All Thea
tres of Bridgeport At
Monday Shows.

The War Savings Week is rapidly
becoming a reality. Yesterday a force
of men recruited by the War Savings
Committee of the Chamber of Com
merce covered all the outlying bust
ness districts of the town with War
Savings posters. There are now ap-
proximately 1000 of these posters dis
played in the different show windows
and othe public places of town. There
are 400 agencies where stamps are
kept on sale and display placards an
nounc the fact of their being on sale.
The War Savings Committee has ar
ranged to bestow a decoration in the
nature of a diploma upon the agents
who turn in an especially good report
of their sales during War Savings
Week from Feb. 10 to Feb. II. The
exact form of this has not been de-
termined, but presumably it will be in
the nature of a diploma with a blue
ribbon rosette setting forth that the
holder has been designated as MEM
-ber of The Order of American Patri-
OTIS.
The brigade of four minute speak
ers will take War Savings as their sub
ject on Monday evening, and the mes
| sage will be proclaimed from the plat
forms of 20 theatres with the large
Monday holiday audiences. The the
aires will also continue to display the
War Savings slides, which are furnish
ed by the United States Government.
Postmaster Charles F. Greene of
! Va i1
arranging for the postmen to make a
special plea for War Savings during
the week, and it is hoped that the same
arrangement can be made with the
policemen and the firemen so that
these three large bodies of popular
public servants may spread the word
in every corner of the city.
State Chairman Howell Cheney has
addressed letter to the local COM
mittee asking that a great number
of W. S. S. bunting flags be displayed
around the business center so as to
give the effect of a general decora-
ton. He has also aske that trans
parencies in the style of political ban
ners be placed across the streets and
that signs be placed upon all promi-
nent buildings. Authorization has al
ready been given for a large sign or
the post office building. Also ap-
proval has been received from the
department for the erection of g
booth in the main lobby of the pos
: office where the War Savings Stamps
may be more prominently displayed
5 and more easily sold than at the win.
dow now used.
-.
mittee is insisting very urgently or
two phases of the matter which per
haps have not generally been recog.
ni2ed by the public. The first is thai
this is not a movement for the pool
; alone, nor for the well-to-do alone
nor for the rich alone. 1t is abso
lutely SO democratic a movement tina
all must share in it. The rich arr
limited in the amount they can buy
no one being allowed to purchase
over $1,000 worth, and the comforta
bly, circumstanced and the poor ar
Il urged to buy up to their greatest ca
pacity.
l Secondly, if the objection be mad
that a holder of the War Saving
Stamps does not get his interest unit
= at the end of five years, it is apparen
l that this is not so but quite the re
j, verse, in fact, because the holde
Z actually gets his interest in advance
He pays Sab for a stamp which h
:, will receive SIS for it in 1928. 1t i
!, exactly the same transaction as if h
Il paid IS for the stamp and then Uncl
Sam promptly handed him back 8
cents by way of interest which is tn
y full compound interest paid in ad
vance for five years is indeed in tn
= nature of a picnic.