The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-12-14
SAVINGS
STAMPS
IN A NEW FORM, THEIR SALE
WILL BE CONTINUED
NEXT YEAR

NEXT YEAR
Washington, Dec. 14.-Thirty mill
ion persons have purchased war saw
ings stamps in the United States this
year.
The income derived from them ex-
ceeds the total government income for
the fiscal year 1914 exclusive of post
al revenues.
The income from that year was
$714,00O,00O. The sale of war savings
stamps this year has brought $780,
900, ,000-nearly a billion dollars. The
maturity value of the stamps is more
than billion.
That's five times the 5000, 900
bond issue that paid for the whole
Spanish-American war.
The bigness of the liberty bond
campaigns has almost obscured the
Importance of the thrift stamps cam
paign. If we had had no liberty bond
campaigns, the country would have
declared the war savings campaign
the biggest money-raising scheme in
the nations history.
That's why the government is pre-
pairing to KEEP the war stamps in cir
culation after peace is signed.
Their name may be changed to gu.
S. Savings Stamps" or Government
Savings Stamps" but, in other re-
spects, the plan now employed in is
suing and selling them will not mate
rally be altered.
The facts that w. S. IS. are not ne
gotiable, that they bear no bothersome
interest coupons, that they pay prac-
tically the same rate of interest as
liberty bonds, make them peculiarly
adapted to fill the popular demand
for government savings investment
of a nature suited to the small in
vestor.
For this reason, treasury officials
believe they will prove almost as pop
ular after the war as they were this
year. In addition to forming a steady
government income for peace time,
they will represent an excellent in
vestment, bringing approximately Az
per cent interest.
The 1919 war savings stamps are
now in print, and will be placed on
sale all over the country on Jan. 1.
The treasury department is swamped
by requests for information about
them. Here is everything yo1 want
to know about them:
The 25-cent thrift stamps will be
the same as those now in use. If you
have thrift stamp card which is not
full on Jan. 1, you can buy the new
stamps to fill it..
The $5 war savings stamps, how
ever, will be different. They are about
two-thirds the size of the 1918 issue,
blue, instead of green, and bearing a
portrait of Thomas jefferson. to dis
tinguish them from the old stamps.
The certificate on which the stamps
will be pasted is also different, and
much handsomer than the 1918 GER
tifcate. Instead of being a double
folder, like the 1913 certificate, it is a
single folder, and similar in size. 1t is
handsomely engraved in blue, with a
decorative frame, which, when it is
filled with $5 stamps, makes hand
some blue certificate.
Do not paste the old green IS
stamps of 1918 in the new folder. If
you do, you lose a years interest, for
the 1918 stamps mature in 1923, while
the new ones will mature in 1924. IN
you have a certificate partly filled
with 1913 war savings stamps, either
fill it with the old stamps or save it
as it is and get new folder for the
new stamps.
The national war savings stamps
committee is planning a new depart
ure for 1919. This is to issue fully
paid-up certificates in denominations
of 500, $500 and $1,000, to be issued
without stamps, for sale to those who
wish to invest larger sums. They will
be sold on the same plan, the 500
certificate selling for from $83 to $84,
depending on the month in which it is
purchased, the $500 certificate for
from $415 to $42O. and the $1,000
certificate for from $3.50 to $40.
This certificate will have all the ad-
vantages of liberty bond and none
of the disadvantages, such as coupon
clipping. AS the war stamps and
certificates will pay per cent inter
est, compounded quarterly, the total
income from them will be about the
same as that of liberty bondA4A
| per cent