The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-02-14
THRIFT

War Stamps and Savings Certifi-
Gates, as offered by the government
that even our children may become
imbued with the war consciousness,
are going to leave an imprint that will
last throughout future generations. As
a result of the lesson of thrift that
these baby securities will bring, Amer
lea will arise from the old ashes Of
waste and indifference new nation,
made strong and virile because her
men and women have been drawn to
gether as they have been awakened to
the responsibility of their citizenship.
The aim of the War Stamp is two
fold. Not only does it offer the in
divdual with small means an opportun-
ity to avail the government of HIS
funds, but it has been offered with a
view of preparing boys and girls of
today for the period of reconstruction
that will follow the war when these
boys and girls will have become men
and women.
For the beneficial effect that these
little stamps and certificates will have
on the plastic minds of our children,
let us harken to and heed the appeal
that is made to us to buy. Do not go,
however, to the savings bank and draw
out enough to purchase several OF the
certificates and think your duty is
ended. That is not thrift. Buy those
stamps by sacrifices and daily savings.
Perhaps your little one on your ar
rival at noon or in the evening is ac-
customed to search her daddy's poe
kets and to lisp the query, What did
my daddy bring me today?" Perhaps
YOU have been accustomed to buy for
the tot occasionally some trifling toy
or a bag of sweets. Buy that baby
thrift stamp booklet. 1t will cost you
but 25 cents, and then from day to day
carry to him or her another of those
little green stamps. Convey to the
child the meaning of those stamps.
At first the little one may not compre-
hend, but as the DAYS pass, you will
see the little fellow taking keener
interest in the stamp book. Wasteful
toys will be forgotten, and your child
will have grown into habit that is
great and wonderful blessing to the
one so addicted. And better still.
while you have been teaching the
child, you will have taught yourself
also.
Every bit of the energy of labor and
the purchasing power of pennies, dimes
and dollars at this critical time in our
national history should be made avail
able for the government in winning
the war. 1t is reasonable. really,
when you purchase articles that you
do not need, when you create demand
for articles that are extravagances or
luxuries, for thereby you deduct so
much from labor, all of which should
he working on war supplies and muni-
tions. For this reason, cease the pur-
chase of all those articles of luxury
and divert those two bit pieces that
you have formerly felt burning holes
in your pockets to little green savings
stamps.
You may have said in the past, oh,
what's the use of me trying to buy
war bonds or savings stamps? Let the
big capitalist do that. But the gov
ernment wants you to turn capitalist;
it wants your child to learn how to be
a capitalist. You become a capitalist
on small scale when you have be-
come the possssor of a war savings
certificate, and when all of us ordinary
individuals become capitalists the
great total of funds that will have
been afforded the government by such
means passes almost beyond our com
prehension. If every man, woman and
child buys four of the certificates,
worth S20-and this is the aim of the
government the huge sum of $2,OO0,-
100000 will be raised.
If every man, woman and child of
the nation made an average daily pur-
chase of two thrift stamps, SO cents
worth, each days war debt would be
met as it matured
All Hood River people will soon re-
ceive literature explaining the war
savings stamps and certificates. When
they come, study those pamphlets.
They are interesting and become much
more so when you better understand
them and grasp the broad scope of this
wonderful plan of thrift that has been
devised to save us from the recent
year American tendency to blow all
the earnings of today without
thought of the morrow.