Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-23
He Had Advice Ready.

his sales another boost by making q 800
purchase. sa-s
He Had Advice Ready.
A. L. Tindall, who for number of years
has been delivering mail in quiet resi-
| DENTAL neighborhood in the northeast
as a piece of master selling. He happened
to know of a woman on his route who
received through the mail check for $50.
She asked Tfndall for his advice as to a
safe investment for her money. as She
had no Immediate use for it. He inn
mediately. and In his most convincing
mannefs told her 70 purchases war4savings
stamps. and she did, thereby boosting
George II Maurer. on his first trip to-
day. had the distinction of selling IS
y"a 1 of thrift stamps at his own home.
Maurers wife stopped him this morning
and told him that she had been saving a
little money each day for this purpose
and was then ready to buy IS stamp.
School Children Best Asset.
NJ. A. Wheeler is now only in tenth
place, but yesterday he took advantage
of an opportunity to address a number Of
the children at the Emery School and he
contends his sales will take decided
Jump In few days Like number of
others, Wheeler says that the school chill
dren are the best asset possible in the
seiiing OF the war savings stamps. They
to have the proud feeling that Uncle Sam
| is depending upon Them" he said
| Another postman to address school
children is w. E. Monroe. He is now of
the opinion that he has the entire Car
berry School working for him. j. r.
Gibson. whose route is in the vicinity
of North Capitol street and New York
avenue, will address school children
on thrift stamps next Monday. He is
not I'm the money" now. but he SAYS it
M faxxy n
he will be.
There is close race between w. E.
! Cheeseboro and J.. A. Edelin,, two COL
! orded members of the letter carrier
force CheeseDoro, whose route is
among colored people in the southwest
section, now has S6S.3S to his credit
Edelin,. who serves white residents in
Petworth. has a standing of $6S.32. Just
! a difference of s cents.
| The total sales thus far in the contest
are a trif1e over $4,000. Assistant
Postmast Kerlin says the men have
not really "warmed-up" yet. Just wait
until next week." he said, then you
!, will see some real selling, They will do
contest than they will have done during
the first week.
Every Man Interested.
There isn't man on our force" Mr..
! KERN continued. "who isn't absolutely
! impressed with the Importance of the
! war savings stamp campaign, and who
They all realize That there is not bet
| ter investment going than baby
| bonds" They have acquired all the
arts of.intelligently talking them. Just
| that a majority of the postmen will be
| devoting the greater part of their day
off to the selling of the stamps. The
returns on Monday will be the largest
rf,t.z Iaxy he IL T< sc,
/ not just a question of prizes with them.
+! They are continually running across
real patriotism during their daily
| rounds. and they are constantly meet
part with their pennies in order that
| they might buy these stamps for Uncle
Sam Is they put 1t.
Early next week Postman Marshall
bowling is going to address the school
the Monroe SCHOOL, Bowling has not
| been in the running" yet. but he is
very sanguine and promises to be
among the leaders before the middle of
next week.
Mr.. Callahan Expresses Satisfaction.
d. 7. Callahan, director of war saw
ings in the District. is deeply interested
| in this contest and today expressed
much satisfaction at the sales made
| thus far. He is of the opinion that the
sales at the end of the ten days of the
contest will total $4,000.
Speaking of the raising of revenue
from the sale of war savings stamps.
Director Callahan said: It's the big
gest job america ever faced. 1t is job
| so big that none of US has. walked
around and measured 1t. We have only
got some little, views of the mountain
| that is ahead of us. We are just begin
ming to realize what 1t means TO go to
war in the modern sense and what Ii
means to prepare America for war. We
have seen this unprepared country go
| to war and we have applauded the act.
We have seen the departments come
forward with their estimates of what
was necessary to equip the Army, and
we have seen Congress appropriate for
expenditures this fiscal year nineteen
| billion dollars. So you can see this
nation has got to buy war sayings
stamps, 1t Isn't cha rity. There isn't a
better Investment in the world. You