The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-01-18

postoffiee for S4.12 this month, S413
next month, and so on, and for which
you can get S. at your postoffice any
time after January l, 1923.
: This is about all there is to it. You
| take your S4.12, or two or ten, or twen-
ty times $4.12, if you wish, go to your
bank or postoffice and buy as many
stamps as your money will pay for.
You cannot buy more than $1OO worth
at one time, or more than $1,000 alto
gether
The stamps you buy will be affixed
to war savings certificate, which is
simply little folder with spaces for
twenty stamps. Your name and ad-
dress will be written on this certificate,
you keep sticking on stamps as you
buy them until you get it full, if you
buy that many and then put it safely
away until the first of January, 1928,
when you present it to your postmas-
ter and get $5 for each of the stamps.
The certificate cannot be transferred
except in case Of death or disability,
but provision is made for registering
it, so that if it is lost, or destroyed
payment can still be had, and so that
payment can be had at any other mon
ey order postoffice as well as at the
one from which it was issued.
These war savings stamps, it will
be seen, enable any person who has as
much as $4l2 in hand to lend it to the
government and to receive interest on
it. The government is back of every
stamp, and when properly registered
they are as safe as government bond.
Provision is even made for cashing
them before maturity if the holder so
desires.
For children and others who may
not have as much as S4.I2 at once,
thrift stamps" are issued. These en-
able the child to start with a quarter
and gradually pay for war-savings
stamp. The child takes his quarter to
the bank or postoffce, pays for one
thrift stamp and gets thrift certi-
aeate" with spaces on it for sixteen
stamps and his name and address writ
's'''.' 's'' ~ &c ny wfff sthtEs g., r,ss sssaps
the postofiice, pays Y tie H aan1ld The
tween the $4 worth Of thrift stamps
he had on It and the current price Of a
war-savings STAMP and receises .anin-
terest bearing war savings STAMP. For
example, if the child should get his
thrift certificate filled with thrift
stamps in next month he would surren-
der it and pay 13 cents additional for
war-savings stamp. If in March he
would pay IA cents, and so on. When
ne gets one war-savings stamp paid
for, he can begin with his next quarter
to stamp up" another thrift certif-
cate and so on.
The charge has repeatedly been
made by certain city men and pubica-
tions that the farmers of the country
have not bought their full share of
Liberty Bonds. In proportion to their
total wealth they certainly have not;
but in proportion to the amount of
ready cash in heir hands it is likely
that they have. The fact remains that
many farmers have not yet bought
bonds. The Southern Agriculturist
has no doubt that most of them will do
so. Most of them are able to do it,
and certainly the farmers of the coun-
ry are just as ready to help win the
war as are the people in other busi-
ness. Still, there are on the farms
great numbers Of people who seldom
receive large sums of money at any
one time snd who are likely on this
account to find it difficult to buy bonds
as they would wish. To all such-to
the children, many farm women, some
farm men who must watch every nickel
closely these war savings stamps Of
fer the chance at once to help supply
the money to win the war and to start
savings account that will bring in a
fair rate of interest. All such should
be liberal buyers of thrift and war
savings stamps. Especially should
he children be encouraged to save
heir money and invest it this way.
Get your boy one war-savings
stamp and thrift certifcate-or even
The thrift certificate with a single
stamp on it-and start him out to
ending his money to Uncle Sam. See
4 ne doesn' take pride in it and make
us account grow. And give the girl
he same chance and watch her beat
ne boy.-Southern Agriculturist.