The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-02
TO PUSH SALE
OF THRIFT STAMPS
Local Organization to Uti-
lize Every Means to Get
Folks to Buy Them
SUSTAINED EFFORT
THROUGHOUT YEAR
VIII Be Required to Bring Brattleboro
Up to Quota of $3.50, ,000-Stores, Of
fees, Factories, Churches, Clubs and
Schools to Be Enlisted in Cause.


Brattleboro already has heard a good
deal about thrift stamps and war say
ings stamps and war savings certif-
Gates but the publicity that has been
given this method of providing funds
for Uncle sam to use in winning the
war isn't circumstance to what is
coming il the local war savings stamp
organization of which l. L. Dunham
is chairman carries out its plans.
Not only IS every person IN town to
be informed Of the advantages Of this
scheme Of raising money for the gov
eminent but an attempt is to be made
to convince everybody that it is a pa
triotic duty. as wen as an advantage,
to invest a portion Of his income in
these government securities.
Brattleboro S Quota OF war savings
stamps for the current year is approx
matelv $50 900, IN other words, this
town is expected 10 loan the govern
ment that amount during 1918, taking
stamps bearing four Ter cent interest
as security. These stamps already are
on sale at the local banks. the postof
fee and some Of the stores and they
also MAJ be bought Of letter carriers.
, but the demand for them has not vet
reached anything like the size it must
he to provide the revenue the govern
. ment expects from this town,
Creating that demand and supplying
I it in the easiest possible way is the
) double task that confronts Mr.. Dun
j ham 5 organization And for that rea-
F. ean the organization has been divided
: into two parts-a publicity department
{ under the direction of II. G. Rice and
: a sales department. in charge Of Glen
ham Jones
With q view to educating people to
the advantages, both direct and indi-
rect. of the war savings atamp idea the
, publicity department IS to start a cam
y p9ign that will utilize every means Of
telling folks about them. In addition
to display advertising and reading mat
:, ter In the newspapers there will be
posters in public places and slides il
the moving picture houses. -Four min
ute speakers will spread the GOSPEL OF
q war savings stamps ut public gather
. inCs. and every church and fraterna
, organization III town viii be asked Il
. keep the subject before the public
E School teachers viii do their bit bl
=. urging the thrift idea among their pu
: pills and getting them to invest every
\ accumulated quarter in thrift stamps
To facilitate this publicity work it i
planned to establish a statistical de
:, partmcnt which viii compile figures an,
! facts showing Just what Brattlebor
!, is doing from week to week, in com
4 parison with what it ought to do a
~ well as with other towns and cite
y il the state
To supply the demand for stamp
- which this campaign of publicity is eN
o. pected to create the local sales depart
% 'nent intends to appoint a selling aeen
le III ever factory and Office cmplovin
d more than 10 persons. this agent t
n agree to spend a certain amount O
1t time each week in pushing the sale o
re- stamps among his fellow emplove
e Employers will be asked to co-operat
Y in this work. Every store in town wi
10 be given opportunity to have tn
10 stamps on sale and the buying publ
as will be encouraged III acquiring tn
a habit Of taking thrift stamps j
Is change. At stated intervals the sery
nj ices of the Boy Scouts viii be brougf
m. to bear on the campaign by means {
n: a honse-to- house canvass for stamps t
as be delivered by the letter carrier
70, Through the Windham County Far
bureau and other channels the salt
work will be extended to include tt
no rural districts.
In order to sell the required numbt
of stamps in Brattleboro somethin
= more than drive will be require
- In fact, nothing less than a thorough
organized and continuously sustaine
effort will do the trick For an ann
al output of $150,00O means that a
proXinately $500 i'll stamps must |
sold every weekday during the yea
And since the year has only / m0ntl
left in it Mr.. Dunham and his ass
eiates urge every person in town wi
has not already acquired the thri
stamp habit to become inoculated
once. Uncle Sam has need of quartz
as we'll rs dollars.