Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-04-12
QUARTER BUYS
FIVE BULLETS
Quarter Buys Five BulIets-one Thrift
Stamp Fills Rifles Magazine
Baby Bond Purchases Soldier
A Pair Of Shoes.

It costs just $156.71 to equip an
American soldier to take the field.
By this is meant merely to buy the
clothes and the arms he carries. BY
the time he is trained, and fed for
six months before being sent across
the water, the costs mount up to
thousands Of dollars for each man.
Every man, woman and child who
buys Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps is helping equip these soldiers
for the field. If you are saving and
serving by aiding in this great cam
paign, you are taking an active part
in defending your country from the
Kaiser's hordes.
What have YOU done to equip your
ecuntry's soldiers? How much have
you contributed in Thrift Stamps or
War Savings Stamps toward seeing
that they are clothed and armed?
HAVE YOU EQUIPPED A soLDIER7
If you have bought 38 War Savings
Stamps at S4.15 each you have pro-
yided for one soldiers complete equip
ment.
One Thrift Stamp will pay for a
waist belt on hat cord, two pair or
shoe laces and four Identification
tags.
Two Thrift Stamps will pay for the
trench tool with which the soldier
may dig himself in after stormlng
the enemy's lines, or one shelter-tent
pole and FIVE shelter-tent pins.
Three Thrift Stamps will provide
some soldier with warm wooden
gloves.
If your investment totals four
Thrift Stamps, you have paid for one
bedsack, and the Government has
eleven cents left over. Or, you will
have provided the soldier with his
canvas leggings.
Five Thrift Stamps will buy bay
onet scabbard.
Six Thrift Stamps will pay for the
soldiers summer undershirt or his
wooden stockings.
Seven Thrift Stamps will buy him
his service hat.
EIGHT STAMPS FOR ONE
BAYoNET.
Eight Thrift Stamps will leave If
teen cents lacking for one bayonet-
Twelve Thrift Stamps will pay for
the necessary shelter tent, or for one
steel helmet.
You will have to buy fourteen Thrift
|, Stamps for the poncho that keeps the
soldier dry as he stands long hours IN
rain Of the trenches.
Fifteen Thrift Stamps will pay for
the soldiers winter undershirt, or the
underga1ments that keep the neither
extremities warm in sleet and snow.
One War Savings Stamp will pay
ior his cartridge belt.
One War Savings Stamp and
Thrift Stamp will purchase the hun
dred rifle cartridges with which no
starts into battle.
Two War Savings Stamps will buy
his wooden shirts or his wooden
breeches.
Three War Savings Stamps will buy
his necessary two pairs of shoes or
his gas mask.
Four War Savings Stamps cover the
cost of his o. D. coats or his wooden
blankets.
II you have bought five War Say.
ings Stamps you have paid for his
rifle.
Perhaps you have son or brother
In the army. Would you not like to
feel that you had loaned Uncle Sam
enough money to equip him properly?
The nation must get the money some
where if our boys are to be adequately
provided for.
If you haven't Joined the army OF
Thrift which Is backing up the boys
IN the trenches, get in NOW.
Better give up luxuries now than
necessities later. Buy War Savings
Stamps.
Investment in War Savings Stamps
is Patriotism plus profit.