Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-22

Postman H. S. Van voorhis was wet
city post office yesterday afternoon
and announced to c. E. Schooley,
superintendent of carriers, that he had
sold war savings stamps amounting to
s6sS. H. B. Richter. who was at the
top of the list published yesterday,
dropped back to second place, although
he had good day. E. Bridwell was
crowded out of second place and
dropped to eighth. However. he said
he never was a mud horse and that
the first warm sunny day will find him
back near the top.
D. J. Callahan. director of war saw
ings in the District of Columbia, was
delighted when he learned that the
total sales of stamps during the first
two days of this contest amounted to
trifie over $7.7o0.
Has Mount Pleasant Route.
The mail route of Postman Van
Voorhis, who is leading the race today,
is in that section of the District known
as Mount Pleasant. which has in it
many large apartment houses, thus
making it difficult to indulge in much
personal solicitation. In this connec-
ton, one postman who has IAN apart
ment house route said: People on
your route can't be sold il you can't
see them. The nearest 1 get to see
ing some of my people is in reading
their names on their letter boxes in
the hall
Specially printed order cards have
been supplied to the carriers and by
this means it is expected that they will
be aided in getting next to the apart
ment house dwellers-
Figures on Winning Prize.
r. e. Sheck is a new postman. In
fact. only. few days ago he didn't
even look like a postman. but since the
selling contest started he has fallen
right into line, and is figuring on get
ting one of the cash prizes. His route is
in the Washington Heights section and
he said he was surprised to learn the
interest children are taking in the pur-
chase of the little baby bonds" He
said also that it had been his expert
ence to have any number of people on
his route stop him on the street and ask
him to sell them thrift stamps.
A guest at the Raleigh Hotel became
30 interested in this competitive selling
among the postmen that he wrote to
the post ONCE saying If the carrier on
that route would call on him personally
he would purchase sixteen twenty-five
cent thrift stamps Postman Dickson,
who has this route, said quite a number
of travelling men have made purchases in
this manner.
Postmaster Chance, who expects the
sales of war savings and thrift stamps,
during this ten-day contest, to amount
to more than $4,000, gave another
brief talk regarding the stamps this
morning to a number of the postmen.
What Mr.. Chance Said.
'I.te1l you" Mr. Chance said. ~ve
have come tns a time when we have got
to weigh the expenditure of dollars in a
new scale. 1t is no longer a question
of whether we can afford to buy a thing
that we want. The question now is:
Can the nation afford to have us buy it?
There are three things you can do with
dollar-you can hoard it, you can
spend 1T. or you can invest it. Now, a
boarded dollar is an idle dollar. and to-
day, with capital needed, it is a drag on
q community, just as an idle man is a
drag on a community An idle dollar is
Z Stacker. But there is Something
worse than a Stacker. A daIlar thai Won
spend need1essly. a dollar that employs
labor or consumes material in COMPETE
ton with the government Is an ally of
the enemy-it Is traitor dollar.
Safest Method Of Saving.
The simplest. the most convenient
and surely the safest method of saving