The daily progressive-miner., 1918-01-01
THRIFT STAMPS AND THRIFT
 CARDS

anu (dn OIA. co'S aAA ~-N---' what should I do?
 A. Buy a 25-cent Thrift Stamp at post-office. bank. or other authorized agency and ask for 8 Thrift Card, to which you can attach your Thrift Stamp.
 o. Is there any charge for a Thrift Card9
 A. No. It is given you to hold Thrift Stamps and contains a place for your name and address.
 0. How many Thrift Stamps will this card hold?
 A. Sixteen stamps. which repre- sents a value of s4 EXCHANGING THRIFT CARDS FOR
 WAR-sAVINGs STAMPS
 o. When I have filled the Thrift Card. what do do?
 4. Take ii to post office. bank or other authorized agency, surrender the card and pay in cash the few cents difference between the s4 worth ot Thrift Stamps and the price Of a War-Sayings Stamp for the month in which the exchange is made.
 o. What do I do next?
 4. You take the War-Sayings Stamp given you in exchange for vour Thrift Card, ask for Warsaw inss Certificate. if you haven't one already. and attach to the certificate. o. Should I continue 10 buy Thrift Stamps?
 A. Yes. Ask for new Thrift Card and begin again.
 o. Do Thrift Stamps bear interest?
 4. No.
 o. Then why are they issued? 4. To make it convenient for you 10 save in small amounts so that you can purchase a War-Savings Stamp which does bear interest.
 c. May I exchange Thrift Stamps for War-Savings Stamps at any time?
 A. No: only on or before Decem- Der 31. 1918.
 LENDING YOUR MONEY TO THE GOVERNMENT. 0. What security is behind the War Savings Stamp?
 4. The United States Government promises to pay s5 for each Stamp or January l, 1923. This promise i; backed by the faith and honor of the United States and by the taxing power of this country which is the richesf Nation in the world.
 0. Why does the United States borrow this money?
 A. To pay the expense Of the war
 o. When I lend my money 10 th' Government, would it be safer to bu. a government bond rather than thes' War-Savings Stamps?
 A. When a War-Savings Stamp i attached 10 a War-Savings Certihcat it becomes a government obligation with the same security as the Libert, bonds, now held by more than 10000 900 Americans.
 0. Is the 4 per cent interest, com pounded quarterly. on War-Saving Certificates paid in the same way a the interest on Liberty bonds? A. No. The Liberty bond interes is paid every six months but the II terest on the War-Savings Certificat accumulates and is paid you in on ! sum on January 1. 1923. 0. Why isn't the interest paid | the same manner on both War-Savine | Certificates and Liberty bonds? ! 4. | would be very complicate i. .ad expensive to pay interest ever 1 six months on s5 stamps and for tn; reason the United States Governmel retains the interest until January 1923, at which time it pays you Il t compound interest and the princips amounting to s5, the face value of Il ! War-Savings Stamp. / Q. Shall sell Liberty bonds to b' War-Savings Stamp?s
 4. No. The security behind Libe " bonds and War-Savings Certificat $ the same. Keep your Liberty bon but buy War-Savings Stamps also.
 0. Is the money received fro War Savings Stamps and Thr
 Stamps used for the same purpose
 the money received from Liber
 bonds?
 4. Yes.
 0. Should I take money out Of |
 savings bank to buy War-Savin
 Stamps?
 A. No. You should save as mu
 as you can every day and buy Thr
 Stamps and War-Savings Stamps VI these savings.
 0. How did Congress author
 these War-Savings Certificates?
 A. By act approved September
 1917.
 o. How large an amount of w
 Savings Certificates can be issued
 der the present law?