The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-03-15
U. S. GOVERNMENT WAR-sAVlNe
STAMPS.
What They Are and Why You Should
Buy Them.
The War-Savinas Plan.

Q. What is the War-Savings Plan?
A. 1t is a plan by which you can
lend small savings to your Govern
ment at rate of interest averaging
4 per cent, compounded quarterly.
Q. How may this be done?
A. By purchasing War-Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps.
Q. What is a War-Savings Stamp?
A. It is a stamp for which the
Government will pay you S. on jan
uary l, 1923.
Q. What does it cost?
A. Between SAP and 1923 during
1918, depending upon the month in
which purchased.
Q. What is a Thrift Stamp?
A. 1t is a stamp costing 25 cents.
to be applied in payment for a War
Savings Stamp. 1t does. not earn
interest. The purpose of its issue is
to enable people to accumulate in
small sums the amount necessary to
pay for a War-Savings Stamp.
Q. Where can | buy them?
A. At post Offices, banks and other
authorized agencies.
Q. Why should | buy them?
A. Every dollar loaned to the Gov
eminent helps to save the lives of
our men at the front and to win the
war.
War-Savings Stamps and Certificates.
Q. want to begin to save on the
War-Saving Plan. What is the first
thing to do?
A. Take $412 to the post office or
bank, or any other agent, buy a
War-Savings Stamp, and ask for a
War-Savings Certificate.
Q. What is a War-Savings Certiil-
! cate?
A. 1t is a pocket-sized folder con-
tanning 20 spaces upon which to al
fix War-Savings Stamps.
@. Is the War-Savings Certificate
a Government obligation?
A. 1t becomes an obligation as soon
as one or more War-Savings Stamps
are affixed to it.
Q. Can | get a War-Savings Ger
tificate without buying a Stamp?
A. No.
Q. Does the War-Savings Certifi
| cate cost anything?
, A. No. The agent from whom you
purchase the stamps will write your
name and address on the certificate
and will furnish you an envelope in
which to keep it.
Q. What do ! do after that?
| A. Affix the War-Savings Stamp Or
your certificate in space No. 1 and
!, take good care of it.
@. What do | do next?
A. You have now become a wa
saver. Continue to buy War-Savinss
Stamps every week or month ant
put them on your certificate unit
you have filled all of the 20 spaces
When this is done you can buy an
other War-Savings Stamp, and vol
will receive free of cost an
other certificate to which you can at
tach new stamps as you buy them.
Q. When l have filled the 20 spaces
on my certificate what do | do with
it?
A. Keep the certificate until Jan
uary l, 1923, and the Government will
pay you 500 for it.
O. How many War-Savings Certi
ficates can | fill?
A. Ten. The law allows each per
son to own $1,000 worth of WARSAW,
ings Certificates.
The Price of War-Savings Stamps.
O. Does the price of War-Savings
Stamp always remain the same?
A. No. The price for each month
appears on the face of each stamp
Never pay either more or less than
the amount shown for the month in
which you make the purchase. The
price is SAP in December, 1917, and
January, 1918, and increases one cent
each month after January, 1918, until
In December, 1918, when the price
is $423.
O. What is the price of WARSAW,
ing Stamps for each month of 1918?
A. January, $4.12; February, $4.13
March, $414; April, $4.15; May
$4.16; June, SALT; July, $4.1S; Au
gust, $4.19; September, 1920; Octo
Der, $421; November, $4.22; Deem
Der, 1923.
O. Why is the price higher each
month?
A. Because the stamps are earning
| interest
Thrift Stamps and Thrift Cards.
@. If l do not have enough money
saved up to buy War-Savings
Stamp and can only save in small
amounts, what should l do?
A. Buy a 25-cent Thrift Stamp at
a post Office, bank or other authoriz
ed agency and ask for Thrift Card
to which you can attach your Thrift
Stamp.
@. Is there any charge for Thrift
Card?
A. No. 1t is given you to hold Thrift
Stamps and contains place fol
your name and address.
Q. How many Thrift Stamps will
this card hold?
A, Sixteen stamps, which represen
value of 81.
Exchanging Thrift Cards for War
Savings Stamps.
Q. When l have filled the Thrift
Card, what do do?
A. Take it to a post office, bank
or other authorized agency, surren
der the card and pay in cash thu
few cents difference between the S
worth of Thrift Stamps and the pric,
of a War-Savings Stamp for tn,
month in which the exchange Il
made.
@. What do l do next?
A. You take the War-Saving
Stamp given you in exchange TO
your Thrift Card, ask for a Wal
Savings Certificate, If you haven
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