The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-01-17
STAMPS
AND WHY BUY THEN

Save your money and help win
the war.
"War-savings stamps" are a de-
vice for enabling you to lend your
money to the government in very
small amounts, device that enables
you to put what you have-$5 or %
cents-at the service Of your coun-
try at any time.
A war-savings stamp is stamp
which you can buy at any bank and
postoffice for SAP this month, Sab
next month, and so on, and for which
you can get SIS at your postoffice any
time after January l, 1923.
This is about ali there is to it. You
take your SAP, to two, or ten, or
twenty times SAP, if you wish, go
to your bank or postoffice and buy as
many stamps as your money will
pay for. You cannot buy more than
500 worth at one time, or more than
$1,000 altogether.
The stamps you buy will be affixed
to "war-savings certificate" which
is simply folder with spaces for 20
stamps. Your name and address will
be written on this certificate, you
keep sticking on the stamps as you
buy them until you get it full, if you
buy that many, then put it away
until the first of January, 1923, when
you present it to your postmaster and
get SIS for each of the stamps. The
certificate cannot be transferred ex-
cept in case of death or disability,
but provision is made for registering
it so that if it is lost or destroyed,
payment can still be had, and so that
payment can be had at any other
money-order postoffice as we'll as at
the one from which it is issued
These war-savings stamps, it will
be seen, enable any person who has
as much as $4.12 in hand to lend it
TO the government and to receive
interest on it. The government is
back of every stamp, and when prop
erly registered they are as safe as
government bond. Provision is
even made for cashing them before
maturity, if the holder so desires.
For children and others who may
not have as much as $4.12 at once,
thrift stamps" are issued. These
enable the child to start with quar-
ter and gradually pay for war-sav-
ings stamp. The child takes his quar-
ter to the bank or postoffice, pays for
one thrift stamp and gets "thrift
certificate" with spaces on it for 16
stamps, and his name and address
written on it. He buys other thrift
stamps as he can until he has filled
it, then takes it to the postoffice,
pays the difference between the S4
worth Of thrift stamps he had on it
and the current price of warsaw
ings stamp, and receives an interest
drawing war-savings stamp. For ex-
ample, if the child should get his
thrift certificate filled with thrift
stamps in the next month, he would
surrender it and pay 10 cents addi-
tional for war savings stamp. If
in March, he would pay IA cents, and
so on When he gets one warsaw
ings stamp paid for, he can begin
with his next quarter to STAMP up"
another thrift certificate, and so on.
The charge has repeatedly been
made by certain city men and pub
locations that the farmers of the
country have not bought their full
share of Liberty Bonds, In proper
ton to their total wealth, they GER
tainly have not; but in proportion
to the amount of ready cash in their
hands it is likely that they have.
The fact remains that many farmers
have not yet bought bonds. The
Southern Agriculturist has no doubt
that most of them will do so. Most
of them are able to do it, and GER
tainly the farmers of the country are
just as ready to help win the war as
are the people in any other business.
Still, there are on the farms great
numbers of people who seldom re-
ceiye large sums of money at any
one time and who are likely on this
account to find it difficult to buy
bonds as they would wish. To all
sueh-to the children, many farm
women, some farm men who must
yet watch every nickel closely, these
war-savings stamps offer the chance
at once to help supply the money
to win the war and to start saw
ings account that will bring in a
fair rate of interest. All such should
be liberal buyers Of thrift and war
savings stamps. Especially should
the children be encouraged to save
their money and invest in this way.
Get your boy enc war-savings
stamp and a thrift certificate-or
even the thrift certificate with sin
gle stamp on it-and start him to
lending his money to Uncle Sam. See
if he doesn't take a pride in it and
make his account grow. And give
the girl the same chance and watch