The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-24
VAR SAYINGS STAMPS
FOLLOW VICTORY LOAN
There Will BE No Drives" to Aid But
There Will Be Persistent Effort to
Advance Sale of Securities.

Tennyson's brook, will "go on forever"
according to present plans OF the treas
ury department.
up to the first of April our work was
largely constructive" said Mrs, f. l..
Higginson, savings director for New
England. 1T was a case of reorganiz-
ing, building up personnel and making
new plans, and to do this on a permanent
basis has been no easy task. Meanwhile,
the sale of thrift and war savings stamps
has gone on quietly but steadily and
with no urging beyond persistent
bringing to the attention of the public
the fact that the war savings stamps
are a 100 per cent investment and more,
for they increase in value from month to
month. In fact, there will be no drives
this years but we hope to do our educa-
tional work in thrift so thoroughly that
people will see for themselves the desir-
ability of investing in w. S. S. as a gov
eminent security.
"As many of our workers are already
committed to the Victory Liberty loan,
we have been giving our time and energy
during April to the furthering of that
campaign. The hiatus of interest in w,
S. S. gave just the opportunity we were
waiting for to open the school for the
training of field secretaries which has
been arranged through the cooperation
of Dean Lord of Boston university. Thir-
ty-five of our field secretaries men and
women, from the different states, are
taking advantage of this course, and we
are confident the time thus spent will
bear fruit in The number OF war savings
societies that will be organized in the
next few months.
up to the first of May we had estab
lished and confirmed 403 agencies in
Maine, 300 in New Hampshire, 4S in Yer
mont, l,446 in Massachusetts, 956 in
Rhode Island and 4l6 in Connecticut,
The number of war savings societies re-
porting through May are 2ll for Maine,
294 for New Hampshire, 5l2 for Massa-
chusetts, s43 for Rhode Island. Our to-
tai sales reported through the federal
reserve bank and postoffices for the first
three months of the year were $685.
69l.Sl, or 40 cents per capita for the en-
tire district with its seven and quarter
millions population.
"0ur success in the educational propa-
ents and teachers alike cooperating
heartily with the savings division in its
efforts to further the thrift campaign
along the new educational lines. Mate
rial and devices which have proved their
value in stimulating the thrift campaign
the past year, such as the thrift meter,
honor certificate and Happy Jack Thrift
club, ar, being used more widely
throughout the district A thrift chest
has been added as a device for home
saving and is considered of distinct val
lie. An outline of course of study for
elementary schools, Thrift in the
Schools" prepared by the government,
has been received with favor by many
superintendent and teachers throughout
New England.
"A new and important feature of our
thrift campaign is the work done by the
salvage bureau Old clothes and shoes
are not included nor any charities dis
turbed, but we are trying to make it
easy for women to turn trash into cash
or thrift stamps. Starting with the
Junk dealers of this state, who willingly
agreed to give thrift stamps for junk
the movement has spread to other states
and even to other districts. Housewives
are saving tinfoil for the Salvation
Army, which will use the proceeds for
war savings stamps to add to their per
manent fund Dealers in second hand
books, old coins and stamps, are ready
to give stamps in exchange for these
commodities, and not few of the lead
ing jewelers. are giving stamps for old
gold, silver and platinum.
Our publicity bureau has been active
from the start. In the four months we
have sent out $50 news stories to the
daily papers. We are supplying 200
weekly papers regularly with plate mat
ter on thrift, besides special articles to
magazines and trade publications; more
than half of the monthly magazines are
carrying our Franklin advertisement
and there is steady increase in the
number of big advertisers who are will.
| ing to include small cut or thriftogranl
in their space in the daily papers. We
have printed and distributed $4,000
leaflets, 100000 pay envelope inserts
800, 900 posters, $4,000 signs, 100000
thrift chests and 100000 pieces of ma.
terial for the schools, including Happy
Jack Thrift club. Our plans for the flu.
ture include weekly pictorial news
service to the schools and to stores, in
dustrial plants, postoffices, railroad sta.
tions, etc.
"In all the states the work Of organ.
ization is well along Maine so far having
the advantage through the utilization OF
the woman's Liberty loan committee al
most in body for the war savings work
Now that the last of the Liberty loans
has been brought to successful conelu.
sion we shall try to carry out the same
plan in the other states.
Our headquarters organization is
practically complete, but the interest in
thrift is increasing SO rapidly that we
are constantly adding new departments
At present my executive committee con.
sists OF Mrs Charles S. Heard and Mrs
Charles X. Cummings, assistant drec.
tors; Gov Charles A. Morss, Mr.. n Pen.
rose, Hallowell, Mr. Frederic II. Curtiss
Mr.. John R. Macomber, Mr.. James Dean
On my headquarters staff are Mrs. Myra
B. Lord, publicity director; Mrs, Edmund
NJ Parker, speakers bureau; Mrs. II
Parker Wilmington, salvage bureau;
! Mrs. c. R. Burlingame, statistical direc.
tor; Mr.. G. 7. c. Whitcomb, field repre-
sentative (schoolsl; Mrs. Charles u
Yoorhis, field secretary.
MY advisory committee includes Mr.
Leonard Robinson, agriculture; Mr.
Frank H. Mccarthy, American Fedora
tion of Labor; Prof. r, N. Carver, eco
Monies; Dean Sarah Louise Arnold, edu
cational institutions; Prof. George p
Baker, drama; Mr. Malcolm Stone, in,
dustries; Mrs Nathaniel Thayer, organ
izations; DR.. George N. Upper, racia