Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-20

Rock Island county will open an
Intensive campaign on Monday for
the sale of war savings stamps.
The drive will be nationwide,
and the campaign will be conduct
ed during Thrift week.
Establishment of war savings and
thrift stamp agencies wherever
money passes over the counter" is
the aim of big drive to be under
taken by the war saviAgs organiza-
tor the week of June %. This will
be the first intensive statewide
campaign of the war savings or
ganization since the closing days
of last year
Sales drives find no place in this
years war savings campaign be-
cause Secretary of the Treasury
Glass believes the only compulsion
in the purchase of war savings
stamps should be elf-applied. But
1t is necessary to facilitate the
practice of thrift which is being
trade a happy habit by the new saw
ings appeal based on enlightened
self-interest.
The drive for agencies will make
it easier for savers to invest their
savings. By shortening the dis
lance between the inclination to
save and the actual purchase of
thrift or war savings stamp-and
this can be done only through the
establishment of many agencies
the war savings organization ex-
poets to head off many temptations
to spend foolishly.
All banks and pOstofices already
are agents for war savings stamps
and there are about six thousand
other authorized agencies in the
state. During the weeks drive,
Campbell Marvin, state superin-
tendent of agencies. expects to set
up machinery for the sale of stamps
in all hotels, department stores,
pharmacies, grocery stores, mar
kets. candy stores-in fact, wher-
ever anything is sold In this the
war savings organization will have
the cooperation Of many large Chi
Gago wholesale concerns whose
statesmen will endeavor TO establish
agencies in each business house or
hotel they visit. Life insurance
agents also will be active in the
campaign.
Insurance Men Help.
Several thousand commercial
travellers and insurance men will
render gratuitous service. but their
interest will be stimulated and a
competitive spirit aroused by Sc
ries of prizes offered by the war
savings organization. There will
be six cash prizes, two Of S25, two
of SIS and two of SO. One set is
for the largest number of agencies
established with an initial order for
at least SIS worth of war savings
and thrift stamps and the other for
the largest number of bona fide
applications for agencies.
To the salesman setting up 10
agencies a silver honor button will
be awarded and there will be %
gold buttons for the statesmen es-
tablishing the greatest number. A
banner will be awarded to the con
Germ whose statesmen attain the
highest percentage with honor but
tons, each silver button counting
FIVE points and each gold emblem
100 points
1t is expected that 10000 new
agencies will be established in this
drive. A distinctive window sign
and a pictorial news service is be-
ing prepared for the sales stations.
VI. H Sexton is chairman for the
city of Rock Island. He will fur
nish pledge cards, material for the
use of storekeepers to give to GUS
toners relating to war savings.
posters and hangers for stores. and
such other printed matter as the
organization isFsending out.
The plan will be to ask each
store or place where business is
transacted. to buy a cectain num-
Der of thrift stamps and war saw
ings stamps, large or small, which
they can get from the postoff1ce in
their town. and sell these to their
customers, the general public 1t
is not necessary to carry any con-
siderable amount of stamps of eth
er kind, because they can be OBJ
tanned from the postmaster con-
tinuoUsly.