The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-01-30
COOPERATION TO
CURB The RIOT OF
UNW|SE SPENDING
Savings Societies, Schools, Wom-
ems Clubs, Unions, Lodges and
Churches Aid Savings
Movement.

BY Albert Boswell. Director Cooperating
Organizations, Government Savings Or
ganization. 7th District.
Establishment of harmonious or re
rprocal relations between the either
and the government by giving the peo
pie an opportunity to acquire n stake
In the government Is one of the aims
OF the savings organization. Coop
thriftemOvement--the Treasury depart
ment and the people working together
for the common good.
Purchase Of Treasury Savings Sc
curitles benefits the nation and the in
dividual alike. 1t starts the saver on
the road to independence and provides
needed funds for the U. s. Treasury.
The business of the savings Or
ganiZatiOn Is to promote savings and
the purchase, from the Treasury or in
the market, of U. S. Government Sc
curities of all kinds and the continued
holding thereof. In this, cooperating
organizations play a large part in
furthering the teaching of saving. not
merely as an end In itself, but as n
means of safe investment, which
means government securities.
Cooperating organizations contrib
uting toward the success of the thrift
movement, and their varied activities.
may be set down as follows:
/. GOVERNMENT SAVINGS SO
CIETIES-These are formed i'm in
dustries, mercantile and other estab-
lishmentS and are defined as "a group
Of men or women employing team
work for systematic saving" Their
aims are:
To create community sentiment for
saving.
To effect change in the present ex-
travagant standard of living.
To decrease the tendency toward
convention i'm spending.
To provide constant reminder, an
incentive and the required suggestions
for saving, and the purchase of gov
eminent securities.
2. SCHOOLS-They are the means
of achieving the object Of intoxicating
the saving habit and of building up for
the future a nation of thrifty citizens
with leaning to government securi-
ties for investment. The government
asks the schools to:
Introduce thrift material into text
books through enactments by state
boards Of instruction and legislature.
Distribute Treasury department lit
erature among pupils for family read
inc Nnll n thpir own nSa
Make adequate arrangements for
the regular sale of Thrift and War
Savings Stamps.
3. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS
Next to the schools, organized groups
of women probably are the most i'm
pOrtant factors in advancing thrift
education. They are expected to-
Establish classes in thrift and
economy through the use Of
the budget system.
Make appeals to women who,
through Inheritance or participation in
industry, have money to invest and
who may be convinced of the wisdom
of investing in government securities. |
Aid In carrying out the selling work |
In the schools in order to tighten the |
burden of the already overworked |
teacher.
4. LABOR, FRATERNAL ORGANI- |
CATIONS, ETC.-Labor organizations, |
fraternal societies, commercial asso- |
agricultural bodies. churches |
and foreign language speaking groups |
offer means of general assistance, as |
. Furnishing information on govern
ment war securities.
Making suggestions mt regular meet
ings and at conventions on wise spend
ing as the essence of true thrift.
Promoting the vigorous sale of gov
securities.
Encouraging the investment of idle
funds In some form Of
government security.
The advantages presented by Treas
lsy Savings Certificates, issued In de-
nominations of 800 and $1,000. as In.
vestmenfs for lodge funds. is being
widely recognized by fraternal or
CARNATIONS. Labor unions and
also are adopting this meth
)d.
Investment in government securities
Is being urged by experts in rural
for; farmers, who do not
need, to put the, money back into their1
as the best disposition for
he farmers surplus. They point out
hat Investment Of this surplus In land
hat must be leased or farmed byJ
enants usually will not pay as much
let income as government bonds; also
hat bonds are useful as collateral for
notes I'm banks to obtain temporary
capital. The holding of government
securities now owned and the buying
# more is urged. therefore, as good