Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-11
1881 MILES OF THRIFT
STAMPS OUTSTANDING
Side by Side Would Reach From
New York to Frisco
and Back.
POPULAR FORM OF SAVING
Employees in Industrial Plants and
School Children Continue to Buy
Largely OF These DiIninutivc
Government Securities.
WILLIAM AIATIER LEWIS.
Director, Savings Division, 4.
Department.

Department.
Land in the ccnters OF our great
cities commands fabulous prices. run
Ming up to thousands of dollars a
foot. but there IL only one strip Of
property reaching In IL line over
pra!rieland swamp land and desert for
ousands of miles. which has cost
$50 for every twelve inches And
this Is the property acquired by those
who have bought War Saving Stamps.
Picture II you can "A narrow band
running quarter OF the way around
The globe or from New York to San
Francisco and back. and you will vizu-
alize the space occupied by the War
saving Stamps owned 10y the people
or these United States on April 20.
The stamps Issued in 1918. 1919 and
1920 vary in length fron . 3-S Inches
approxinately two inches. The total
Anri SO. 'ii,2o We're sS sos.i is5"s and nj
these. u placed end to end. would
Statistics are generally tircsome.
but these hgures Win serve 10 show
has taken in the lives Of the American
people and will indicate TO those vino
pie are st!ll saving by means OF these
small government securities.
some Examples In Thrift.
stamps in January. 1920: in Fcbraary.
!2.I4' in March. s2.s7i. i'm April.
The workers in the Boston Manu-
featuring Company OF waitham. Mas
:3las1; IL rebruaIy, $500: n M%rehh
:a3o. o.: in April. 1s2?5c, and in May
a, the Rock Island arsenal in IL
iinois. In February. there was laid
IN M hese snail n Nnr
4 AZ mn In la.
The iorksh.p News. the shop organ
OF tho Neg YORK Shlpbu!lding Com
ssne States 81 SAiq nat whereas tn tn Las Yfg
1919 the ship workers there had pur-
chased s55.51l worth OF stamps, in a
s,h,n!!ar ps,riod IN 1920 they had nur-
Twenty-!wo. plants in the rhia-
helIhia r. a,s,,iy' Tn Me. ssyinE societies
pave lI.7t: savers Who ru: aside Wa
savings stamps from January TO
or sornc,hinE Over rt,E s. psr capi,a 'S'
II. J.. who have zoo small savings
reported sale OF stamps in April. 1920.
agSrc.atinE Sl5.5i5.
Saving. In Public schools.
The record OF sales in the public
That In che Industries. In Texas.
the children already own more than
$iZ,0Vo.oeo ia Thrift and War Saving
IN Nirginia. are accunu!atlHS capital
IN ms way 70 be used for college
or 'Gs WATT War Mb sasnT in
schools have just closed for the year.
reports sale for the school term OF
IN Ohio. tho school children bought
an average u 81 worth during The
year 1913. They are nov looking
forward III that state TO the opening
OF the thrift congress In the fan.
The Senators IN tnts congress viii
not secure their seats by spending
money. nut by making II. Thc ell hty
"iSh, school chi ldrcn who sell the
most stamps during the summer Will
sit as members OF this unique body
the whole State TO the subject Of
constructive. sane thrift. The mem
be an asset. and VIII help their school.
the state and the nation At the same
time.
In the District Of Columbia. in the
month Of May 2?;ss4 school children
0ossh, 'h .ic Inson IN s sanPs prook
line, Mass. the 200 children purchased
over $4,000. worth. OF War Savings
stamps in the first four months OF the
Win, One hoy Is Doing.
Out In fnyciti Idaho. Earl Drink
ne is starting on career OF hnan-
cial success ie says. II do not spend
my money fooii!shly or pu, !, into
hers and got 50 aud put II Into thrift,
stamps. have. about SIS in War
Savings Stamps Dora ienningsen,
OF the sixth grade. In the same town.
earned her money no less strenuouSly.
She writes: ITO earn my money for
thrift stamps. ! picked cherries. Every
morning nj Z O'Clock we would 20
down In n big truck and come home
at in the evening, picked three
days and got 81 with which | bought
eight thrift stamps"
single eighth grade class in
Chicago school last autumn bought
more than $500 worth of Thrift and
War Savings Stamps. and in addition
took care OF a French orphan. pro-
yidcd Thanksgiving dinner for
needy family and raised s27 for the
In the West. Colorado claims the
per capita record for investment in
War Savings Stamps. The schools OF
breckenridge show an. average pur-
chase by pupils OF SIZE.
And SO the record goes, showing
that in every part Of the country In
7 necessarily slow. but most thor
ough way the lesson OF safe govern
ment investment is being taught. The
school boy who invests his savings In
government securities learns the GU
mulatvc va ue of money, and better
STILL something of government finance
and loyal to the government in which
he is a shareholder. Bolshevism and
investment in War Savings Stamps
never go together.
Erecting Larger and Uetter Plant.
PETERSBURG. VA. July l0.-The
new building. heing erected BY the
Virginia Lumber 6 Box Comnany to
replace the one burned recently Is to