Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-30
Retailers for Victory


WHEN you opened your Detroit Times today you
w received surprise-and thrill.
For YOU saw page after page of advertisements de-
voted to just patriotic purpose-seing war savings
stamps and bonds.
the Detroit Retail Merchants today have voluntarily swept
aside thoughts of selling their own merchandise They
have enlisted themselves-one hundred per cent-ln the
service OF the United States Treasury They have under
taken a supremey important job-and they have taken
this means to let YOU know what that JOB rs
IN THE month of July the Detroit Retail Merchants
| along with other retail merchants throughout the
naton-have given their solemn pledge to Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau to aid him sell SlOOOOOoOOO
worth of savings stamps and bonds
OF this huge total, Detroit merchants hope to sell
S3540576 It's the biggest order Detroit merchants have
contracted TO seand it's order that can be sold
only with your help.
has up within the through the efforts of
Oscar Weber state chairman of the Retail Merchants
campaign and Nate S Shapero county chairman Special
stamp and bond booths and special counters ready in
the stores Every empoye has been keyed to this patriotic
task
It's now up to you.
THE campaign opens But it won't conclude
l at the end Of the month. 1t will continue through
August through September-through every month until
Germany Japan and Italy smashed into defeat.
1t is you and women of Detroit who will smash
them defeat Every stamp purchased Is bullet fired
at the Axis-every bond three-inch she'll
Detroit has already become the wonder of the nation
in the amount of war weapons it is turning out The
nation has come to expect miracles of Detroit.
The Detroit Retail Merchants have volunteered to
show another They volunteered because they know
the people of Detroit will back them up-wil buy
many stamps and bonds that Detroit will lead the country
in this-Just as 1t does IN everything else
MANY Of you now having amounts deducted from
wi your pay checks weekly for the purchase of
bonds and stamps That's fine The merchants want you
to keep that up.
But many of you-nearly so per cent-are not having
this DONE 1t is TO you the merchants especially appeal
Make your purchase of stamps and bonds weekly affair
When you come downtown-or to your neghborhood
store for your weekly shopping trpput aside certain
amount Just for stamps and bonds Make it part of the
budget Write it down. Order bullets and shells for the
Axis"
THE pledge of the merchants to sell $10OO,OO0OO0
worth of bonds in the nation in Juy-and every month
hereafters entirely voluntary the action of patriotic
public spirited citizens Every PENNY YOU SPEND for
stamps and bonds-whether it is in retail stores in
banks-is turned to the government. All of the
expenses of handling the stamps and bonds borne by
the merchants and by the banks.
Their only reward is the satisfaction that they
doing all they to finance the to help supply the
bullets and weapons to smash the Axis.
1t is the satisfaction you will get every time you
buy stamp bond.
GO WHEN you enter retail store tomorrow-and every
- day thereafter-dont forget those stamps You
buy them for as little 10 cents And when you make
purchase, don't take all your change in cash.
Take part of it in stamps
Make ii shopping habit. 1t will be the best habit
you've formed. 1t will be habit that will help win
the