Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1917 — Page 2

25 CENTS 25 rv* • Every Patriotic man, woman and child can now Invest in the United States Government as small a sum as 25 cents. All this is made possible by a new plan that is as simple as a primer lesson. Here is the plan: First, the Government will issue during all of 1918, what will be known as U. S. THRIFT STAMPS. These stamps will be on sale at postoffices, Banks, Stores, Factories, and many other convenient Places. A single stamp will be sold for 25 CENTS.

When you buy your first stamp you will be given a Thrift Card, with spaces for affixing sixteen stamps. This card will show at all times just how much money you have loaned to the Government. As soon as you have sixteen stamps on your card—s4.oo—you can take them to any place where Thrift Stamps are sold and there exchange them, with a small cash payment, for a “WAR SAVINGS STAMP” that will pay you Four Per Cent interest. What is a War Savings Stamp? When affixed to a War Savings Certificate, it is the United. States Government’s promise to pay the holder $5.00 on January 1, 1923. All the wealth and security of the United States are behind it It is as good as a Government bond, which is the safest investment in the world. Now, let’s see how Thrift Stamps are changed into War Savings Stamps. '

Take Some of Your Christmas Saving Money and Buy Thrift fi Stamps The banks are just now sending out Christmas Savings Checks—and a comparatively small portion of this money may well be put in Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps. Take your own case, for instance. Let us presume that you have a Christma savings Check. You have your Christmas plansa all made Go ahead with these just as you have intended but ®® ve h buy at least one Thrift Stamp.— or better than this—save enough to buy one War Savings Stamp. Start a War Savings Account right now. • 1 And, how about remembering your friends with Thrift Cards as Christmas. Greetings? A Thrift stamp on a Thrift Card will make a wonderfully appropriate Christmas Card.

War Savings Committee JOSEPH D. OLIVER OF INDIANA R. C. STEPHENSON . State Chairman -District Chairman JUDSON J. HUNT W. D. BRINGLE, Chairman Jasper County Sec’y. as P er oun y ■' ' * 'h J* . 'V • ' ■ ■ . - >. V v ■ . - ' - . / ? 1 ' / ' ' ' Z V > ■ ’ ") ■~' •

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN.* RENSSELAER. IND.

Suppose you have a card full of Thrift Stamps—<4.oo worth—and want to turn them into a War Savings Stamp in December, 1917. All you have to do is put Twelve Cents with your card and take it to any place where Thrift and War Savings Stamps are sold. There it will be exchanged for a Five Dollar War Savings Stamp, which will put you in the investor class. If you exchange Thrift Stamps for War Savings Stamps in Fel> ruary, 1918, you will be asked to pay Thirteen Cents in addition to your stamps. In March it will be Fourteen Cents; and so on, a cent a month, up to December, 1918, when the added amount will bcT Twenty-three Cents. The sooner you buy the less the cost. Save the nickels. Save the quarters. Buy U.S. Thrift Stamps. Exchange them for War Savings Stamps. Help the Government and help yourself at the same time. Here is a patriotic service that ALL can share in. BEGIN TODAY.