Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1917 — Page 2

25 CENTS 25 • / J 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 wiH 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-44.00—y0u can take them to any place where Thrift Stamps are sold aad 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. AU 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.

War Savings Committee JOSEPH D. OLIVER OF I N Di*ANA R - <*• STEPHENSON State Chairman | DistrictOhairman JUDSON J. HUNT W. D. BRINGLES W Chairman Jasper County Sec’y. Jitipor fWWpty . ■ ' ' ' , ■ ■ ' ■ . . •. ■ -C •**_ - A,■<? • . . 1 -v AT - This ad Contributed by ReMd>licW< -

Take Some of Your Christmas Saving Money and Buy Thrift Stamps - Thel banks are just nowisendirt^out.Christmas Savings Checks— i and a comparatively small portion nf this money may well be put in I’h rift 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 jnade f Go ahead with these just as you have intended but save enougtiro---' buy at least one Thrift Stampi^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 Gards as«.» Christmas Greetings? A Thrift stamp on a Thrift Card wilr Amake; tt wonderfully appropriate Christmas Card -

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Suppose you have a card full of Thrift Stamps—s4.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 Wai* 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 February, 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 be Twenty-three Cents. The sooner you buy the less the cost. X. 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.