Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — TAKE TWENTY STEPS TO START HOME OF OWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TAKE TWENTY STEPS TO START HOME OF OWN

War Savings Stamps Will Do the Trick and Help You to Independence in Life. The man or woman owning a home rather than renting, is on the way to truest happiness and prosperity. The home owner is a solid and substantial citizen, not a national, economic "floater.” He is like a tree that has taken firm root. The man or the woman not now owning a home should lose no time in beginning to work for the home-owning goal. Saving for a. home should begin immediately, since comparatively few are financially able to build on the instant. “The first hundred is the hardest," but the “first hundred” needn’t come hard at all, If proper saving methods are put into use. War Savings stamps, with Thrift stamps as builders, and the new Treasury Savings certificates are admirable friends of the American citizen with laudable home-owning ambitions. It’s comparatively easy to save $6, albeit the War Savings stamp which In 1924

will mature at $5 in September, 1919 costs but $4.20. The first $5 saved means the first step, the step that counts, toward the home-owning achievement. Take twenty such steps —buy twenty War Savings stamps — within the current year and your filled 1919 War Savings stamps card may be exchanged for a Treasury Savings certificate maturing, in 1924, for SIOO. If your “first hundred” already approaches realization, take the twenty steps at a leiyi by purchasing a SIOO Treasury Savings certificate which costs, in September, 1919, only SB4, with monthly price and vrt ue increase of 20 cents. In September, 1919, a SI,OOO Treasury Savings certificate maturing in 1924 costs but SB4O, with $2 monthly increase. With a building lot and from SI,OOO to $1,500 capital, it has been estimated, actual home building, under one of several partial-pay-ment plans, may safely begin. The business or professional woman with home-owning aspirations pins her faith to War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates. They bear 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly, they mature in five years, they may be redeemed at any time, at any post office, at face value.