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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
8
The Treasury backed thrift program features a lesson teaching English through a sequence of simple sentences. It explains War Savings Stamps, showing a step by step usage from earning and saving to buying stamps, and notes the broad dissemination by corporations mailing thrift inserts with fund growth and redeemability details.
Thrift becomes a key subject in Americanization programs across the United States. Thousands of foreign born workers attend classes in factories, shops, churches, and night schools. many speak little English, so language study is paired with thrift instruction in a half hour drill each session. The program was devised for the Y.M.C.A. and published by that organization.
The thrift campaign targets the general education of people of small and moderate means teaching wise saving and prudent spending. Efforts aim to attract stockholders of large U S corporations, with twenty six major companies already agreeing to mail notices of dividend payments to stockholders to call attention to thrift.
The piece argues that only three in a hundred have savings at age 45 and warns that 97 percent risk losing their savings. It urges regular, safe saving in government securities, describing them as absolutely safe, high yielding, and accessible in small denominations to ensure being among the lucky three.
Invest in War Savings Stamps this year and lock their future value for office equipment, a new car, study, home purchase, or education. Eight and a half percent added benefits, safer, convenient, and designed for busy families to build security.
A publication extols War Savings Stamps noting broken eggs cannot mend and cashing in lies in maturity value. It asserts WSS outperforms money, promising no rainy day for savers who invest regularly in War Savings Stamps.
War Savings Stamps offer eight distinctive benefits: direct promise by a strong government, 4 percent interest compounded quarterly, low investment to own, wide availability at post offices banks and agencies, purchasable anytime, principal maintained with accrual, highly liquid redeemable at maturity, and immediate interest at purchase, emphasizing security and accessibility.
A vintage appeal quotes Andrew Carnegie and Lincoln urging thrift to secure tomorrow. It promotes buying Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps as a path to home ownership travel and business growth, contrasting a thrifty era with wasteful living.
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