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Show 'KIDDIES" BUY THRIFT STAMPS " fcS 3 SET EXAMPLE FOR GROWN-UPS; LITTLE MISS KUTH M ' LELLAND, a dark-eyed little beauty, telling J her dolly all about thrift stamps aud how they will help Uncle Sam "lick" the kaiser. She is the proud owner of a thrift card and is about to stick four new stamps upon it. I - i, y .Awm Little Folk's Purchases Pile Up Sales of "Baby Bonds." HE little folk or Salt Lake are do-- Ting their bit for Uncle Sam in the purchase and sale of war savings .tamps in a manner that m.ght we be emulated by the grown-us, grown-us, -according to. .reporw; f- George T. Odell. state director ot war s iB and James Collins, chairman of the state committee. In fact, according to the reports, the Uttle folk are doing more real savmg, in proportion., than are then- elders. The?.- purchases are not so large, maybe, as those of the older folk, but m the aggregate ag-gregate their totals .are rolling up faster and higher than those of their elders Neariv every child in the state that is old enough to understand the war savin fS7& s Su--? eU-rnvreUft they may help amoTVre'c'tive6 JS advertising mediums. ; vvprv child that has a- thrilt cara m ducef a father, mother, brother or sis- thThf chUdrenntiake a most enthusiastic interest in filling their tnriiL their appeals to the older people a re v r-resistible r-resistible The result is that tne saie St thrift' stamps has been greatly increased in-creased through their patriotic effots Each child feels that he or she is do i e something for the government, is taking f part in the winning or the. world ar. and each one s doing a big little bit. The thrift card plan of raising money . heen introduced niost succ'essfuily among the scltoo! chjl-dren chjl-dren and in every school in Salt Lake and throughout the state of L tah the vuun? students are engaged in an active ac-tive and friendly competition m the matter mat-ter of buving and selling thrift and war 8ainorta?fP8ihe schools of Salt Lake honor rolls have been established m the various rooms upon which appear the names of the students who own thrift cards and are filling them with stamps, 'r mot of the schools it takes great big blackboards to hold all the names of the children who are enrolled in this manner in the service of their country Those who are the means ot buying and selling the "reatest number of stamps are "iven the places of highest honor at the head of the list, and it is with deepest interest that the children watch the position posi-tion of the names on the boards as their vork brings about changes. A.s a matter of fact," said Chairman Collins of the state committee, "the chil-lren chil-lren are showing more interest in the thrift stamp movement than are the -i-own folk. And they are more consistent consis-tent savers. Their purchases are not so !,,re alwavs, of course, but they keep at i't and their totals run up big when all he little purchases are counted up. "We arc counting a great deal upon the ikl of the children not only in the matter ot their own savings, but as agents to help us place thrift and war savings stamps in the hands of older people. They are reallv our best advertisers and sales people for. when thev become interested. Thev alwavs get others interested and rbe'v make the big folk 'come through.' ' - I am sure that when the thrift sav-i,--s camnuicn is ended I nele Sam will hive just cause to be proufi or tne work done by the little men and women of the country." |