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Show H Uncle Sam's Savings Stamps The government schemo to ratso money by war Havings stamps and thrift cards ought to stop soma j money that now goes to waste. It will not merely H buy uiilforms fur a good many soldier boys, but some H jeoplo will acqul o tho thrift hublt who formerly could not save a dollar. B There are many persons having fairly good In- comes who can never keep money on hand for regu- 88 4ar bank deposits. When the roll in the bureau I drawer gets up to 10 or 20 dollars, they feel rich. 0 Then something comes to their mind that they want. They unroll their wad and their savings melt away. IB "They console themselves with tho idea that next H quarter they will do better, liy that tlmo new and unforeseen uses for money have turned up. k These peoplo might easily spare a dollar a week BBV though they could never save $50 a year In lumps. A small sum each week -means simply less for shows or tobacco or candy or other superfluities and they H Saving Is a matter of habit and If not begun , early In life It comes hard. Tho boy who becomes used to salting away a dime or a quarter weekly out of his little earnings, does not feel comfortable when fl, ha falls to do It. Tho sense of a little capital grow- B ing all the time gives him more satisfaction than tho BBB pleasures tho money would give him. Then when BBBB ho grows up, he does It easily, and as earnings in- BBB crease, his savings Increase also. BBB The large success the banks havo had with BBB their Christmas and vacation clubs Illustrates how BBB people can acquire the habit. Now the government PBH i proposes to make It easier than ever. You have not BBh got to hrfard up a large roll of money, but simply BBB buy one- or more 25 cent savings stamps with the H looso change in your pocket, and put it on Undo H" Sam's Thrift card. |