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Show Merchants Must Not Trade in War Savings Stamps WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The practice prac-tice by some merchants of giving war savings stamps as premiums with purchases pur-chases is strongly condemned by the treasury. "The war savings movement was created to help tho people of the United Unit-ed Stales win the war," said a treasury official in a statement today. "When a retail dealer gives away a war savings stamp he does, so that he can sell a man something the man does not need and for which the war industries board can not spare the facilities and labor (o manufacture. Thus the transaction tran-saction precisely defeats the "War savings sav-ings movement." " 0 |