Show War Wat Stamp Sales Over vel- vel Half Billion Dollars Album Drive Opens 1 x i 4 Take rr P Pi s t k N U. U S. S S Treasury photo I Appealing Margaret C. C Russell of the War Savings Staff tacks up this new Treasury poster which will be seen from coast const Vo to o coast It pictures retailers' retailers I slogan SAY YES iES A drive is underway for Americans to buy additional War I I Stamps to fill albums and convert them into War Bonds I D. D C. C The C.-The C. C The nations nation's na- na nations nation's tion's lions retailers from the tiniest hamlets to the mighty cities are act act- acting acting ing lag as a spearhead in a great Treas Treas- Treasury Treasury Treasury ury Department campaign to sell seU the additional War Savings Stamps needed to fill more than albums now in the hands of the American According to a report released leased by the Treasury it today sales of War Savings Stamps totaled for the period from May 1 1941 through November 1942 Stamp sales have risen from less than three million dollars per month when they were first introduced to the public to an average of more than fifty million dollars per month at the present time The Treasury's slogan A itA half- half filled album is like a half-equipped half soldier has been adopted officially by retailers for the campaign The importance of the drive is seen in the fact that a War Bond po po- potential potential po- po potential of nearly two billion dollars hangs in the balance Every War Stamp album con f con converted into a Peoples People's Bond for which the purchaser pays 1875 and which matures to 2500 value when held for 10 years adds its force to the war effort The Treasury Department is counting upon the country's school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children to play a powerful role in inthe inthe the success of the SAY YES drive The Th volume of stamp and bond sales I is at the rate of for the I current school year U. U S. S Treasury Department DC Depart in cut |