Word: thrift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to call to mind once more that the bonuses from the Government are on the way to most of the men in College, and that the practice of thrift is never to be regretted. If the Freshmen will arouse from their state of inertia and pay up the pledges made at their mass meeting last Monday, the end of the drive will be in sight. We have no doubt that the payment of this obligation will be performed, and in such circumstances the University will be in a position to oversubscribe the quota. Let every one audit...
Franklin and Chaumont! We are honor bound to back up this Thrift Stamp Drive...
...America who goes to France, and the town which became the headquarters of General Pershing is Chaumont. Our government is abundantly able to repay those barrels of gunpowder if the people stand behind it with their money. The Franklin Thrift Stamp Drive is asking you to do this. The appeal of Franklin: "for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him," reminds us of our debt more powerfully now that France has sacrificed her all, than it did when Chaumont advanced us 2,000 barrels of gunpowder...
Swiftly the screen of circumstances is being shifted. In the space of twelve months hundreds of thousands of Americans have become security holders, many little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...
...theory carries out. The men or women with a few dollars in Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps will add to those dollars. They will regret when an unnecessary dollar must be drawn from their incomes or their bank deposits. With thousands the thrift instinct has been aroused for the first time: More years of war or sudden peace will not affect the personal equation in the preachment of frugality. At first it will be only gradually realized, the evolution of type being brought about, but nevertheless surely the foundation has been laid for a greater and saner, a better...