Word: thrift
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...Liberty Loan Committee of New England states that this practice discourages thrift, increases expenditures and deprives the Government of labor and material needed for war purposes...
Christmas will supply the answer for many; charity, especially war charity, will receive much of the Liberty dividend. Others will cash the coupon with the postmaster and immediately hand him back the money, with a request for thrift stamps or war savings stamps. Still others will simply deposit the coupon at the bank and be credited with so much more paid on their second Liberty bonds...
...ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until the sum amounts to $82.40, one has a complete war savings-certificate...
...this may be done with interest at any time. By saving nickels and dimes now, one may buy stamps later which cost $4.12, and which in five years will be worth five dollars. Likewise, a full certificate will rise in value from $82.40 to $100. To encourage personal thrift, to build up its financial strength, the Government offers this opportunity for investment. Let no one neglect...
...Adams emphasized strongly the part which woman might play in the struggle for preparedness. "There are two fields in which women may work; one economic, the other moral. In the former she can by thrift and system save enough to pay the expenses of the entire American army, and in the latter she can prove herself worthy of men's dying for, as she has in former days...