Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'A?' m i ■ Swat the Tly. GIVE GRENADE BANKS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN Million* to be Distributed by Treas ury Department to Encourage Happy Habit of Thirft. Hand grenades .made by the United States government to bomb the Huns to destruction are now to be used to boom thrift. Millions of the little ma chines of destruction, with the explos ives carefully removed, are to be given to the school children of the United States to encourage the saving habit. The grenades are being con verted into miniature savings banks. They will hold pennies and nickels and dimes which can be converted into Thrift Stamps. The Thrift Stamps in turn can be converted into War Savings Stamps. Distribution of the grenades in the aeveraT Federal Reserve"Dlltffeta Will be left in the hands of the district Sav ings Directors. In this district the War Loan Organisation, with head quarters in Richmond, Va., ha* so ar- HOW SAVINGS HABIT HELPS EVERYBOD Money Invested TWs Year in Th Stamps Returns in Five Years -. Vastly Increased. rift On New Year’s day 1923, there will begin a remarkable series of divi dend payments to American people. Hundreds of millions of dollars <5f War Savings Stamps sold during 1918 will then be redeemable. On each News Year’s day thereafter for a num ber of years there will undoubtedly be huge retu.ns to the American peo ple of the money borrowed with in terest. These great dividend days bring American bankers new opportunities and also responsibilities. How can new thrift habits be linked to thrift institutions? How can this money, the product of thrift, b* mobilised for further work? ^ Already the bankenj are working with the Treaehry Department to continue thrift habits. For people who save money there is a wide range of thrift institutions that will take charge of funds, put them to work safely, and return good earnings. As the government plans to borrow by general education of thrift in every kind, so the banks and thrift institu tions can aid the government by en couraging general thrift and building bigger business themselves. One of the first steps to be taken by bankers is that of spreading informa tion about banks, life insurance, build ing and loan associations, federal farm loans, and all other thrift institutions.' tfhe best way to meet Uncle Sam’s borrowing needs is to promote thrift on the broadest possible lines. Every dollar deposited in a savings bank becomes available for national finance. Every life insurance policy sold is equivalent to an indirect loan to the^, government Every obligation assumed by thrifty people such as a building mortgage is a stimulus to production and saving, and therefore, as much a national service as the di rect purchase of government securi ties. Id placing these matters clearly before everybody in his community the banker will live up to his opportu nities and his responsibilities in the new thrift movement. When the bil lion dollar New Year Days arrive he will be ready. I want the public to know that I have added to my mechanic force Mr. John W. Anderson. This gives me four first-class mechanics and insures as good service as will be found in South Y Carolina; In addition to first class service, you will get at my place Only Genuine Ford Parts placed in your cars which is the biggest factor in the low cost of up-keep of cars. I want to thank one and all of my many cus tomers for the past big patronage and am expecting a bigger busi ness than last year with the 'present large force of mechanics. YOU WILL FIND MY STOCK AS COMPLETE AS ANY IN THE $TATE. COME TO SEE US. E. W. FERGUSON Ford Dealer This Camels 8 days are up Man, but he*8 thirsty! lie'll never go eight days without a drink again. 11 e had never tasted Pepsi- Cola when he started that stufT! — . H The desert’s awfully hot, the Oases few and far between: PRPSI-COLA is simply priceless to this old one- hump sailing ship of the sandy Sahara. Y.’i'.li IVpsi-Cola as an incentive !)'• could keep going all day. Why don'tyuM drink Pcpsi-Cola, t<"', (his hot weather, and keep g i-'g all (lay at full Tpeed? 1 Jfiuk HAND GRENADE SAVINGS BANK ranged that a grenade bank will be awarded to each child, who, during the vacation period, earns enough money to buy a War Savings Stamp, (i 'i Some bank In every community will lend each child a grenade and at the close of the vacation period the child will relum it,' with the money it con tains, to the bank. There the money will be counted. If the child has saved enough to buy a War Savings Stamp the grenade-bank will he his; but in all events the cash must be in- TELLS HOW .SHE BUYS WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Woman Tells How by Intelligent Sav ings Plan She Is Able to Accumu late Money Which Was Formerly Wasted. “Save while the money is warm" is the motto of a woman who has estab lished a reputation both for herself vested in Thrift Stamps if not enough | and her family by the number, of War has been saved to pay for a War Sav ings Stamp. The grenade-banks are of considerable value and will be splendid souvenirs of the great war, and the War Loan Organization of the Fifth Federal Reserve District is anx ious to place them in the hands of as many children as possible. Thrift is not miserliness, it is get ting a hundred cents worth out of evsry dollar. Are you sending out ships, or just hoping that somebody else’s will get stranded on your shore? Buy W. 3. S. and watch your own come in. % JXm’t forget the squirrel—save some of your nuts, for the winter that always follonft*l^hib^ummer,—Buy W. S. S. Thrift is the improvidence is of money— se. Buy W. S. S. BRITISH THRIFT. The British War Savings Com mittee has become a permanent institution in England and the fol lowing declaration has been issued explaining the English attitude toward thrift: “Quite as important, both as a source of revenue and as a social movement. Is the restraint of lux ury. and growth of economy and simplicity of life among the well-to- do. Otherwise goods and service* will be wasted. War savings ap plies tr all classes and appeal* to all Incomes.” Savings Stamps she bought without apparently stinting in the least. Her* is her system. “The only way to save is to save. When I have actually saved a quarter I put it into a Thrift Stamp without delay. If I save that quarter on one thing and then spend it carelessly for something else, I have not saved any real money. “For example the other day I went down town expecting to pay JlO for a pair of special shoes. To my sur prise, I found there was a sale that day. and got the very pair of shoes I wanted for $7.75.; I had saved $2.2». But how to keep it saved. I knew that if I simply regarded it mentat^y-as saving, before the end of the month it would be spent miscellaneously. 1 went right down stairs in the store and bought nine Thrift Stamps <*nd stuck those quarters in the Thrift card where they could not get away before the end of the month. *T do the same thing when I have saved a single quarter or half dollar, and I am seriously thinking of getting a little penny bank to hold saved pen- nies or dimes until they grow to Thrift Stamp size. What is more, I am get ting a whole lot of fun out of this most fascinating game, the game of “Getting Ahead." Get that happy feeling—it’u waiting for you with your flrat.W. 8. 8. The man who puts h»s money Into W. S. 8. Is never •‘broke.** Watch your out-go today and tout futura income will take car* of Itself. Buy W. 8. 8. and you will neither waste nor want. i Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company P. S. JEANS, Owner .r i \ \ \ v \