--- title: 'All About W.S.S.: Every Stamp Helps to Save a Life, Every Stamp Helps to End the War' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-about-wss-war-savings-stamps-1918/ description: A text-only sheet answers four questions about War Savings Stamps (what, why, how, where) with prices, a monthly cost table and the guarantee of repayment section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. All About W.S.S.: Every Stamp Helps to Save a Life, Every Stamp Helps [![All About W.S.S.: Every Stamp Helps to Save a Life, Every Stamp Helps to End the War, 1918 US poster: A text-only sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-about-wss-war-savings-stamps-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-about-wss-war-savings-stamps-1918.jpg) # All About W.S.S.: Every Stamp Helps to Save a Life, Every Stamp Helps to End the War A text-only sheet answers four questions about War Savings Stamps (what, why, how, where) with prices, a monthly cost table and the guarantee of repayment in 1923. The persuasion rests on practical detail plus moral framing, closing with 'Every stamp helps to save a life' and the note that soldiers 'may give their lives; you are asked only to lend your money.' ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ALL ABOUT W.S.S. What Are They? THEY ARE WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THEY ARE OF TWO KINDS- United States Thrift Stamps (25c. each). United States War Savings Stamps ($4.12 to $4.23 each, depending upon the month in which you purchase them). Sixteen U. S. Thrift Stamps plus twelve cents in cash in January, 1918 (for each succeeding month in 1918 the price will be increased one cent), will purchase a War Savings Stamp, which, when affixed to a War Savings Certificate, is the guarantee of the Government and the People of the United States to repay on January 1, 1923, the full amount with interest at 4 per cent compounded quarterly. The U. S. Thrift card is a pocket-size card given free of charge to purchasers of U. S. Thrift Stamps. The War Savings Certificate is a pocket-size folder given to holders of War Savings Stamps. War Savings Stamps are as safe as the United States. Why Should I Buy Them? BECAUSE WE ARE AT WAR BECAUSE-the more we save, the more labor and material will be available for the use of the Government and for the support of our army. BECAUSE-we must have dollars as well as men in the fight for freedom. BECAUSE-they establish the soundest and simplest basis of saving, which is the key to individual success. BECAUSE-there is no safer investment in the world. BECAUSE-War Savings Stamps must increase each month in value. How Can I Buy Them? AS SIMPLY AS BUYING POSTAGE STAMPS This is the simplest security ever offered by a great government to its people. Any man, woman, or child who can save twenty-five cents can obtain at any Post Office or Bank a U. S. Government Thrift Stamp and a Thrift card to which to attach it. This starts you as an investor, and puts you behind the Government. When Shall I Buy Them? BUY THEM NOW!!! Because the cost increases one cent each month after the 31st of January, 1918. The sooner you buy them the less they cost The price of War Savings Stamps is $4.12 in January, 1918, and increases one cent each month until in December, 1918, when the price is $4.23. The cost is as follows: Jan. . . . $4.12 Apr. . . . $4.15 July . . . $4.18 Oct. . . . $4.21 Feb. . . . 4.13 May . . . 4.16 Aug. . . . 4.19 Nov. . . . 4.22 Mar. . . . 4.14 June . . . 4.17 Sept. . . . 4.20 Dec. . . . 4.23 No commissions are charged to you, or paid to anyone. Our soldiers and sailors may give their lives; you are asked only to lend your money. Where Can I Buy Them? AT POST OFFICES, BANKS, TRUST COMPANIES, AND MANY OTHER AUTHORIZED SELLING AGENCIES W.S.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EVERY STAMP HELPS TO SAVE A LIFE EVERY STAMP HELPS TO END THE WAR UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE-1918-[illegible] ``` The two small W.S.S. seals (Statue of Liberty) carry tiny text that is illegible. Small codes at the bottom edge ('9-10', '7-xxx') are not transcribed. The table is laid out in four columns in the original. [← Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin'? The Men Know, Home Folks Know. Y.W.C.A. Hostess Houses in Seventy Camps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aint-it-a-grand-and-glorious-feelin-ywca-hostess-houses-1918/) [Auch die Geduld hat ein Ende (Even Patience Has an End), German-language leaflet for German soldiers →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allied-leaflet-auch-die-geduld-hat-ein-ende-1918/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.