The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX A S R R R e ’, % THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA S S NN AN “_ l IR RN ———e =74 *..and youlll always have tobacco in pour old tobacco box!” When | was a kid my father used to sing a song that ended up with this refrain: “Oh, save up your money and put it in your sox And you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box!” Well, the words stuck with me, but I guess the moral didn’t. No matter how hard I tried .". . no matter how many good resolutions I made...I always ended up even. If I made more ! money, I spent more money. Finally, I re- signed myself to it—sold myself the idea that I was the kind of fellow who never could save up any money. But it’s all different. now! About ten months ago, I started buying War Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan. Figured it was the least I could do for Uncle Sam. .. to be kicking in my 10% every month to help pay for the ways and means of licking the Axis. ; That’s the only way I thought about it ..., until just recently! SAVE WITH U.S. WAR BONDS EVERYBODY...EVERY PAYDAY... Now, all of a sudden, I've discovered that —for the first time in the history of Yours Truly—I’m saving dough. Every month, rain-or-shine, hell-or-high-water, I'm sticking away a War Bond, a bond that’ll bring me back $4.00 for every $3.00 I put in. Those Bonds are beginning to mount up now. And I'm going to keep them mounting up. For I've discovered what a swell feeling it is to be saving money ... saving it on a This adverlisement is a coniribution o America’s all-out war effort by ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT and POWER COMPANY plan that’s regular as clockwork and twice\J as sure. ¥ About the time those Bonds start coming’ due, my kid'll be ready for college. So you can guess what I’'m going to do with the, money. ¥ And maybe I'll sing my father’s song to myself . . . only changing it a little: ( “Qh, save wp your War Bonds and put them in your: sox And you'l always have tobacco in your old tobacco hl.') AT LEAST 10% WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1943 2.