Is there a credit union, or a savings association, or other organization to promote thrift in your community? If so, find out how it operates.
Write a story on the subject, "What my five dollars may accomplish after I put it in the savings bank, before it comes back to me with interest."
Why are people willing to accept a lower rate of interest from a postal savings bank than from an ordinary savings bank?
READINGS
In LESSONS IN COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL LIFE:
Series A: Lesson 6, Capital.
Lesson 13, U.S. Food Administration.
Lesson 14, Substitute foods.
Lesson 15, Woman as the family purchaser.
Lesson 21, Borrowing capital for modern business.
Lesson 22, The commercial bank and modern business.
Series B: Lesson 7, An intelligently selected diet.
Lesson 22, Financing the war.
Lesson 23, Thrift and war savings.
Series C: Lesson 7, Preserving foods.
Lesson 8, Preventing waste of human beings.
Lesson 14, The U.S. Fuel Administration.
Lesson 16, The Commercial Economy Board of the Council
of National Defense.
Write Savings Division, U.S. Treasury Department, for materials; especially "Ten Lessons in Thrift," and "Teaching Thrift in Elementary Schools." Both of these contain lists of readings.
The Post-Office Department has publications descriptive of the postal savings service.