FIVE MEN IN SIX DESTITUTE AT 65. 



Old age brings to all a decrease, and to most an entire loss, 

 of earning power. During this period we either depend upon 

 what we have accumulated during our earning period or upon 

 the assistance of relatives or the State. 



Life insurance actuaries have estimated that at 65 years of 

 age some 64 men of each 100 who attain the age of 25 are 

 still living. Of this number 1 is rich, 4 are wealthy, 6 are 

 self-supporting and compelled to work for a living, and 53 are 

 dependent upon children, relatives, or charity. 



This is the situation in America. It is not true in some 

 other countries, notably France. 



The Government, through the Savings Division of the 

 Treasury Department, is actively interested in promoting a 

 spirit of thrift in America. In furthering this purpose it 

 issues an unusually attractive Government security in the 

 form of the War Savings Stamp, which is well adapted to the 

 use of those who wish to accumulate a fund for old age. 



Persons who build up such a fund must save systematically. 

 Investment in War Savings Stamps enables them to put these 

 savings to work at once at a rate of interest especially attract- 

 ive when the period of accumulation may run over a compara- 

 tively long period. 



If at 25 a man begins to accumulate a fund for old age by 

 hiding somewhere a dollar a week, he will have $2,080 when he 

 is 65 years old. If he buys War Savings Stamps at the rate of 

 a dollar a week and keeps at it, he will be absolutely certain to 

 have over $5,100 at that time. 



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