Proclamation 2507—Retailers-for-Defense Week to Aid in the Sale of Defense Savings Stamps

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the authority of the Public Debt Act of 1941, is offering Defense Savings Stamps, in small denominations, for sale to the people of the United States; and

Whereas national trade associations of our country representing more than one million retail stores have pledged the whole-hearted support of their members in assisting the Treasury Department to sell Defense Savings Stamps, and have agreed to observe the week of September 15 to 20, 1941, as Retailers-for-Defense Week to Aid in the Sale of Defense Savings Stamps, and to make an intensive effort during that time to acquaint the American shopping public with the advantages of buying Defense Savings Stamps:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of September 15 to 20, 1941, as Retailers-for-Defense Week to Aid in the Sale of Defense Savings Stamps, and do call upon the people of the United States to cooperate in making that week a period of outstanding achievement in the sale of Defense Savings Stamps.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this 29th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.