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Show NOW AND THEN What is a dollar? Foolish question ques-tion you say? Not at all these days of H. C. L. and profiteering. Certainly Cer-tainly a dollar isn't what it was ten years ago. It isn't what it will be five years from now. A dollar is what you can get for It in beans, butterflies, or bunk no more or no less. A dollar wouldn't be worth anything if you couldn't get anything for it. I Ten years ago you bought, we'll say, bunk at one dollar a share. Now bunk costs two dollars a share. That doesn't mean that bunk has doubled in value. It means that your dollar is worth half what it was ten years afso. This Is, therefore, not the' time to spend your dollars. They will bring you only half what they are worth. This is the time lo save them. They will bring more later on That is the history of dollars. Value, run in cycles. As sure as you are living five years from now a dollar j will be worth more than it is now, probably twice as much. So when you save a dollar now you are really saving two dollars. Treat dollars as you would any other commodity. Buy them when they are cheap. Stick every dollar you can into War Savings Stamps now. Carrying 4 per cent interest compounded quarterly, a War Savings Stamp bought this month for $4.20, will be worth five dollars January 1, 1924. By 19'M the ' ,l!ar will be worth twice "as much as it is so you will really have ten dollars for the $4.19. |