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Show "Swift & Company" I (Now Over 22,000) Perhaps it has not occurred to 1 j ! J you that you can participate in I I Swift & Company's profits, and ' J I I also share its risks, by becom- I 1 ing a co-partner in the business? IS I It is not a close corporation. II J You can do this by buying Swift & i Company shares, which are bought Jjjjj I and sold on the Chicago and Boston iijjjji III I stock exchanges. f mi II There are now over 22,000 share- Eji II I holders of Swift & Company, 3,500 of Jj B whom are employes of the Company. I I ! These 22,000 shareholders include i J 7,800 women. j I I Cash dividends have been paid reg- I I ularly for thirty years. The rate at 1 1 present is 8 per cent. I j III The capital stock is all of one kind, 1 1 namely, common stock there is no j! preferred stock, and this common stock II represents actual values. There is no 1 III "water," nor have good will, trade 1 111 marks, or patents been capitalized. Ill flllj This statement is made solely for your HI information and not for the purpose of I I , booming Swift & Company stock. 1 Jjjj III We welcome, however, live stock 1 j HI producers, retailers, and consumers as II I co-partners. I I I We particularly like to have for II , shareholders the people with whom ! j we do business. j I IS This leads to a better mutual 1 j j l understanding. ill Year Book of interesting and ill j instructive facts sent on request. U .jij Hj I Address Swift & Company, yjJ A! I J Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois MM I Swift & Company flF "ill .rjfenwffiA '" &r b .... - g 1 When I Come Home ! m VV7HEN I come home and leave behind Dark things I would not call to mind, H Til taste good ale and home-made bread, And see white sheets and pillows spread; &s And there is one who'll softly creep i J To kiss me, ere I fall asleep. jj And tuck me 'neath the counterpane And I shall be a boy again g When I come home! $g "V7HEN I come home, from dark to light H ' And tread the roadways long and white, " And tramp the lanes I tramped of yore, ' And see the village greens once more, i H The tranquil farms, the meadows free, &j The friendly trees that nod to me, H And hear the lark beneath the sun, H ' 'Twill be good pay for rvhatPve done H When I come home! g J . LESLIE COULSON S gj .Killed in Action. Oct. 7, 1916) m m g " 'Twill be good pay!" It is the only re- S ward they ask these fighting men of ours j S to come home, victorious. It is the debt S h we owe can we pay it in full ? No. But f we can do all we can do. s J Save and try in some small way to pay ijg our debt to those who have fallen. Save S honorably make a religion of it nothing we can do today here at home touches so 4$ closely the heart of life. For saving saves H life. Bonds save life. If you buy greatly 5 you will help some strong, clean American $ vi? - $it boy, in whose heart is ringing the words $ J "when I come home" really to win through jj g to return to us a victorious crusader p. a mother's son alive and well and home S again I jg Buy Liberty Bonds I toYour Very Utmost I 1 This Space Contributed to Winning the War by Wasatch Wlevo. Go, |