Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-05-20 | Page 4 | About Our Future

About Our Future Y N J that the Victory loan has bag Jas come to iu BO O victorious n conclusion the country is lookin looking to the fulfillment fulfillment fulfillment fulfill- fulfill ment men ol I tho the predictions that the market will nee ence a tremendous revival rc Financial experts expert say that the the active resumption of or business retarded by the loan is is imminent jn in in fact is already in full swin swing The barrier barT bar bar- T rier rier er furnished by hy the thc necessity ty for financing the loan has been removed cd and the burden burdei t that rested the fed here C the thc m money ney of f Ule We C com try is S 'S s kept upon has l 1 filc s are now enabled to 0 cast east their up UJ accounts account t to of C themselves cs to know e exactly the ex ex- f which their customers have withdrawn f for subscriptions to the thc loan the extent to which deposits b 5 S subscribe themselves the they r i t r of volume of of tempo tempo- indebtedness they have on hand ch confidently dently regard as a liquid asset aset to be ref d l b the government and the extent to which he be able to take care or of the tho demands of aw awakened and nn an impulse The finan- finan c r. r l. l arc aro optimistic and th that t inspires COnf COn COn- f e find confidence IS always co i st it of prosper us uncertainty business i- i E Ev n the withdrawn by customers g. g ry l Joan an will viii largely find their for the bank binks Way hack into the tho i through government deposits and if ed u hy by the k go lot for mt will a again Kain in to the banks by the be largely re- re persons to payments arc m de so that i it seem whom the entirely t te e. e a plethora of money moner for all legitimate t ent en- en success of the V loan c when t the 1 wa n a foregone W 0 rate WU wa fl ed at 4 1 r V openly How Ilow i p per r cent is It had hall might have fared faed if the ra been placed cd lower ma he be n it t have n taken more may only conjectured It pcr anti J to put It o over r the tho top nut But perhaps more wIth 1 tp of 4 pet jer cent and with thc tax nn interest f exemptions Sped Sped- if i- i investors both large f. f and aud small were keen pr the fact that the bonds were vere better than hall to ap- ap dmary 7 per per pcr cent investment mile the an ordinary or or- is 1 nn this abnormally hi high h rate it showed gOvernment wis wisdom om i in i is I 1 making aking the bonds redeemable in four years cars T While the war d debt bt of fW i reduced rr to tc 20 Q by what the allies owe U u's us us will ir i I h heavily vily upon Jhc the government its payment is distributed I over a period pC of years and the recuperative tile the c powers powers' o oi of demonstrated after Jill Country other wars will be Lre i rc- rc rn enhanced b by the supreme comm commercial poj ti tK D V by the United States compared with other ni nations Bi Big fi figures n es arc dir to lo but r 1 grasp we ran ear n nai i ai understand th that t each American A owes 22 l of If hi his 5 I I country's B debt each ench Briton 78 8 each F Frenchman each cachi Italian and each German nan COO while th the amount r of or wealth per p capita is as follows United States 2803 Great Britain Franco Italy 1111 Germany 1 1231 It will be he noted that the United States wit with h the Uw mo most t. t wealth has the smallest debt dett so that in inthe inthe m the great rent race race of the future for national supremacy th theother the theother other four nations are arc handicapped before thc they start fei tn fan i Pa