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Show BUY THE P.OND.S. Conservation u on the part f th" bankers has been of rnt -cr ic to the (.'overnrr.cnt at a tin.-' wh- n every! Ioh.ho dollar was needed to fir.aa. e the ; war. fc-; epilation has becu b-Id in ehe.-k as far as pr.ib!e an 1 exrar-iuii of1 business in non-r eenti tl in- ha b en j restricted ti a t;ri':ik extent. The b;..s; nPM community, howevrr, has n.-eepe. the situation phiiofo; hb ally. The ilan-Cr ilan-Cr of a rrn-h upon the return of pe?t e I ha s thus been a voided , and the 1 1 n an cial pu.v.'ion of the cour.try. devite the enormous drain, is fnu::d to the for.. It would have been an oav matter to 1 1 ! r . w speculation to run r i r ) t ( but 1 1 1 result would hae been d i -.f rous and th country would have been in no condition con-dition to return to normal business methods. Thero is wr'k and ruin on j every hand in Kurope, and tho l'ni!ed States will be called upon to n - i ' t in 1 f i nanein tj the work of re -on .-.T ru t i'n. We ?d.al 1 douhtr enter n pon ait era of dovt lopinent here at home which will re'juirc a va-t amount of mpit.il. Tint as we have by far the Inr't pdd reserve re-serve in the world nnd the bet credit of all the nations, it will nut be difficult diffi-cult to find the money for any legitimate legiti-mate bufdnens enterprise. The fuet that the Iiberty bonds po far sold ure in thf hands of American citionn will tend to keep the yold in this country, ani those who are wi.sn enough and I oshc.'.s the reipi i si t e amount of patriotism pa-triotism will invest all the money they can scrape together in thec government securities. Let us look ahead with nui-fidence, nui-fidence, but by all means bt us back Crude Sam with our hvd dollar, and we shall rertainlv be I:irj:c gainers. |