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Show J U ' " UWhy " ' > - . , " ' " - r : " ! \ I Why Whya a Farmer Should Shouldr r f Buy Buyand and Keep War Nor Bonds y . yby by Paul A . A . Eke EkeM EkeMAgricultural grcultural Agricultural gr cultural Economut Economist EconomutCollege EconomistCollege College of Agnculture Agriculture AgncultureMoscow Agriculturej j Moscow , Idaho J I j THE h T'HE THE + ' BE American farmer is readyj readyI ready readynow I 1 1now J . now to make personal sacri sacriI sacriflces sacriaces sacrifices flces aces beyond what the government governmenthas I has asked him hun bun to do by direct directtaxation directtaxation directtaxation taxation . . . He Re will do this tlus to hastenthe hastenthe hasten , the end ot of the war and in tlus this thisway thisway this\ this \ way save lives hves and . the mental an anJ angwsh anguish | guish gwsh which comes from separa separatlon separatorn separation J tlon torn of families and livme hvmg living under understrange understrange underttrange strange and uncomfortable condi conditlOns condibons condifaons tlOns bons both on the battle fronts and andin andin Iin andIin in logical logleal defense centers The most log leal ical sacrifice tor for the next few fewmonths fewmonths fewmonth asI months * is to operate the farm asIG aseconomically as IG IGI IGeconomlcal1y I economically economlcal1y as possible posslble consIstI consist consistpend I f ent WIth high produchon production and to tospend tospend spend pend as little llttle as is consistent conslstent WIth WIthgood withgood withI food good health and spiritual spmtual alertness alertnessfor alertnessfor alertnessj tor for livine hvmg laving cost costs * and then put the ther thebalance thei thebalance the1 r i balance into mto War BondsThe Bonds BondsJ J The farmer willm willin will in m 1844 1944 be moreI moreable moreable more j morej I ) able than during durmg the past 2 or 3 3j 3years 3j j years to buy Bonds Up untJ11941 until 1941 1941i 1941most 1911I i \ most farmers bad had gone through 10years 19years 10 19 10years depresI years of acute agricultural depres depresnon normalas * tion slon non and 20 years of below normal 101 as " ! 101i asq q 1 i longtime longtune incomes Most of them had long time tune and current current mdebtedness indebtedness indebtednessI indebtednessSi mdebtedness'j 'j j ' \ I forcme forcmg forcing their hands at all tunes times . - ) Nowin Now.m Nowm Nowrn Now -in in . - the main mam these debts areIn arei arein are i \ > in a shape in which the farmer fanner 18it ismaster is 18 it- it - itmaster master or they are completely completelyi ,1 1 1 i , paid o off oft @ and forgotten The farmerhas farmer | whathe has at last a free choice as to what he 1 F Fin x14 \in in da \ w wth , th hIs modest and andweu andwell * | weH weu well earned earnedeammgs earnedearnings earned earnings eammgs | goodbusiness eammgsFrom earningsFrom From the standpoint standpomt of good business there are many good rea * I J reaI reaJ ) ions sons for buying buymg Bonds now and andkeepmg andkeeping andkeeping keepmg keeping them , . 1 . 1 1 . . It is better to buy Bonds thanto than thanto thanto to fannerstor farmersfor bid against other farmers for what few farms are now nowfor nowfor nowfor for sale and thus lnfia inflate te land landpnces landprices landprice pnces prices * J 2 It is better to reduce large in inventorles ! inventones n nventories putthe ventorles ventories of livestock hvestock and put putthe putthe the money in m Bonds now when whenmeat whenmeat whenmeat meat is much needed and hIgh hIghpnced highpriced highpriced pnced priced than to carryover carry over Into Intothe intothe intothe the postwar period or into mto the theI thenext thenext thenext next drought when there willbe willbe wIll wIllbe I be rapid liquidation hqUldation and probably prob probbiy ably biy packing paclang house gluts probII and andlower andlower andlower II lower prices 3 Farmers Farmer . are all familiar famwar WIth WIththe withthe withthe the wisdom of saving savmg now toreplace toreplace to | replace equipment wearmg weanng wearing out outbut outbut outbut but not being bemg replaced outj 4 Saving money as Bonds will willmake willmake willmake j make possible new homes homesbarns homesbarns homesbarns barns and conveniences convemences after afterthe afterthe afterthe the war when the boys need a ajob ajab ajob job jab installing mstalhng these thIngsj things j 5 Perhaps we need to mention mentionthe mentionthe mentionthe the high pressure ttock stock mentionI and andtown andtown andtown I town real estate salesmen andsellers and andsellers andsellers sellers of other gold bncks bricks bncksBuy bricksBuy bricksBuy andI I readyfunds Buy Bonds and be out of ready funds when these gents ( ents ap appear appear appearOf I pear pearOf Of course there is the matter of ofretirement ofretirement ofretirement retirement for many farmers soon soonafter soonafter soonafter after the war War Bonds will be bea bea bea a place where the best mterest interest mterestrates interestrates interestrates rates now ava available able for savmgs savings savmgscan savingscan savingscan can be made Perhaps the chll chil chlldren children children dren will need more education educatJon aft aft- after after after - - er the war or the boys may needsome needsome need Isome some financial assistance in m start startmg starting starting mg ing in m farming farmmg fanning or in other lines of ofbusmess ofbusiness ofbusiness ofbusinessIt busmess business busmessIt businessIt It is hard now to buy anything anythingexcept anythingexcept anythingexcept except necessities and get our ourmor ourmor ourmor mor ey s worth For that reason reasonlet reasonlet reasonlet let us go along with the patrlOtlc patriotic patrlOtlccItizens patrioticcitizens patrioticcitizens cItizens of our country and put our ourfinancIal ourfinancial ourfinancial financIal UncleSam power back of Uncle SamU Sam . . 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