Show Well yo you and I have got our Libarty Liberty Lib I ert arty erty Bonds In buying thorn thom I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose we think w e we have conferred a great favor or on Uncle Sam Saiu And in a away away away way we have But looking at It another another another an an- other way we are Just dust 1 plain 1011 lucky lucky lucky- lucky t that 0 a sl on arose arose which compelled us us for at least once once In our ourives lives ives to put something aside for or b a brainy I rainy da day and to put It aside In the th I most co conservative and soI solid d form form That That little old three and a half p percent per percent cent ma may not look very ery big to to us us- us but the money is safe That is the main thing John Rockefeller may lose Iose ose his wits and his coin and have haye to go to an old mens men's home but those government bonds will still sUII be good They are backed by Uncle Sams Sam's po power pow er to tax the combined assets of the nation Therein lies the peculiar b beauty uty of a gover government ment bond The government can do what nb n no private corporation can can do It do-It It can go out and compel people to pour in taxes enough h to enable the government to meet Its obligations North America would Must ius about slide oft off Into the sea before be be- tore fore anything could happen to destroy destroy de de- de stroy the value of those bonds The The reason I 1 am so emphatic about the importance nce of or a sound Investment like Uke this is that I have been think I Ing lag about the ordinary mans man's Inca Inca- In normal times Umes to lay by and hang bang on to money You know we printed printed some ome facts about about this In the magazine not long ago They are fac facts which one of the largest life life In companies In the w world gath gath- red Bred Here Hare they are 1 Take healthy men at the age of or 25 and follow them At 35 here la to where you will find them 36 will be dead j it il r- r I 1 will be very rich r 4 4 will be wealthy 5 5 will be supporting themselves by work 54 t will be dependent upon friends friend Or Or to sum up only 5 out of the thet t y relatives or charity 64 64 living will be well Axed fixed The rest will either not have saved anything anything any any- thing because of their extravagance or they will have lost their capital capita capitali i through trying to make It ft yield an I absurd return U l I return I t lIn l In other words this Liberty Loan Load i L Is Lg one of the few direct benefit nev nev- nev-I nev For it ft encourages all o ous of ofus i us to be thrifty and to put at leasa least leas leasta a part of ot our money Into an absolute absolutely ly safe place where place where Its protection dO does 6 not depend upon any Individual but le Is guaranteed by the combined a assets and earning abilities of a whole nation Thank God therefore for the Liberty Liberty LIbert Lib LIb- ert erty Loan Hide those bonds and try to forget get them They will be pretty I little things to dig up and show to the me meat man when Vohen you are 65 65 American o 0 oI I have heard beard considerable discussion discus discus- slon sion lately concerning the policy or of our state highway commission In Ie constructing the kind of r roads ads It has decided upon unon and It Is often orte-n argued that the only type of road Is rs so- so called permanent road the one that needs no maintenance It one will take a pencil and do a little figuring he can easily convince himself that the policy of the state state highway commission Is the correct one Let us first of all th expensive lve type trpe of or road construction such aa as cot oon crete or the best grades of macadam This type of road will cost coat approximately per mile and let us suppose that the cost coot of construction Is mot met by Issuing 20 O- O yC year 4 per cent bonds bond s The annual annual an n nual expense on account of this first cost would be about per mile And these roads will need some maintenance possibly not over 50 ner mile per year This brings the to total total total to- to tal cost up to about annually per pert t mile lle for or the expensive or so call ed d. d type t-type e of road road Now MOW tee take a well constructed grayel gragel gray gray- el road and the cost of or this road will run about per mile mUe for construction construction con con- figuring again on a basis of year 20 4 per cent bonds bonda and the annual account for first cost will willbe willbe be about per mile mile The cost for maintaining these roads roods if properly properly properly prop prop- erly done runs up pretty high and can be well done with an expenditure of about per mile per year This makes a total annual cost coot then f for i- i tho the surfaced road approximately approximately matel annually per ler mile A comparison of these two annual costs show per mile per per year in n favor of the cheaper roads E. roads E. E B. B House State Agricultural College Fort Collins Collins Col Col- lins Uns Colorado o 0 |