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Show Roy M. Green Tells a Farm Story By President Roy M. Green Colorado A & M College Fort Collins, Colorado a Big crops and good prices left a wheat farmer not long ago with $30,000 cash in the bank. Said he, "If I don't invest this in inflated land values, what can I do with it to earn anything?" I said to him, "Did you ever think of using part of it to insure yourself a steadier farm income after the war? For $150 a month, or $1,800 a year in War Bonds, you can begin to collect ten years after the war $200 a month. As you will be getting older by that time, wouldn't that be a better supplement sup-plement to - what income the farm then produces than having to turn again to the cream can and what your wife can make out of chickens? Wouldn't it be a nice retirement fund for a fellow that is now 55 years old? Wouldn't you like to have had $200 a month cash coming in last time?" In addition, if you can put in War Bonds a lump-sum as reserve for operations op-erations in bad years, for deferred purchases of equipment, for repairs, for up-keep, for new household equipment; and then whatever the postwar adjustment, you would have an easier time of it than you had last time. You wouldn't have to wait on somebody's extra special plan; you would have already completed one of your own. If you are proud of the independence independ-ence of your occupation, and jealous of preserving as much of it as pos-tible, pos-tible, don't orate and speculate order WAR BONDS! |