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Show WHY NOT BUY THE BONDS? Tomorrow is the opening day of the Victory loan publicity campaign. cam-paign. The new bonds will cany 4 3-4 per cent interest and be redeemable re-deemable in four years. They arc the best investment ever offered. The Liberty bonds are now selling at a discount of approximately $6 on $100, and that unfavorable condition may lead part of the people to decide that buying bonds is an obligation from which they would escape, if it were not dishonorable to fail to be 100 per cent American. But The Standard predicts all the bonds will be selling at par within two years. At present the bonds are low because so many holders are selling part of their purchases. It will not be long before the surplus offerings offer-ings arc absorbed by big buyers and then there will be a rapid upward up-ward tendency. Millions of dollars in bonds have gone to buy luxuries and afford amusement. There are many who cannot hold on to money, as spending is theii weakness. Yet, throughout the United States millions mil-lions in bonds will be retained by those who never before saved a dollar, but who have leained their first lessons in thrift. No one can estimate the benefits these popular bond issues are to bring to the homes of the American people. The editor knows a family, the head of which is a rampant anti-govcrnmcnt anti-govcrnmcnt man, who goes about telling of the hardships inflicted by the bonds. He is possessed of a grouch. Had he lived in the days of the Civil war he would have been anti-Lincoln. Well, this man, for the first time in all his life, has saved a little money. That is to say, he has four $50 Liberty bonds, which he could net escape buying because be-cause he had pride enough not to be classed as a "slacker." He therefore, has approximately $188 in cash, or its equivalent, which he would not have accumulated had Uncle Sam made no appeal to, the patriotism of those who stayed at home. Now, if this man will hold on to his old bonds and continue to deprive himself of a few nonessentials, non-essentials, and if he will subscribe to the new bonds, eventually he will receive back his $200 with interest, and for the Victory bonds will obtain more than face value. But no American should sit clown and figure so cold-bloodedly. In every home there should be enough patriotism to cause a rallying to the financial aid of this great country of ours, regardless of whether the giving of the dollars will return more dollars with interest. America saved the world from militarism and :i form of slavery and barbarism. First, in sacrifice, were the boys who gave or of' fcred their iyes. I low much is the stay-at-home and the man of dollars dol-lars willing to contribute to the saving of our homes from the tyranny tyran-ny which would have invaded our fair land had not brave Americans bared their breasts to the Hun? As to the new Victory loan, let us do a little calculating. If a family fam-ily has accumulated $50,000, the money placed in the new bonds will bring close to $200 a month, which assures that family a monthly income in-come as certain as the rising of the orb of day. If a widow is left an estate of $50,000, instead of searching as did Diogenes of old with a lantern for an honest man, to whom she might confide her troubles and seek advice as to investments she can proceed pro-ceed to buy the new loan or Invest in the 4 l-4's, and never for one moment fear lh? outcome. More widows have been robbed of their inheritance by scheming rascals than there are graves in France. United States bonds arc thr safest investments known to the financial finan-cial world, and it will not be long before those bonds are maintained at par. |