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Show MAKING DOLLARS WORK. The evolution from the old time real estate mortgage to the present system of issuing interest bearing bonds when a loan of any size is negotiated marks a distinct milestone in the history of the expansion and development of this country. Bonds are in themselves mortgages, and possess all of the protecting clauses' for investors that are found in the straight I real estate mortgage. Generally a bank or a bond house buys up the entire issuo - of a bond loan and sells it to the public in separate bonds of (various denominations. Those of $100, $500, and $1000 are the most popular. I The possibility of investing a hundred dollars at a time i in a bond bearing six or seven per cent interest offers a splendid .opportunity to young people to begin life in the right way by regularly investing their savings in small sums at a profitable rate of interest. ! Again, it has a tendency to bring out the hidden wealth of the country from the old stockings and stove pipes and tin i cans and put it to work in manufacturing , and commercial I enterprises that all go toward increasing the prosperity of ' the country. i But beware how you buy bonds from a stranger. The safe way is to go straight to your local banker and buy from him. He knows the bonds that are safe and those that are 'best to let alone. It is his business to know and his judgment may be re- Uied upon with perfect safety, i |