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Show HELP YOURSELF Mors than 150 years ago Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Keep your shop and it will keep you." The stamp of greatness great-ness Is on Franklin's philosophy because be-cause It was not alone of his time; it holds for all time. Our ways have changed a bit in the economic life of this republic which the great Franklin helped to build. No Ion per may every man be his own shopkeeper. Most of us help keep some other fellow's shop and a certain clement anions: the assistant shop keepers have become restless bc.ise the have no shop themselves and call themselves K W. V., Bolsheviks, and other names. Nevertheless Franklin h.ii:..-iy saying say-ing is as true today anu as easy to comply with as it was th nay he uttered ut-tered it. The United states government govern-ment provides the way. War Savings and Thrift Stamps, conceived as a war measure and now backed by the government as a permanent per-manent policy, give every man. woman and child in AmeMca the chance to keep shop. Each person is allowed to put $1000 a year into the b isinnsa the business of American Eovernn.ent. The business guarantees 4 per rent per annum compound d quarterly. It is the blegest b:si:ir-.-s in ti e wo-ld. One can invest as low as 27, certn. The wonderful thin? about It is that the investor helps his country as well &a himself. |