Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-10-19
WHAT AND WHY is THE
LIBERTY LOAN OF 1917?

plication Is made.
O. When must the remainder be
paid?
A. In instaliments as follows: IS per
cent on November Is, 1917: 40 per cent
on December Is. 1917: and 40 per cent
on January Is, 1918.
| O. Can buy a bond on the install
ment plan by paying for it weekly or
monthly?
A. The Treasury Department will
| not accept payments in this manner,
but many banks and a great many en-
ployers will sell you bond and allow
you to pay for it in partial payments.
! II you desire to pay for your bonds in
| this way, consult your employer or
any banker.
O. When will the subscribers know
how many bonds they will receive on
their subscriptions?
A. The Secretary of the Treasury
will announce this about the 9Th of
November, 1917. This is known as
making the allotment"
Q. Must all subscribers to liberty
bonds wait until the allotment is made
to know whether or not they will re-
ceive their bonds?
A. No; a subscriber for bonds up to
81, 900 is certain to receive his bond.
@. If I desire to pay for the bonds at
the time 1 make my subscription, may
do so?
A. Yes: you can pay in full for any
bonds YOU buy up to and including
| 81 900; but subscribers for more than
this amount must wait until the allot-
ment is made.
| Q. If l pay in full for a $50. 800.
| $500, or $1,000 bond, do l receive the
| bond?
| a. Yes: you will receive bond
dated November Is, 1917, and bearing
| interest from that date. You will re-
ceive it, within short time after your
payment has been made
| q. If this bond is coupon bond
will il have the coupons attached?
| A. The bond which you will receive
will have four coupons attached, COW
ering the semian nnual interest for
period of two years. After November
| Is, 1919, and before May Is. 1920. the
| holder will have an opportunity to ex-
change this bond for a new bond hav-
/ ing a full set of coupons.
| Q. Why are bonds issued in this
way?
| A. The work of engraving bonds
with a large number of coupons at
tached is so great that bonds can not
be ready for delivery to purchasers
within a reasonable time except by re-
ducing the number of coupons.
| Q. Do subscribers to Liberty Bonds
receive particular recognition?
| A. Yes: each subscriber is given
badge of honor in the form of an Of
| fetal button.
| Q. To whom shall make pay
ments?
| A. Payments can be made to the
! Treasury Department at Washington
or to one of the IL Federal reserve
/ banks in cash. by bank draft. certified
check, postoffice money order. or ex-
, press company money order. but sub
scribers are urged to make all pay
ments on their bonds to the bank with
whom they placed their subscriptions.
| @. What provision is made for the
| interest accruing on the bonds from
November IS, 1917, to May Is, 1918, a
six months period, when final pay
ment on the bonds is not made until
January Is, 1918?
A. Interest from November Is, 1917,
! to date Of final or full payment must
be added to the last payment. Credit
will be given the subscriber for inter
est at the same rate upon all the pay
ments. Tables showing the amount of
accrued interest payable on January
| IS, 1918, and on various interest days
after payment has been made. will be
/ distributed through the banks by the
| Treasury Department.
Q. AS a practical matter, will I have
any difficulty in attending to these de-
tails?
! A. None at all. Any bank. trust
company, bond house. or broker will
gladly give you full instructions at any
! time without charge.
@. How may women aid the Liberty
Loan?
A. First: BY the purchase of Lib
erty Bonds Second BY helping to
sell Liberty Bonds to others.
/ Q. Can woman own Liberty
| Bond as her personal property?
A. A Liberty Bond is the personal
property of the purchaser or of the
person TO whom the purchaser may
sell or assign IT. If It is a registered
bond the record of it's ownership is
matter of governmental record. A
Liberty Bond is therefore the property
of the woman who buys it until she
disposes of il.
Q. Why should women buy Liberty
| Bonds?
! A. Because Liberty Bonds are the
method adopted by the Government OF
| the United States to take care Of the
soldiers, sailors, and marines who are
| fighting Americas war. The success
of our men in this war will benefit wo-
men no less than men. Women NAV
not fight; but women may aid men in
| providing the sinews OF war for the
| fighters. To women. even more
poignantly than 10 men. come the
words of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, "Shall~we be more tender with our
dollars than with the lives Of our
sons?"
=. What may women's organizations
do TO promote the Liberty Loano
a. Every organization of women has
! a fund OF some sort which NAV be
used to aid the Liberty Loan. The
money Of this fund may he invested in
Liberty Bonds. There is no better in
vestment for the funds Of an institu-
| ton community. or OF an organiza
ton. Every women's organization in
the country should be represented hv
investment In the Liberty Bonds.
Q. How does the purchase OF Liberty
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