The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-21
LIBERTY BOND
 LESSONS ljT. :: sfS By HOWARD STEER Of Hincks Bros. & Co.
 LESSON NO. 18
LESSON NO. IS
FOR A MESS OF COTTAGE.

AWeSy pdSA HI Olo OI Lne 1lTSC or
 these Liberty Bond talks we urged you
 hot to sell your bond unless you ab-
 solutely@ needed the money, and we
 especially cautioned you against the
 sharks" who advertise so nberally
 that they will buy Liberty Bonds,
 whether full paid or part paid.
 |. Who has not read and sighed over 1 the story of Esau in the Bible-that
 big, hearty, whole-sou1ed, red -blooded 1 and Fthe joy of living in his heart? He
 comes back from day of hunting,
 tired, footsore, hungry and thirsty. As he hears his home he sniffs the tempt 1 ing smell of the evening pottage that l his stay-at-home farmer brother Ja- cob is preparing.
 Give me of thy pottage to eat,
 brother Jacob, for I am faint and
 weary!"
 But Jacob, cunning and self f-centred i bargains with his elder brother for { that most precious possession of the
 f1rst-born of the ancient Hebrews
 the birthright. And Esau, overcome l by his physical desires, sells his birth | right to Jacob for a mess of pottage: Many an Esau of today is following ill the footsteps of the hunter of long i ago, and is bartering away a very 1 valuable possession Of colored beads,
 or the pot of gold at the end of the | mess of pottage. T. | Liberty bonds are the ;birthright. of 1 this article. The many lures and
 baits, that are put out. by. the 1917 Jacobs to get them away from you
 are the messes of pottage. ;. Have you not received or read ot l tempting offers to give you per cent, l 10 per cent. or even 1 5 per cent. more
 than you paid for your Liberty bonds,
 provided only that you take a certain
 article of merchandise, or piece of | real estate, or valuable stock in ex- I change? Have you not had presented | to you aIluring opportunities to invest i CD from fifty to five hundred dollars l in the stock of some concern that is | growing so fast as to assure. you a profit of several thousand dollars in. two or three years?
 If you haven't the cash these gen. 1 erous Jacobs will, of course, be glad. to accept your Liberty bonds and will. pay you their full face value, or even
 more. They will try to make you | think that they are interested only in your welfare. and that they are and f ous to make you happy and prosper t ous in the muture. In order to do so.
 they will take your; Liberty bond I which pays you such a low rate of in. terest and will; give you in exchange. 1 the most wonderful investnent in the
 world. They will tell you that mill | lionaires are simply wild to get large
 amounts of this golden opportunity, but that they are saving it for the l small investor. and will sell only a
 Limited amount to any one person.
 They will remind you of the large | fortunes that have been made in oil and telephones and automobiles by l putting money into these industries I when they were young.r and they will | urge you not to throw away this I chance of d lifetime to get rich. '.sT But bewarei It is the old, old story
 The world is full of clever schemers who are sitting up late at night and 1 sharpening their pencils as well as | their wits to figure out how they can l get your hard-earned money away
 from you. They know that 4,o00,-
 900 people bought Liberty 1-2's and I 5000 900. bought Liberty As, They also know how safe and valuable
 those bonds are and they know too that thousands of the people who
 bought them never did such a thing in their lives before. They know that many of these new bond buyers can be frightened easily about what
 they have bought and tempted just as easily into buying something else lthat glitters, but that is not gold. Tn other words, they are thes:Ja-
 cobs of today, trying to take advan- tage of your natural human weak
 nesses and desires. They try to catch |l you off your guard in moment when Iyou are: hungry and thirsty fer. rest
 and ease and more m of this worlds
 goods. gz.. .z..>.; .ss,< ,s,... -. v, Ff' But they are offering. you mess
 of pottage for your birthright. and
 when you. have. sold it. you will bit
 terly and everlasttngly regret 1t, as
 did Esau of old. . -i-
 Again wes say to-~you, keep your
 Liberty bonds. Do not dispose of
 them. either for cash or in trade, un-
 less you are compelled to do 50 by
 necessity. If you must sell, so to
 a reputable broker whom some bank
 has recommended to you.
 The French government decided to | J