El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-12
Have You Bought A Bond?

DY COMPANIES and regiments, the soldiers buying
Liberty bonds troop of cavalry at Globe has bought
them part Of the Tenth cavalry has invested The Ar
national guard gone for bonds and Of the
regular regiments at E. Paso buying On the far side
Of the Atlantic company commanders lining up their
officers and to buy bonds All officers recognize
added patriotic service which makes the men
devoted serious in their desire to win the war
and it viii provide them also nest egg against the day
when they are mustered out Of the service.
For civilians the army purchases of Liberty bonds have
especial significance. Bond buying in the army
giving up ones pay weeks months in advance deprving
oneself Of all those little things which soldier loves to buy
to keep the service from becoming monotonous.
If a soldier is willing to give up his pay for months
ahead in addition to giving his time his labor and perhaps
his life to the service Of his country how about the civilian
who IS asked to subscribe only part of his money?
He should give part OF his money patriotic service,
not obnoxious duty, and favor to himself for he
VIII encounter a safer sounder investment
than bonds of the United States government.
For the sake of concerned the money for the
purchase of bonds should of investments nor
if it be helped out of money already saved and put
to work It should Of additional savings.
should be provided by curang of the luxuries
which all average Americans, knowingly not, ad-
dcted Live well but off Of the fris and loan
the money Uncle Sam He needs it and viii pay you
good rate of interest it. besides exemptng from
alton until he pays every cent Of It back to you.
In buying bonds time, buy all you possibly pay
for do not enter into an agreement to
buy the partial payment plan unless you mean to carry
through As bad not subscribing all subscribe
and make payment two and then drop entirely,
leaving the burden for paying for the bond fall back
nelp finance the purchase
Bond buying grows into habit and every succeeding
easier to subscribe than the which preceded it. if
the people Of the nation having fairly prosperous times
One result Of the viii be that in every belgerent
country there viii be people with money or what IS
the thing with negotiable paper redeemabe at face
value plus accrued interest than before The with
its immense bond issues IS intoxicating the saving spirit
Save and buy bonds and then again and buy more
bonds It be done and being done by people who
doing their country high service the conduct Of the
war and are at the time providing competence for
their old age and for their children.
The trouble with Germanys secret diplomacy is that it
can't remain secret
Wives Of drafted at least have the satisfaction Of
knowing where they are Of nights
Bismarcks doctrine toward enemy peoples was: Leave
them only their eyes to weep WITH forgetting that the
eyes that weep also may live to the yant bleeding
PROSTATE.
The Associated Press recently transmitted schedule Of
stories about to be furnished follows LaFoette OIL
gasoline cotton and adjournment" Considering those four
lnflaU11ables, adjournment was quite in order.