The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-03
LIBERTY BOND LESSONS By HOWARD STEER Of Hincks Bros. & Co. Lesson No. 10. Where Do You Buy Your
 Eggs?
Lesson No. 10.


 cent. bonds instead of converting them | into the As, and then we shall be ] through with the whole matter and | leave the decision up to you. Today's reason is either the best of I them all, or the worst. It is the weak | est or the strongest, depending entire | ly upon the way you look at it, and | also upon-where you buy your eggs! | For example, we happen to know of a very estimable married couple who | live in the country. The husband works in the fields and does odd jobs around the village. He is industrious and supports his family. The wife does the housework and incidentally raises chickens and sells them and the fruits thereof.
 Now when MT. Husband wants a boiled egg for breakfast or fried chicken for dinner he, is dutifuliy SUD- piled from the hen-hous0 in the back yard. But Mrs. Wife keeps g. strict account of each egg and each drum stick that he eats and at the end of the week renders MT. Husband bill for the same! And he pays her the money
 You laugh. But to some extent this changing 3 1-2 per cent. Liberty Bonds for per cent. Liberty Bonds is like buying eggs from ourselves.
 If 1t were England or France or Italy that was selling us these bonds we would be foolish indeed not to take 4 per cent. instead of 1-2 per cent. But 1t is our own country that will have to pay us that extra 1-2 per cent. And we are the country-you and I and our neighbors.
 Where does that bargain-driving wife get her clothes. and her home, and her fuel for the kitchen stove ? Why, from her husband, of course,. If she makes him pay for his eggs isn't he just that much less able to buy clothes for her and furniture for the ihome?
 Where does our government get the money to pay us interest on Liberty Bonds? Why, from you and me and our neighbors, in taxes which we all pay either directly or indirectly. If we make the government pay us more Interest on our bonds isn't she just that much less able to provide for our defense and welfare as she should? And if she insists on provid- ing for us properly, as any good moth CT will Insist, will she not have to get more money from us in order to do so?
 You see it's like a cat chasing its own tail. You get into a circle and become dizzy thinking about it. That percious Yankee couple will probably go on clear up to the gates of the village cemetery, fooling themselves in their own pleasant little way. and ; pretending that they are playing mar bles for keeps when they are really only playing for fun
 Put this matter of converting your Liberty bonds on Q platform of pure patriotism, if you please. If you can possibly afford it, isn't it a far nobler. finer thing to be one of even small group who will stand up and say in ] tones that cannot be misunderstood, "I will keep my 1-2 per cent. bond because I am perfectly willing to let my country have my money at that rate of interest. She has done every thing for me. I will do this little for ther."
 If all owners of Liberty 1-2 per cent. bonds said that, they would save : the country s10,000,000 a. year in in- terest. The bonds run for thirty years so the total possible saving for the . United States of America would be $500, ,00o,oeo.
 Now, of course, everybody won't do 3 that. There are many, indeed, who cant afford to do it. The extra 1-2 lper cent. Is more important to them and comes to them more directly than do the benefits they would get by leaving that money with the govern ment.
 This article isn't intended, there fore, to act as anybody's conscience or to shame any body into keeping 1-2 per cent. bonds instead of converting. We simply want to present the finer
 side of the argument. For the past
 two weeks we have been dwelling on e the selfish phases of the matter, . showing you the various ways in (which it may be of material benefit to 3 lyou not to convert, how you may per I haps make more money by holding your 1-2's, or may save yourself u annoyance, or may get a better bond later on.
 {, Now won't you, think of it for a 'C moment from the point of view o1 L. your country, of her place in this war
 of what this war is going to mean tc U future generations, of what others are Q suffering, and last of all, from the
 point of view of your own deepest Il and best self? When it's all over yol
 want to be able to shake hands witt
 yourself for the part you played. Yol t, don't want to go home by the bacl n streets to get away from yourself
 So if that side hasn't occurre1 tt 2 you, just put it into the scales along d with the other arguments, weigh tn,
 whole thing carefully, and make you 3. decision for your own best welfar,
 and for that of your country, remem
 bering that you are one of America 1T children and that she is you fathe .- and your mother.