The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-09-06
Can Help Himself, His Boy and
His Country by Buying
Liberty Bonds.
We MUST ALL DO OUR BEST
Scores of Things We Can Do Without
Which Seem Necessities and Vet
Are Really Luxuries - Get
into the Fight.
BY EDWARD BOX.


ure. For years we have used the
phrase "as good as government
bond" as indicating the safest invest
ment possible, but before the war it
was impossible for the average in
vestOr to secure a government bond.
Periodically an issue was made, but it
was so quickly subscribed for by the
bankers that the small investor had
little chance. Now we all have a
chance, and a chance at all that we
can afford to buy.
It will, of course, be argued by some
when the fourth Liberty loan is an
nOunced that they have not as yet
paid for the third loan bonds for which
they subscribed. That may be true,
but that is no reason why we should
fail to subscribe again. Before the
fifth loan can be issued we will have
paid for the third loan bonds and be-
gun paying for the fourth loan bonds
that we subscribed for. Thus if we
go on we will have q distinct part in
each loan, have each month put aside
a sum for the best investment on
earth, have acquired the steady habit
Of saving, and when the last loan is
announced and we shall have taken
part of that and paid for it, we shall
find ourselves in possession of a col
lection of bonds that will make us
proud of the share we took in the war
and have q comfortable "nest egg" in
the bargain.
Must Do Our Best.
Never, really, was there such
stimulant given us to do without the
nOnesSential and save. Not only is it
saving for our boys and helping them
to fight, but it is saving for them when
they come home and saving for our
selves. Is there, in imagination, a
prOuder parent than that father or
mother, who when his or her boy
comes home from serving his country,
can open drawer and pull out a neat
little package of Liberty loan bonds?
That is what we mean by keeping the
home-fres burning" by backing up
our boys" by "doing out bit" The
only point is that we should change
the latter to "doing our best" We've
done our "bit'' in the past loans; in
this fourth loan we should do our
"beSt." We want to be able to show
our boy bond or two or three in each
loan; not have him ask: ooh, didn't
you get in on the fourth?"
1t isn't as if we can't do it. We can,
II we will only set our minds to the
job of real saving. There are scores of
things we can do without which seem
necessities and yet are really luxuries.
Our boys "over there" are doing with
out them and offering their lives be-
sides. We are not asked for the latter
All we are asked to do is to do without
here something and there something,
and by doing this we are patriots
And all the time while we are ad-
judged patriots we are investing our
money in the safest thing on earth and
getting a good interest on it in the
bargain. Frankly. can you "beat it
1t is something to ask a man to give
money, without a return, and be a
patriot. But in these Liberty loans all
the government asks that a man shall
loan is his money, safely guarded and
at good interest, and still he is
patriot.
Must Lend or Be Taxed.
Another point we must remember,
taking this whole matter simply on
an economic basis: That the more of
these Liberty bonds we buy the less
taxes we will have to pay. The gov
eminent must have the money to keep
up the war and feed and clothe our
boys. This year it needs about $24, 0O0,-
100000. This amount it must get from
the people. And if the people won't
loan in bonds, it must take in taxes.
Hence, the more we loan the less we
will have to give.
It's all a question Of saving, saving,
Saving-and never was there a better
time to begin than now with the Lib
erty loan bonds as an attraction. The
man who has no ready money with
which to buy the bonds is the very
man that the government wants above
all other classes of men to loan it his
mOhey; his money saved here with
dollar and there with a quarter. 1t is
the finest kind of money to give to our
country: the money that we save by
some act of self-denial. 1t isn't the
money that we have in the bank that
we want to draw out and buy Liberty
bonds with; it is the money that next
winter we can save, month by month
That is really helping your boy "over
there" helping the government to
keep him wa-m and fit, and, incidental
ly, helping yourself to lay by the most
valuable pieces of paper that you can
buy. put away, and all the time getting
a good interest on them.
Black Eye for the Hun.
Seventeen million individual sub
scribers were part of the third Liberty.
loan. That means one in every six.
Of the population of the United States.
But there is no reason Why with tie