Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-10
BOND DOLLARS DO
DOUBLE DUTY FOA
OWNERS AND U. S.
L \
HOLDERS DRAW THE INTEREST,"
WHILE FUNDS KEEP HUN
ON THE RUN.
FAR BETTER THAN CURRENCY
Investment Works for Man Who Owns
/ 1t and the Boys In the
h Trenches.

Bankers and financial experts in the
Eighth Federal Reserve District are
pointing out that every dollar that is.
invested in Liberty Loans or War Saw
ings Stamps Is a Double Duty Dol
lar
It's double value comes from it's be-
ing on two jobs at the same time. 1t
is working for the investor-that is,
for the man who buys it-and at the
same tipue it is working for Uncle
Sans army across the seas and help
ing TO win the war While 1t is feed
ing and clothing and putting rifles in,
the hands Of American riflemen il is,
working for the man who bought it.
The bond that remains In the In
vestors hands is backed by all the re-,
sources of the national government!
That means that all the wealth of the
United States, whether it be In the
soil or the waters. in, on or under the
earth, or In the hands Of the owner of
personal property, Is pledged to the
investor as security for the money
that he has loaned the government on
that governments solemn promise to
pay.
They Are Fighting Dollars.
At the same time the money invest
ed in Liberty Bonds is buying steel
tacketed, five-to-the-clip cartridges for
the fighting man in Lorraine, Picardy
or Flanders it is paying the owner
~ per cent interest!
AS the bankers point out, surely this
Is not much of sacrifice on the part
Of the buyer who is asked to help his
nation and at the same time is given,
the safest investment in the world.
For the United States, in all the years,
of its history, has never repudiated a.
debt.
A government bond comes nearer
filling the unique position of lettinE
the investor spend his money AID
keep 1t at the same time than any 9TH
or means of getting rid Of the actual!
cash. For, after ALL Liberty Bond
bill or a 500 bill. Both backed by the,
same government, the principal differ,
ence is that one is an interest bearer
and the other is good for it's face value
and that only.
More Buyers This Time.
The fourth call for the Double Duty.
Dollars" of patriotic Americans came
Sept %. Until Oct. II the call will
sound In the Third Liberty Loan
100000 Americans who were willing
to back their patriotism with their
cash responded to that call. This time
It is hoped that far more buyers will
participate. 1t has been suggested that
at least 30,000,000 Americans should
subscribe. That will mean that prac-
tically every man and woman in the
United States who il I'd position to-
buy even one $50 bCnd, on the install
ment plan or otherwise, must sub
scribe.
Advocates of savings accounts point
out that the man or woman who puts
money in Liberty Bond is creating a
reserve fund that viii be financial
bulwark in later years. While the
savings account idea is good and the
investment idea is valuable, 1t should
not be forgotten that the biggest duty
Of the Double Duty Dollar" just now
is to get into the war and help to keep
the Hun on the run.
With the flood of American "'Vin
the War" dollars piling high as the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign pro-
crosses, the Allies on the western
front will keep hammering away at the
weakening German line till the hour
comes when the Kaiser's armies must
fall back across the Rhine or be caught
IN some gigantic military catastrophe
that will forever wreck the Hun mill
tary machine.