Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-06
Every Man Helps Himself and
His Country by Buying
Liberty Bonds.
WE MUST ALL DO OUR BEST
Scores of Things We Can Do Without
Which Seem Necessities and Yet
Are Really Euxuries-Get
Into the Fight.
BY EDWARD BOX.

EDITOR OF the LADIES' home journal.
Each time a new Liberty loan is an
nounced we should hail it with pleas
ure. For years we have used the
phrase Gas good as a government
bond" as indicating the safest invest
ment possible, but before the war ii
was impossible for the average in
weston to secure a government bond.
Periodically an issue was made, but ii
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 a 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 wal
and have a comfortable "nest egg in
the bargain.
Must Do Our Best.
Never, really, was there such a
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, q
.prouder parent thar that father o.
mother, who when his or her boy
comes home from serving his country
! can open a drawer and pull out a nea'
little package of Liberty oar bonds?
That is what we mean by keeping the
home-fires burning" by backing up
sour boys by "doing our 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 a bond or two or three in
each loan; not have him ask: ooh.
didn't you get in on the fourthT"
1t isn't as if we can't do it. We can
If we Will only set 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 without them and offering their
lives ! asides. 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 adjudged patriots we are
investing our money in the safest
thing on earth and getting a good in
terest on 1t in the bargain. Frankly
can you "beat it?" It is something t.
ask a man to give money. without ?
return, and be a patriot. But in these
Liberty loans all the government asks
that a man shall loan is his none
safely guarded and at a good interest.
and still he Is a 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 u
boys. This year 1t needs about S24, 0OO,-
100000. This amount it must get from
the people. And if the people won't
loan in ponds, 1t 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