The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-08-27
THE MORE BONDS
The LESS TAXES
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 Luxuries-0es
Into the Fight
BY EDWARD BOX.
Editor Of the Ladies' Home Journal,

Each time new Liberty loan is an
nounced we should hail IL with pleas
ure. For years we have used thu
phrase .'as good as a government
bond" as indicating the safest invest
ment possible, but before the war !
was impossible for the average In
weston to secure government bono
Periodically an issue was made. but !
was so quickly subscribed for by tn
bankers that the small investor ha
little chance. Now we all have
chance, and chance at all that W
can afford to buy.
1t win, Of course. be argued by som
when the fourth Liberty loan is an
nounced that they have not as We
paid for the third loan bonds for whic'
they subscribed. That may be trus
but that is no reason why we shout
fail to subscribe again. Before tn
fifth loan can be issued we will hav
paid for the third loan bonds and BE-
gun paying for the fourth loan bond
that we subscribed for. Thus II w
go on we will have a distinct part 4
each loan, have each month put asid
a sum for the best investment o.
earth, have acquired the steady hab''
of saving, and when the last loan
announced and we shall have take
rart of that and paid for 1t, we sha'
find ourselves In possession Of a CO.
lection Of bonds that will make u
proud of the share we took In the We
and have a comfortable NEST egg"
the bargain.
Must DO Our Best.
Never, really, was there such
stimulant given us to do without tn
nonessential and save. Not only Is
saving for our boys and helping the
TO fight. but it is saving for them whe
they come home and saving for or
selves Is there, In Imagination,
prouder parent than that father e
mother, who when his or her be
comes home from serving his countr.
can open a drawer and pull out nea
little package of Liberty loan bonds
That is what we mean by keeping tn
home-fires burning" by backing
orr boys" by doing our bit" II
only point is that we should chang
the latter TO doing our best" We'-
done our "bit" In the past loans;
this fourth loan we should do o.
"best" We want to be able to shor
our boy a bond or two or three
each loan; not have him ask: 90
didn't you get In on the fourth"
1t isn't as If we can't do II. We car
If we will only set our minds to tn
job of real saving There are score
OF things we can do without whic
seem necessities and yet are reall
luxuries. Our boys "over there" ar
doing without them and offering the'
lives besides. We are not asked Il
the latter All we are asked to do
TO do without here something an
there something, and by doing thi
we are patriots and all the tim.
while we are adjudged patriots we az
investing our money in the safes
thing on earth and getting a good ii
teresf on It In the bargain Frank
can you beat it?" II is something
ask man to give money. without
return, and be patriot. But In thes
Liberty loans all the government ash
that a man shall loan is his none,
safely guarded and at good Interest
and still he is patriot.
Must Lend or Be Taxed,
Another point we must remembe~
taking this whole matter simply or
an economic basis: That the more o.
these Liberty bonds we buy the lese
taxes we will have to pay. The gov
eminent must have the money to kee-
up the war and feed and clothe on.
boys. This year II needs about $4,000.
100000. This amount 1t must get fror'
the people. And if the people won't
loan In bonds, 1t must take In taxes
Hence, the more we loan the less W
will have to give.
It's all question of saving, saving
saving-and never was there bette
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 1t his
money: his money saved here with ?
dollar and there with 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 warm and fit. and, Incidental
y. helping yourself to lay by the most
valuable pieces of paper that you can
'uy, put away, and all the time get
Ing good interest on them.
Black Eye for the Hun.
Seventeen million individual sub
cribers were part of the third Liberty
oan. That means one in every Sly
II the population of the United States |
But there is no reason why with the
coming fourth loan this should not be |
'hanged to one In every three persons
n the United States and finally that /
every person in the United States |
'hall own bond. Fancy the state OF |
mind OF the German war lords IL they |
we're made to realize that every one
II the one hundred millions of Ameri- |
ANS were so determined to beat them |
hat they had all invested with the |
me idea to beat them. Would the wal |
another year? Most unlikely. |
Most of US ask each other or our.
selves, when will this war end?" |
There is no quicker way to end it than
o make 1t possible for our govern |
nent to throw into 1t every resource
hat we have. The moment that the /
RUSSIAN war lords realize this fact,
hey will come to their senses. And
he only way TO bring this about is
or you and me to do our part and to
10 it fully. This means to loan every
ent we can to the government; hold