Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-13
s55,950.

That was Augustus subscription
yesterday to the third Liberty loan.
Except for the second day of the
campaign, this is the best day of the
drive and it brought the total up 10
s273.950. Augusta people went at it n
earnest yesterday: and. aided by a
substantial bank purchase. succeed
cd in placing the figures at q point
where only s1l2.050 more is needed &c
reach Augustus quota.
Members of the Liberty Loan COM
mittee are much encouraged over the
prospect Of securing the full amount
requested from Augusta-and more.
At the same time they point out that
it is especially necessary that all the
people in Augusta do their full duty
in subscribing to bonds up to the linn
it of their buying power. said one
of them yesterday.
Everybody in Augusta must. for
two reasons, subscribe to just as big
a bond as they can afford. In the
first place practically all the big To-
cal purchasers have bought their
bonds. One bank has one more pur-
chase 10 lila ke. L wv otllCi . WIN ~
haps buy moderate amounts. Anoth-
err big individual purchaser may pos
sibly take more bonds. But all this S
very uncertain. To put Augusta over
the top it is necessary that every
body-every single person in Augusta
who can possibly afford a bond
gets into this i'll earnest. Only
by doing this. can we ever
get over the top. In the second
place, Augusta can not be contented
with merely subscribing the s3S6,ooO
which is our quota. We must raise
much more-from 100000 to $1,000
I should say. The government nee1s
the money and we in Augusta must
do our share to back the soldiers to
the limit. Our own boys are over
there now and we are not going 10
let them suffer for anything in the
world that money can buy. We have
got to help them on to victory ana
we can do it by buying bonds and
putting our money at the disposal or
the government"
In considering the buying of Lib
erty bonds. it does not do to regard
money spent for them merely
as patriotic or charitable contribu
ton. These bonds are not only a
sound investment. paying a good rate
Of interest; but they have great pos
sibilities.
The famous banking firm Of Kuhn.
Loeb & Co. said recently Of Liberty
bonds as an investment:
Imagine. if you can. what your
situation will be in FIVE. ten. fifteen
years. and then study the possible
ties for your country.
LAS to your own future condition
there may be some doubt. especial
" if you have not Yet Joined the
ranks OF the country's sagacious and
patriotic arm Of Liberty bond hold
ers--if you have not yet absorbed the
gospel Of wise investment.
But as to the United States-can
there be any doubt?
DO you know what will happen IN
this country when peace returns:
Everyone will leap back TO his work
and set the wheels Of genuine pro-
gress spinning more rapidly than ev-
or before.
Industry will hum: farms will
thrive; mines will boom; labor will
strive; commerce will wax to greater
proportions than ever before; ship
ping will multiply. Never mind the
details Just recall what one of the
greatest financiers in our history
said: I shall always be a bull on
the future Of the United States.
There's the heritage for the Liberty
Bond holder. A few years from now
10000. 900 human beings will be work
ing harder than ever before to earn
the interest on Liberty Bonds. The
Bond you buy now has great posi-
bilities before it. The essence OF
business acumen ia TO buy somethins
that will be worth more to you ID
the future,-and worth more to tI'e
rest of the world. SO you can take
your profit
Opportunity is here. Buy Lioer.
Bonds Of the Third Loan. heee
them for the great and cumuia.,,,."
gains OF the future. Buy and ho,'
While. this angle of the appear -,
Liberty Bonds interests AUG
people TO a considerable extent 80
big urge to buy comes from patrol.
impulses. Three thousand miles
across the seas. boys from Maine