The Adair County news., 1918-10-02
BUS|NES ACUMEh
PROMPTS HOLDING.
TO LIBERTY BONDS
VALUE AS COLLATERAL Is
GREATER THAN ANY KNOWN
TO FINANCE.
WATCH OUT FOR sHARPERs
Beware of Men Who Offer "Some-
thing Better" in Exchange,
Financier Advises.

The value as collateral of United
States Liberty Bonds, according to
the president of one of the largest ST.
Louis national banks, is greater than
any evidence of wealth known to fl
nance.
Next to gold coin and specie they
represent the most stable medium of
exchange within the power of our gov
eminent to issue, and there is nothing
on which banks the world over would
rather lend money.
This is pointed out as one of the
numerous material reasons for hold
ing tight to the bonds when once they
are purchased. The patriotic and SEN
timental reasons for not disposing of
them are quite as strong, but the
arguments in that field are less con-
crete and more difficult to present in
language than those dealing with the
investment.
Never Good Reason to Sell.
There is never a good reason for
selling ones Liberty Bonds. The main
cause for doing SO in SO per cent Of
cases is to get money. 1t is easily
possible to get the money and still
retain title to your bonds, as any
bank in your city will lend you close
to their market value, and for long
period Of time at inside interest rates.
Then you are still drawing your bond
interest, so that if you pay the bank
per cent your net rate is only ~
per cent with Az per cent bond as
collateral.
Since the first Liberty Bonds
reached the hands of the public they
have been the detectives of an endless
class Of sharpers and INSCRIPTIONS
business men who have schemed IN
tiringly to get the holdings of their
less keen neighbors. These gentlemen
come with propositions "just as safe
and yielding far greater returns"
Against such proposals all holders of
United States bonds, large and small,
are doubly warned.
There is nothing nearly as safe and
yielding better returns which anyone
would want to dispose Of. Russell
Sage, than whom no financier has
ever had a better understanding of
investments, once remarked that
there was no such thing as a safe 6
per cent investment. He died leaving
a marketable estate of upward OF
$75,000,000, so that his opinion is
worth considering.
The 4 per cent or Az per cent re-
turn from your Liberty Bonds will
continue to come to you as regularly
as the succession of dawn and dark
ness through your life and the dura,
ton of the bond, and to your descend
ants after you. And just as sure as
the United States government en-
dures you will receive the principal in
full at the expiration Of the loan pc
riod. 1t is impossible to conceive
therefore, of more entirely safe and
comfortable investment to hold al
ways than Liberty Bonds.
A Permanent investment.
Thus far no one has been able to
come forward with logical argument
against Liberty Bonds as permanent
investment. The only circumstance
presenting the semblance of sound
ness is that Of the persons who point
out the small interest return, in view
of income on other investments of 6
standard variety. Changing condi
tons, however, rapidly demolish ant
| upset standards, and with a return tt
normal times and plentiful money the
Az per cent rate will be considered
large.
1t takes no effort of memory to re
call the time when banks were loanint
vast sums at per cent, and even {
shade under that figure. Then mu
nicipal bonds bearing per cent wer,
selling as high as $102 to $106, tn,
premium bringing the interest basil
well under 31a per cent. On basil
of their market price, railroad stock
and other standard securities wer
yielding little If any better than 4 t,
per cent.
Government bonds brought enor
nous premiums, especially those bear
ing 3 per cent and better. Certainl,
the credit Of the United States gov
eminent, and the values back of /
now. are UNNECESSARILY greater thai
at any preceding period in our bis
tory, so that it is safe to predict tina
those who hold on to their Libert
Bonds will in after-war years realiz
substantial profits on. the holding
should they feel disposed to sell whe
peace has been restored.