The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-10
LOOK OUT FOR THE
SHARKsHUNT|NGIN
/ PATRIOTIC WATERS
.uNPATRIoTIc PERSONS PASS UP
VICTORY NOTES FOR LIBERTY
BOND BARGAINS"
NOT INVESTMENT ALONE
Only One Place for Surplus Money
and That Is in the Victory
Loan.

Some curious reasons are being
given for not supporting the Victory
Loan. And curious is not exactly the
word to describe some of these alleged
reasons.
Take the case Of the citizen who
says: What do want to buy Victory
Notes for when / can buy the other
issues at 95 cents on the dollar"
You meet him. Every day you hear
him giving utterances to that sort OF
reasoning. And yet he would insist
If questioned that he was an American
citizen and would loudly protest IL any
one should call him unpatriotfc.
But is he patriot. this particular
kind of a knocker who goes about
voicing such opinions? Is any man
patriot who uses the cold dollar and
cents argument in such a manner?
Who refuses to buy Victory Notes be-
cause he thinks he can make a few
extra dollars by taking advantage OF
some unfortunate who is no longer in
"a position to hold to the bonds that he
paid 100 cents on the dollar for?
3: There is an Investment feature i'm
the Liberty Bond of course. And it
As an extraordinarily good investment
when the safety of the principal and
the certainty of the interest is consid-
;ered. There is no better security in
ithe world. Everything the United
States now is and everything that 1t
will be for another generation stands
back of every dollar tFrat has been put
into Liberty Bonds.
Cold and Crafty Buyers.
But there rs something more to be
considered tTfan the coTdTy CONNER
.cial buying Of the bonds. They mean
fac moVe thar that They mean so
much to the immediate future and the
far future Of this america Of ours that
the element Of patriotism must enter
int0 their buying and selling. Every
Liberty Bond In existence represents
some part of the future Of AmeTfea. 1t
is a mortgage on the years to come.
The coidly CRAFTY BuyeTyh0 is look
Ing for Liberty Bonds of ths Wrist,
Second, Third and Fourth Issues, who
wants them It. a. reduction and who
refuses to buy the Fifth or Victory is
sue. so long az he can lay hands on
he earlier ones, fsrnot doing, the cOun-
ry any PARTICULAR good just at present
md he is doing some harm
There is just one place for surplus
money and surplus savings to go at
he present time and that is into the
iotes Of the Fifth and last loan the
Victory issue. Ii
All the pleas that such o course as
,uying up the oHd' bonds at reduc-
ion Is good business should be
brushed aside. 1T issnot good business
n the long run 10 might be the worst
ort or business. This Fifth and last
oan must 90 over. It's very name, tho
Victory Loan ought to. insure that
via be oversu6scribed, witioU1 any /
treat trouble. Every dollar Of the IS
Iue viii be needed' In the next year,
II else II would not have been called
Anything that tends to- slow it up or !;
o lessen the amount Of ready money 3:
hat may be pun into, It isa hurting the
'est interests, dfthe naSaon by Just SO
nuch.
The man who, has any money with !,
Vhieh to buy Liberty Bonds needs a 4
eminder that the one place for that i
money to go is, into the, Victory is 4
ue- There is nothing very patriotic
bout sniping around on the financial q
outskirts ana trying to pick up Lib
'rty Bonds, worth every cent of their
ace value. at 90 to 90 cents on the 4
l0llar.
Watch for these sharks xilo are
hunting in patriot waters They ara I
J menace to the success Of the last 4
md Victory Loan, and the fewer Of !
hem who succeed the better.