The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-09
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READ 1T AND CONSIDER.

THIS talk S talk without the soft pedal
Il has to do with bread, butter and business
Il relates to the bills people you the bills
you others.
How about the plant you are operating? The store
own:
How about the pay roll you are responsible for?
All the mouths you have feed between pay days.
All the Rent Collectors that your money sstisfess
II is Prosperity matter that comes home TO you
Your Prosperity is the immediate issue.
AVOID making any miscues. Fight shy OF erroneous
notions Let body fill you up with the east wind Get
the facts clear your mind Prosperity for YoU-for
YOUR Business-for ngmen-Storekeepe rs-Manu.
facturers-L andlords-Tenants-fo EVERYBODY, de-
Ponds onwhat? On the Success the Victory Liberty
Loan Canvass
Conversely. If prosperity is not a factor with you
if you don't very much whether Bill Smith pays his
charge account to you: If you about
what you owe Smith Brown. Green Co.. if you are
epathetc TO the men who figure pay envelopes
to meet thel wing and wiling to let loaf-vhy,
in that case. stacking the is way.
PROSPERITY Is dependent Government
credit than any other single factor.
Therefore, PROSPERITY depends on the SUCCESS
OF the LOAN. The success of the loan depends big
popular oversubeerp tion.
To have large oyer-subscription YOU and every
body else must chip in. Sailing off, standing back
grumbing Stacking will be fatal
broad popular subscription" means just that: It
means the People must bring out their savngsmoney
and buy the Victory Liberty means that the
People must sign contracts pay monthly or weekly
installments subscriptions And they must
save the out OF their and salaries to do it
THE war was fought Credit Every man sent
over every gun, grenade ship. shell-every load of
rations, mule motor-everything. was an Act
Of Faith in the United II was Credit transac
tion.
What is credit? IS the system By which the bank
will cash your today strength of what your
farm or your factory will be getting for in July or
September.
Credit is safe and legal of descounting the
future But the important element in CREDIT is FaY.
ING the tick OF maturity. The finish OF the race
counts the start
Borrowing only play Paying is the thing
that the winning tally Certainty Of repayment ia
the essence of credit.
Your Government has slipped six Billion II O. U.s.
20 the Banks Those Of hand are coming due The,
must be paid.
@e have the paving to do. There is only one way:
Subscribe for the VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN and nav or+
OF corvent savings
-sai money, such as people out of their wages
tHs.E what the Government must have to clean the
and make its credit good
What's Prosperity? It's the state Of things when
wants are Urgent When people are willing to nav good
prices When makers are rushed with orders When
borrowers swamp the Discount window at the Bank
When debtors come up the scratch and paw
That is the condition things when the Rrqast
Customer in the country is always in the noarxet for
supplies material labor The Biggest Customer is Uncle
sam He sets the pace everybody else Rut to do -
the people must trust him. lend him their MONEY And
Why not when Uncle Sam returns Tie money immediately
in The form Of interest payments settlements Of hills
insurance remittances etc?
The only way to keep the chain unbroken is this:
Subscribe generously for the Victory Loan Leg.
have Prosperity II is much pIeasanter!