The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1919-04-24
WAR BONDS HAVE
ALWAYS CONE Up
QUICKLY IN PRICE
HISTORY OF SECURITIES SHOW
HOW VALUES HAVE CLIMBED
SOON AFTER HOSTILITIES
WHEN u. S. as WENT TO 100
You viii Have Your Last Chance -
Load Up on Worlds Best
Investment

Do you recall when the per cent
United States Government Bonds
reached 140?
You don't have to DC 80 very old to
recall that And that figure of 140
meant that the man who bought It at
800 per hundred dollars of face value
would be able to sell It for $40 And
he had beer drawing per cent In
terest on it annually all the time he
had held it.
Right now bankers and investment
brokers are predicting that the pres
ent Government security issues, the
Liberty Bonds, will repeat the history
Of the old Government Fours
History will repeat itself they say
The records of every great war show
that the prices of bonds that were
away down in he days Of the war
and for time after the actual fight
ing had ceased always increased as
soon as peace was firmly restored
About hundred years ago the Na
poleonic Wars were ending. England
had gone through 4 desperate struc
gle with the French imperialist. Dur
ing those struggles the prices of En- 2
lish Consols, per cent bonds. ranged
from the high mark 671a to SAG, the
low mark That was in the year 1874
In 1924. ten years later, the quotations
ranged from S43z the low, to &C.
the high for the year
In this same period the French
bonds were undergoing about the
same fluctuations The French per
cent "rentes" rose from so, the high
in 1914 to 1913 in 1924 They had
fallen as low as As in the despairing
days of 1914.
Our Civil War Bonds.
During the Civil War in America,
1861 to 1865. the Government issued
many bonds During these four years
the bonds sold as low as SO. The
low figure Of 83 was reached in 1861
when the Union seemed to be break
ing up forever. But that year the
highest figure was 95A.
From 1861 on through the war the
bond values steadily rose. They had
a practically steady rise on through
the war until the panic of 1873, when
they stood at 1885 high with the low
for that year at 111a.
In 1854 the American Government
issued the 1-40-year bonds, and in
ten years these rose from 1887 to
1865.
The man who holds a Victory Note
(shortterm bond) or any one of the
Liberty Bonds will have something
that every investor will want and be
willing to pay price for. But the
wise man will not want to sell It, He
will want to hold firmly to 1t In order
to have the steady, high rate Of In
terest and that absolute safety on his
investments.
Last Chance to Load Up.
The man who loads UP with Vic
tory Bonds is wise. In the best finan-
cial sense Of the word. 1t is the last
chance to load up, the last oppor-
tunity to buy high-interest war loan
bond
There are great many evidences
even now that the nation is begin
ming its financial recovery. Abnormal
war conditions are vanishing day by
day. 1t has been noted from month
to month that there is an increase in
bank balances a. financial centers, a
tendency toward lower rates of
money. a lessening of the amount Of
paper held by Federal Reserve and
member banks, an inflow of gold coin
and gold certificates into the banks
indicating greater confidence In the
financial situation and a decline In
the amount of Federal Reserve notes
outstanding. All these are favorable
signs whose significance should not