Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-02
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SECURITY BEHIND :: :.
VICTORY NOTES To
GROW WITH YEARS
THOSE WHO DOUBT VALUE OF
INVESTMENT ARE BECOMING
SCARCER DAILY.
ANALYSIS OF OUR WEALTH
'hree Hundred Billions Of Dollars
Back Up the Victory Loan
ISSUE

/ No man in his senses questions the
value of a Liberty Bond The man
VINO has the vision to see beyond the
end of his nose is unworried at the
tact that Liberty Bonds for the pres.
emit, tor the present mind you, are
quoted at little below par. He has
very clear idea of what is going to
/ happen to them on the markets of the
world as soon as the after-war condi-
lions begin to adjust themselves He
knows that war bonds have always
, 2iseD.,
! The people who really doubt the
safety of Liberty Bond investment
are hard to find, and they are growing
scarcer all the time. 1t won't be long
till they have disappeared from tho
, earth. Till they are as extinct as
! the dodo and the mastodon.
| Has there ever been any obigation
| anywhere that was backed up as
strongly as a Liberty Bond?
! Have you ever taken thought of the
| inventoried alli or even part, Of what
there is back of all the Liberty Bonds
Savings Stamps? ~
| All the wealth of the admittedly
richest nation of the earth is back Of
them. All wealth, all, or nearly all,
| is subject to the taxing power of the
government. And every year that tax
| ing power is extended a little farther,
making the bonds just little more
safe.
| And we will all admit that when I'm
Gle Sam makes up his mind to do some
taxing that he is hard to beat at it.
All income tax payers will answer
Aye =
Some Of Our Wealth.
| Here is just hurried look at some
Of the wealth of America, includes:
We have six per cent of the popula
tion of the world (estimated) and that
6 per cent occupies Z per cent of the
worlds land. America now supplies
70 per cent of the copper, 50 per cent
of the coal, 20 per cent Of the gold, IS
per cent of the fuel oil, 40 per cent of
the iron and steel, SO per cent of tile
silver, 60 per cent of the cotton, 25
l
the corn, and 80 per cent of the meat
supplies of the whole round earth. And
there are many other mineral and ag-
| ricultural products that we supply
about in the same propositions.
| We haven't been reckoned as one
of the first manufacturing nations Of
the earth, but we are hurrying to the
| i,, 70
speed. Given another 10 years and We
! ought to be carrying our foreign trade
into all the corners of the earth, near
and remote The shipbuilding pro-
gram that is now under way will give
us an advantage over even England,
and England has always been the
great trading and carrying nation of
| the globe
| Our Foreign Loans.
There is another thing that has
added tremendously to our credit and
strengthened the value of Liberty
Bonds. Within the last few days our
advances, our loans to foreign ma
tons. have reached approximately
$40, Oo0,0o0,o 1000 Back in 1914 the shoe
was on the other foot. We owed
Europe, nations that are now our.
! friends or our enemies, about $5000,-
! 0O0,ooo, but those debts have been
: long since reabsorbed. The balance
of credit has made a gigantic shift
in our favor.
The total national wealth of Amer
lea is now about $500, 600, 10000 We
have an annual income, nationally, ali
of us Jumped together. of about $780,,
j 900, 900 900 This includes the man,
with the pick and John D. Rockefeller
it includes all our private earnings and
all the earnings of the great corpora
| tons
Against all this array of wealth, the
outstanding Liberty Bond debt, even
when it reaches somewhere near $685.,
000,0o0, 900. will look pretty small.
The Victory Liberty Note looks like
it might be about the soundest investsi
ment III an uncertain world.
FORGET THE OTHER FELLOW
| !, FOR " Is UP TO YOU NOW.
What the other fellow did in the
former Liberty Loans doesn't matter,
doesn't affect your case at all.
Doesn't help the present situation
The one thing that counts right now,
is what are you going to do toward,
putting the Victory Liberty Loan over