Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
LOOK OUT FOR The
SHARKS IN
F.. PATRIOTIC WATERS
UNPATRloTlc 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 if any
pne should call him urpatriotic.
But is he q patriot this particular
kind of a knocker who goes about
voicing such opinions? Is any man 4
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 few
extra dollars by taking advantage Of
some unfortunate who is no longer in
a position to hold tC the bonds that he
paid 100 cents on the dollar for?
There is an investment feature in
the Liberty Pond CT course. And it
is an extraordinarily good investment
when the safety OF the principal and
the certainty of the interest is consid-
cred. There is no better security in
the world. Eierything the United
States now is and everything that it
will be for another generation stands
back of every dollar that has been put
into Liberty Bonds.
Cold and Crafty Buyers.
But there is something more to be
considered than the coldly CONNER
cial buying of the bonds. They mean
far more than that They mean so
much to the immediate future and the
far future of this ,merica of ours that
the element of patriotism must enter
into their buying and selling Every
Liberty Bond in existence represents
some part of the future of America. It
is mortgage on the years to come.
The coldly crafty buyer who is look
ing for Liberty Bonds of the First,
Second, Third and Fourth issues, who
wants them at reduction and who
refuses to buy the Fifth or Victory is
sue, so long as he can lay hands on
the earlier ones, is not doing the coun-
try any particular good just at present
and he is doing some harm.
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money and surplus savings to go at
the present time and that is into the
notes of the Fifth and last loan, the
Victory issue.
All the pleas that such a course as
buying up the old bonds at reduc-
tion is good business should be
brushed aside. It is not good business.
In the long run it might be the worst
sort of business. This Fifth and last
loan must so over. Its very name, the
''Victory Loan" ought to insure that
it will be oversubscribed without any
great trouble. Every dollar Of the is
sue will be needed in the next year.
or else it would not have been called.
ANY lllIllS li4CL LC4iNo " ClON II uij vi
to lessen the amount of ready money
that may be put into it is hurting the
best interests of the nation by just SO
much.
The man who has any money with
which to buy Liberty Bonds needs a
reminder that the one place for that
money to go is into the Victory is
sue. There is nothing very patriotic
about sniping around or the financial
outskirts and trying to Pick UP Lib
erty Bonds, worth every cent Of their
face value, at 80 to 95 cents on the
dollar
Watch for these sharks" who are
hunting in patriot waters. They are
a menace to the success of the last
and Victory Loan, and the fewer Of
them who succeed the better.
DISREGARD ROORSACKS!