The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-04-17
How to Know Fake Stocks.
From the Dearborn independent.

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Hang o. to u Liberty bond. Put thu acid test to the promises of every
promoter who tries % persuade you to part with or government securities
them for other securities until you are assured that yu are lot buying worth
less paper. Don't take he promoters word or tn safety Of te investment
which he offers. Ask you government through ~ bsnk-any bank-whetba
b stock Offered to yu is good stock
The stock salesman who tells yu he cant wait usually Imeans that be~
doesn't dare to wait. He may be n a hurry because he is only a Jump and a
The stock swindler it should be noted, is not necessarily a j Rufus wal
nngord respondent in a white vest a silk hat spats a cane ad a few da-
monds. The probabilities are that h e in n wa resembles the mental picture
on nay lay OF a promoter of worthless securities. .
He IA many ways of approach and most Of them. are copied from III
methods employed by legitimate business. He may approach on personally. or
resident of you community, knowingly or unknowingiya acting as the agent of
sinister interests. And the chances area also that thu stock shark who is after
enough SO that aner o ave reinqushed M bond IT our money 70 can
lot reach him.. .-
eay % see. Once yu find them beware o. he bait hat is offered.
Theses signs are, first: the very great willingness Of tn promoter to take
your Liberty bond In place Of cash; and second: his glowing promise that the
investment which h offers I'LL "a big returns immediately. n former In
new u the latter is old. ... - .- -~
II III stock broker who approaches yUu contrasts the return on which
N Investment he onersw With hat which O are getting On you Liberty bond
I'M deprecates b value of cnnging to you government paper, shn him. IA
But theret is q duty devolving pol you which will t permit you to drop
IN matter here. There is a betterw way of handling the CRATER than by merely
mission and is the idea around which the campaign for eliminating these win
Tiers is built" 49, 3 49,.
vou NAV nave eceived,o or lacking that whatever data yu have OF the inn-
viduaI who las tried to ret your bonds. together with the name Of the stock hs
s offering for sale.
doubtful Or II the banker las no information concerning It, h 70 viii report the
ecase to III federal reserve board. When that report reaches Washington the
eovrnmen will interest itself. II will determine whether the stoch fierce
% vou is OF values and whether the promises made for 1t are false or hue IT
viii ii this manner, b. informed Of new stock schenes and it can through the
federal trade commission, AXE up thu case rnuch sooner than Will be possible
o. ~ 10 compelled to wait several months for complaints rm investors VIII are
anauyc convinced that they la been defrauded.
Do not under any circumstances be fooled by the stock swindlers statenen
u.,. ~ hanks am big business" are against him deprecate his stock be-
80 +hv wan to seize control Of his company. That is another old dodge
Ths estimate stock broker will not object to government Investigation. Such
- od concerns do not fear investigation. They welcome 1t because they
ara .nxoust to protectth their standing and their lin Of business by wedding ut
the crooks who live o. rrow epuaauoh "