Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-18
GET OFF THE SUCKER LIST!
Are YOU on the sucker list?

Are you the sucker list?
If you are it is probably because you are not a
sucker but patriotic citizen has known the Liberty
Bond to be good thing.
Get-rich- quick swindes have been the greatest
American sport for The sharpers who sell fake
stocks saw their game endangered when Uuncle Sam
started his great Liberty Loan campaigns.
But they are smart-these gentlemen who live by
their wits.
Instead of complaining they jumped in and put them
Bonds.
And they kept lists of the names of the people to
whom the Liberty Bonds sold.
Now those lists combined make what the sharks re-
gard as the biggest best sucker list" the gentry
every had They are even dealing in them-buying and
selling them among theselves.
If you have Liberty Bond or a book of War Saw
ings Stamps you prospect" for fake stock. Your
the sucker list of the oy-tongued sharper.
You are not to blame for being on the sucker list
but it is up you get o-away otha list at your
first opportunity.
The American people paying half a
billion dollars year the support of worthless stock
schemes They reap therefrom $50OOOOOOO worth of
s~-thin air.
That is a guess. 1t is the figure given by the
Capital Issues Committee of the U. s. Treasury. And,
the committee assures that it is conservative.
Moreover the half billion represents just the cold
that turned in EVERY YEAR by otherwise level
headed Americans seeking a milk d-honey path to
quick wealth by the green stock certificate route 1t
does not take into account the economic loss
cden broken fortunes impaired effort discouraged
investors and the diversion legitimate business
enterprises of productive capital
The Capital Issues Committee, charged with keep
ing the nations investment dollars on work fight
basis during the has made searching inquiry into
the devious byways of fraudulent stock promotion Its
conclusion is that perhaps in the history of the
country has wildcat investment practice been so fragrant
from coast to coast-as today
AS result of the governments great war loan
campaigns there are now hundreds of thousands of
Americans converted the idea saving and investing
With very proportion investment experience
is limited to the good bottom government war
The fakir is after them. Thousands of statesmen
carefully drilled in the gentle selling on the first
call" and getting out of town, abroad
They will tell you you patriot, a real citi-
zen, to have bought Liberty Bonds. However you've
made your sacrifice, the wars now-and really
IA per cent is return at all in peace tme-let US
exchange your exceptional offering posi-
lively guaranteed bring in anywhere from 10 to 500
per cent in dividends before the years outas
the oil we'll is sunk the mine completed or the
property developed, the like.
That is the brand of the swindler today; that
he is "wling'-as accommodation to you you I'M
derstand to accept" your Liberty Bonds in lex
change for his worthless stuff
Happily there is a government agency today on the
trail of the stock sharp 1t the Federal Trade Com
mission empowered by prevent unfair
of competition in interstate The commission
well be expected look upon the Fleeing of their
Liberty Bonds decidedly unfair"
If you Liberty Bond you'll doubtless have an
early call from of the pleasant representatives of
the sharper outfit When you do just drop postal to
the Federal Trade Commission at Washington and tell
them about that visit and the attractive liter
azure that is handed you.
1t would be interesting to know how much of the