The Mena weekly star., 1919-08-21
miracle WHEAT PEDDLERS
NO LONGER GULL FARMER
Uncle Sam Paying SIPS He Promised
for Wheat and the, Oily and Suave
p,..o Man. Finds Hard Shedding.

Uncle Sam Paying SIPS He Promised
for Wheat and the. Oily and suaye
Bunco Man" Finds Hard Shedding.
The farmers are a great deal more
prosperous than they we're few years
back. And nobody knows TINS any
better than that suave and Oily gen
tleman. the "bunko man."
The farmers prosperity has mace
him a shining mark for these gentry.
The fake security man, the stock COM
pany promoter and the Willy sharper
is a mighty busy person just now anu
a great many of them are working
the country" ana working It hard.
DO you recall the Miracle Wheat
proposition of a few years back? May
be not by that name for it had good
MANY names. One of its aliases, was
Jerusalem Wheat" Another was
Egyptian Wheat" However the name
dosen't matter much for 1t was all the
same thing. Most farmers viii recall
it anyway.
There were a lot of wild tales told
about ii. It was represented as very
old strain of wheat that has been
brought back from the Holy Land by
an Irish Pilgrim Or, it has been tax
en- from the mummy of an Egyptian
King that had been dug up under one
of the Pyramids. Anyway 1t was a
mighty miraculous yielder and every
body ought to have some Off 1t. IL
seems that there was no better wheat
in the world and that every farmer
ought to have enough to SOW. The
trouble was that there wasn't enough
to go around.
When the farmers would not fall for
the story any other way they were told
that If they would give $40 or maybe
$40 a bushel for the seed they could
sell the whole harvest back in the fall
for the same price per bushel that they
paid for the seed.
OF course some people bought and
paid for some of the seed. And they
went ahead and sowed 1t and waited a
year full of trustfulness and the sharp
er who was to take the crop OH their
hands failed to show UP. They found
that they had a very poor grade OF
wheat anyway, and 1t dawned upon
them that they had been stupg and
stung hard and deep.
Right now a good many farmers are
being offered all sorts of investments,
oil stocks and plantation stocks and
whole lot of other stocks. And most
of these are offered in exchange for
War Savings Stamps and Liberty
Bonds. Many of them too, are just
about on a par with the Miracle
Wheat" that came from Egypt or Pal
estine. It will pay about such divi-
dends. 1t is likely not to pay cent
one way or another In few years
IL viii be valuable only as waste pa
per.
The same United States Govern
ment that more than a year ago prom
Used the American farmer 1925 for
his wheat, and is making good every
day, is now offering 10 the farmer an
investment that is just as safe as the
wheat he grew on his farm this year
after it is stored in the granary
Here are the new Treasury. Savings
Certificates, simply development of
the familiar War Savings Stamp
These certificates are offered in de-
nominations of 800 and $1,000 on the
identical terms of the War Savings
Stamps.
Eighty-three dollars and Eighty
cents invested in 500 Certificate
will grow into 800 bill by January
1, 1924 Multiply these figures by ten
and the words will apply to $1,000 GER
tificate Or the youngsters, or the
person with limited means to invest
may pay $4.19 for War Savings
Stamp and on January 1, 1924, 1t will
be a SIS bill These securities draw
four per cent compounded quarterly.