The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-06-20
DOLLARS SAVED NOW WILL BE
WORTH DOUBLE IN FEW YEARS
(By c. M. Morrison)

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good time to put away dollars? To
put away dollars that are to be called
for by you at some future time? Here
from Washington, d. G. the other
day to the effect that dollar now is
worth only about SIS cents of what it
was back in the halycon days of 1914.
And back in 1914 dollar was worth
only about half as much as it was in
1899. Looks like those dollars of ours
have been shrinking in value. But as
q matter of fact these dollars of ours
come and go in purchasing power.
Right now anybody and everybody
knows that the times are upset. That
they are abnormal times. And every
body knows that they cannot remain
so indefinitely. One of these days
there is going to be change. That
change will greatly effect the buying
power of dollar.
Prices are going to come down if
there is anything in the law of aver
ages and that same old law of aver
ages has held good since the days
when the morning stars first sang to-
gether
They will be getting back to some
thing like normal level one Of these
days and when they do what then will
your War Savings Stamps be worth?
That is something to be thinking about
these summer evenings.
For all this means that your dollars
that you are putting into War Savings
Stamps today are going to be whole
lot more useful to you than they are
right now. For the simple reason
that they will buy a whole lot more
of any commodity that you may name;
that you may want twenty long years
from now or fifteen years, or even ten
years.
There was never a better time to
take a few dollars in loose change
that may be lying around and salt
them away. That means that they
should be put away in War Savings
Stamps. 1t is the best place in the
world for a few dollars or few hun
bred dollars or a thousand dollars of
this 1919 money.
Suppose twenty years from now
when things have gone back to the
normal of 1899, your hundred dollars
in War Savings Stamps will be worth
| 5000 Of the money that you put into
them now. There will also be an in
creased value in the "Baby Bonds"
They will go up and up after every
iwar. They have always done so. They
did after the Civil War, after the wars
of Napoleon, after the Boer War which
England fought and after the Fran
-Prussian War. So long as ma
ton maintains it's identity and its in
tegrity, it's bonds will go up whether
it won or lost in the struggle.
Maybe in four years from now you
will be needing money mighty bad.
That is long look in the future for
most of us, and yet 1924 will be here
pretty soon. And you can take your
War Savings Certificate when it
reaches maturity and you will have
found that the savings you never
missed has accumulated into sum
that will permit you to make an in
vestment you could never have
dreamed of had you not adopted the
. thrift and savings habit.
: There are a lot of places to put mon
ey, but there are mighty few places
that are as safe as lending it to IN
Gle Sam. He has never renigged on
debt. The chances are mighty good
that he never will. There is really no
place where money can be put that is
quite as safe as lending it to the Gov
eminent of the United States of Amer
lea.
The Government of the United
: States will take care of your money.
1t will pay you for the use of it. 1t
guarantees with all the resources of
its taxing powers that it will turn the
:: money back into your hands at the end
of an allotted time. And there will be
interest on every dollar of it for the
full term of the loan.
Not all the places where you might
put your money are safe. Some of the
places where you might invest it are
decidedly unsafe. You can't go wrong
when you decide to loan it to your
: Uncle Sam. The interest is good and
: the safety of the investment is be-
yond question.
So before you decide just what you
will do with any surplus funds that
you may have it will be we'll for you
to look into what you can get from
your own government.
But Uncle Sam is safe. He always
pays. Look into the history Of his
, other loans. Compare their value
with other stocks and bonds. And re-
! member that Government bonds are
what all the wise ones put their money
in when they take their departure
from active business. 1t is the safest
thing in the world and likely to pay
you mighty well. And all the time
that you are waiting you will know
that a United States Government
bond is the safest in the world.