Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-22
DOLLARS SAVED
NOW Will. Be
WORTH DOUBL.. {:
History Shows War Securities
Always Go Above Par in
Normal Times.
By c. NJ. MORRRtSON

SSoN' tlillS W put away NOIldfS {
put away dollars that are to be call
ed for by you at some future time
Here comes an estimate that was sent
out from Washington, u. c., the 9th
er day to the effect that a dollar now
is worth only about 90 cents of what
it was back in the halycon days OF
1914.
! And back in 1914 a dollar was
worth only about half as much as it
was in 1899. Looks like these dol
lars of ours have been shrinking in
value. But as matter of fact these
dollars of ours come and go in pud-
chasing power
Right now anybody and everybody
knows that the times are upset
That they are abnormal times.
And everybody knows that they can
not remain 50 indefinitely. One of
these days there is going to be a
change. That change will greatly
affect the buying power of dollar.
Prices are going to come down if
there is anything in the law of aver
erages, and that same old law of av-
ages has held good since the days
when the morning stars first sang
together
They will get back to something,
like normal level one of these days
and when they do that, your War
Savings Stamps will be worth what :?
That is something to be thinking
about these summer evenings.
For all this means that your dol
lars that you are putting in War Saw
lngs Stamps today are going to be
a lot more successful 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, and that you may want
twenty long years from now, or fiji
teen years, or even ten years.
Never a Better Time
There was never a better time to
| take a few dollars in loose change
that may be laying and salt them
away. That means that they could
be put away in War Savings Stamps.
i It is the best place in the world for
a few dollars or few hundred dol
lars 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 in
creased value on "Baby Bonds. !"
They GO up and up after every war.
/ They have always done so. They did
after the civil war, after the wars of
h.,
which England fought and after the
Franco-Prussian War. SO long as a
nation maintains it's identity and it's
integrity, it's bonds will go up wheth-
er it won or lost in the struggle.
Mavbe in four years from now you
will be needing money mighty bad.
That is a long look into the future
for most of us, and yet 1924 will be
here pretty soon. And you can take
your War Savings Certificates when
they reach maturity and you will find
that the savings that you never miss
ed have accumulated into sum that
will permit you to make an invest
ment you could never have dreamed
of had YOU not adopted the Thrift
and Savings habit.
There are a lot of places to put
money, but there are mighty few
places that are as safe as lending
it to Uncle Sam. He has never re-
nigged on a 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 Government
of the United States of America.
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
it's taxing powers that it will turn
the money back in your hands at the
end of an allotted time. And there
will be interest for every dollar on it
for the full term of the loan.
Not all 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 lend it to
Uncle Sam. The interest is good
heyond 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
with other stocks and bonds. And
remember that Government bonds are
what all the wise ones put their mon
ey in when they take their departure
from active business. 1t is the SAT-
est 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 Govern
ment Bond is the safest in the whole
world.
BUT RELUCTANTLY
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