Arizona republican., 1919-05-03
WHAT TIE VICTORY BOND MEANS

WHAT THE VICTORY BOND MEANS
 There was never better time for this city and vaeythe richest section of the state-to advertise itself It not only will cost nothing to do it, but it will be in one way very expensive not to do it.
 We have in mind making a sectional record a purchaser of Victory bonds
 When the returns have all gone in and have been analysed they will be studied by the people who have money to invest. And money usually goes where money is. A pecuIiarity of money is that it cOngre gates. Its habits are gregarious.
 man who is looking for prosperous oommu- nty will that the county of Marcopa, out in Ar zona, invested so much in Victory bonds. # the amount is a staggerngIy large one his attention will be favorsby arrested. If it is pitifuy small one, he will besto upon the community that regard which is usually given to the "whte chip"
 He will want nothing of it. It will be to him either poverty stricken unprogressve, and far as he is the difference between poverty and unprogressivisn will be so small as to invite no inquiry.
 This will be the effect on the outsider. He will assume that the community is also too poor or too unprogressve to support good schools and good roads and will be altogether good community to dissociate from.
 So far in much the same boat with the rest of the country only the Pacific coast showing is little We have doubt, though, that the country will pull out all riaht-the north and the east where the large cities are.
 At last the bankers and the men of wealth there will come to the rescue as they did in the Liberty loans We have of great wealth and great banking institutions to depend uPon We only upon the efforts of the multitude So we must get busy or we will be left standing alone.
 Now not asked to sacrifice anything, to give anything away, to make donation or contribu- ton. We only asked to help ourselves incidentally by helping the sovernment-by extending credit to it.
 We asked to pay war bills which we owe and which will ultimately pay whether want to not
 We have choice of the way we shall pay them; either with money which we loan the govern ment at good rate of interest loan at the same time to be exempt from taxation; whether will give this money outright to the government in the shape of taxes which will not draw interest and which will never be returned to us
 We saw yesterday how this way Of paying the bill worked. Those of US who bought soft drink noticed that had to pay cent two cents for it. That two cents went toward paying the bill for which the Victory loan pro- ceeds intended. We who went to the drug stores
 
 the government taking money to pay the bill.
 It has been that way fer more than year, only the government is taking from How long it will do that do not know, but do know that the less money we pay for Victory bonds the and the longer will have to pay taxes soda water and clothing and thousand other things Many of US do not like assessors, city county or state. We sometimes think that it would be ideal state in which every could be his own assessor.
 This is opportunity. if we would "assess" ourselves for the amount of Victory bonds buy in part relieve ourselves of the assessment the government will lay upon
 There is something better in this than escape from taxation There is, the contrary, money in it. person than investment in Victory bonds.
 They pay higher rate of interest than savings banks can pay and there is no bank or combination Of banks in the country strong the government These Victory bonds the promissory notes of the government, backed by all the wealth Of the richest country earth.
 if you the of Victory bond you feet sense of to the government you cannot otherwise feel
 You feel partnership with the soldiers who have come hack from France, that you will not otherwise feel
 You will know then something of the pride felt in having gone the top.
 You also have in your possession something that time.
 Altogether, from every point of view, Victory bond is good thing to have.