The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-11-07
NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE
A CHANCE TO GET RICH

you cant { get rlch without taklng q
chance" says the smooth promoter of
the risky propositions that a large
share of the public delights to buy.
That the promoters words are as
false as his stock will be revealed to
any ore who cares to study the meth
DDS which have made men successful
in their lines. -t
Ask any man who is accustomed to
getting good returns on his money how
he decides whether proposition is
Worthy Of investment, and his answer
probably will be that he first of all
learns the identity of the men COM
posing the company. The reason for
this is obvious. Of what use to invest
in company that has an actual noun
tain Of gold. or hundred thousand
acres bubbling with oil, unless the men
composing the company are honest
and will give the investor his share
Let of the hundreds of thousands
Of small investors who annually sink
$500, 100000 in worthless securities
before the war, perhaps only one in
fifty ever even inquired as TO the re-
putation Of the men selling the stock
and not one in 500 investigated the
shadowy figures composing the "com-
pany."
Having assured himself that the
men he is to entrust with his money
are honest, the man who is deter
mined not to lose his capital must
next assure himself that the concern
whose stock he buys has a sufficient
demand for its goods or outlet for its
product to enable it OF pay dividends.
In the case of old and we'll established
businesses this is usually very easily
done.
In the case of new companies, the
Investigator always has the sanguine
hopes of promoters, however honest
these may be to discout in the light
of known facts. Statistics show that
every year, despite the honest and Wig
orous efforts of those starting them.
Unforeseen conditions or untoward
developments turn their expected di-
vidends into deficits.
In the light of these facts, can you
put trust in the word Of the man who
says, "Take chance with your hard
earned money" Hardly. The wise
man takes a chance that the growth
Of the company will make his returns
bigger, but not the chanse that his
money is safe, or that he will get a
fair return on it at all times. The
man who makes huge sums of money
"in stocks" is more a character of
fiction than reality. Many men have
made fortune out of some one par
ticular stock. They prospered be-
cause they had spent years in studying
the opportunities of the company be-
hind the stock.
Hardly. The reason that success
full men put large sums into govern
ment securities is not that a moment
an enormous number of new business
end manufacturing enterprises fail
need be spent in investigating the
safety of the money that invested.
They are sure of good return on
their money, and have their minds
free for prosecution of their business.
Before the war, $50 and 500 bonds
were not available for the man Of small
means. Nowadays the beauty of in
vestment in Government securities is
that whether a man has $50 or $780,
600 he can put it into Treasury Ger
tificates, put them away and forget
about them, assured of the absolute
safety of his money and of a good re-
turn. He is further assured that he
can turn his securities back into cash
at almost an hours notice.
At present he has the word of all
financial authorities Of the country
that Government bonds bought now
will yield him a substantial increase
in price in coming months. The history
of all war issues of Government bonds
has been that they sold at a premium
during the period Of many years before
maturity.
If you are willing to lose money
that has taken you months of years
to save, stake chances with it" ami
if you desire to keep it, buy Treasury
Savings Certificates.