The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-01
Buy More Bonds

The Wilmington area is expected to sell
by the Treasury department amounting to
S. O5S 00O Although the national date for the
start is September 9, Wilmington's campaign
will get under way on the evening of Sep
TENDER with a special moving picture pres
entaton to which admission may be gained
only through the purchase of an extra war
bond The bonds denomination is not fixed
1t may range from the $25 issue up to the
highest offered. But one thing is clear: no
person may witness the showing on any other
terms than the buying of an additional bond.
The crusade will feature a house-to-house
and a group-by-group canvass, as we'll as
special appeals through employers BY this
method wage earners, salaried workers and
professional people in all classifcations will
be offered opportunity to help put the Will
mington area across the goal line for the
largest quota ever assigned to it and at a
time when it is recognized the solicitation
will be the hardest of record.
1t is worth stressing the difficulties to be
encountered because they constitute chal-
lenge not only to the patriotism of the people
but to their business sense as we'll In this
wartorn world there is no better investment
for private capital than is to be found in
these bonds.
When the first drive for bond money came
along it was emphasized that these issues
would enable buyers to lay aside a nest egg
be at premium. This is as true today as
then. In fact with the war turning gradu-
ally against the Axis, it is easier now to I'M
derstand that the peak of employment is COM
ing than it was when the United Nations
were organizing their war effort and indus
trial production was only being geared for
mass output The day when workers will
have to seek other jobs, when many may not
find new employment for a long period of
time while industry is being regeared for
peacetime production when money for living
expenses or establishing shops an6 stores and
other businesses will be scarce, is not so far
ahead that any person can afford to shrug
it aside
When it comes, the people who have in
vested in war bonds will have the advantage
of others who neglected their opportunity to
buy them.
Farmers will find money they acquire when
war bonds mature God-send for purchasing
new machinery. Fathers, by buying bonds
now, will have made provision for their young
children's higher education. Professional peo-
ple-teachers, nurses doctors, lawyers, den
tists-vastly overworked now, will weather the
lean times to come in greater comfort and
with more ease if they have financial back
log of war bonds
Furthermore. the larger the national rev.
enue from this source the easier will the
tax load be. 1t is worth noting again, as has
been done before in these columns, that direct
taxation offers no financial return to the tax
payer. Whatever tax money goes out never
other hand war bonds which are essentially
a substitute for direct taxes not only return
the capital invested in them but accumulate
dividends in the form of interest.
No person in the Wilmington area can af-
ford not to buy bonds-extra bonds, above
those they are purchasing regularly through
payroll deductions. They offer the best guar
antee against want in the postwar world.
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