The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-06-22
AMERICAN SAVINGS BONDS best BUY
IN THE LAND.

IN THE LAND.
Ahlgren Editor, Memphis Tenn Commercial AppeaD
Fifteen years ago May the United States presented
its Series Savings Bond for the first time Four years
ago. Series took corresponding place among the worlds
Today forty million Americans own 40 billion dollars
worth of bonds in the two series And the world calls us
spendthrft people!
Statistics are far from being as cold as old clches
have not if they're statistics Treasury Department
Savings Bonds
Forty million Americans owning 40 billion dollars worth
Savings Bonds that out of every four
in the United States is stakeholder in that vast and COM
pick national undertaking we loosely label country"
They countrymen who have bought into the
They have satisfied themselves that is making
able progresaas going concern They convinced of
its solvency FRey are certain of its durability
They pridefu of its House of Freedom hall mark
symbol of an institution now so ancient and secure that
they know its doors will never have to close.
AS House of Freedom investors they've bought stake
in liberty for themselves and for their chdrens children
The saga of the Bonds is as American the
They were designed to help the nation grid itself for
and they helped finance victory when war cae-not
just the one great conflict World War but
the Korean War too-one of the nobles undertakings
Bonds were designed by Americans for Americans
and average Americans bought hethe butcher the bak
err the candlesck makerhe banker the school teacher
When they didn't pay cash for them they bought them
the instament pan-the payroll deduction pan-and
And how they bought them Eighty billion dollars worth
in 15 years. And love of freedom and country the main
compulsion. Match that, Russia if you CAM
"Ah" but you are going say eff only half of what
has been purchased still held by the buyers why bother
with Savings Bonds?"
Why indeed? Those not-socold statistics give answer
money from the bonds redeemed put back into the
business" in other ways To pay for honey
moons to build homes to pay for the birth of infant
Americans to discharge debts and to launch business
And of the dollars Of bond redemption went
into little hard-earned fun-that's American, too.
But there's another side to the redemption picture of
Twenty billion bonds have reached their 10year
maturity date since May 1851 which but thing
their certainly in hurry to cash them in
To the contrary 20 per cent of the total still out
standing
Americans still hold S3 per cent of the bonds issued in
1885, half of those issued in 198 and 30 per cent
of the 1871 first-ssue bonds.
Last year Americans bought Ut million dollars more
bonds than they cashed in during the year.
There better buys earth than United States
and Savings Bonds The collateral backing them is all
that these United iStates-s heroic past its present
dreaming and striving and it's mtless future It is the
pledge word of 1875 million Americans that they and
all which is their earning potential
Those who invest in House of Freedom stock not only
earnest of faith in their counys future but of faith
that Americans will be the masters of that future.
Buy the bonds which will keep you and freedom from
bondage! Buy them now!