Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1913 — Page 3

IB— —■' II -V ~ ~ ~ "■— : TTMUBUMJ — ■ I You! Can’t Make Your Farm Pay If Y.u Eat the Doughnut and | Offer the Hole as Collateral "0 R2Y THERE’S a man out in Illinois who owns a bank and lends money -TT l%k| 1 'IT? Tk/T A to farmers. He wanted to get at both sides of the question of kJ- .■ -/ Am 8 JL/ [Az /y 1 /"A borrowing and lending, so he got busy on a half-section of land t< | and farmed it on the principle of a square deal to the soil. What he found ELDEST AuRtCUL ruiLAL JOURNAL in the WORLD I out was this: [ t ’ s bad business, both for the farmer and the banker, for the ■ farmer to eat the doughnut and offer the hole as collateral on a loan. > It’s on those simple solutions of a big financial problem that en- . gaged the auction of the President of the United States and a group of ■ ; Governors, meeting at the White House to discuss this great problem only a few wee 1 . Presidents of Insurance Companies, bankers, men and ZtX"*'V institutions w;h money to invest, farmers who want to borrow money— *•; all these people will agree with us that Mr. Harris has thrown the search- * V L light of com: > n sense on a subject that seemed as thick as a London fog. p** hßv//k There is a host of good things in this week’s issue of The Country 0 I Gentleman, but ’ a/’ '''7 I Financing the Farmer 'IL*-.3T-' r I By B. F. HARRIS I Swce»»f«l Banker>Farmer and Ex-Pre*ident of the Illinois Bankers' Association .-- A- • 1 t will be read ur. .ire interest by every man whose business it is to lend money, or to fj • < ■ y I borrow’ it—which means several million people. i IT’S IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE OF I The Country Gentleman I For Sale at Any News-stand or Buy of Any kLL.7 I Saturday Evening Post Boy I 5 Cents a Copy— Yearly Subscription $1.50 ■ » Ant. for Monroe and Decatur, 104 So. t'akt? I VERNON AURAND, DECATUR, INDIANA Fourt street, Dec-tur. ; CURTIS,.I PUBLISHING COMPANY Philadelphia . S THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA J tanas iMansannMamaßHi ■KaunaHMHMMHsaaaasa LfH I ■ Ml HP 1 s 8 ia OF ALL OUR LADIES, MISSES AND CH LOREN’S READY-TO-WEAR | H 2|< CARmENTS g iy*-' 'V , , , - 77 tf/aX Owing to the fact that it is now time for us to turn our attention to spring buying, we have de- / vj? >■ Sil" cided to offer our remaining stock of Ladies Misses and Childrens ready to wear garments without *“ “ OrJ reserve at such good reductions as will move every article in our stock in short order, we have e g IS 1 not a big line on hand, however what we have is “SNAPPY” and up to date and is worthy of your v -I- « lIW-4 attention. Styles all good for another season. You make the selection, we make the price, our A? 17,7 llns I word for it, the price will be satisfactory that you will buy. Every garment in our house is includ- '; L,H S W ' X A ed in this offer. It will pay you to come and get a real bargain. We are greatful to you for past ;J; ’ ■ j-'j '• 1 patronage and our promise to show you the handsomest complete and most up-to-date spring l’.H.> -i ®4 I - selections ever Brought to Decatur. I .j B ••! ' —” i H - Ki' I ■ H ■. ■ 1/ ■ S rI >3 jn fl/iTLtMj I Q Everything Cash at g A FREE' 1U " S V'-’tH; ■* Li * ■ I