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SPENI) NOW « SO DEALERS CAN buy and factories can *jr .‘Si& ft lC . '' A > S 7p'. A W PLACE F(U.KS BACK TO WORK. *W JES& g <arog t^k?! <.^Mgß^^Baaw^^. ; .. I v?' w W 1 AKE that Padlock off Your Purse!

It’s Patriotic to “Spend Now!” — It’s Good Sense to “Spend Now!” It’s Entirely to Your Advantage to “Spend Now!” f This advertisement published in the interest of the “Buy Now” Movement, by @ Mutschler Packing Co. Decatur Casting Co. La Fontaine Handle Co. JBSgSMfe?, I r . Cloverb as Creameries, Inc. flggSr H d / ffl “YOU BUY - ffl' HE WORKS!”-

X7OU may think that in sealing up your purse you are pro- * I tectmg your individual prosperity in hoarding a reserve that will keep you until real good times come again. Don’t you realize that within that locked purse you are actually imprison ing prosperity and the scarcer will be the dollars that will come to you to store away in th at purse? Whether you are a wage-e irner, a merchant or a manufacturer, your income must come from what someone e]se is spending or consuming. People must buy the things you sell or produce, or business becomes stagnant... the wage-earner is discharged, the merchant fai’s. and the manufacturer ceases production for lack of replacement orders. Where is your income coming from if everyone keeps a padlock on his purse? SPENDING is the only media of prosperity. Money kept in circulation is the motive power that

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keeps business going; keeps employment active, and guarantees your personal prosperity. All America is coming to a realization of that fact now . . . awakening to the real source of “depression” ... and is enter-

ing upon a program of SPENDING so that the merchant has an outlet for his goods ... so he can order from the manufacturer . . . so the manufacturer can employ more help to produce those goods ... so the worker can earn more money to spend. There is no relief from depression; r(o return to prosperity; no solution to unemployment until SPENDING becomes general.

15c Per Day ‘‘lf every wage earner in the United States would buy now to the extent of an additional fifteen cents a day it would release enough capital to employ approximately a million unemployed at $5 per day wage. It would mean $2,190,000,000 back into circulation per year. The difference between prosperity and hard times in this country, after all, is only the additional expenditure of $1 per week per capita.” aOMMnMHBHEBMIUBMK

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