Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — WOMAN FOLLOWS SAFE PLAN [ARTICLE]

WOMAN FOLLOWS SAFE PLAN

Saves and Buys and Holds Her Investments—Estate Draws by Accumulating Safa Bends. * This ts the story of Miss Mary B. Hallam, who for forty-five years preceding her death worked la a Chicago department store: When Miss Hallam began to earn her living she had the same qualifications for success that everyone has — overage health and average Intelligence. Capital she j had none. But She had something else as good if not better—an appreciation of the advantages of thrift and an unswerving ambltion to succeed. Department-store salaries are sot generally regarded as the best stepping stones toward prosperity. Yet Miss Hallam prospered. She saved a part es her wages each week and Invested sham well. She never speculated. She put her money only Into such-Invest-ments as would yield a sure Interest return. Upon her death she left an estate valued at $70,000. _ Had’Miss ftallam, during the earlier years of her progress toward pros- ; verity, had the advantage of Investing : n Liberty bonds, her pace would have been still more rapid. In her younger days there were no government bonds available. In order to be sure that her investments were safe she carefully studied the Investment field and accepted a comparatively low rate of Interest. But she succeeded in spite bf that. ‘ American men and women, starting but today, have a great advantage. The war has for the first time since 1865 made government bonda of the United States available to the small Investor. Before 1917 the small government Issues were snapped up by the banks for their own special uses. But now Liberty bonds may be bought toy everyone and at a higher rate of Interest than would ever have been possible had It not been for the war. The government soon will offer to the people one more chance to participate In a great loan. By that time the nation will have contracted a floating debt of .more than $5,000,000,000, 'which must be provided for. Miss Hallam’s story shows that anyibody can save and accumulate. And common sense shows that everybody who is saving can find no Investment quite as good as Uncle Sam’s Victory Liberty bends. HELP "FINISH THE JOB."