Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — LIBERTY BOND COUPONS [ARTICLE]

LIBERTY BOND COUPONS

The interest coupons of Liberty Loan Bonds are payable at any Federal reserve bank or Subtreasury and at the Treasury Departs ment in Washington, and any- national hank which is a general depository of government funds is required to cash these coupons without charge. It is believed by- the Treasury Department that no bank or trust company which is a depository of the proceeds of Libertv Bonds’ or Treasury certificates of indebtedness will make a charge for collecting the coupons, paying cash to the holder. The soiwice rendered by banking institutions in cashing these interest coupons is a substantial one, but it is hoped that these depositories will perform the service without charge as a patriotic duty. If an object is needed to show in what light Germany regards neutral natiohs, and to verify her estimate of a treaty as a “scrap of paper,’’ the fate of Norway is ample for the purpose. That nation, although adhering scrupulously to a policy of neutrality, has lost hundreds of ships by German submarines and mines, and not less than 5,000 lives with them. No one of the allied countries’ navies have suffered to the extent that Norwegian shipping has suffered.