Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS [ARTICLE]

HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS

One who subscribes for a Liberty bond and gets credit as a patriot for doing so is hot acting patriotically if he immediately sells that bond, that is, unless he imperatively needs the money, says Secretary McAdoo. It is not The mere subscription that helps'" the government, it is the actual loan; shifting the bond to some one else does not help. The same objection lies to exchanging Liberty loan bonds in trade. Merchants offering to take Liberty loan bonds in exchange for merchandise are doubtless actuated by patriotic motives,, but such transactions tend to defeat a primary object of the bond sale, the encouraging of thrift and the dis-

couraging of expenditures. Bonds so exchanged are in most cases immediately sold on the open market which tend to depress the market price and affects adversely the sales of future issues. Secretary McAdoo expressly states that there is no desire on the part of the government to prevent or 1 interfere with legitimate trading, in good faith, in Liberty bonds. It is one of the great objects of the treasury department to have these bonds held as permanent investments by the people and paid for out of savings, thus at once providing funds for the government and conserving labor and material. There are the soundest reasons for holding Liberty bonds, Their quotations under par on the stock exchange means a* loss only to those who sell. The financial history of the United States shows that in times of peace all its bonds have gone above paT, some as high as 139. The tremendous growth of our resources and of our trade, our domestic _ trade alone having increased from $30,000,000,000 „to $04,000,000,000 in the last four years, warrants the belief that our government bonds are the soundest investments in the world and with the restoration of peace conditions will command a handsome premium in the market.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of ,F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLOS CATARRH MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. This is the season of the year that the garden microbe shows signs of returning to life, and every warm day hatches out millions of him.