Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 167, 26 May 1917 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1917

LIBERTY BONDS AFFORD SAFEST OF INVESTMENTS

BY GELETT BURGES8 AND H. A. LAMB OF THE VIGILANTES The Investment In the Liberty Loan is safe "as safe as a Government bond" of course; the safest that is, of all Investments. Not until the country is so ruined that everything goes smash stocks, bonds, railroads and savings banks will the Liberty Loan be repudiated. Nor need one worry that, later, other lxans will pay, as they often do, a higher rate of interest. The governmen will put no such premium on the laggard lender. Whatever the interest paid on later bonds, the holders of Liberty Loan bonds will be guaranteed the privilege of converting their securities into certificates of the new and more remunerative loan. England has done it; France has done It. Germany, indeed, has even evolved a lottery proposition by which certain lucky numbers can exchange so as to make extra profits of 25 per cent on the investment. Does Interest Se Does 3 per cent. I . ' seem low? Most savings ba.ik.-. tay that; but very few pay more, and they offer infinitely less security. Stocks pay better, but stocks are not nearly so safe ordinarily, and now in time of war still less bo. Nobody knows which way the cat will jump. Nobody knows, today, even whether to buy or sell. The government, therefore, can afofrfc to play safe, and by making this fair effer for money immensely increase its revenue for appropriations. And, with our terrifying Unpreparedness, God knows the government needs all the money it can get to protect Democracy not only abroad but at home. Thank God that it isn't, like Germany, paying out, for Interest alone, one billion dollars a year! Now, just as all guess-work about military and naval matters, at the beginning of the war, proved futile and faulty, so all estimates by economists as to the financial strength of nations were wrong. No one had any idea of the amazing borrowing capacity of modern governments. Money Standards Change. Seven Billions seemed, five years ago, like a good deal of money. But this war has changed all our old standards. We talk now of billions quite easily. We are putting our economic strength against a nation only about one-third as rich as we are. with twothirds our populatfon and three times our debt, even after this loan is raised. When you consider what, nevertheless, Germany has done in the way of raising money twenty billions this bond issue seems pretty small. We shall soon eat it up. This is not going to be an amateur war: once in, we mean business. Big business we know needs big money. Of all the belligerent nations we are

the richest and safest. It ia up to us to finance the struggle for the civilized world and we shall need many more billions after the first loan Is floated. We must at least rival, if not surpass our allies, who up to now have dwarfed us by their efforts. Financiers Buy Heavily. The most prominent figures in . the financial world are putting huge sums into the Liberty Loan. You would follow their tip 'on the stock market wouldn't you? ,Why not follow it now, and put your hundreds and thousands where they have thought It good to invest their millions? r The ultra-rich are only the advance guard. Great as is their wealth, the bulk of the nation's capital is in the hands of those of moderate and modest fortunes. "It is from the myriad people of smaller means that the money , to conduct the war should come. It must come-lt will come, will it not, from you arid me? ' I have already, subscribed to the Liberty Ixan.' Have you? :. ' ' '

In national factories and establishments controlled by England, 500,000 women are now emploj'ed.

WILL SERVE COUNTRY.

NEW YORK, May 26. The American Iron and Steel Fraternity will be actuated by the highest conception of patriotic duty with respect to the war requirements of the government, . Elbert H. Gary said here today, addressing the ' American Iron & Steel Institute, as its president, at the 12th" annual, meeting. , .

ELMER RHODES INJURED

Elmer Rhodes, custodian of the. Masonic, temple, is suffering, from torn and strained ligaments in the back of cne of his knees. Rhodes accident

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