By devoting, each week or each month, to the purchase of Liberty
Loan Bonds such Httle sums of ready money as are often frittered
away for useless things one not only can acquire property that ranks
among the very best securities in the history of the world, but can
at the same time feel that a patriotic duty has been performed and a
habit of saving acquired.
The ultimate result of this war will be victory for America, but
what the effects of the war will be upon America and American
people is unknown. When such a future confronts us prudence
demands that we provide for contingencies. No one knows how
great a help savings invested in a Liberty Loan Bond may be a few
years hence. And one's savings not only will be sectire but will be
constantly bringing in interest.
There are other possibiHties — they might better be called probar
bnities — and one is that the Liberty Loan Bonds, when peace comes
and money now in active industrial use will be seeking quiet invest-
ment, may bring a premium.
Liberty Bonds Likening the United States to a great corporation
preferred stock, ^j^^^ ^^^j.^ ^^^^^ ^ hundred milhon stockholders and
with capital stock and resources of more than two hundred and fifty
biihons of dollars, and an annual income of fifty billions of dollars,
each American citizen is a stockholder in this great corporatioil.
Even those whose only assets are their earning capacity own shares ifl
our pubhc domain and property and are working on a profit-sharing
basis with a vote and a voice in the management of the corporation
and with the right to acquire more stock at any time.
