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BADIN BULLETIN Here’s Way to Get Rich Safely Getting Down to Brass Tacks Means Getting Up to Gold Coins “Refuse to buy what you cannot af ford,” was the message brought to Chi- “My representative who visited these retail dealers," said Mr. Lester, “summed up their answer in two words—judi cious buying. So that is why I say refuse to buy what you cannot afford. Do not pay unreasonable prices for food country are spending recklessly. Many are selling their Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps—their hard-earned sav ings. They have not learned to practice economy as essential. Economy, which was a wartime necessity, should be a TYPE OF BUNGALOWS AND COTTAGES ON TALLASSEE AVENUE cago recently by Orrin Lester, Associate Director of the Savings Division of the Treasury Department. Mr. Lester said that in Washington he put the question to the retail dealers in all lines of busi- ness as to what they deemed the most essential thing to cut the high cost of living. or material, and then the profiteer can not profiteer. If all citizens had the courage of the Scotchman who, when told ninety cents was the price of roast beef, walked out of the restaurant, de claring he would not pay such a price, we would get down to brass tacks. The trouble is that the people of this peacetime virtue. That is why the gov ernment is urging the people to hold on to their government securities. If you must dispose of your Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps, sell them in the legitimate market—not to swindlers. “There are about thirty million who own government securities, and the gov-
The Badin Bulletin (Albemarle, N.C.)
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