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WILLIAMSBURG COLONIAL
COLORS AT THE COST OF
REGULAR FLAT PAINT.
Relaxing • • •.
mt The Homestead
Da yom feal that golf, riding, and
tennis art etrietly for others? If so,
don’t stay awiv from The Homestead
became of its reputation as a (porting
MMoe.
It's tree that sport* are prominent at
Aie luxury retort in the Virginia Alle
ghenies. There art also dozens of non
athletic pastimes—the social life, bridge,
dancing, music, outdoor dinners, the
mineral batbs, and nightly mories, to
name a few. ’ And you’ll never forget
As traditionally Ant meals or the
Southern service.
With sports or without, The Horae
cletd it ready—and able—to please
gM.
Writs vt for Msaratura, rates, and rail
©r motor routs*; wt’ll »«nd them at
©cos. Or, »f yos already know T««
Houtimp, juit kt u> know whoa to
••pact yot.
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Defense Bonds Serve
Today and Tomorrow,
Graves Says in Forum
Buy Weapons Now,
Personal Needs Later,
Treasury Aide Points Out
Harold N. Graves, assistant t~
the Secretary of the Treasury', dis
cussed the objectives of the Govern
ment's defense savings campaign In
an address last night in the National
! Radio Forum, arranged by The Star.
The talk was broadcast-over a na
tional hookup of the National Broad
casting Co., and was heard locally
over Station WMAL.
The text of the speech follows:
Tonight, I am going to talk about
the future—not alone that part of it
which we can only guess, but that
part which we can see clearly and
1 certainly. I am going to talk about
the future as It touches your pocket
book, my pocketbook and the Na
tion's pocket book.
The Resolution of All.
What we as Individuals all hope to
do tomorrow, next month and in the
next decade, represents also the
country's desire and aspirations. As
individuals, we hope to own homes,
we hope to have children who will
carry forward our names and do
them honor, we want to give our
sons and daughters the fullest op
portunities for education and de
velopment, and we want constantly
to Improve our own position in life.
Multiplied and magnified 130,000,
000 times this is also our Nation's
ambition. As a Nation we want to
have peaceful and mutually profit
able relations with other nations; so
that we may go on adding to our
vast wealth of roads and schools. Im
proving the goods we make and the
goods we consume, raising our stand
ards of living and increasing the
! benefits enjoyed by all of us who
live in this country.
This we are all resolved and de
termined to do.
Today we have rolled up our!
sleeves and gone to work to insure
this future. Our factories are hum
ming, making our military establish
ment strong—so that we may be im
pregnable against any attack by
force. Scores of our cargo vessels
are being gathered to form a bridge
of ships whereby supplies will be
carried to our friends—the enemies
of force across the Atlantic. Our
young men are in training camps,
learning the discipline and tech
niques of the modern Army.
Willing to Shoulder Burden.
We are keenly conscious now that
in addition to our bountiful privi
leges. we have duties as well. For
a long time, the people have been
Insistent in their desire to shoulder
responsibility by paying higher
taxes for defense. Eighteen months
ago, the opinion polls showed that
6 out of every 10 of us wanted to
shoulder this responsibility. A new’,
stiffer revenue act wras passed; but
still more of us than before wanted
to put our dollars to work to expand
our Army, Navy and air forces. Our
leaders in Washington are now dis
cussing new tax schedules to meet
this want.
Last week the Treasury Depart
ment placed defense savings stamps
and Defense savings bonds on sale in
post offices and banks near you. You
already have heard about the nature
and purpose of these stamps and
bonds. They offer every citizen an
opportunity to lend his money vol
untarily to the Government, for his
own profit and to help achieve the
objectives that he wants to see
achieved.
Our desires for the furure and
our impulse to protect that future
now did not originate with us. They
are common to all men. Our dreams
for security, equality and the right
to stand on our own feet were borne
to this Nation on great streams of
, immigrant peoples. They brought •
[ these human yearnings from Sussex
and Clydeside, from the farms of
France, from Saxony and Bavaria,
from Sicily and Lombardy, from the
green hills of Ireland, and from
Galicia in Poland.
A Nation for Freedom.
We are not a Nation because we
I speak one language: we speak many
! tongues. We are not a Nation be
1 cause we worship In the same wav;
we belong to more than 200 religious
denominations. We are a Nation
because we are men and women of
one Idea: The idea of the greatest
freedom to each individual, so long
as that freedom does not harm our
society.
Refugees from totalitarian coun- j
tries are amazed at what our equal- I
ltarian society has achieved. Some
of them have spent hours just pho- ,
tographing the hundreds and hun
dreds of automobiles which stand at
the curbs of every American city, i
To us, this is commonplace; to them,
it is a miracle. They are amazed at
our gigantic riches. They are I
amazed at our spirit of easy com
radeship—between the diner at a
restaurant and the waiter, between
the taxi driver and his fare. All
men have had the same dreams as
these, but in our country, they look
more real, and we shall go on
making them more and more true.
Around us today, the world is a
strange and almost unrecognizable
place. An Invader is in uneasy
possession of one-third of China—
an area as big as our whole Nation
east of the Mississippi. Another
Invader is astride almost the whole
i continent of Europe. A crooked
J cross, emblem of that Invader,
, waves In Norway at the continent's
northern tip. and in Greece, nearly
2,000 miles southward.
Bent on vast monopoly.
The war machine of this invader
is being fueled by the enforced
labor and the confiscated money
! and resources of Czechs, Poles,
Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen
and other subject peoples. After
the war, the carriers of the crooked
cross intend that their industrial
machinery will be operated the
same way. In their world of to
morrow, they Intend to be a master
race, controlling the life of whole
continents. In their world of the
future, they intend to control by
force the biggest monopoly of labor,
of business and of ideas in history.
We can see now some of the fatal
j mistakes that were made in Europe.
One by one, the countries of Europe
1 were divided, one from the others.
Too late and too few, they began to
I feel concern, one for the others.
! One by one, they were swallowed.
As with countries, so it was with
i individuals. In France, there was
thought for present costs rather
than future gains. In the last year
but one before the outbreak of war,
France, on the edge of Europe's
cauldron, spent less for armaments
than did the United States 3,000
miles away. In the Allied nations,
there were men who thought that
this was Just another war to which
y
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HAROLD N. GRAVES. —Star Staff Photo.
they could muddle through to vic
tory. Today, Paris is in the hands
of the enemy, and Britain's cities
and villages have felt the hot blast
of destructive bombs.
Sober and serious as they are,
Americans cannot say that their
defenses and their weapons of war
are now what they want them to be.
Unstinting on Defense.
We can say that we and our
chosen leaders have not repeated
and are not repeating the errors
of the countries across the Atlantic.
We are cleaving fast to our friends,
and we will not be divided from
them. We are committed to help
Britain, not only because Britain
stands for our way of life, but also
because by so doing we can defend
our own interests and give ourselves
time to stock our own arsenal. We
already have made up our minds to
spend and we are spending unstint
ingly for defense.
In the nine months between the
first of last July and the beginning
of last April, our Government spent
*4.500.000.000 for defense. Under
the Lease-Lend Act and other au
thorizations of our Congress, we
have so far planned the outlay on
future defenses of nearly 10 times
that sum—*39.600.000.000.
Our construction of plants and
factories is nearing the first stage
of completion. But this is only low
gear. We intend to move and are
moving into second gear and toward
high gear, putting these factories to
work in the production of flnisned
materials in ever-increasing quanti
ties. Before the end of this year
we will find our Government spend
ing more for defense than for all
other purposes combined.
At this point, our future is clearly
visible. As far as our pocketbooks
are concerned, tomorrow is marching
from the horizon quickly toward us.
Part of those billions for defense
used mostly to buy American mate
rials and to pay American labor
have begun to flow back into our
pockets, in the form of increased
wages, more overtime pay and larger
dividends on stocks.
Spending Spree in Last War.
America is feeling boomy. Wages
have risen faster than the price of
the things we spend our wages for;
our income has risen faster than
our outgo.
This was also true for a time
during the last war. and a spending
spree resulted. Perhaps some of you
remember that it was not uncommon
then to see day laborers working in
silk shirts. Perhaps some of you
remember, too. the economic dislo
cation which followed. As America
moved rapidly into the production
of war materials, the production of
other things—clothes, furniture, and
so on—dropped. Even for a time
after the war. many of the everyday
things that we wanted to buy were
scarce and high in cost: those of us
who had spent on silk shirts had to
pay dear for cotton shirts.
That is one thing we want to
avoid now. We want to live soberly
today so that we will not regret to
morrow.
On the one hand, our decision to
build our defenses with all our
might means inevitably that our
production of everyday, goods will
decline. If John Smith and Martha
Jones move from their present jobs
into war industries, then their labor
no longer can be used for the pro
duction of everyday goods. If alum
in\im is needed for planes, then its
use for making pots and pans must
be limited. In the absence of other
factors, this transition would result
in a blowing up of prices to far
above normal proportions.
On the other hand, however, the
people have voluntarily decided to
put an increased portion of their
income into national defense. We
have chosen, as a Nation, to increase
our purchases of war goods: and to
limit the amount of our Incomes
which can be spent on other things.
The number of potential buyers of
goods will be limited along with the
amount of goods themselves, and a
balance will be maintained. This is
the first, firm line of defense against
Inflation.
Investment for Tomorrow.
In this line of defense taxes are
our Regular Army, and Defense
saving stamps and Defense savings
bonds are our volunteers. Through
their representatives in Congress,
the people vote the taxes. As indi
vidual citizens, they will make up
their minds to contribute still more
to defense funds, and to their own,
personal futures, too.
For the savings bonds will pay
for national defense today—and
when their value, plus interest, is
returned to you, they will pay for
those things that you want to do
and we all want to do in our world
of tomorrow.
Our pocketbooks are all sizes, and
the Defense bonds now being offered
by the Treasury are all sizes, too.
There are thousands among you
listening tonight who have already
bought your first Defense savings
bonds or your first Defense savings
stamps. Some of you know perhaps
better than I can tell you what the
securities are.
Our bonds are divided into three
families: E, F and G. The F and
G series are meant primarily for
persons and corporations who make
a practice of investing their earn
ings. They carry interest of about
2‘2 per cent. Although they may
be redeemed beforehand, the date
when they come due is 12 years j
from the time of purchase.
The E bond is for the individual
with a moderate or small income
who still wants to do his part as a
volunteer. E bonds vary in size
from one which can be bought for
$18.75 to another priced at $750.
They carry a higher interest rate
than the F and G bonds—2 9-10 per
cent,—and they come due two years
earlier—that is in 10 years from
the time of purchar®.
In 10 years, the Treasury will buy
these bonds back for a third more
than you paid for them. The $18 75
bond will be worth $25, and the
$750 bond will be worth $1,000.
The F and G bonds are meant for
habitual investors; the E bond is
the people's bond. You may buy
E bonds for yourself; If you are
married, you may buy them in the
name and on behalf of husband or
wife, or for both of you at once;
you may buy for son or daughter.
Right now Defense savings bonds
will buy guns, planes and tanks.
Tomorrow they may buy a new set
of screens for the house, or a college
education.
If you are among those who can
not afford to buy a savings bond
out of a single pay cheek, then
savings stamps are within your
reach. These are sold in the same
places as bonds—that is, in banks
and at post offices—and they come
in denominations of from 10 cents
to $5. They do not earn lntceat;
but each stamp buyer receives ar.
album in which he can save his
stamps, and when he has accumu
lated enough of them, he can ex
change them for an interest-bear
ing bond.
Lets Public Participate.
During the past few days some
of you undoubtedly have bought
Government bonds for the first
time in your lives; others may be
thinking that you never in your lives
heard so much talk about them.
For this there is an excellent
reason. Vi the past the Treasury
has sold most of its bonds to banks
and investors—and with lower offer
ings of interest than are made
available to you now. Such Issues,
of course, will be continued, but
today the Treasury does not merely
wish to raise money—which It could
do readily enough through the
banks—but it wishes to let every
American who is able and willing
to do so buy a share in his country
and a stock in his own future. Thu*,
he becomes a partner in the Nation
—and shares in this country always
have been and always will be the
most rock-solid Investment in the
world.
The dollar value of Defense sav
ings bonds is as indestructible as
the hardness of diamonds. Only
the Government can sell them, and
only the Government can buy them
back. They cannot be traded on
the exchanges, and they cannot be
swapped; they cannot be beaten
down in value, nor pushed up in
price except through the normal
accumulation of Interest.
Subject to the single restriction
that you cannot return bonds sooner
than 60 days after the first day of
the month you bought them, the
Treasury always will pay you at
least what you paid for the bonds.
And the longer you keep the bonds
the more their value will rise.
Permit Systematic Saving.
The Treasury frankly wishes you
to buy savings bonds, but neither it
nor any other Government depart
ment is going to stage a campaign
to make you do so. The bonds will
not serve their purpose if you buy
one bond or a dozen and then stop.
They are put forward as a means
for every citizen to carry out a con
sistent savings program, to be fol
lowed week by week or month by
month.
That is why we are not making a
campaign. We are hanging out our
shingle to let you know that we are
In the business of selling bonds. We
are doing business and will continue
to do business at convenient places
—at your bank, at your post office.
Up to now I have talked mostly
about how volunteer bonds and
stamps will affect the country and
Its economy. Your decision about
your own savings program naturally
will depend on how the purchase of
bonds and stamps will affect you.
Nobody in this country will tell
you or is going to tell you that you
must do this or that with your
money. You earned it, and you
have a perfect right to do with it
what you please. Some of you, par
ticularly. should not participate in
the bond and stamp program for
the time being because of pressing,
prior claims on your income.
Those of us who are employed
now for the first time in a long
time, those of us who are in a posi
tion for the first time to maintain
an adequate standard of living, those
of us who are assuming new family
responsibilities—all of us who fall
into these categories should first
provide for our vital wants.
Should Remember Last War.
For the great bulk of us—perhaps
50,000,000 or more—who can Imme
diately begin to invest in savings
stamp*, and bonds, common sense
should dictate what proportion of our
Income we will spend and what
proportion we will set aside.
We should all remember the men
who bought silk shirts In the last
war and then afterward had to
scrimp to buy cotton ones. Among
the definite things In the future
which we must take for granted is a
period of postwar readjustment —
when John Smith and Martha Jones,
perhaps after a time of looking for
jobs, move back into normal em
ployment from war Industry, and
when our aluminum goes back into
pots and pans.
Then we will move most smoothly
forward with what we hope to do
and want to do tomorrow if we have
reserves for this settling-down pe
riod. Reserves then will help us to
carry ahead our normal lives—es
tablishing our comfort and security
and getting on with our future in a
peacetime world.
But for the present, our stamps
and bonds must serve a wartime
purpose. Americans, least of all
peoples, need to be told that dollars
arp weapons. This was a rich con
tinent when Columbus discovered
! it four and a half centuries ago.
We have made it richer still Our
skill, hard work and teamwork have
mined riches out of the ground and
grown them out of the earth.
Life Richer In U. S.
Once earned, our dollars have
fought the good fight against
poverty, ignorance and disease, and
have conquered time and distance.
Our wide country is close knit,
bound around by an endless net
work of roads and communications.
Our life in this Nation of ottrs. en
livened by a thousand opportuni
ties for pleasure and self-better
ments. is incompanablv richer and
more varied than the life on any
other continent or in any other
country on the globe
Our machine civilization leads all
other, and to those who say that
this has made us soft, I answer
that as a matter of fact we have
been getting tougher and tougher
since the time of Capt. John Smith.
From the Old World we have corns
together and prospered. We are
stricken leas by disease, we live long
er and we are taller, heavier and
stronger than any of the single
races which made us.
You and I and our children are
better educated than the lars® masj
of our European contemporaries. We
regard each other, person and persof
and group and group, with gipatei
respect, for within our free institu*
tions a Mountaineer may become 4
cabinet member and an immigrari
boy a captain of industry. L""
These things we have earned, ar*a
these things we mean to keep.
In this resolve, the peoplp of th{
United States are beginning tn
mobilize their great wealth. Five
years ago we wpre amazed whPn a
certain totalitarian regime appro
priated $4,000,000,000 for armaments
—forgetting that a few month*
previously we in this country had
spent that much on Christmas pres
ents alone. Now our tremendous,
careless, incalculable riches are be
ing poured into a purposeful pro
gram of democracy's defense
Your Government asks you to tak§
your part in this program. Invest
in a savings bond, and then anothee
and another. By so doing you wull
help yourselves and you will help to
defend your country.
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