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PROSPERITY
isn’t around the corner....
| (It Never Was)
WHEN prosperity left, it didn’t just disap
pear around a corner.
It came down the grade behind us. Now it’s
up the grade ahead of us. And we’re not going
America hasn’t gone to pot. We have encoun
tered sterner emergencies than this. And we have
conquered them. Each time we have gone on to
even greater prosperity. ;
Don’t say you can’t help. Don’t say you’re too
little to help cure a big national crisis. YOU
CAN HELP!
Have you hidden your money away, buried it
in the ground, put it in a sock, locked it up in a
safety vault?
Then, bring it out, if you want to help end
this depression. You’ll help your state and yoer
nation and your fellow man. And you’ll help
YOURSELF.
Every dollar you put back into use helps. It
helps make jobs for the unemployed. It helps
stimulate business. It helps make a market for the
things you grow. And it helps YOU.
Your money is worth more now, in terms of
what it will buy, than it’s been in many, many
years.
And there is a feast of bargains spread out be
fore you.
Fortunes disappear in times like these. And
new fortunes are made. They are NCT made by
people who hoard their money. They are made
by folks who have got not just CASH but
COURAGE, too.
Whatever reason there may have been for
hoarding, it has passed. Well planned, carefully
(Published by the Georgia Power Company in the interest of the campaign of the Citizens Reconstruction Organization.)
to get up that grade
without a good stiff
pull.
I's dark, gloomy,
chilly, down here in
the valley.
But STANDIN’
AND DREADIN’
aren’t going to get us
out of the valley.
For those who wish the mazimum safety for their now idle money—the United
States government offers for sale a special issue of Treasury certificates, “baby
bonds,” which are redeemable on sixty days’ motice at their full face value and
therefore are protected against price fluctuations. Ask your banker. These bonds
are as sound as money itself.
executed acts— the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, the Glass-Steagall bill and others— have
changed the financial situation. Bank failures have
been checked, hoarding has been checked, money
is coming out of hiding, credits are becoming
easier.
This fundamental, essential, necessary improve
ment in financial conditions had to happen before
business conditions COULD improve. And it IS
happening.
As it happens, prices will go up. The value of
your money in terms of what it will buy will
shrink. It will shrivel if it remains hoarded.
Bring it out into the sunlight. Let it sprout and
grow you a new crop of dollars! Not in wild spec
ulation, not in wildcat schemes. No need to lose
it that way. The best securities, the best lands,
the best investments of all kinds, are waiting for
you on the bargain table.
Did you know that the biggest fortunes were
NOT founded ia periods of prosperity? They
were founded in times of adversity like these by
men who had cash—
and COURAGE! o
Why, you can make
YOURSELF into a
fine old ancestor. You
can found a family for
tune of your own. And
your great grandchil
dren will paint your
portrait and hang it
over the mantel piece.
And they will look up
to it with pride in
their voices as they'
say —
“That’s Great Grandfather. He was a wise old
guy. He had sense. He knew when to buy, ’way
back in 1932 when things were cheap.”
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