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Show I SAVING AND LENDING IS SERVICE. No one must feel that the other fellow fel-low can carry the load in this great crisis In world affairs. Only by every individual doing his full part will this country make good in the war. For us to fail, would mean misery' for rich and poor alike. Those who do not enter into the real fighting should be doing something to strengthen the war machinery. All must give either of their strength or money. How a citisen. instead of spending JluO for something he wants, denies IDimaeii ana lenas in money to me i government, performs a double serv-1 ice. Is thus made evident In a statement state-ment by an oftilca in Washington First, he furnishes the government with $100 to use In the prosecution of the war. Second, he has relieved to the extent ' of $100 the drain on our "goods and I services"; that Is. materials and labor. ! To make the article or articles he j would have bought, or to manufacture I others to take their place in the mar- , ket. would require materials and la- bor. In addition, to get the artick to j him labor and freight space would b ! required. By doing without the article, arti-cle, be has left free a certain amount ' of material to be used for war purposes, pur-poses, a certain amount of Labor to be used in the same way, and b has also relieved to a certain extent the transportation trans-portation facilities of the country This may not be much in the individual indi-vidual case, but when hundreds of thousands and millions of Americans pursue this course It means millions and millions of dollar loaned the government, gov-ernment, tremendous quantities of materials ma-terials loft for uses of the nation In this war, millions of hours of labor i r.-e to do war work, and a vast amount of freight space free for national na-tional uses. These sacrifices are easy to make; are small and trivial compared to the sacrifices that onr soldiers and sailors make daily while they offer constantly j their lives for their country, the great- ' est sacrifices of all |