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Show THE NEED OF ECOXOMY AND SAVING When we put a million and a half soldiers in the field, we withdraw those men from productive enterprises. enter-prises. They do not while they are actually in training or in service produce anything. They do, on the other hand, consume much. There is nothing more expensive on earth than to support and maintain a great army in the field, especially if it Is' on the fighting line. The attrition of supplies and everything else is tremendously great when we have a fighting army in the field. America is the one great remaining remain-ing storehouse in the world of supplies sup-plies and credit. We must maintain and make effective as possible our own soldiers and the soldiers of those nations who are fighting for us. We must therefore draw as little lit-tle as possible upon our common store of supplies and money. The more we lessen our domestic de- mnnd. the more we can contribute! to the support and effectiveness of; our allied armies. Economy is now a national duty, such a duty upon the people at home as fighting is upon those Americans who are bravely offering their lives for the honor of America and the preservation of liberty and justice. . . A |