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Show H9SIS PLEASUHES r aioHSEfiei Frank A. Vanderlip Makes Earnest Plea for Wat-Saving Wat-Saving Stamps. OMAHA. Nf!v. Dee. 4. Pleasures should he foregone during the war to a Jarpe extent and the money invested in war savings stamps or other government .ecurities. sa id -V;uik A. Vanderlip, national na-tional director of the war saving campaign, cam-paign, in an address here toninhi, '".Store up your pleasures as you would store up money in the bank," pleaded .Mr. Vanderlip. "Von will enjoy them tcnfolri later, at the riht time and with a clear conscience. "Mure than half the zest is taken off pleasure and enjoyments now he-cause of Hie terrible things thai are happening all t.ie time and the suffering the whole worll is poins through. I am not asking ask-ing yoi (o be sad or doleful that is .tnte unnecessary but it' you have a ' heart youxwon't set a tenth part of the normal enjoyment out of a pleasure or a luxury in these times, when every nows-jiaper nows-jiaper you pick up brings you a sense of the suffering and asony of so many millions mil-lions of your fel!ow-men. . ' "These war savings stamps are the most practical aid that could be Ima.sf-ined Ima.sf-ined in helping you to store up your pleasures. Instead of buying' that theater or movie ticket, you buy a thrift stamp. Your money goes direct to the war coffers, you have the satisfaction of feeling tiiat you have helped win the war, and you have stored up a greater pleasure for the future. "Instead of buying that new overcoat, bnv war savings stamps, and make the old one do a Utile longer. By doing this you have done three distinct services to ihe nation: You have left t he material untouched, so that there is somewhere material for one more overcoat for a soldier lad. You have left labor free to he used by the government in making the soldier's coat You have placed the money in the government's hands to pay for tiie soldier's coat, and you have saved up money that you did not really need i o spend, as insurance against a rainy (i h v. "You all rend in the papers a few days a so that thousands of soldiers a re held back from beginning their training be-i be-i ause the government could nor get over-i-onls for them. Why. my friends, ought not a shabby overcoat, in these times to he a hade of honor?" 1 Mr. Ya nderlip will speak tomorrow at Kansas City. |