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Show TIME TO DRAW IN. The official journal of the British war savings committee takes the English En-glish people to task for not recognizing recogniz-ing that war and peace conditions condi-tions are not alike and that even though they have money to spend they should not make riotous use of it at this time. It declares that "the battleship bat-tleship Britain is in the thick of a hot fight and yet. people insist upon being carried as passengers and on being better bet-ter clothed and heated than in times of peace." The same spirit is observable observ-able in the United States, although it may be said that we are much better off iu every way than our English cousins. Great Britain, however, has been In the war for three and a half years and has been greatly impoverished, impover-ished, while the United States is just entering it, with her resources practically prac-tically unimpaired. If the war is fought to a conclusion, which seems more than probable, at this time, it may be that we, too. will see the bottom of the barrel bar-rel in the course of the next two of three ears. In any event, we should be putting our house in order for a long and desperate struggle. If the end comes sooner than expected we shall be iietter prepared to begin life anew if we have a few Liberty bonds and war stamps in our possession. The English will simply have to change their habits. hab-its. We should do so at once. |