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Show whose good health the future of the nation largely depends. "National bicycle week" removes the bicycle from the field of sport and stamps it a means by which to obtain mental relaxation in times of distress and an economic necessity in the home and in business. People are "taking stock" on a national scale, checking up new appraisals in terms of ability to do big things. The nations which come out of this war victorious will be the nations which display dis-play the ability not merely to defeat the foe In the field but impoverishment at home. The victorious army must return to a land of plenty.. The financial and physical condition of the individual who has remained re-mained at home will indicate the condition condi-tion of the country as a whole. No American should endeavor to make money out of the war, but he should conserve con-serve his earnings and his earning capacity ca-pacity and be a better man morally and I physically at the war's close than he was ; at 'its beginning. The big message which "national bicy-I bicy-I cle week" seeks to carry over the broad j land is conservation of time and health; to make yourself physically fit, although ' you may be beyond the draft age: to , cut out extravagances and buckle down ' to real eeonomv, convenience and health. I There is not a state in the Union in I which the sale of new wheels does not ; increase in volume every year. There is j not a foreign country of any commercial 1 importance which does not buy American i made wheels. Since the United States went into the war the manufacture of .bicycles has in- MIL BICYCLE WEEKJW HERE Nation to Do Homage to the Humble 'Wheel.' "National bicycle week," May 4 to 11, which is also "thrift week," brings an Important message of economy, health and patriotism to the door of every man and woman. "National bicycle week" is an appeal to the business man to ride a bicycle and set an example in the community; to women, wo-men, whether they are helping to keep the home fires or the fires of industry burning; to workmen, who owe greater physical capacity to their labor and. who need the vitality which riding a wheel gives them, and to the boy and girl, on creased enormously. Our war department has purchased thousands of wheels for use at home and abroad. One manufacturer manufac-turer received an order for 10,000 wheels, made to a government standard and to be known as the "Liberty bicycle." The American bicycle industry reports, through the United Cycle Trade directorate, directo-rate, its national association, that it is experiencing a period of unusual prosperity. pros-perity. This is not clue entirely to the use of bicycles for war purposes. |