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Show Buy! Buy! Do It Now! Co to it! The lid is off! Buy all the Christmas ifts you can carry. Let no deserving friend, no child, be forgotten. ' This isn't extravagant counsel. It is the urge of the new thrift. The council of national defense has removed all wartime re-frictions re-frictions on Christmas buying. - You needn't cut down your gift list for patriotic reasons. You needn't limit yourself to buying a few "good wishes" cards. For the highest of patriotic reasons you can buy until your heart is content. The more you buy the better will business be. The better business becomes the easier the employment question ques-tion will be solved. Lively business means greater public confidence. Let's all go to this Christmas buying stunt as the boys went at the big job in France-r-with enthusiasm. The more we help boom business the more we'll help ourselves. Even our philanthropy will be an interest-bearing investment. As proved by the battle of Jutland, the Hun navy's idea of "Der Tag" was a game of tag the British being "it" and the Huns having a head start for home. The British have now realized their own idea of "Der Tag" the Boche fleet neatly tagged, receipted for and interned. Are you discontented? . Then you've cause forself congratulation. congratula-tion. You are on the high road to achievement. Poor indeed is that man hn ha? never known the pleasurable panes of discontent |