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Show PERSHING IS SAVING $100,000 EVERY DAY y Aseeclsted Frees. WASHINGTON. Oct. II. In expressing express-ing the gratitude of the American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces "to the millions of j men. women and children In America f who re doing without things- In order 1 that the war may be more efficiently prosecuted. General Perehlng, In a cablegram to Her ret a ry McAdoo. told of j the results being accomplished by tne American military aaivage plants In France. "The ealvage service- is effecting a saving to the government eonsidarahW In excess of 1 100,000 each day." said t tenors I a'ershit.g: "Rut the saving in money Is not the vital part of thework. I We are saving material Imperatively , needed at the front, material that m ! expenditure of money can Immediately rrplsce. We are directly saving o-ean tonnage which Is serlouafv Deeded every week and Indirectly releasing labor for sorvk In shipyards, en railroads and in i other essential industries la the United ! Htm-e " |