| Show tUY IT NOW CAMPAIGN BEGINS HERE PURCHASING DRIVE MEANS PROSPERITY Spend M Money n y Now Now For F or What Is Needed Advice t to c UY only what you need but buy it now B This is the slogan of a J nationwide buying campaign to bt be initiated by the council of national defense at the request o of William C. C Redfield secretary of erce to stimulate business and its resultant prosperity by laying before the people ot of th the country the necessity of buying what they need carefully but o of buying it immediately according to a letter to Arch M. M Thurman secretary of the state council of defense defens f from om Grosvenor B. B I Clarkson director of the council of national defense L I Commerce Commerce and industry rest on per per- purchases by individuals and In I order to restore Industry to a prewar basis and furnish employment ment for returning returning re- re turning soldiers the people of the I country must buy now what they need but without waste Secretary Redfield I points out Industry cannot absorb I I these men and take care of men already already al- al ready employed unless there Is a deI demand de- de mand for industrial products When I the people buy business Is good when the people cease buying Industry slackens Secretary Redfield declares I CAMPAIGN IS APPROVED The campaign approved by Newton D. D Baker secretary of war Josephus Josephu Daniels secretary of the navy Franklin Frank Frank- lin K Lane secretary of the interIor David P. P Houston secretary of agriculture agriculture agri- agri culture William Villiam B. B W V ilson secretary of labor and Secretary Redfield will willbe I be based upon the proposition that hoarding Is Is' dangerous and so is waste The people will be urged to take the middle course and to buy now but buy carefully The winter season is on and this means In the Northern states suspension suspension sion of work Secretary Redfield states This In its turn means much unemployment Thousands of men employed in public improvements and engineering work of many kinds such as street repairs building and the like which have stopped are crowding into our congested cities and there is always always al- al ways more or less difficulty temporarily ly in their getting employment I at this time of the year PRICES DECLINING To these conditions is added the i business hesitation normal tg this period of postwar readjustment Prices are to some extent declining Men I hesitate to buy materials and supplies I on n a falling market This means stopping stopping stop stop- ping work in some places and reducing ing the amount of work done in others I It is normal but It means an addition I to the usual unemployment at this season The return of our our- soldiers in quantities adds for the time to the problem The situation lends itself to the evil work of enemies of society The Bolshevist Bolshevist Bol- Bol I takes advantage of idleness An empty stomach and an empty purse create his opportunity Ills felI fellow fel- fel low the I. I V V SV agitator seizes the I same occasion We Ve have only to look abroad to see how disaster has come comeI comeby I by hunger STOCKS ARE LOW i There Is great volume of business waiting to be done in America Private Private vate stocks of all kinds are low The country has ample means and when once the streams of private buying commerce begin to flow there will be business for all ail and to spare but iti may take several months to bring this about and meanwhile winter is here and men who are unemployed may be hungry Action is needed now for the moment in order that trouble may not come in severe phases ere normal forces have time to work out their happy results Our commerce rests after all ail upon the personal purchases of Individuals If f. f all ail were to stop bu buying ing for their personal needs there would be no commerce commerce com com- merce no industry So far as all have stopped buying industry has slack slack- ened So far therefore as aU all can resume resume re- re sume buying for their actual SlaCk SlaCk-I needs industry must move mote again It Is what Is called good business perhaps good economics to delay buying until the market has reached bottom but more I is at the stake peace of the country saving men from unemployment and andI its social consequences to them and to toI I land Yet we must not waste I ALL MUST SAVE We Vo must still save Taxes are coming Soon there will be another I loan and we must not undo the habits of thrift that have been formed Between Between Be- Be tween the extremes lies a possible course of helpful action which is this Buy only what you need but buy it now The men and women who do this contribute patriotically to the country's need just as they did when they saved at their tables last year to tot feed our friends just as they did when t they bought War ar Savings stamps or Liberty bonds If each of us would I buy what he needs at once but no nomore nomore I more than he needs the springs of action would be tapped and a real danger danger dan dan- I I ger averted I |
