Show A quiet bloodless struggle against waste and all extravagance BY MEM MEMBER alt OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE AMERICAN RED CROSS peace lias has its patriots as well as war peacetime peace tt time a patriotism nt at present means car carrying carding yIng on for ou our r cou country ali a quiet bloodless struggle against basw and all kinds of extravagance it means saving first and spending afterwards tito typical american will be quick to sea that there is a lot for hi his own personal good in ilia thrift iden idea ire la knows that every material possession in in life every kind hind of training and almost every kind of advancement van cement takes money As a janitor who by steady industry and economy had acquired a substantial bonk bank account said bind to me the ilia other day money might not bo ba everything in life but when my wife was desperately ill and it took about six eix dollars to any for doctors and nurses to savo save glicr ter life it was a mighty comfortable for table tiling thing to have I 1 can tell you there are many men I 1 know who would have had to go into debt under that sudden financial strain while saving for a rainy day is indeed necessary to comfort having for a sunny opportunity iq ii a much more inore joyous proposition and tile the government lias fins devised an exceedingly easy and fascinating way of doing I 1 this liis through thrift stamps and wor war savings stamps for the young student who yearns for a college education for the business ninn or r woman who looks forward to 11 real vaen vacation valention tion some soine tiny day for the coup couple a who are arc planning to beautify the homo home for tile ilia millions of individuals 9 who hope liepe to do tin thi s or that when forne come extra money is available there are many ways of converting small change which formerly slipped out of sight into inlo 25 cent thrift stamps which in turn tire are convertible into yar war savings stamps paying 4 per cent interest compounded quart cily the consistent investment of small sums that are arc never missed from the pocketbook roll ill up into oil nn amazing total for instance stanco in 1 per week iti invested vested at ilia alio interest paid on oil war savings stamps for 5 years gives lie tar a capital of and once the thrift is established opportunities are easily found for file alio invest investment men of sums additional to tile the scheduled sa vinga this is tile alio philosophy of the first arst spend afterward slogan all the lie foregoing seems to relate only to personal gain but it ft ties up definitely with ilia naf nations ions welfare wel the pooling of the ilia hundreds of millions of dollars which wo ran can profitably invest in government securities or of chilli tile tax exempt war savings stamp is ilia best pay paying ing releases just jiff t that icona hundred bundred million dollars to the speeding up of industry and furthermore the growth of thrift as aa a natio national nill habit will inevitably tend to tile hie better husbanding hus banding of our natural resources the reckless waste of which hai ha been ono one of the most shameful clio clin plora piers of our history lii story these greatly increased potentialities in ilia production of tile alio barici and conservation of resources cannot but tend to a broader and prosperity dy by each one doing liia ilia bit for sensible economy thero will result such an all accumulation and development of resources as to keep the united states sinks far and away the most prosperous and leading nation of the world pica mi mil patriotism tor for every american to put ili his s shoulder to ilia great wheel of national success in place of wars they elfall not pass the slogan of peace is savo save first spend afterward L fataei vy da daw 0 |