Show THE ACCUSING FINGER many a hardworking hard working miln man and woman shorten their lives because they insist on maintaining their buys boys and girls in the same fashion as their better to do neighbors they are to be pitted pitied and at the same timo condemned for their folly but v billat illat bat of the neighbor who spreads it ou on not alone with his children but ut etith himself slid and his household Is lie he not ills his brothers keeper in the sense that lie he has no ncr right to flaunt haa iia wealth at a time when the whole country is asked to retrench and cut out all 11 e extravagance trava gance Is there not a moral law under these circumstances which can call say to him thou shall not we are at war and we have the very striking example of how war has leveled caste tn in the old world to one plane tho the hardships of war wa r in must u st tie borne by the rich as well as the e P poor or and it if there la Is a shortage of 0 t toil 1 l and it clothing it is not right that the rich should be supplied while the poor go eo hungry and cold the present situation has imposed burdens upon all alike and every man Is required to draw ills his part ot of the load it if its in the matter ot of purchasing war savings thrift stamps then the well to do must buy stamps in proportion to their ability to cut out the nonessentials essentials non and still have that which la Is necessary to sustain tile lite the poor man Is required to do hi his part in tills this movement also but by reason of the few non essentials in his dally daily program he cannot be expected to invest savings in tho the same proportion as his more fortunate neighbor but every man can do his part and one of the greatest blessings that can co come me from this war thrift campaign Is to within the heart of every american the determination to cease being the most profligate spender in the world relative to our duty in this regard an editor of one of the great national journals has this to say bay indulgence in luxuries is in times like alko ours a sign of bad taste an evidence of bad breeding no less than it is a proof of 0 bad citizenship let these truths sink in and we shall win the war so much the more promptly and with so much less gavern government ment regulations |