Show A HARD YEAR AHEAD in the fiscal year that ends this month the government will have spent about twelve billion tI larb in the coming year it will undertake to spend at least twenty those are no mere figures on a printed page they are no mere problems in bankers finance to be disposed of bv b clever bookkeeping entries they are exigent and intimate tl e personal notice that a hundred million people must do at least one halt half better in the opening year than they did in the closing one we got through the closing year very easily we practiced more or less the most obvious and convenient economics those that involved only some little bother in changing our habits like eating corn and rye bread instead of wheat but left us its on jon the whole living quite as agreeably as before our rich folk cheerfully adopted the new fashion of giving fewer parties as they would have adopted any other fashion not disagreeable in itself but we have not noticed anybody who got so close to a war regimen that he barked his shin against it and that was not actually needed with such easy sacrifices as we made the country got through the year adequately and creditably probably there is no point in barking your shin until the I 1 actual need is at hand these treasury figures certify the need iney aney are notice that we are now coming under a more rizo roua war regimen comparable to that of riu iu rope Tope we must produce and save one halt half more it means youit means every person capa ie of directing his production and consumption it is an exigent personal message overhaul your budget now saturday evening post |