Show r 0 EAT NO NOT nut BUY NOT j. j By Ily BOOTH BOOTEE broke Sometime Sometimes Some Some- hue bue nave to e KG go against t t our training or go ge Sometime Sometimes we cond conduct c rule of virtuous be o believed to I a times time what we hue bate always in the belief bellef fatal in practice For Instance w we hue have grown croWD up proves prove enforced by our government and fostered and teachers by our parents parent of ol another person pawn take use the pro property pert that we hue have no DO o right tight to or to be a without hi his consent but if U the property in question happens head bead i is II about to bring down on my ray blackjack that the other olber person the if I In time better beter chance chanc of surviving perce perceive e. e I shall ahall have hare a is I. there conviction convictions That t H old unalterably o 0 to of ol clinging old conviction will 1111 be ba when clinging to an of times time are re emergency ruinous Let a es al consider the present time In la it its It relation to 10 our old conviction con COR fiction In la favor of thrift of ot the theare backbone People of pioneer stock are often spoken polen of a as althe the and nd probably th they are Pioneers Pioneer are thrifty or they don dont don't t sur lur country autumn last vive If the the wood pil pile pile i Is used used too freel freely in the autumn It may not itt its grandmothers grandmother's grandmother grand grand- thrift at through the winter and the Midland child learned mothers mother knee Moreover oer weve we've been taught for several leveral generations generation of him in in hi his and takes take care that it isn't Isn what a man earns that counts count old age Ige Its it what be me saves es We Were We're always alway belle ed believed that thrift U is a virtue that spending pending is I. risk risky and that s squandering is I. suicidal We e candidates vote lote against political demand thrift from our government unthrifty and we investigate and often ollen relegate to private life lilt proven t I officials shown to be carelessly lavish with public funds fonds The value of thrift indeed is one of our strongest convictions No one doubt doubts I that conviction that it would be dangerous to it i is II a right and useful or unsettle it but here Is I. the United States State government coming to us u. buy advising us UI to spend our mone money rather now asking us UI to buy buy bu than to save ve it i. and generally generall ap appearing to set let itself strongly in opposition tion lion to that old principle of thriftiness in which we were trained There seems to be t I contradiction somewhere Moreover the government asks ask kl as a. s to spend at a time when we havethe have lne havethe time when the Federal government itself as aswell aswell the least to spare at a a well wen as our State county countr and city governments are taking heavily huvil from Irons us as in taxes taie and In fa that way WI leuel lessening our out power to spend Worse Wone still stir cor ut government through the ask n us III to spend at a moment of great fi financial uncertainty in la our lives live it at a t moment when w WI dont don't know boW whether were we're emerl emerging DI from the depression or going deeps deep into lato it and when we arent aren't sure rare whether were we're less Iea afraid of the future than we were a year Jear ego go 10 or Of more snore so 10 The curious thing about lh the th government govern govern- I ment meats exhortation to us ua to spend pend is that the exhorters know bow we feel and how were we're situated they know our oar old conviction in is favor of thriftiness and anel they hey agree with that conviction conviction and nd yet ret these same lime exhorters rt l ask u us UI to buy bur b. b buy bay buy What the tte answer Money Mone is I. a mufti meant of trade If you yoa had bad a cordo cord o cf of wood and nd no food and ud your Jour neighbor had a cellar full fuU of potatoes and no DO fuel and if it neither of you yoa were willing to trade hed he'd have haY raw potatoes to eat at but hut hed he'd freeze to death and you'd have heat enough perhaps but you'd Joud stan Carve to death Thrift i is i. indeed a virtue but this It is a time of emergency during which it its it's necessary to buy goods good o n that have havo money enough to pa pay us for what we product produce If Its It's hard for us to get rich by washing one another's shirts il its it's r impossible impassible for or us to make a livin living by Ly washing our own It 11 d so ac soviler wiser viler to live L by spending then than to perish e fI J 1 |