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Show TURN CAM INTO GUN FIRE Hy FRANK VANDFRLIP Wo fought and won -he Spanish war with 100,000 soldiers md a $200.-i'i $200.-i'i ii.OOO bond issue In men im ler arnn 'we now have ten times that number. We issued ten times that amount of bonds in the firt Libert v loan. We are proposing to spend and loan to the allies in the first fiscal year of the war $ lit ,000.000.000. From now until the end of this fiscal year the treasury anticipates needing $:tOO,000,000 a week that is, the treasury has got to fight financially a Spanish wnr every four days. That indicates a money measure of the size of this work, but that is not the teal measure. We have just seen that one might have plenty of money but an empty 'oal bin. In just the same way UM government can have plenty of money, but an un- j equipped army. This army cannot be i equipped si modern warfare demands, if the man power of the country is at the Same time called upon to produce all of our ordinary comforts and lux-i uries. It is as plain as two and two that all of us must make personal sacrifices, sac-rifices, must give up comforts and luxuries, even necessary expenditures that can be postponed, if there is to he labor and matetial enoueh to equip the Srmy in time for it to fight while it will do some good to have it fight. In war the only effort that is of any value is that which is ultimately translated trans-lated into gun fire on the field of battle. bat-tle. The gun fire that will win this war cannot be delivered until all America recognizes individual responsibility, respon-sibility, until the whole people join in the effort by giving up things that they can do without, so that the labor that would have been employed in making those things can do work that will ultimately result in gun fire. The government has offered the opportun-i ity to translate at once every one's personal patriotism Into the sort of help that will win the war. Forego buying something thnt is unnecessary; loan the money you would have used i to the overnmont by buving $5 war Savings certificates. You w ill thus I have released labor, you will have! given credit to the government, you will have acquired the best security in the world, a United States government govern-ment bond. |