Show PROBLEM IN EASY TERMS Government Must Have Twenty- Twenty four Billions in a Year WILL BE RAISED BY SAVING Sixteen Cents From Each Dollar Each One Earns and the Rest by SellIng SellIng Sell Sell- Ing Liberty Bonds to P Patriotic Citizens By LA LABERT BERT ST. ST CLAIR The problem of government finances Is la Just as complicated as we choose to make it Approached from different different differ differ- ent angles It can be made as burnIng baffling as a Chinese puzzle or as simple as the time operation of an ol old fashioned I dasher churn If one attempts to delve dehe Into the ramifications of the expansion of currency currency cur cur- rency and and- andall all nIl that sort of thing he lie heIs heis lieis is Yel very likely to develop stiff neck from craning up and down columns of figures and wind up by declaring that figures lie He horribly On the other hand han If he faces the situation In a broad concrete way and compares it with the problem of financing his home or some similar shullar er e everyday expenditure he lie cram can grasp and md master it as he would woul the handle of the family pump Here Is the time governments government's Immediate financial problem In a nutshell In Inthe Inthe Inthe the next twelve months probably will wil be required by the United States government to meet war e. e expenses The total Income of every person In this country is only about a year ret Therefore if the cost of the war for the next year were to be assessed pro rata eYer every persons person's share would he be fort forty eight ht cents on every dollar doBar that he lie or 01 she earns Needed to Beat Off Murderers Now let us bring the proposition a little Ittle nearer home Suppose that a band of murderers in smeared blood-smeared uniforms of gln gray in hu having slaughtered their way through the helpless waves of women and und children In nearby cities Just as the Hun Hum has done in France and nc Belgium Belgian lum established themselves In the time woods at nt the edge of our town with the time fixed purpose of waging waging- slaughter in our ml midst st st. Then Ihen If f it were announced b by the authorities authorities authorities ties that It would woul cost forty-eight forty cents of ever every dollar that ever every earner earn earn- er In our town made In the next twelve welve months mouths to to conduct a defense against the time m murderer that would be clear wouldn't It An And If the authorities authorities author ties were to go further and sa say that they would asse assess s sixteen cents of this forty eight ht on persons who could afford to pay 3 it and accept the other two thirty two from fromm persons who out of their zeal to aid In the defense of their heir homes and their loved Joyed ones would take the promise of the local oca government to rel repay It that would be plain too There isn't a bit of difference between between between be be- tween the local case I have ha described and the present case of United States government The Time Hun Is in the offing tile the government needs an average of one 48 hundredths of eer everyone's ones earnIng earnIng earn- earn Ing Ing- IngIn ng In the next year ear to conduct its defense defense de de- e- e and it plans to raise this money on a third one-third tax an and two-thirds two bond bondor or stamp sale plan Within the next year ear approximately will wille be je e raised b by taxes and b by the sale of government securities Must Be Raised by Economy There Is the situation and the time question question question ques ques- tion now arises How lIow in the land of Goshen Gohen are we ever going to raise such a sum as The answer Is Save Sa as we never have hae before It will twill not be bo pleasant to skimp ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves for we have ha not been used to skimping but bute we e simply we-simply simply shall shaH have to todo todo todo do It That old requirement requirement requirement re re- Is going to stick to us like a burr to a pair of mittens and we simply must raise it We Ve must practice fit the same economy to raise raise the m money ney with the Hun lIun 3 miles away that we would If f he were In the grove groc out at nt the edge of town He lie may be tulles miles away In person but nut at every beat his lustful heart spans that gap ap between your our daughter aughter and und mine and his fin fingers have a virulent mile Itch for your mone money and your farms The question of what each of or us must economize on can be settled only in in our Individual minds and ani at fit our om own firesides es fa It f the Hun lIun were In la the trove grove ro e would any of us ask our neighbors what we should sacrifice fice flee In Ia or order el to help raise our respective respective tive five shares of ot time the forty-eight forty cents on the dollar I I think not My notion Is that the time question every patriotic American n should ask fisk himself Is What must I have ha The query What can cnn I get along without Is not searching enough hHeber h. h Heber GrIms GrIm's Story Apropos Every Ever time the i Idea ea of saving su occurs occurs occurs oc oc- oc- oc curs to me I think of ot old Heber Grim a character out In my western Indiana town who ho had a perennial habit of Joining church hur h. h Just as regularly as revival meeting time rolled around Heber Heher would g get all aU het up I over his Ills sins and anti along In the last ast days s 's of the me he w would come rearing and snorting down the time aisle and and Join up Somehow though Heber never got around to making any sacrifices In behalf of ot his new found religion He always kept right on chewing tobacco swearing like a mule driver drinking like like- a fish sh end and worst of all uH squander squander- ing lag his money on loud clothes and nd I other luxuries to such an au extent that I he seldom had hud a cent to apply to any worthy cause such as us the care of hl his family or the upkeep of ot the time church As a n result of Heber's regularity In therefore for a u dozen years ears or 01 more the church folks foIls never baptized him They just sort or of let Jet him slide along and nod when Immersion da day fina finally arrived ed he lie usually was out behind his trotting horse at a acock acock acock cock fight or at some other scarce scarcely fitted for converts Finally though the church authorities authorities author author- ties lies got tired of ot Heber's lIebers professions of faith and amI their subsequent flatten flatten- flattening ing mg out an and when the next revival re started along In the spring and ho bc began an to show signs of Interest they the advised him that his confession I Ibe be received only with the understandIng understand understand- Ing that Immersion should follow Im im- im mediately He thought the matter over o for three days s 's and then agreed to join that night and be baptized without dea delay And sure enough he arrived bright ht an and early and when the going got good he joined up uv for forthe forthe the thirteenth time Baptized H Him In a Flood Unfortunately just as the meeting started a terrific storm arose and the subsequent cloudburst flooded the country Coal Coa Creek where the baptizing baptizIng baptizing ing was to take place being particularly particularly lar swollen This situation made the baptizing somewhat dangerous but the authorities agreed that It was their ureic only chance to get Heber so after church with the repentant sinner sinner sinner sin sin- ner In tow and armed with lanterns the they filed down to the time creek for the baptizing Stories differ as ns to how Heber lIeber Just Justas as he was being Immersed escaped the officiating pastors pastor's han hands s some saying he wriggled out and others maintaining that he slipped but anyhow anyhow anyhow any any- how he disappeared In the darkness Da Daylight Ii ht found him perched In a sycamore tree a mile down the creek creel In If th the center of a whirlpool that was worth a mans man's life lile to attempt to In in- vade Hence we had to leave eave him up uptime the time tree f for r three days until the water receded Why He Vowed Sacrifices When the rescuing party finally arrived arrived ar nr- ar- ar rived at the base of ol the tree It was surprised to find Heber Heher raining down plug tobacco drinking liquor dice ice stickpins fanc fancy rings and other trInkets trinkets trinkets trink trInk- ets on which he had squandered his hlf- mone money and declaring loudly ou ly that there was no sacrifice he would not make In Inthe Inthe inthe the future for the good of the church and the protection of his soul Nor did dill he descend until he had stripped himself of ever everything that he ire could reasonably spare nn and a little bit more Well Heber Bill BUI Boggs the postmaster postmaster postmaster post post- master said after neter slinking shaking hands with him I certa certainly my was Impressed with your our spirit o of oi sacrifice Wh Why was It that you never did that before Wh Why man I Heber exploded explode I De never Der r was up a tree like that before belore And there you ou are When before were we as patriotic citizens up a n tree as as' we are this year ear |