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Show WASTE IS CRIMINAL "To waste now is nothing short of criminal" Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury McAdoo. The duty of the American people to economize in consumption of food and all other materials as well as save money, can not be too often or too strongly urged upon them. The duty is so imperative, its observance so vital to our country's success, that it should be kept constantly before be-fore them. The proposition is plain and understandable. un-derstandable. We have lessened the productive powers of the country by taking 2,000,000 men away from the productive forces of the country; instead in-stead of producers of one kind or another the soldiers are consumers of the products of our farms, factories fac-tories and mines, and when the munitions mu-nitions they expend and will expend against the enemy is considered they ': are tremendous consumers of the manufactured products of the coun- try. A tremendous amount of the man- ufacturing energy of the country has ' been withdrawn from manufacturing f ' the things we use in peace and put ! to manufacturing the things we use j j in war. The total loss to the coun-;-! try of the productive energy of oin; ! soldiers and sailors and the diversion : of a great portion of the other productive pro-ductive energy of the country to war I purposes lessen to a great extent the j amount of material and supplies I produced by the country. To this condition of lessened production pro-duction and increased eonsuir.pt : ; of and by our own men must be added add-ed the extraordinary demand made upon this country to supply the armies of our allies and to a great extent their population with food and other material. We must meet the condition that confronts us in two wayj by the strictest economy in consumption, for every pound we refrain from using us-ing adds a pound to be devoted to the uses of our army and navy and the military forces of our allies; and by speeding up our production to the limit. The American people are going to do all that they know to be necessary to win this war to shorten short-en this war. They lave only to realize real-ize the imperat ive duly of economy in sai ing and t h y will economize and save. |