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Show LACK OF THRIFT" (continued from page one I more and more increases ferment and social unrest. 3rd. Increased numbers of peni-i tentiaries. pauper asylums, poor farms, far-ms, insane asylums, houses of cor-; rection. reformatories and other places plac-es of publi: detention. ! And to these we may add the report re-port of the Illinois Survey which declares de-clares that the chief cause of Immorality Immor-ality among women is poverty and its ally ignorance. That survey found that 76 per cent of fallen girls had j not passed the grammar grade in schools because of poverty, and that there was a very low per cent of immorality im-morality among high school and college col-lege girls. Here we have directly traceable to . the one great cause, viz: lack of j thrift, the chief danger that besets, America today. Lack of thrift with its attendant products of poverty and ignorance give an army of disappointed, dis-appointed, discouraged and dependent-men and women. If there is un-j employment, they are. of necessity, first among the jobless. Their first thought is to find fault with the government gov-ernment and the country. They are fit and fertile subjects for the I W W the Bolshevist, the agitator and the demagogue. There is only one movement in America to encourage thrift. It is the Government's plan for the sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates. There is no nobler endeavor. It makes the citizen who owns War Savings Stam-j ps or Certificates a partner in the Government, makes him a part owner own-er in his country, it gives him a new interest in the flag. Thrift enables families to own thei- own homes. Russia joined Bolshevism Bol-shevism because her people were land less. Germany resisted Bolshevism because her farm tenantry is at the vanishing point. Nobody ever heard of any threat of Sovietism among the thrifty people of Denmark, Hoi-, land, Belgium. Men never plot again st their own homes. They explode no bombs on their own hearthstones. The greatest antidote against '.the mad illusions and wild hallucinations which dreamers are seeking to import im-port from Europe and transplant in America, is that thrift which will stimulate home ownership and lift the uneducated out of ignorance. |