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Show HARDING THRIFT PLEA IS ECHOED i.omki.v. Jan. 11.-premier Lloyd QCorge has adopt. ,1 th,. example ol President-elect Warding of the United States and tolled 0 ''.ill to the public to practice thrift. I have seen a very sound and scnslBiC appeal bj the n-v-ly-eleetod pr.-udont n the L'nlted States to the Araorlcap people for all-around all-around economy and I :n.ike the same appeal to the people of this coun rx ... i I the premier a', n dinner of the b"e lemllon or Uritlsh mHietrlee. Mr. Lloyd (b-orge warned u bearers bear-ers that u period of great and inevitable, inevit-able, depression was, coining and tin question w is. he :-aid. how to shorten or to mitigate it- evils "lUiropo is standing in front of our shop windows," he went on. "It wants to buy. bid it is in iva-- ..nd its pockets pock-ets .ir- full of paper. In the good l00k ther Is a BTOa-t stcr of men who 'reconstructed a broken city with a :i. rl in one hand and a SWOrd iu th othoi. but Europe must sot to work with both hands. "Let the governmont hot the example ex-ample to the nation yes. out let the nation sot the csample to Hie government,'1 govern-ment,'1 he urged. "The cabinet has appointed a committee to cut down expenditure ex-penditure and i fuggeet there s,hudi bo a committee In every househobVAo cut down expenditures. I know what win happen.'! "Divorce!" someone shouted. and everybody laughed. "Each member of the fomily," LlOVd deorge went on "will want to Cut th expenses of the other The women will cut down the cigar bill and the men the dress bill. That Is what happens In the public expenditure. But It is essential, if tho nation Is to recover that there should be rigid, ruthless economy for some time to come." |