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Show mi;;is wiped Oct. Tlie United States has always here-to-foie been a land of plenty in fact a land of surpluses. Up to two or three j.-ars ago we have always had a lair balance to run on at the end of each year, and had no need to prac-tii prac-tii e real economy. There was plenty of every commodity and a reasonable plenty of money with which to buy it. Now the only commodity of which the United States has plenty is money. Of tlie things which money will buy she finds herself alarmingly short. Wheat, meat, wool, coal the lour great requisits of life, she is called on to conserve and to use as sparingly as possible. The serious phase of the matter is that in all these lines the erstwhile margins of plenty have been completely wiped out and in their place is a positive deficit. It is estimated during the fuel saving period that the country was actually short fifty million tons of coal; that we lacked that much of having enough fuel to carry on nor mal activities. Practically the same condition prevails in the other lines. What is the answer? CONSERVATION. Waste must be absolutely eliminated. eliminat-ed. Production must be speeded up by every means in our power. And wherever a substitute for either eith-er of these four articles can by any means be made to serve the purpose, it is the patriotic duty of every true American man a.nd woman to make use of that substitute. The time" for the discussing the war has passed. The problems growing out of the war are pressing for attention, atten-tion, and should be met as live Americans Ameri-cans have always met the stern problems pro-blems of life with a smiling courage' and a firm determination to solve them, and solve them correctly. ' The war must be won, so let every American say from the bottom of his heart, "We can and we will." |