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Show HERE'S' WAY TO BUY BONDS GET MORE SLEEP! . An extra hour's sleep in "the near side" of the evening was recommended recom-mended as a war thrift measure by the National Thrift committee. With small wage earners facing the necessity neces-sity of buying more and more war bonds, the National Thrift committee commit-tee issues the warning that drastic economics on the home front are inescapable. Health-giving sleep will automatically curtail many extravagances, extrava-gances, in the opinion of the committee. com-mittee. I Spring cleaning of budgets is recommended rec-ommended by the committee as an aid to the purchase of more bonds by every family. Recognizing that most budgets are as full of old habits hab-its at this time of year as closets are cluttered with clothes, the committee com-mittee suggests a family conference upon items to be discarded for simplified sim-plified living, with consequent saving. sav-ing. Out-moded budgets, the committee com-mittee says, are unpatriotic in war time, and the fact that certain things have always been in them, is no estimate esti-mate of their value. A serious family fam-ily conclave over expenditures of the first quarter of the year is sure to result in discovery of ways to save money. "The first thing that clutters up a budget," says the committee, "is debt. Loans, installment payments, charge accounts and delinquent bills are a heavy tax on any income. Obviously, the only way to get clear is to pay olf." |