The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-31
URGE REDUCTION
| in LUXURY BILL
Must Consume Less in 0rdes to
Conserve Credit; Thrift Cam
paign to Permeate Every
Kitchen and Garden
BY WILBUR 5. FORREST.

United Press Staff Correspondent
London, Aug 19--tBy mail Eng
land has entered the second year OF
war on strict basis of economy.
Saving is not only natioual duty
but a bald imperative necessity. The
government must have $4,000, ,000, ,0Cc
year to carry on the war. The gov
ernments annual revenue is only
$3.50, 100000 The balance-$3, $780,
100000, must be furnished by the ma
tion--the people.
The answer is: Strict economy
starting right away.
This is the keynote of stern mes
sage to the people from the paliamen-
tary war savings committee, headed by
Presmier Asquith, Bonar Law and
other notables. Assisted by experts
on national economy, the committee is
telling he people what to save and
how to save it.
A booklet for nationwide distribu-
tion. soon to be published by the com
mittee will place the issue before
every British citizen, rich and poor.
high and low. The language is simple
and to the point
Here is the little problem in arith-
metic that the government economists
write on the national blackboard for
Mr.. John Bull:
Eliminate the millions and Just sup
pose that the British government were
an every day garden variety OF man
John Bull John has been enjoying
a comfortable income OF $11.500 a
year. After spending money for house.
hold necessities. weekend trips to the
sea shore and furnishing gasoline for
his automobile he has, been able to
save $500 year. Thtsi suppose, sud-
denly. he finds himself enmeshed in a
lawsuit with his aggressive neighbor.
Herr Johann Schmidt, of Berlin. To
carry on the law suit he must spend
$4,000 year. How can he find the
money?
He has four alternatives. the govern
ment experts say;
1. Sell his investments.
2. Borrow from other people.
| g. Draw on money he has In the
bank
4. Save out of the money he usually
spends.
But if he employs any Of the first
three suggestions he will come out Of
the lawsuit poorer than he went IN.
There is but one logical suggestion and
that is to save-eliminate the luxuries.
II means that he'll have to economize.
to eat. drink, smoke and dress less
expensively: keep fewer servants.
travel less, go to the theater less; util-
ize his garden to grow the flowers
that he formerly bought OF the florist,
and the potatoes and vegetables that
he previously took from the grocer;
garage his automobile and do without
innumerable unnecessary things that
eat into the family exchequer. If John
| Bull does all this he can keep on with
/ his suit against Johann Schmidt indaf'
initely and when it is all over he will
be no poorer. He can then revert to
the original and more comfortable
r,odo of tivino
This, say the parliamentary econo
mists, is the governments plan in q
nutshell 1t means to save and scraps
to keep up its battlefield lawsuit tt
: the indefinite end--and to emergs
; with unimpaired credit.
1t is pointed out to John Bull col
lectively and individually that TO SCI
) stocks and bends abroad means I
poorer England; to borrow from othel
: nations means greater and heaviel
. national debt; to draw on the prevail
! ing national fund means sending golI
: abroad and endangers British world
; vide banking. The problem tha
; Johann Schmidt's lawsuit puts up t,
John Bull is the same problem tina