The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

although Germany is suffering, she is still a long way from the rocks an1 grass dietary.
 In the meantime the strain in England is being felt. The English people, con- pared to those of France and Germany, have been immune from some of the greater horrors of war, which resulted in a feeling of self-sa tisfaction and compla- cency which was unhealthy for England and irritating to England's allies. That phase is passing. It costs more than ever to maintain England's s armies The cost of living of the people at home is for ever mounting. And it is coming to pass that England, despite all her great wealth and her enormous resources, is feeling the financial strain
 Now the government is out to get the peoples money. It may be that in the end the war will be won with the pennies of the children and the sixpence of the working people. There has been begun nationwide campaign for urging the wage-earners to invest in war loans that is probably the biggest thing of it's kind ever undertaken. It has been going for a few weeks and already it is a great success. In order to have money for investment in small way, economy is being preached to the nation. People are
 
 savings in war loans liberal interest on which the government offers. An off cial committee which has been estab- lished has undertaken the work. They have started by advertising.
 The county is blazing with posters urging the people to hoard their money In the streets of London one is never out of sight of poster which declares: "To dress extravagantly is worse than bad form, it is unpatriotic,' or Don't use a motor car for pleasure" while equally large placards tell briefly how one can invest 15 shillings and siXpence and in five years get back a pound, which roughly. would be S5 for s3,s7. The news papers carry columns of official adver- tisements explaining in detail the va rious schemes for saving and investment and pointing to the fact that 15 and 6I investment will buy 1o4 bullets for the Germans.
 The newspapers cooperate in every way. They give columns to telling the people how to save Experts on domes- tice economy write articles while hun dreds of letters from housewives who have ideas or who have nit upon ways of making one pound of meat do the work of two are constantly appearing Next month there is to be a great t'Na- tional economy exhibition and confer ence" in London. Sections of the exhi- bitlon will show how money can be saved in coal health, child welfare. home laun- dry. gardening, cooking, purchase of food, poultry. bees. etc. We are going to teach" says one of the officials, ''thel housewife to be independent of outside help-how to mend and replace domestic utensils, how to do carpentry, plumbing and glazing Women are being taught to wear no more petticoats and not to dress extravagantly. Cooperation amongst householders is being urged. One sug- gestion is that inhabitants of one side of a street should keep chickens the people on the other side paying for the food, while the eggs shall be divided
 WAVE OF ECONOMY
 A wave of economy is sweeping over the land. officially conducted. And all with one object-to obtain money for the government for the prosecution of theI