New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
ard sailors of America and of her
hard-beset Allies in efficient shape.

ard sailors of America and of her
hard-beset Allies in efficient shape.
All this means that every particle
Of food that we save releases just
that much more for the use OF the
army and navy. If our households
can, without real suffering that leads
to malnutrition, save an average OF
10 per cent in their food and fuel
consumption, the amount OF add
tional supplies thereby rendered
available for the war in the course
of a year is almost incalculable.
President Wilson put the subject
Of country wide economy and thrift
into the foreground Of national du-
ties when he said: "This is the time
for America to correct her unpar-
Gonable fault of wastefulness and
extravaganza. Let every man and
every woman assume the duty or
careful, provident use and expendi-
ture as a public duty, as dictate OF
patriotism which no one can now
ever expect to be excused or for
given for ignoring"
Six Why's
Of Thrift
In England it took a long time for
the nation-even close as it was to
the actual theatre of war--to wake
up to the necessity for economy in
consumption. But Great Britain has
grappled the problem, and for months
past the campaign for Thrift has
been sweeping the country most eff
fectively. Millions of leaflets have
been distributed over there in the
educational campaign for national
Thrift. Here, for instance, is one
of them:
SAVE
1. Because when you save you help
our soldiers and sailors to win
the war.
2. Because when you spend on things
you do not need you help the
Germans.
8. Because when you spend you make
other people work for you, and the
work Of every one is wanted now
to help our fighting men, or to
produce necessaries, or to make
goods for export
4. Because by going without things
and combining your spending to
necessaries you relieve the strain
on our ships and docks and rail-
ways and make transport cheaper
and quicker.
5. Because when you spend you make
things dearer for every one, espe-
cially for those who are poorer
than you.
6. Because every shilling saved helps
twice-frst when you don't spend
it and again when you lend it to
the nation.
And the
How of 1t
1t will be we'll for US all if we
pause now and then and consider
again what, precisely, are the tasks
confronting US in this world war.
No one could have put them more
clearly than President Wilson. Here
is what he said: "These, then, are
the things we must do, and do well,
besides fghting-the things without
which mere fighting would be fruit
less:
1--WE must supply abundant food
for ourselves and for our armies and
our seamen not only, but also for a
large part Of the nations with whom
we have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
1--WE must supply ships by the
hundreds out Of our shipyards TO
carry to the other side Of the sea,
submarines or no submarines, what
will every day be needed there, and
abundant materials out of our fields
and our mines and our factories with
which not only to clothe and equip
cur own forces on land and sea, but
also to clothe and support our people
for whom the gallant fellows under
arms can no longer work TO help
c.othe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating In Europe,
and TO keep the looms and manufac-
tories there in raw material; coal to
keep the fires going in ships at sea
and in the furnaces Of hundreds of
factories across the sea; steel out Of
which to make arms and ammunition
both here and there; rails for worn,
out railways back Of the fighting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
to take the place Of those every day
going TO pieces; mules, horses, cattle
for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people Of
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them