The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-12-27

war. This wal is not won. 1t Is going |
to be good many months before 1t Is;
it is going tosmean vast amount OF |
preparation. We have got to drill an
army of soldier. but we have got to
drill larger army. an army OF many,
many millions, drill them to economy.
drill them to self-sacrifice, drill them to
self-discipline, ard until they are drill
ed. until we have t:.at unity of purpose
which it will learn if we have thirty
million stockholders III the United
States, the full force Of the United
States is not going to be felt in this
mighty struggle.
:. So. there is the lesson for every one
of us to take home to ourselves-not to
PASS on to somebody else. DO that.
yes; hut let us practice as well as
preach. 1t is going to be job of prac-
ticing day after day. You cannot he
good for one hour of the day and do
what you please the other twenty three,
and take much credit to yourself. You
cannot buy thrift stamp and think
that you are doing your duty. In the
measure that YOU have capacity to
spend, in that measure YOU have got to
learn to have the ability to save-not
for just the good. old fashioned real
sons of economy, but for the reason
that have been trying to make plain
the reason that YOU are interfering
with the Government when you 60 Oh
with pleasure as usual.
Suppose YOU wanted chauffeur
and you saw man driving an ambu-
lance Would you stop him and say,
| can give YOU a better job. will pay
you more than the Government is pay
ing you. You may be on ali errand of
mercy, but get off; want a chauffeur
You wouldn't do that. Suppose YOU
saw IA man turning UP a shell ut a
| lathe and you knew that shell was
going to be an effective instrument in
battle. would you say, Shut off your
| lathe Take that out. The cylinder of
| my automobile needs fixing. | want
| you to make bicycle for my hoy.
have job; will pay YOU more than
| the Government is paying YOU. Sup
pose your wife saw Il woman making
a gas mask, would she say. Il want a
garment made ] want a new hat Stop
on that garment knowing that gas
mask might save an American life she
wouldn't say that.
But we are all doing just that
thing. We don't think. We don't rec
ognize that we are competing with the
Government, that we are tamperin.
with the equipment of the Army, that
we are slowing down the work of the
Government i'll getting this army pre-
pared. We send our sons and ous
brothers to the trent. Don't we want
them equipped? Don't we want to make
their sacrifice ais effective as possible;
Don't we want as many of them to re
turn as possible? Don't we want t.
give them all the protection that com
plete equipment in armament can give
Well then, we must not tamrer Will
the equipment of the Army We mus
see that that means us. 1t means swha!
we are spending needlessly day aftel
day, and it means that We must refrain
/ | from some Of that spending.
, Well. what is this going to mean
: Are we going to stop trade? Are w
going tc break UP business! A bust
, ness man has got to live, you say. Blu
{ has he! \ lot of mei are going int
i this thing who are not going to live
< and. as l have said before, | woul'
rather have receiver than an en-
y ecutOr.''