Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-14
SIT TIGHT BE TIGHT
A Preachment to the Wise

tudiciously invested in land and wise
ly spent for better working and liv-
ing conditions.
Regulation of food prices by the
government will have only beneh-
cial effect upon this mighty buying
class on Americas farms. For the
agriculturist will receive a liberal
profit and the volume of his output
will be materially increased.
In Canada business has gone
ahead during al the months of the
war. In lines having to do with the
production of foodstuffs there is un-
precedented prosperity. In other
lines there is no display of false
economy to clog the wheels of trade
and thereby cripple the government
in it's efforts to meet and master the
most critical situation that Canada
and its mother country have ever
faced.
And so will 1t be in the United
States as soon as those people who
are now practicing it learn that false
economy is unwise, unjust, unpatri-
otic.
The surest way to throw thousands
of wage earners out of employment,
and to make hard times" real rath-
er than imaginary, is to permit false
economy to put stop to ordinary
buying on the part of the masses and
thereby put stop to the wheels OF
business.
| Speaking to and for the great agri-
cultural class, the Farm Journal well
est economy" 1t urges its readers
not to become panic-stricken or
needlessly tight with their purse
strings, And the same doctrine may
safely be accepted by the other mil
lions who live in our cities, villages
and towns.
This frantic desire to fill the base
ment with canned goods and staples
is gradually disappearing, as it
should, and the buying habits of the
public will soon be back in their GUS
tomary channels,
Probably the msst important
warning voiced by Howard E. Coffin,
of the Council of National Defense,
| is that the United States must meet
| its international obligations with
the least possible disarrangement of
our own vast commercial and in
dustrial machine"
An effective way for you to do
| your bit" Is to assist in preventing
such disarrangement, and the way
to do that is to buy what you need
w NON 9Ou hOCo ~ pdg Whab NOh
want but do not need just as you
would IL no war cloud were over us,
and thus help business to continue
it's smooth, even way.
Eliminate waste, That is a plain
duty. But guard against indiscrimi-
nate, false economy-the kind that
stops factory wheels and throws
earners in the plants, jobbing houses
and retail stores out of employment
That is another plain duty.
We must not let ourselves be
frightened by the threatened short
age of foodstuffs. We must and W.
will rise to the occasion and produce
more foodstuffs. and then see to 4
that business in other lines goes OF
as Usual.
The circulation of money is on,
sure factor in the realization of gooC
times-and the money is going Il
circulate. Have no fear of that
Farmers must buy more implements
more machinery, more silos, more
equipment of all kinds than they
ever bought before. That means {
flow of money through the arteri-:
of business,
And let us not forget that the
seven thousand million dollars pro
vided by the American government
for war purposes will, for the mos
part, be expended In this country
recirculated in our own trade cir
cles for clothing, food, munitions
transportation and supplies anC
service of many kinds
The stopping of public work OF
the part of States. counties, citiei
and township organizations is wrong
The withdrawal of savings from
banks is wrong--and supremely fool
ish. The boarding of food supplies II
wrong. False economy, resulting II
stagnation in the retail business, il
wrong, Amy act or policy not in keep