The Ordway new era., 1917-10-26
THRIFT IS URGED
BY LOCAL BANKER
Martin T. Nelson Gives View Into
Future and Cites Many In
teresting Facts


teresting Facts
Martin T. Nelson, president of the
Citizens State bank, advises more
thrift in this war time, and that the
full capacity of every Individual will
be needed in all directions. Mr.. Nell
son does not foresee an abatement in
business activity. but points out that
the people should prepare themselves
for the conditions that peace will
bring. In citing the different lines
where intensified work would be-
most effective Mr.. Nelson says:
Il wish everybody. would come to
the realization that this war is
peoples war, being fought on our
own doorstep and not war of kings
land. WV.
President Wilson says: The
great fact that stands out above all
the rest is that this is a peoples war
"a war for freedom and juStice
and self government. amongst all the
nations of the world. war to make
the world safe for the peoples who
live upon it and have made it their
c"i't siiS NSi pSoPiC
included; and that with us rests the
choice to break through all these hy-
pocrisies and patent cheats and
masks of brute force and help set the
world free, or else stand aside and
let 1t be dominated long through
by sheer weight of arms and the ar
bitrary choices of self-constituted
masters by the nation which can
maintain the biggest armies and the
most, irresistible ornaments = a
power to which the world has af-
forded no parallel, and in the face
of which political freedom must
wither and perish
THE most needed point for
thought-the one that should make
us act at once in our own behalf,
is the uncertainty about the condi-
tions that peace is going to bring.
When peace does come it may be
that a time of great prosperity may
be upon sit may be one of stagna-
tion, it may be one of the severest
competition for individual livelihood
we have ever experienced.
1T is needful, however, in this
present time of unheard-of demands
for well paid labor to prepare for the
economic war that will succeed the
present world wide war.
"As a people we have been plenti-
fully preached to about thrift. To
some the subject has been an intan-
gible something with possible bene-
fits arriving at old age, while others
have seen in it possible opportuni-
ties and have prospered rapidly.
Now comes the time, however, when
1t is more than wise for every Amer
ican citizen to be thrifty. to lay aside
something from his income for that
day that is coming. Then II it be
one of prosperity we will be able to
take advantage Of it; il it be one of
sagnation we will be able to live
thru It; if it be one of bitter compe-
tition we will be better able to with
stand 1t.
when a man from any position in
life becomes soldier he becomes
dependent on the world for his keep
Thus the dependent portion of the
world has been tremendously in
creased during the past three years
and at a sacrifice to the producing
portion. The result is the world has
eaten into its capital of food reserves
and 1t will take a time extending way
beyond the declaration of peace to
replenish it.
Already the war has broken down
walls of habits and indulgences. 1t
has rearranged nations and demand
ed new efforts from the individual.
Things are going to happen that
have never happened before. The
time is upon us when we must work
to make every individual and each
resource count. We must with
greater care than heretofore select
our seeds for next years planting.
and naturally add to and improve
our herds. wisely plan our doings SO
that we may lay away portion of
what we earn in reserve and force
ourselves to the limit Of our radical
genius to produce more than we con-
sumo.
1.-THE present is no time for alarm;
1t is a momentous time, requiring an
unselfish concentration of human
endeavor-a time when our ideas of
economy should be Influenced by
careful consideration of the differ
ence between destructive and con-
structive economy. There must be
a predominance OF normal thinking
and action from normal pople to over
ride the abnormal endeavors of cer-
tain, ignorant and shiftless organi-
cations who make demands upon
prosperity when they have neither
willing labor nor useful ideas to
contribute in return"
FOOD CONSERVATION