The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-05-28
MONDAY, MAY %, 1917
..SIT TIGHT-DON'T BE TIGHT

~SIT TIGHT-DON'T BE TIGHT
The Robesonian submitted a few
remarks the other day by way of pa
renthesis in regard to the folly Of
people getting excited and scared and
refusing to turn loose any money.
Economy and avoidance of waste are
virtues that folks need to practice
at all times, and they need to prac-
tice them more than ever now, but
policy of shutting down on all
spending of money would bring about
the very condition that is feared by
the too timid and that is to be
guarded against. Under the cap
ton, "Are We Going to Force De-
preston and Hard Times on the Ma
tion," the New York World American
sounds the following warning against
swinging the pendulum too far the
other way:
"This country is not bankrupt, and
iE not going to be bankrupt.
"But it can be seriously injured
by officials and others who join in
the chorus: Save your pennies; don't
spend cent; hoard your money
"Such advice could mean hard
times and bad times, depression, bus
: mess stagnation, real national mis-
fortune.
"The total income of the United
States amounts to fifty thousand mil
lion dollars year.
"The prosperity of the United
States depends on keeping money in
circulation and keeping business GO
ing.
"A nation with an income of fifty
seriously injured by spending seven
billions.
"All that is needed is that money
raised by public taxation should be
raised justly and spent wisely.
"Let those carry the load of taxa
lion that have the strength to carry
it; let no public money lent to the
Allies be squandered in shameful,
criminal war profits for ammunition
makers or trusts.
ing and selling of the country, 90 on
financial or otherwise, in the United
States.
"By all means let US increase pro-
duction and efficiency.
LET us use waste land and pus
to work the hands that have been
idle.
"But officials must not at the same
time talk of increased production and
advocate a cowardly parsimony that
would strangle the buying pdwer,
destroy commerce and production
simultaneously.
Those that say Save everything,
don't buy, be frightened and stingy,'
are dangerous enemies of public well
fare and prosperity.
"Hard times and panics are caus-
ed by sudden violent cessation of
buying.
off the citizen does not buy from
the merchant, the merchant cannot
buy from the manufacturer, the man.
nfacturer must discharge his en-
plcyes and you will have the very
hshn times, depression, fear and
stagnation that the country should
most carefully avoid.
"To stop the circulation of money
IN the community, to discourage buy
ing and selling is like stopping the
circulation of blood in the human
body.
"The good citizen while doing his
duty and working faithfully will
continue his life as usual, buying,
encouraging his fellow 1citizens in
business, going to the shops, the the
aires, giving his family the things
to which they are accustomed, help
ing to carry the country along in
the normal, prosperous channel.
"The life of nation is running
stream; it must not be stopped, froz-
en- by fear, or damned up suddenly
by those that preach false and harm
full economy.
1--WE are going to win this war if
We proceed intelligently and prepare
theoretically.
eve are going to be just when the
war is over.
eve are going to come out of it
as we went into it, not kuite
SO rich, but still the rich
est, most powerful nation in the
world.
"They are foolish who try to make
the people body of timid children
suddenly changing their lives and in
JItllnG the country's entire business
The Maxton Scottish Chief an
nounces that on January 1, 1918, its
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