Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-05-09
ADVICE OF JOHN
MANAMAkER

N0NIOG VI JOON
WANAAlAkER
Our country prosperous can pay on
war costs. as they come, and hav
enough left over to aid our allies.
Our country unprosperous. witt
business hxlting. money boarded
through fear or false economy, will b
hard pressed to keep food on tn,
table and clothing on the back.
'Keep Business Going" is a patrio
tic slogan. Keep money In circula
ton. Keep employment for every
body. Keep wages good. Keep OF
making money that we may have
money to spend for war sacrifices.
The worst thing that could happier
to the world these days would be g
business depression In our United
States.
War In itself does not cause bust
ness depression.
The billions of dollars OF money to
be expended In war preparations will
be put into circulation in our own
country, and this In itself will create
new wealth for use In the world-strug,
gle for humanity.
The one thing that might halt bust.
ness now is an unpatriotic psycholo.
gical feeling of panic and false idea
Of patriotic economy.
Patriotic economy means the elm.
nation OF waste and extravaganza. 1t
means the conservation of our food
products, our natural wealth, our
health. our energies, our labor, our
very lives. 1t means putting more
efficiency in everything we do so that
each unit Of money, energy and in
teiligence may accomplish the utmost
Patriotic economy does not mean
the lowering Of Americas standard OF
living, which would make US less eff
cient physically and mentally, nation
ally and individually, and would kill
the spirit and the will to do the truly
self-sacrificing things to be done.
Cities and communities must go on
with their civic improvements. Road
building and public works must pro-
coed. Railroads must renew their
equipment. Factories must be kept
going to their full capacity. Labor
must be employed. Homes must be
kept up. Merchandise must be pro-
duced. distributed and useG
War duties and war expenditures
must be in addition to peace duties
and peace expenditures. The moro
we do the more we can do. The
more money we spend the more we
win have in our pockets to spend
Money creates money.
In a word: The natural sane life OF
the country must proceed as though
we were not at war, in order that we
may have the necessary prosperity to
promote the war to a quick and sue
cessful conclusion.
President Wilson sounds the key
note In this sentence: ct is evident
TO every thinking man that our indus
tries, on the farm, In the shipyards
In the mines, in the factories, must bC
made more prolific and more effici
emit"
Our Industries can be made NOR,
prolific only IL the people buy and rs
the merchandise produced by our II
dustries. Manufacturing slacken
when business slackens. ManufactuI
ing grows. And business can grow
and remain healthful only when tn
people buy and keep money in cir
culation.
Business Is Golna-Strona
business Is going-in the east, tn
west, the north, the south. Tn
country is prosperous. Last month
increase In business was very large
Banks may wait In their operation
until the government bonds are as
simulated. People may pause temper
arily In their Quitting to arrange L
meet the new conditions. But tn
unloosing of billions OF dollars will
unloose flow OF prosperity absolutel,
necessary to sustain the worlds bur
den.
Governments set the pace in thei
expenditures.
individuals must not lag behind
Seven billions OF dollars to pay Il
only $40 per capita in the United
States. Yet seven billions of dollars
put into work ut per cent--a fail
{ estimate OF the producing power o
noney--will create 40 millions o
: now wealth.
The income tax we pay will not b.
o tan on prosperity, but spur to pros
perity. Every dollar the individual
pays out win come back to him will
interest IN the general prosperity o.
the people.
Keep business going--for our coun
try's sake. War cannot be waget
and won without the shows OF war