The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-09
To the Man With a Dollar
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)


The second Liberty Loan has started
off well.
1t is not going to be difficult to get the
three billion dollars the government
wants. The difficult matter will be to get
it from the right source
The right source is the pockets of the
multitude, the non-investing public, the
vast number Of people who are not in the
habit of saving.
II the three billions come from the
banks, life-insurance companies, rail-
roads and millionaires, the transaction
will amount TO robbing Peter TO pay
Paul. The parties mentioned will sim
ply change investments. They will take
the money out of the business of the
country, out of the capital that is financ-
ing our activities, and hand it over to
the government
But we do not want to change invest
ments: we want new investments We
do not want to take money from the
working capital of the country. which is
running railroads, factories. mills, mines
and merchandising those industries
should be kept going; they are always
hungry for capital. and ought TO be fed.
What We need is 10 tap the great reser-
voir of uninvested. loose. idle money. the
hundred dollars the housewife has saved
up, the fifty dollars the printer has in the
bureau drawer. the ten dollars the young
man is carrying in his pocket, the five
dollars the mantinee girl. the stenog-
rapher the cook, the street-car conduc-
tor, the machinist, the barber the chauf-
feur, the farm hand, the grocer boy and
the ice-man have
4 recent editorial IN The New York
World truthfuly says: The savings of
the rich and very well-to-do are needed
for the maintenance OF the country's
regular industrial plant where they are
regularly invested. 1t is the savings Of
those who have rarely saved before that
can go into war without injury to the eco
nonic upkeep Of the nation"
Therefore. let every newspaper urgs
the people of small means to subscribe
Let every company employing labor
make il easy for worlmen 20 buy the
bonds on the partial payment plan.
Let every business man see to it that
every me in his employ, household ser
wants, clerks messenger boys, wife. chill
dren and every one else about him, buys
a bond let him help them DO So
Let the Boy Scouts go thru the entire
neighborhood and gather in the harvest
from the Unreaped corners.
The greater the number OF people who
participate. the surer will be the income.
the better the effect upon the country's
prosperity. the larger the spiritual gain
in patriotism and national unity.
This means you'll
Can you pay dollar down and dollar
week? If so, there are many places
where you can purchase one Of your
country's bonds.
You ought to do t. It will help your
Uncle Sam. 1t will help the boys at the
front. II will help the whole world
And last but not least it will be a
mighty good thing for yourself, for it
will put you in the way Of saving. and
will give you an investment Of the very
safest kind on earth.
Banks can fail, the house where your
money is boarded may burn down. bur
glars may loot your strong box, but when
YOU loan your money 20 Uncle Sam you
know that it will be paid. and interest
thereon. rs sure rs the earth continues
20 yield its increase, rs sure as the cities
stand, as sure as a hundred million peo-
pie on this continent continue to live and
do business.
Let go Of that dollarl
Today