The Alaska daily empire., 1917-05-08
NO TIME FOR BUSINESS INFRINGEMENT
Seattle TineS)

Seattle Times)
 John Wanamaker the New York merchant re gently voiced through the advertising columns of the press in that city the following timely appeal for san y in American business during the early days o .ht 
 Keep business going for our countrys sake.
 Our country prosperous pay the war costs as they come and have enough left over to aid ou allies.
 Our country unprosperous, with business hating hoarded through fear false economy, will bt hard pressed to keep food the table and clothing the back
 Keep business going is a patriotic slogan. Keel money in circulation. Keep employment for everybody Keep wages good Keep on making money that wt may have money to spend for sacrifices.
 The worst thing that could happen to the world these days would be business depression in the United States.
 The billions of money to be expended in wal preparations will be put in circulation in our owr use in the world struggle for humanity
 The one thing that might halt business now is unpatriotic psychological feeling of panic and false idea of patriotic economy.
 Patriotic economy the elimination of waste food products our natural wealth our health and en ergies our labor our very lives. It means putting more efficiency in everything do that each unit of money energy and intelligence accomplish the utmost.
 Patriotic economy does not mean the lowering o Americas standard of living, which would make us less efficient physically and mentally, nationally and individually and would kill the spirit and the will to do the truly self-sacrifcing things to be done.
 Cities and communities must go with their civ ic improvements Road building and public works must proceed. Railroads must renew their equipment Fac tories must be kept going to their full capacity Labor must be employed Homes must be kept up Mer chandse must be produced, distributed and used.
 War duties and war expenditures must be ill ad dition to peace duties and peace expenditures The more we do the more we can do The more money spend. Money creates money.
 In a word: The natural life of the country must proceed as though we were not at war in order that we may nave the necessary prosperity to promote the war to a quick and successful conclusion
 President Wilson sounds the keynote in this sen tence: Tt is evident to every thinking that oui industries, the farm. in the shpyards in the mines in the factories must be made prolific and more efficient"
 Our industries be made more prolific only il the people buy and the merchandise produced by industries. Manufacturing slackens when business slackens Manufacturing in prolific way when business grows. And business grow and remain heaithful only when the people buy and keep money in circulation.
 Business is going-in the East the West. the North the South The country is prosperous Last 1nonths increase in business very large Banks may wat Tn their operations until the government bonds are assmilated People may pause temporarily tions But the unoosing of billions of dollars will unoose flow of prosperity absolutely necessary tC sustain the worlds burden.
 Governments set the pace in their expenditures.
 Individuals must not lag behind Seven billions o dollars to pay is only $70 per capita in the United States. Let billions of dollars put into work at per centa fair estimate of the producing power of money-will create APO millions of new wealth.
 The income tax we pay will not be tax on pros perty, but to prosperity Every dollar the in dvidual pays will back to him with interest in the general prosperity of the people,
 Keep business going-for countrys sake War cannot be waged and without the sinews of war
 Every statement made by MT. Wanamaker in tho above article is true. War will not depress business but on the contrary will prosperity by putting into circulation billions of dollars, that will create for employment at high wages for multi tudes of citizens.
 For the Pacific Coast it will mean the laying down of perhaps hundreds, of woodenhul and steel ships. For the East is will contracts fol all manner of manufactured products For the Middle West it will larger market for agricultura products. For the South. it will a heavier de nland for cotton. In point of fact there is not ton of the country that will not benefit from the ex penditure of the billions already appropriated to be appropriated later by Congress.
 Realizing these facts. The Times several oc casions has expressed itself opposed to business policies entaiing violent curtailment of output o working forces. This paper for such drastic economics and it subscrihes heartily to all the statements made by MT. Wanamaker.
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