The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-05-18
Keep Business Going
For Our Country's Sake

john Wanamaker, Phlladolpn1a s
great merchant, has issued the follow
ing stirring appeal to Keep Business
Going for Our ountry's Sake:
Our country prosperous can pay our
war costs, as they come, and have
enough left over to aid our allies.
Our country unprosperous, with
business halting, money boarded thru
fear or false economy, will be hard
pressed to keep food on the table, and
clothing on the back.
Keep business going is patriotic
slogan. Keep money in circulation.
Keep employment for everybody. Keep
wages good. Keep on making money
that we may have money to spend for
war sacrifices.
The worst thing that could happen
to the world these days would be
business depression in our United
States.
War in itself does not cause busi-
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 busi-
ness now is an unpatriotic psycholo-
gical feeling of panic and false idea
of patriotic economy.
Patriotic economy means the elm
ination 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
in everything we do so that
each unit of money, energy and intelli-
gence 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
1ulding and public works must pro-
ICED. Railroads must renew their
equipment. Factories must be kept 60
ng to their full capacity. Labor must
De employed. Homes must be kept
lp. Merchandise must be produced,
and used.
War duties and war expenditures
must be in addition to peace duties
md peace expenditures. The more
We do the more we can do.tThe more
money we spend the more we will
ave in our pockets to spend. Money
reates money.
In a word: the natural sane life of
he country must proceed as though
We were not at war, in order that we
nay have the necessary prosperity to
'ronlote the war to a quick and sue
essful conclusion.
President Wilson sounds the key
ote in this sentence. 'It is evident to
very thinking man that our industries
n the farm, in the ship yards, in the
1ines, in the factories, must be made
nore prolific and more efficient"
Our industries can be made more
rolific only if the people buy and use
he merchandise produced by our in
ustries. Manufacturing slackens
yhen business slackens. Manufactur-
1g grows in prolific way when bust
ess grows. And business can grow
nd remain healthful only when the
eople buy and keep money in circu-
alton
Business is going strong-in the
asst, the west, the north, the south.
he country is prosperous. Last
lonth's increase in business was very
lrge. Banks may wait in their oper-
tions until the government bonds are
People may pause temp
rarily in their outfitting to arrange to
leet the new conditions. But the I'M
posing of billions of dollars will un-
'ose flow of prosperity absolutely
ecessary to sustain the words bur
en-.
Governments set the pace in their
Spenditures.
Individuals must not lag behind.
even billions of dollars to pay is only
20 per capita in the United States.
ct S7,000,000,000, put into work at
or cent-a fair estimate of the pro-
icing power of money-will create
t20,000,000 of new wealth.
The income tax we pay will not be
tax on prosperity, but a spur to
Every dollar the individ-
II pays out will come back to him
ith interest in the general prosperity
the people.
Keep business going-for our coun-
US sake. War cannot be waged and
on without the sinews of war.