The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-11-30
THE GREAT
QUESTION
2
PART l.

What Is my duty; what ID the
most senslbls and profitable course
for me to follow in my private and
business affairs during the continu
ance OF the war?
This is the great question con.
fronting every American citizen.
Here Is a oommon.sense rspl(;
Before we can settle the matter in
detail we must grasp those element
AIRY principles which govern national
aRGir6.
This does not involve great learn
Ing or research, for economic knowl.
edge is little else than common-sense
applied to big subjects.
The war will be won by the Ma
tIon which can place the greatest
number Of men, the greatest amount
OF material in the field, and produce
the greatest amount OF foodstufs to
'upply It's military and civilian
'orceS. This fact is so generally
recognized that 1t is not necessary
to bring forward elaborate argu
ments to prove it.
We are a wealthy Nation. and the
question arises as to whether or no;
rs can win the war by throwing our
surplus wealth into the struggle.
We cannot.
Nation amounted 10 ahcut billion
Dollars annually before We ente:et
ne war, ana Our war estimates 70:
he first years operations call 70
III expenditure of about Eighteen
dnion Dollars, or over 3i5 times as
much as We have saved ever before
N one year,
Now there are three courses open
20 US. We can endeayor to produce
| X times as much wealth this yeai
~ ever we did before. We can en-
ieavor TO save S1@ times as much
money 40 ever We did before. We
San lie down on the whole PROPOSE
ON. and let Germany win.
Having descr bed this article
IS \ common sense reply to a great
question, We will eliminate the last
aeHtioned possibility.
We cannot produce 31s times as
much wealth this year as ever be-
ore. 1t will take several years to
,djrst our affairs so as to produce
such results.
TO save az times as much as
ever we have before is quite posi-.
ole, but would mean actual. hard.
ship for millions of our people.
The most sensible solHtion OF the
problem is to aim at a combination
IF production and se:f-denial which
will find us at the end OF a year
At least ga times Weather as a
nation, than ever before.
The method indicated has been fol.
lowed by our Allies with results that
aave astonished the world. After
Is1s years of physical and financial
strain. England; raised recently a
han OF Billion Dollars, equivalent
to Ten Billion Dollars in this Coun.
try, owing to the fact that we have
bout double the population. Eng.
and has speeded up her production
Of wealth, denied herself so much,
hat despite the fact that millions of
her finest specimens of human ma
lerial are fighting, despite the fact
that she had raised previously about
like amount of Billion Dollars in
loana, and is paying 216 Billion Dol.
i.rs yearly in taxes, she was able
sill to produce this enormous amount
In 20 day campaign.
Germany is speeding up her pro-
suction along the most scientific
lines, and is starving herself. That
is the sole reason Germany exlsts
today.
Are We super-men that we can do
things differently to others?
Let us forget this talk Of Uncle
Sam soon cleaning up the Germans
when he gets there" The Germans
will not be Cleaned up" by talk, OF
aVen by bravery alone. They must
be fought with their own weapons,
hard work and self-denial-the
things that win wars.
Again, the man who cries, Let
the rich man pay" has not grasped
the elementary facts of the situation
The rich man is paying, and WILL
pay. for the Government already is
calling for as much as 500 Of his
profits in the shape of Income and
War PrOft Taxes.
It is true that the Government is