The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-03
IS MORE TESTIMONY NEEDED?
President Wilson says: Thought

less expenditures of money for non
essentials use up the labor of men
the products of the farm, mines and
| factories, and overburdens transpor
! tation. all of which must be used tC
the utmost and at their best for wal
purposes"
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
says: st is essential chat the Ameri-
can people economic and save IN
order to make available to their gov
eminent the money indispensably
needed for the war and to release
supplies and labor required for the
production Of things necessary for
our own military forces and for the
military forces Of the nations associ-
ated with u.s."
Samuel Gompers, head of the
American Federation of Labor, says
During the time when we send our
young men to the trenches to live a
life that grills flesh and nerve, let
every man, woman and child who is
privileged to remain in free America
in physical safety count it a free
mans duty to eat simple food and
conserve for our. army and our allies,
to wear simple clothes, to avoid un-
necessary or unwise expenditures,
that we may give to our fighting men
and the government and have re-
sources for the constructive work of
our country"
Frank A. Vanderbilt, chairman of
the National War Savings Committee
and president of the National City
Bank of New York, says: every
body should buy less, consume less,
save more money, and loan their saw
ings to the government. The result
will be more money for the govern
ment to hun the war, increased ac-
emulation of savings by the people
at good interest and absolute secur-
ity, and less drain on the country's
productive and industrial resources. -
Arthur T. Hadley, president of
Yale University, says: "Those of US
who are left at home must increase
our production aMl lessen our con-
sumption in order to have men and
supplies available for fighting. We
must reduce our consumption from
unnecessary expenditures in the way
OF comforts and services"
julius Rosenwald, president of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., and now a
member of the Advisory Commission
OF the Council of National Defense.
says: Saving by everyone is as i'm
peratlve for the winning of this war
as is the mobilizing of armies: more
tnan that, the modelling of armies is
entirely futile if this military step is
not accompanied by the rigorous.
common sense saving of the Nation.
Tor without saving the marshaled
hosts can not be equipped, can not
be fed, can not be carried overseas
and can not be put into the fight. We
can finance the enormous cost of this
war by spending only for the things
we need, not by spending for the
things we desire. Just SO Ion gas we
continue to spend for things we do
not need, just that long do we pro-
long the war and add to the tremend.
Gus sacrifice of life and property"
Here is the testimony of the Presi-
dent of the United States, of the Sec.
rotary of the Treasury, of the coun-
try's most prominent labor man. Of a
banker, of the president of one Of
the foremost educational institutions
and OF merchant. And the burden
OF their testimony is that it is the
DUTY OF everyone to save to the ut.
most that there may be more money.
iaoor, and materials for the govern.
ment with which to fight the war. It
is unusual to find such agreement
from SO many different quarters
Is more testimony needed?