The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-02-22
DO NOT BE A
STACKER IN
Big WAR GAME

war for the defense of lives, liber
ty, and happiness.
1t is sufficiently we'll established
that the war in which we are en-
gagged is one to protect ourselves
from being despoiled by the Teuton
empires and armies who have for
fifty years been taught that con-
quest by war is legitimate and that
the subjugation of other nations and
peoples is praiseworthy.
They have also been taught obedi-
ence to the commands of their Off
GERS and that cruelty practiced upon
conquered peoples, as a means of
terrifying others, is the duty of the
soldier upon command.
Therefore, we know that in the
event that the Teutons should sue
coed in Europe, they would attempt
to practice the same devastation and
cruelty upon our own country that
they have done in Europe, and there
fore we know that in fighting on
European soil we are fighting to
prevent those terrible things hap
pening in our own land.
Now to fight these battles on
European soil we are sending the
flower of the youth of our country.
The selective draft law takes men
from 81 to 81. 1t takes them from
all walks of life-our own husbands,
brothers, sweethearts, and friends.
At the present time there are about
two million of men under arms, but
there will soon be more, and the
time is not far distant perhaps,
when there may be five millions of
American troops either at the front
or in training.
At the present time there is hardly
person in America who has not
one or more relatives or acquaint-
ances in uniform.
Now while these men are offering
up their lives at the front or pre-
pairing to go there, what are we at
home going to do? Are we going to
be patriots or slackers?
Bear in mind that any person who
can do anything at all to support
these men and does not do it is a
Stacker.
The War-Savings plan permits
every man, woman and child to take
financial interest in the war. Save
25c and buy thrift stamp; do it
again and again until you have 16
of them; then add 13c in February
or 14c in March and get a warsaw
ings stamp redeemable at $500 at
maturity, which gives Az interest
compounded quarterly. If necessity
requires that you should cash this
war-savings stamp at any time, you
get your investment plus 80.
Now there is hardly a child so
poor as not to be able to buy 25c
stamp once in a while by self-denial
of something that it is accustomed
to have as a luxury. Men and wo-
men throw away money in unnec-
essary expenditures which, if in
vested in war-savings stamps, would
help to win the war.
We should do everything in our
power to help, but by all means we
should buy thrift stamps and war
savings certificates because it means
not only to give the government
money, but to give our loyalty to the
nation in its time of need, and to
divert industry and labor to war
productions and purposes.
But someone says the cost Of liv-
ing is high and it is hard to make
both ends meet. True; but how about
the extravagances? When you spend
your money to go to picture show
and see the war pictures thrown on
the screen, stop and think whether
you have contributed anything to
support your men who are engaged
| in those terrible conflicts.
Can you go to bed at night and
sleep soundly when you know that
you are not making any sacrifice to
support the men who are offering
their lives for destruction in the
most hideous forms of war that the
world has ever known?
The casualty list is beginning
Our men are occupying little of
the battlefront in France. From
now on the list of killed and manned
will grow. Can you read these things
in the newspapers, including possibly
future sinkings of transports loaded
with our troops, and feel content
that you have done nothing or as
little as you can?
The time is now here when every
person must line up for or against
the nation and it's cause. War-sav-
ings certificates and thrift stamps
will be the credentials of patriotism
without which an individual will