Arizona republican., 1918-04-19

today. Food of course is a funda- mental. People must have food in order to sustain their strength and health. in order that they may pro- duce other things required by the war; and the chief burden devolves upon America of furnishing the food re- quired not only for our own people, but the soldiers and civilian popula- tion of our allies as we'll That is the reason. fellow citizens, that it has be- come necessary recently to economize with wheat. The wheat crop in the United States was short and we have had to substitute something else for wheat bread, and you are eating bread these days you never saw before But what could be more inspiring and noble to the patriot who can't fight than to eat anything over here hat will keep body and soul together, there by releasing those ial supple for the support of our gh'in men al the front and the civil population be- hind them? It is pleasure to help any man who wears a blue jacket or a khaki-colored uniform. It is not a sacrifice to stop eating wheat bread. It is not hard for us to do that We should have begun sooner. All that the American people need to know, as have learned as I have been over the country and have talked to them. is, what is the thing to do? What is the intelligent thing to do that will enable us to help most? And when the Ameri- can people have learned what to do, have never seen any people so re- sponsive to the call of country
 Let us take the case of wool. There IS CcQrpltxy Wnnl in, ho Every ounce of wool that you can save is a direct contribution to the fighting men in the trenches and a di- rect contribution to the civil population in Europe whose health and strength must be kept up in order that they may make arms and supplies for those in the field.
 Denial Is Urged
 There is scarcity also Of leather in the world and it is very difficult to get the necessary supply to make the shoes required for the armies in the held and for the civil populations in Europe.
 So, therefore, my friends, when you refrain from spending money upon un- necessary clothing, unnecessary shoes and unnecessary food, don't you see NAA~S JOU iNANuoC oQDBilCS lIldl Wlll contribute immensely to the success of the armies in the field? Don't you see that it is vital to the success of our ! arms that those things shall be done? Unless you save and economize in this | way, you cannot at the same time save money to lend to the government. The government, must ask you to lend ii your money so that it may buy the wool or the cloth made of the woo and the shoes made of the leather that | you do not take, and to pay the wages of the men who make those things. IT saving, therefore, and lending youl money to your government, you per. form an immensely patriotic service an essentially patriotic service; and a
 the same time you are benefittine yourselves because you are makins yourselves better off by adding tC your wealth the amount that you save Now, 1 have referred to these thing.
 merely because it is important tha throughout the country we shall un
 derstand as we enter this second yea
 of the war that we must not be so self , indulgent as we have been in the yea,
 just passed. We must realize that W, really are in this war, my fellow
 countrymen, and that war does meal sacrifice. It does not only mean sacri flee on the part of the soldier or tn
 sailor, who gives his life, or loses hi
 leg, or comes back blinded by poison
 ous gas, or maimed forever,-patheti
 and tragic as that may be. That is no
 the only kind of sacrifice that the wa entails. The wives of those men wh
 go to the front, the mothers of thos
 sons who had to die, the children wh
 are left fatherless in the world-the
 are all serving the colors just as mucl
 as the men who wear the uniform
 and their suffering is, in many re
 spects. greater.
 We must learn in the second year c
 the war that we must not indulge sel
 to the extent that we have in the past
 We must purify our souls and fortif
 our souls for this great and might
 contest which is now proceeding upo
 the battle fields of Picardy.
 And the extent to which we do that
 fellow citizens, is the extent to whic
 we are going to help ourselves; it i
 the extent to which we are going to b
 able to keep the general level of price
 at more reasonable point and tn
 extent to which you will be able to re
 spond as often as the governmen calls upon you to respond in the pur chase of Liberty bonds.
 Must Stabilize Interest
 [ And now that brings me to anothe point about the Liberty bonds abou which want to talk to you very frank , ly and very sincerely. I have bee
 told by some people that the rate ( |; interest on Liberty bonds is too loy , and, therefore, we could not rely upo the patriotism of the American peopl to buy these bonds. have been urge to make the rate of interest highe
 than it is today, in order that tl bonds might sell more readily. I q
 not believe, my friends, that it is nec essary to raise the rate of interest c the bonds in order to sell them. I (
 not believe that the patriotism ,
 America is expressed in the rate of ir terest on government bond. do n, p believe that the American dollar is v fugitive and must be chased by his V rates of interest when the goverl I ment's credit is back of them. I wa, Q to tell youb fellow citizens, becau e tnls IS your problem as we'll as min S that If we do not all take an intell r gent stand now, in favor of keeping Il f rate of interest on government bon,
 stabilized at A per annum. unless V S are willing to make fight to preser- e the governments credit upon tn e basis, then it is going to be the mo 2 unfortunate thing that can possib 2 happen to the American people.
 We have got to make it clear Q every man, to every woman. and e every child, who buys a governme I bond, that while it may be true tn V they could invest their money in som . thing else that would pay larger r IT urn. they can invest their money if nothing else that is so full of blo , and necessity as a United States go V ernment bond. If we do the wroj n thing at this time, it comes back h you. You have got to preserve t V government because you are the go ; ernment. That is the virtue of demo