The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-22
Banker Lamont Tells Boston
Chamber of Commerce of
Allies War Attitude
j. p. MORGAN MAN
STIRS HIS HEARERS
He Defends the Administra-
TONS Finance
Moves

Boston, Feb. 22,-Thomas w. Lamont.
member of the banking firm OF j. r.
Morgan Co. of New York, who re-.
Gently returned from visit to France
and England, described the manner in
which these two of Americas allies are
going about their war tasks, sacrificing
| cheerfully and bound TO win, at yester.
days assembly luncheon of the Chamber
OF Commerce al Hotel Brunswick, and
he aroused the enthusiasm of the gath.
ering OF 400 business men
Mr. Lamont spoke first of some of the
sacrifices that he had witnessed in Eng.
land. Al the large country house of
Lord Walter Cunlife, first baron of
Headley and governor of the Bank Of
England for the first five years, where he
spent week end, Mr.. Lamont said that.
instead of the usual large number of
servants, he found only one old man,
seyenty.five or so, and maid who was
old and lame. Lady Cunliffe informed
her guest that she and her daughters
had gone out into the gardens and fields
last summer, picked the fruits and vege
tables and put them up in large quaint.
ties, as we'll as doing much of their own
work. Lady Northcliffe had informed
him after he had found the Northclffes
living in small house in the tenement
district of London, a place that Mr. La
mont characterized as meat but small.
that her husband had rented their great |
house to a Midlands munitions manufac- |
turer, who had not yet felt the need for
thrift, for enough to pay the expenses |
of maintaining a hospital Everywhere
the visitor found evidence OF people with
ample means saving in every way. Few
now have servants in Eng
land, he said. and this is because the
able bodied men have gone to the front /
or are doing other war work and the
girls entered the munitions factories or
other industrial establishments.
Lord Cunlifie," said Mr. Lamont, did
not speak to me in regard to what he
was doing TO save and help in the war,
but | found out that he was walking ,
.hree miles every morning TO his train
md three miles back home from the .
rain at night in order to save gasoline.
That is the way their thrift is being car
led ont over there.
Thrift is something more than mere
ayiug of money; ii is r more than ordi
nary economy. 1t il saving in the in
crest Of cause. as well as taking care
II your money. The women of England
ire eeonomizing and exercising thrift ,
II their kitchens. They are making ev
rything go as far as possible most ,
uecessfully, too.
They are eating a war bread over .
here that | do not care to eat and the
am which always has been one of the
principal foods of the Engiishman--is
erribly poor now. But, despite these :
hings, we heard no gr,imbling, no unrest ;
when we in America failed to get the
Wheat across to Great Britain on time i,
hey just took it as a matter of course :
nd said nothing That is the way they :
re in England and France. Thank God '
hey are cheerful and have not lost their y
ense of humor- which is life. saver un. !,
err the circumstances. And this, despite :
he fact that there probably isn't home :
4 either country but has suffered the >
,ss of dear one; little grave on the
anks of the Marine marks to many an 7
nglish family a spot of ground that !.
ill always be England for them. =
at has been said that France has :
cen bled white France has suffered y
1fflbly, Dut you VIII hha hei JUST as E,
.aunch and true to the winning of the g
ar as ever. She has not faltered; she -
ill not falter John Mansfield, the >
nglish poet, has said IT well when he T
sclared that if all of the men of France :,
re killed, the women will take their y
aces on the western front, and If all a.
le women are killed the children will ="
/ their places, and If all the children
e killed then the spirit of the departed a
i'll come out of their graves to defend
rance and overpower her foe
France had 100000 troops in her
my at the beginning of the war, and Fl