The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-08
TALK WILL NOT
MIN THE WAR
THOSE WHO DON'T HELP AT
HOME ARE ABOUT AS GOOD AS
SOLDIERS ON FURLOUGH.
individual and Personal Responsibility
Is What Counts-Buy Thrift
Savings Stamps.

Something moro potent than words
must be employed in order to bring
/ Tho people AS individuals each IN 4
/ sense Of individual and personal 70
spOnslbllity for the winning Of rhr war.
! Each person needs 10 b. hrnuRhl 10 d
! realization Of The fact that any acl o.
wanrOn wasiefulnrSS or anything "ISe
! that tends 10 hinder the government
/ in the prosecution OF the war Is likely
! to have a direct relation 10 IN" wound
! ing or killing of IN American soldier
over there" How to do this is Il
! question which is troubling Robert L..
! Archer of Huntington, State director
Of war savings, and those who are en-
! gagged with him in The presentation
Of the war savings campaign.
John +. Norman. stale educational
: director for war savings. found an apt
.rcply 10 man who argued that MS
! individual contribution 10 the war say
ings campaign would not win The war
and he had rs we'll not make it.
I "Yon had just aS we'll say replied
Mr.. Norman, THAT the soldier who Is
at home on II furlough cannot win the
war by himself and Tor that reason he
might us we'll stay ar home.
/ TIL" war savings propaganda mas
! been AMI is being spread broadcast
in the state II is hard 10 believe there
/ is 4 hamlet or countryside in The state
! into which The news of HE WAT say
inrS plan has noI filtered. TIL" posi-
offices, the teachers. the n"wSpa pcrS.
: The ministers, the -Four Minute men.
the organized war savings Cumml''
/ tees and many others ar" contributing
! 10 this end. But though pleasing pro-
grpSS has been made, much has yet
10 b. done before the slupCnduuS task
OF selling S2S.000,0uG in stamps i'll
! West Virginia is accomplished. There
| is every confidence that il Will BE- &C.
! rumpliShcd but il will not b" accom-
! plished fully through the conversation
Of "A spCndthril people into fairly
. frugal one unless the lesson sinks
! deeper lhau 1t has.
I In order 10 accomplish this there
must hr brought HON" IN all Il sense
. Of the stern necessity which cOnfron'$
the nation. II is moi itflr talk 10 say
thai each person is r"SpnnS!hir 1u any
degree because of the failure 10 CON
tribute his all to the prosecution Of
! HE war. \ nation which, while hay
! Ing given up It's sons 10 the chanc"
of war, refuses 10 civ" up It's ioIli"S
lin order that these sons may fare hrt-
tor and have better chance of coming
homo. is a paradCX--a sad paradox.
What ran YOU do that is too much if
your son or your brothers can place
his life in the balance or merely leave
Il pleasant and profitable employment.
10 endure III" h&rdShirS of army life"
Bu; Of what avail are words" They
are staring from The printed 'paG".
ringing from earnest lips and yol W"
20 on car"lcSsly and nccliG"ntlI
while men Shiter freeze. bleed and die
/ There are sill those who arc doing
no part either in sarrifC" or service.
How long can This thing BE-" Surely
il will not be vAry long before Snm"
horror gri7s our hearts, nnd bowed
down in grief and shame. "" hnrrl be
! fore the altar by which We are 50
! lhoughtleSsly passing.