The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-12
Is More Needed?

n RESIDENT WILSON says: "Thoughtless
expenditures of money for non-essentiaIs use
up the labor OF men, the products of the farm,
mines, and factories and overburdens transporta-
ton all of which must be used to the utmost and
at their best for war purposes.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo says; 1T
is essential that the American people economic
and save in order to make available to their gov
ernment the money indispensably needed Tor 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 associated with us
Samuel (iOmpers, head of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor. says: During the time when we
send our young men to the trenches to live life
that grills flesh and nerve, let every man woman,
and child who is privileged to remain in free Am
erica in physical safety count it freeman's duty
10 eat simple food and conserve for our army and
our allies to wear simple clothes, to avoid I'M
necessary or unwise expenditures that we may
give to our fighting men and the government and
have resources for the constructive work Of the
country.
Frank \. Nanderp, chairman OF the National
War Savings Committee and president of the Ma
tiona City Bank, of New York, says: Every
body should buy less, consume less, save more
money, and loan their savings TO the government.
The result will be more money for the government
10 run the war; increased accumulation of savings
by the people at good interest and absolute .secu-
rity, and less drain the countrys productive
and industrial resources.
Arthur T. Hadley. president OF Yale University,
says: Those OF us who are left at home must
increase production and lessen consump-
ton in order to have men and supplies available
for fighting We must reduce our consumption to
war basis. : We must abstain from unnecessary
expenditures in the way Of comforts and services
Julius Rosenwald, president Of Sears. Roebuck
& CO., and now a member of the Advisory Com
mission of the Council of National Defense, saws
Saving by everyone is as imperative for the win
ming of this war as is the modifying OF armies
more than that, the modifying of armies is ell
tirely futile if this military step is not accom-
panied by the rigorous, commopsense saving OF
the Nation for without saving the marshaled hosts
can not be equipped can not be fed, can not be
carried overseas, and not be put into the fight
We can finance the enormous cost OF this war by
spending only Tor the things need, not by
spending for the things desire. Just so long
as we continue to spend for things we do not need
just that long do proong the war and add tc
the tremendous sacrifice of life and property.
Here is the testimony of the President OF the
United States of the secretary of the treasury, OF
the COuntrys 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 to the utmost that there may
be more money labor and materials for the gov
eminent with which to fight the war 1t is un
usual to find such agreement from so many differ
ent quarters.
p" Is more testimony needed?