Arizona republican., 1918-06-16
The Thrift Campaign

During this month ending June 2S, throughout the country there will be special drive to form War Savings societies and to secure signed cards from the entire population .pedging themselves to save constantly and buy regularly government securities We appeal all to enlist through purchasing War Savings Stamps in the great volunteer army of pro- duction and saving here at home.
 No movement which our government has started is important and inclusive the War Savings campaign. The greatest need in any national move ment is opportunity for all to participate and the government. through the War Savings campaign offers this opportunity to every individual in the nation. It goes entirely beyond any economic ad- vantages however great it tends to create a national attitude of mind and to amalgamate our population, drawn originally from so many natonali- ties. It tends to inculcate thrift attitude O, mind and understanding which leads to fixed habits. By such a plan as this France paid off her debt of 1870; by such plan as this France far more ready than the rest of the world believed for the struggle in which engaged; by such plan this, England, in the midst of her struggle, brought the entire nation tc the support of the gov ernment. Here in this country it is absolute necessity to blend into American citizenship the many groups of people of foreign birth of recent foreign ancestry. They must be brought to point of conf- dence in their government and a sense. of respons- 
 Government of the people by the people, and for the people" must be living conception of democ- racy in their minds.
 Where all the people rule. all the people must participate in the responsibility of the government. Nothing do more to bring about this result than the opportunity of direct help to their government through purchasing War Savings Stamps and learn ins through that act the great truth that the will be won, in the words of Kiplng, "by the everastn' team work of every bloomin' soul"
 Without doubt, the millions of people who own Liberty bonds or War Savings stamps today have an increasing consciousness of loyalty and sponsbility the government. The secretary of the Treasury has offered through the War Savings plan,
 wonderful opportunity for the entire nation to group itself War Savings societies or Thrift clubs and be of immediate and direct service to the govern ment one road to national unity and national force in this is through thrift-cheerfu generous thrift which starts from an attitude of mind and ends in Increased production every field and conservation of those things which so generously needed for the winning of the war. The conscientious thrifty today will conserve food as requested by the food administration; he will conserve fuel as request cd by the fuel administrations and he will conserve to the best of his ability the labor and materials which the government needs by not purchasing any of the nonessentias and thereby using up materials and labor needed by the government He will by purchasing government securities enrust the spend- ] ing of his money to the government until after the war
 If now, in this War Savings campaign, enough peo- pie the vision of it's field and the great of it's success then nation of hundred million people will be unified and American citizen ship will mean loyalty, responsibility and participa- ton in government
 The success of the War Savings campaign also economic preparedness for the years after the war. We never return to spendthrift ways and be the nation which Washington and his associ- ates founded and which Lincoln believed he pre- serving. In this crisis Washingtons statement that it is not the foes without but the foes within which constitute the danger to a nation is true
 Let make thrift a national habit Let us preserve in this nation the perfect democracy of opportunity which constitution created, and see that people all unified in great national pur poses. The War Savings campaign, with the economic and industrial adjustment of the nation included in it. offers the immediate opportunity to this end