The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-15
PEOPLE ENTHUSED EVERYWHERE OVER THRIFT CAMPAIGN SAYS OTTO MARX Twofold Result of Campaign Will Be Increased Pa
 triotism and Desire
 to Save PERSONAL SACRIFICE AT HOME IS NOTHING COMPARED TO TRENCH Government Officials Bending Ener- gies in Prosecuting War,
 Not in Speculation as
 to End

Otto Marx. federal director of the southeastern division of the national war savings committed arrived in the city yesterday morning. He will remain here until this evening, when he will leave for Atlanta, going thence to Jack sonville and from there back to Wash- ington.
 MT. Marx enjoys the distinction of having the supervision of the largest territory committed to any director of the national war savings committee. It includes the District of Columbia. Il southern states, Cuba. Porto Rico and the Panama canal zone.
 The campaign is progressing beauti- fully in my division" said MT. Marx. As in Birmingham, the people every thrift campaign and responding splen- didiy to the appeal to their patriotism, l am confident that Alabama will make fine showing in this campaign, not only because the state director and the vice state director. Crawford Johnson and J. w. Donnelly, are unusually we'll equipped for their work, but because the people of Alabama are very patriotic and capable of rising to great occasions.
 GREAT UNDERTAKING
 This campaign is one of the greatest things ever undertaken by our govern- ment. It will pull all classes of our peo- pie closer together than they have ever been before. It will give the humblest citizen the opportunity to do his part in sustaining the government. But, better than all that, it will teach us all to ap- preciate the virtue of thrift. We are going to learn to save, and in doing that we will get new view of life We will pay less attention to show and more to substance hereafter The war depart ment is training our soldiers to win the war; the national war savings commit tee is putting the great body of our people in the proper condition to adjust themselves to the developments which will come with the close of the titanic struggle. We are not only serving this generation. but the one which will fol- low. and therein is our inspiration
 PERSONAL SACRIFICES
 Some reference having been made to the sacrifices of personal interest on the part of many of the representative business men of the nation in the serv- ice of their country, Mir Marx said
 T have had the privilege of talking with many of them, including Messrs Vanderlip and Davison, and all seem to feel that their sacrifices are nothing compared with those of the men who have broken family ties, given up ca- reers and offered their lives to their country. These business men, all the same, are as obedient to discipline as the soldiers in the trenches, and their cheerfulness is indeed contagious. Some of them have told me that the inspira- ton which they get from this work gives them more real satisfaction than their achievements in the world of business and finance; and I am prepared to be- lieve them. Patriotism is the common heritage of the American people, high and low, and that is why we can face the future with confidence?"
 END OF WAR
 When will the war end-what does Washington say?' MT. Marx was asked.
 No one can tell when the end will come,' she replied. Government off. cials are concentrating their energies on the vigorous prosecution of the war and not indulging in much speculation as to when it will be over. l think the sooner all of us realize that the United States now has the most gigantic task in hand in all of our history as nation, and begin to adjust ourselves accordingly the better it will be for us as individuaA and for the cause of world liberty"