Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-09-11
Buying tt Is Merely Lending Money to Yourself for a
 Great Necessity.
us. GOVERNMENT MEANS US
Stupendous Amounts Are Needed to Pay for Work and Materials, So Our Old-Time Extravagances
 Must Be Dropped.
By JOHN PALMER CAN'T.

0ae of the good results that will ac- crue to the American people from their participation in the war is better understanding of the purpose and 6unctioa of money. Also, they will gRone fully appreciate their relation to 2he government and the fact that it is their government-as much theirs as their homes and farms and factories. Fer purposes of poetry and sentiment 1t is well enough to talk about Uncle Saa,," your devotion to him, your will $ngxaess to lend to him by the purchase of bonds, War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps, and to give your own life and the lives of your sons on the actual fighting front; but you must not lose sight of the fact that after all, the United States, Uncle Sam," U. S." Our Country" and so on-whatever poetic phrase we use to represent the aafion In its united action and aspi- r3tion-is just US, ourselves in our sssvn proper persons, working and saw Eng and applying our joint strength, for ourselves, our children and our chil- Airen's children.
 Too much have we thought of the government, the nation, Uncle Sam, and So on, as something separate from ourselves; something to which we give and lend, eagerly or willingly or eaaasigingly or under compulsion, as the case may be. We have had too little of the practice of team work for a great common purpose-our own pur- pose-
 The Liberty Bond campaigns fur nish occasion for reminding ourselves th8t 1t is our country, ourselves in our 9rsaRized capacity, that is engaged in ffse war to abolish autocracy; that
 Uncle Sam" is us, in common de- termination to dc and give all of our selves to an enterprise as thoroughly NsoHth while as the American Revolu- Jaoa or the war to preserve the Union and free the slaves. And one of the ways In which we can participate di- rertiy and actively in this enterprise Is te turn our money-all of 1t that is not absolutely and honestly necessary +o the essential purposes of living and keeping well and efficient for the other things we have to do to help along the ehAerprise-over to ourselves in our organized capacity; that Is, to the government, for the work of the war ssvhfch It is conducting for us.
 fs1aorsey Useful Only for Exchange. z>e-Honey is nothing in itself-just pa ser and metal. It is useless unless somebody else will accept 1t in ex- eaamse for something he has or some Ahing he can do The measure of Its ,yuRIue te y@u is the other fellows need M fine materials or the labor which 1t xg1ll in turn command for him. Spend nrg money is the way we have of get s1ng from other people the things they have or the work they can do-"Goods .ael& Services" Our responsibility, therefore, lies in the question of the sltn6 of things for which we choose eo exchange money, and the time and < circumstances in which we exert that eheBce.
 N0w. we have been a very wastefui sud extravagant people; we have not thought much about the effect upon ourselves and other people and upon H1e nation as a whole, of the ways in sE{7ich we spent our money, or the time a5aG circumstances in which we spent 1t. But the war is compelling us to ehdak about that. Not even the great e$t nation, or the most powerful gov egnnlent, or the shrewdest financiers eaa make something out of nothing. Aud when war. the most ravenous kind saf waste and extravaganza that man. xfnd has devised, comes along to take Nerxers out of industry and off the f4rms. and to turn them from produc. t4sz to high-power consumption and aeef1uction-no matter if the ultimate IlzPpgse of the war be quite worth its c6st in life and property-there simply are not material and labor enough In she country to permit both the contin. naRce of the old kinds of expenditure sand the taking on of the new.
 Why We Must Do Without.
 Fror the purposes of the war the nssxernment of the United States must as4ve stupendOus amounts of materials and work, and there Is not enough of srhese to give the government what ii must nave and at the same time allow t.he people generally to have as much material and work for their private u,ses as they have in ordinary times.
 Therefore we must to the greatest sJ,sssaste extent keep out of the market Gar Eaatertals and labor, so as (1l to