The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-04-06

ii"'o pouSnt $IVU,OUO or War-SaVingS
certificates.
English business has been entirely
readjusted to war basis. England
tried to muddle through in the first
year of war on a business as usual"
program but we soon found that such
a blind policy would not win the war.
The governments demands on our in
dustrial resources were so enormous
that We could not meet them and at
the same time continue to produce all
the things we were accustomed to
have before the war.
The business of the English people
is now the business OF war. All the
productive energies of the nation are
directed, first, to supplying the war
needs Of the government; second, the
necessities of the people; third, the
necessities of the Export trade.
Everyone in England is at work
including many men and women who
never worked before. To be idle in
England today is not good FORM"
Everyone is working; wages are the
highest ever recorded; the whole scale
of living has been raised; domestic
trade is good, despite nationwide
economy and saving. England is do
ing her big job cheerfully, despite the
terrific cost of the war in blood and
treasure: and the reason for this, 1
believe Ia that everybody. rich and
poor, is working for the nation with
determination to see it through.
Money Will Not Win War.
War is not rhoney-making bust
ness, and money will not win this
great struggle between democracy an(
autocracy. English merchants and
manufacturers now see that it isn't
merely money that nation at war
needs, but the product of human la.
Dor. While we pay war taxes in mon
ey and pay for government bonds in
money, what is really happening il
that the government is taking a large
share Of our industrial production
our labor and material--and consum-
ing 1t In warfare.
No businessman in England today
advocates liberal individual spending,
because 1t is now realized that such
spending for personal needs means
one of two things-either an exhaus
ton OF the necessities of life at
time of threatened famine, or else
the selfish employment of labor in
luxury production when it ought to be
devoted to necessity production.
Spending for ones self in such a
time of national need is now recog.
nized as distinctly unsocial act and
reasonable If carried to excess. What
difference is there between having car
goes of needed materials sunk by
enemy submarines or having them
consumed at home for mere personal
gratifctaion? 1t took us some time TO
see the truth of this, but every man
ufacturer and merchant in England
today knows the gospel of goods ant
services" and the curtaiment of do
nestic spending is everywhere advo
Gated.
Saving for National Needs.
Every thinking Englishman, before
spending for himself or his family
stops to consider not whether he can
afford it, but whether the nation can
AFFORD to have him spend ECONOMY i,
being constantly urged by the news
papers, even though for the time il
means less advertising revenue. But
they realize. as do the merchants. that
the war can not be provisioned, mu-
nitioned, or financed from persona;
profits in business not essential +,
the war.
Luxury business has ceased IN Emo.
land. The women no longer buy elab-
crate gowns. There hasn't been a bic
social function in London since the
Germans invaded Belgium. Motto,
riding for pleasure was long ago aban-
doned because the gasoline is needed
IN Flanders and the chanQeurs are
wanted at the front or in the factor
les. For nearly two years not a sjngl,
new automobile has been made in
England excepting for war work. We
DO not consume our labor and ma ter
ials In new private building-no on,
Annie Kolb, Secretary; Inez Brun s6n
BeulAh CuttinO Neal Gaddinau I,.l