The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-13


 la pace in shipbuilding heartening to behold. halt or interrupt this wonderful constructive work or disturb the relationship of capital and labor!
 Silence baseless talk about prohteering on the part of either and give high credit to both as high credit is SO richly and righteous fly due!
 of the war to all alike and dismiss idle dis sensions and improbable differences. Of what moment anything else compared with the pressing, compelling necessity of winning the war?
 What the future of America, what the ambitions and dreams of Americans, if |blighting, bloodless, slave-making autocracy should rule the earth?
 The war is not won. It can only be won by bringing the war lords to their knees. Ger many is not whipped-is far from being whip ped. To date Germany, forcing into submis- sion feeble powers and reducing once power full Russia to helpless, chaotic serfdom, is more dangerous, dominating foe than when the war began
 Never before was America put to such test and stress and it must be efficient in city, state and nation, must coordinate its strength and develop its efficiency to the very utmost to meet the the worlds demands and, more tover-mark this!-to insure its own safety and perpetuity as free nation and free Ipeople.
 Efficiency! War efficiency! Individually and collectively, from the highest to the hunl- blest, every man, woman and child in Am erica must contribute in some part to the ma tion's efficiency and equipment to serve and SuccOr mankind.
 Otherwise-otherwise- prophet occll- pying place on Gods footstool can foresee or foretell the future-even the future of now proud and mighty and free America
 It is time to think and time to act
 America has not been given to thrift Its people, in large proportion, have been easy going and luxury-indulging money spend ing people living the day for the day and giving scant thought to the morrow. Re- |sourceful, keeping busy, industrious by na- ture and by choice, the nation has gone ahead prosperouslv by leaps and bounds in spite of the lack of the habit of universal thrift. Only in intermittent and short periods of depression have the people, as a people, altered their daily life and saved and husbanded, and then of necessity.
 Now all things are changed Thrift be- comes imperative as national asset. Uncle Sam needs every modicum of financial aid patriotic people can offer him. He wants the use of every spare dollar the people can lend him. He asks his countrymen-big, little and |all-to become his creditors-to take his | 10. U.-in order that the nation may be inn mediately and thoroughly equipped with sin ews of war
 Thrift begets efficiencyIpersonal eff ciency and national efficiency. It builds char |acter-personal character and national char acter It strengthens man as 1t strengthens the nation
 So great war savings campaign is un der way throughout the country. True Am ericans here, there, everywhere are besOught in the name of nation and Flag to stop waste, check extravaganza and forego luxury, and invest their savings in their government that government upon which mankind is rely ing to save civilization and restore peace.
 The boy or girl who buys thrift stamp is helping to win this war. The man or wo- man who invests in war stamp is hastening the end of the war Boys and girls and men and women who are forming thrift clubs and systematically day after day and week after week saving their pennies and dimes and dol lars and exchanging them for Uncle Sam's gilt-edged securities are helping nightly.
 Above and beyond and apart from the emergency which makes patriotic duty thus to support the government and keep Uncle Sam's war chest adequately filled, this war savings campaign, this propaganda of thrift, besides making for that efficiency which Am erica must have to safeguard its institutions, creates more self-reiant people than Am erica ever had before The nucleus of for tunes will be evolved from the savings prompted by the governments call-not the swollen fortunes of ill-gotten gains, but com