Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-12-27
SECRETARY GLASS ISSUES
/. APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE
Recounts the Tremendous Cost Of the War and
Asks the People to Continue to Give the
Government Needed Financial Support.

had reached the peak at the time the
armistice was signed and the bills
incurred during that period OF max
imum production must be paid.
The Treasury must issue another
large loan before the end of the fla-
cal year and am entirely In accord
with the policy outlined that this loan
should take the form OF bonds OF
short maturieties.
1T Is vitality important that the
Treasury should continue IN q most
energetic way the sale OF War Saw
tngs Stamps and Certificates, Among
the valuable and mucn needed les
sons we have partly learned from the
war ia that OF thrift and intelligent
expenditure.
Thrift helped to win the war and
win help us TO take full advantage OF
victorious peace. 1t In therefore
imperative that we do not relax into
the old habits OF wasteful expendi.
ture and imperative that the habit
of reasonable living Con the part OF
those OF both large and small meanal
so easily acquired during the war pc
riod be continued.
Millions of our people have be-
come holders OF bonds of their gov
ernment. but some OF them seem 60
feel that they are under no further
obligation to retain these bonds and
they are selling them and using the
money for unnecessary purposes or
exchanging them for other securi-
ties of very doubtful value. So long
as the United States needs to sell
bonds, those who hold the present is-
sues should not dispose OF them ex-
cept under the spur OF urgent neces-
sity. They have invested In the beat
security In the world and IL is both
to their own interest and 20 that OF
their government that these securities
be retained.
Organizations OF patriotic men
land women numbering probably well
over two millions have been created
and have given their time and service
70 the sale OF liberty bonds and War
Savings Certificates. These great
bodies Of earnest and patriotic peo-
pie, called together almost ~ the out
set of the war and augmented con-
ttnualiy by new recruits, have ac-
compiished . task which seems al
most superhuman. NY admiration ID
great not only for the work accomp-
lished, but for the spirit in which Il
was accomplished. IL is my earnest
wish to retain and continue these
great organizations until the work
has been completed We face this
work at n time when we are handi-
capped in many ways.
There ID no doubt that there liz
throughout the country q feeling OF
reiaxatiOn-a feeling OF seif-satiBfac-
tion at the work already performed
and . strong and not unreasonable
call to take up once more individual
and business interest and activities
The organizations were prepared for
the task which would have confront
ed them had the war continued
Throughout the year 1919, or longer,
and | am confident that despite these
handicapa they win not now relax
their efforts and leave the task I'M
] finished.
Victory has come TO us earlier
than we might reasonably expected.
but victory viii not cause ua to neg
iect the completion OF that work
which made victory possible.
Our men On the other side still
have their work before them and 30
have we. They will not leave until
the task ID fully accomplished. nor
shall we. | am sure then that the
Treasury Department can, with con-
hdence, offer another liberty loan
land continue the sale of War Saw
ings Certificates knowing that the
organizations win respond once more
to the call for service and will al
once prepare the ground and SOW the
seed 80 that the harvest may be
Iabundantly fruitful"